[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays
Thanasis wrote: > > So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should > remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS. Whether you prefer REMOTE_DEFAULT or not is up to you. This has nothing to do with the necessity to call "eix-remote add" after eix-sync: Otherwise your local portage tree will not get "pushed" to the remote database /var/cache/eix/remote.eix If you do not use REMOTE_DEFAULT, it is only less likely that you will notice this since you will then see the outdated local data only if you use -R ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: >>> "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" > michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: >> This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs >> from this screen. > So one should rather repair growisofs. > It is not a big deal. > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Hi, paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: > > "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: > This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs > from this screen. So one should rather repair growisofs. It is not a big deal. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:41:21PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> OK. I do banking online. I also pay my bills online along with social >> sites as well. I use Lastpass so that I can have some really REALLY >> funky passwords. I think I am one of few that has not had his facebook >> hacked. Anyway, I run Gentoo which is known here. I use >> Firefox/Seamonkey as my web browser. So next question sort of takes us >> back to my point with the knucklehead in the store. Am I safer, much >> safer, using Linux over windoze? That answer would take into account >> the fact that most virus/nasty code is written for windoze and not Linux >> but also that Linux is just built with security in mind. I belive that >> I am much safer with Linux myself. > You are safer overall. Just watch out for XSS (cross-site-scripting), > java, Flash, and acrobat exploits. > That's my thinking but wanted a second opinion. So far, I have never had anything hacked. That includes social sites, banking and other financial stuff, email and other password protected stuff. I keep everything updated and use browsers that are popular and updated frequently. I think Lastpass helps too. I have one good password and it remember the really hard ones. So far, it works well. Thanks for the second opinion. It ended up like I thought. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:41:21PM -0500, Dale wrote > OK. I do banking online. I also pay my bills online along with social > sites as well. I use Lastpass so that I can have some really REALLY > funky passwords. I think I am one of few that has not had his facebook > hacked. Anyway, I run Gentoo which is known here. I use > Firefox/Seamonkey as my web browser. So next question sort of takes us > back to my point with the knucklehead in the store. Am I safer, much > safer, using Linux over windoze? That answer would take into account > the fact that most virus/nasty code is written for windoze and not Linux > but also that Linux is just built with security in mind. I belive that > I am much safer with Linux myself. You are safer overall. Just watch out for XSS (cross-site-scripting), java, Flash, and acrobat exploits. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 08/07/2013 15:24, Dale wrote: >> Walter Dnes wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote >>> Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had windoze installed on them at all. BTW, I have been known to open those attachments before. I usually open them with kwrite or something and try to see what is human readable in there. Most is machine language but there is usually a small portion that is human readable. They sent it and I'm nosy that way. lol >>> The bad guys go after the "low hanging fruit", i.e. the easiest >>> targets. Years ago, it was Internet Explorer. This also included >>> Outlook and Outlook Express, which were glorified IE frontends. There >>> were many "drive-by-downloads", thanks to Active-X (aka "Active-Hacks"). >>> >>> MS has gotten its act together on IE, so the bad guys are now going >>> after other stuff. The "other stuff" is cross-platform stuff like Java >>> and Javascript and Adobe Acrobat and Flash (known affectionately as >>> "Schlockwave Trash"). So yes... it can happen here. >>> >>> I've been Java-free for years. I use Noscript and Flashblock on >>> Firefox. I keep Opera around for those sites that don't work on >>> Firefox. I also use mupdf instead of the bloated Acrobat Reader >>> monstrosity. >>> >> >> Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through >> java/javascript/flash? > Yes. If you can get the payload to run, then that code will run and will > do whatever the environment it is in will let it do. > >> Or would the infection at the least be limited >> to that user? > That's the normal case, but by no means the only one. > > If you have sudoers set up to run any command as root without using a > password, well then > >> How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? > > I think you need to gain a deeper understanding of how computer software > works Dale. You are asking black/white questions, and the world just is > not like that. It's all grey. > > These questions do not have simple answers. Windows well-deserved it's > bad rep from many years ago - that came not from bad security or > loopholes but more from the simple fact that early Windows had no > security to speak of. It wasn't poor locks, there just wasn't a lock, > not a door ... oh stuff it there wasn't even a wall to put the door in > for many years! > > Things have vastly improved now and Windows in the hands of someone with > clue rates about the same as (more-or-less conventional) Linux in the > hands of someone with clue. > > Lastly, gaining root permissions is no longer the holy grail it used to > be. Nowadays first prize is ability to send mail through your mail > accounts, access your browsing history, and get into your password > wallet. All of which by their very nature, MUST be accessible to the > user's account. > > I'm getting there Alan. I'm always learning something. It's retaining it that is the issue. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Dale wrote: >> Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through >> java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited >> to that user? > I think how they typically work, on any OS, is they exploit a bug in > the browser (or a browser plug-in) to run code on your local machine, > and then that code exploits the operating system in order to get > root-level privileges. After it has that, the possibilities are > endless... > > There's nothing special about Linux that would make that scenario play > out any better than it does on Windows, but in reality the number of > exploits found for Windows has been greater, and the number of Linux > web browser users is far fewer, so it's pretty rare to see web pages > that target Linux exploits (but I do read about them from time to > time). > > I personally use Firefox with RequestPolicy, NoScript and Adblock > Plus. That still won't protect me from a bug in Firefox itself. I > suppose if I really wanted to be paranoid I would run it in a virtual > machine (but, hey, those can be exploited, too). At some point, you > have to just go with it and hope for the best. Either that or turn off > the computer. :) > That's my thinking to but also see my reply to Walter. I use Linux for several reasons and security is one of them. Linux is more security oriented and faster with fixes be it a browser or some other package. Gentoo works with upstream to get serious issues fixed pretty fast. >> How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? > HTML5 is already here and you're probably already using it. :) The > biggest benefit to using "anything but Flash" is the idea that the > code is not in Adobe's hands and that the community would identify and > fix bugs sooner. But that's not guaranteed to be the case. > > A web browser is perhaps the most complicated piece of software most > of us will ever run on our computers, and there's a lot of room for > mistakes to happen in those millions of lines of code. Anything can > happen. > > . > I have opted in for html5 on youtube. I think I also have a plugin that enables html5 as well when available. I have one for https as well. Given this NSA mess, may help a little anyway. O_O Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Dale wrote > >> Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through >> java/javascript/flash? > There are two levels of "infection"... > > 1) One-off execution of bad stuff when you visit a web page. > > 2) A more permanent infection that survives restarting the web browser, > and rebooting the machine. But that would need to be linux executable. OK. I do banking online. I also pay my bills online along with social sites as well. I use Lastpass so that I can have some really REALLY funky passwords. I think I am one of few that has not had his facebook hacked. Anyway, I run Gentoo which is known here. I use Firefox/Seamonkey as my web browser. So next question sort of takes us back to my point with the knucklehead in the store. Am I safer, much safer, using Linux over windoze? That answer would take into account the fact that most virus/nasty code is written for windoze and not Linux but also that Linux is just built with security in mind. I belive that I am much safer with Linux myself. Just a rough example of what some passwords look like for me: 5u9YU7335cb29hPE I don't actually use that as a password so no need in some script kiddy trying it. LOL >> Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? > Usually, unless they find a privilege escalation hole. Then again, > it's the user-info (bank login and password, credit card number, etc) > that's really profitable for organized crime. I can certainly agree with that. I have a few people that use windoze and refuse to even think about ordering online, banking or anything that requires financial type info. If they are not going to keep their stuff up to date, may be a good idea. These are the same folks that don't update anti-virus and such too. :/ > >> How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? > If/when it results in the end of Flash, that's an improvement. The > thing I worry about is that anything "powerful enough" can be (ab)used. > I was hoping if they was going to all the trouble on creating this that it was going to do some sort of good and improve security. I don't mean just for Linux folks either. For the record, I use https everywhere and I think I have a similar thing for html5 too. I know I opted in for youtube. Thanks for the answers. I think you see where I am going with this. I still laugh when I think about what that guy said tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] strange eix-sync
Hi, eix-syncing my Beaglebone results in some strange output and no eix-sync at all. Especially those rsync: failed to set permissions on "/tmp/.tmpNBwK63.n6Acda": Function not implemented (38) are mysterious. I added the complete log below. I dont want to trigger a ban of my IP for too many /try/change/try/change...cycles...so better to ask the pros... ;) Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc beaglebone:/root>eix-sync * Running emerge --sync >>> Starting rsync with rsync://140.211.166.189/gentoo-portage... >>> Checking server timestamp ... Welcome to bobolink.gentoo.org / rsync.gentoo.org Server Address : 140.211.166.189 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 4 x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz, 3960MB RAM Sponsor: Gentoo Linux, Open Source Lab, Corvallis, OR, USA Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD autogenerated by update-rsync-motd on Sun Apr 1 01:06:12 UTC 2012 receiving incremental file list timestamp.chk rsync: failed to set permissions on "/tmp/.tmpNBwK63.n6Acda": Function not implemented (38) Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 1 Total file size: 32 bytes Total transferred file size: 32 bytes Literal data: 32 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 27 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 98 Total bytes received: 646 sent 98 bytes received 646 bytes 212.57 bytes/sec total size is 32 speedup is 0.04 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1518) [generator=3.0.9] >>> Retrying... >>> Starting retry 1 of 6 with rsync://88.198.83.250/gentoo-portage >>> Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect to 88.198.83.250 (88.198.83.250): Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.9] >>> Retrying... >>> Starting retry 2 of 6 with rsync://209.177.148.226/gentoo-portage >>> Checking server timestamp ... Welcome to magpie.gentoo.org / rsync.gentoo.org Server Address : 209.177.148.226, 2607:f740:0:29:230:48ff:fef8:a064 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3330 @ 2.66GHz, 3957MB RAM Sponsor: Host Virtual, San Jose, CA, USA Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD autogenerated by update-rsync-motd on Mon Sep 17 20:05:05 UTC 2012 receiving incremental file list timestamp.chk rsync: failed to set permissions on "/tmp/.tmpd7GTJG.cbU5Pd": Function not implemented (38) Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 1 Total file size: 32 bytes Total transferred file size: 32 bytes Literal data: 32 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 27 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 98 Total bytes received: 661 sent 98 bytes received 661 bytes 303.60 bytes/sec total size is 32 speedup is 0.04 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1518) [generator=3.0.9] >>> Retrying... >>> Starting retry 3 of 6 with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage >>> Checking server timestamp ... Welcome to boobie.gentoo.org / rsync.gentoo.org Server Address : 91.186.30.235 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3050 @ 2.13GHz, 3958MB RAM Sponsor: EUKhost, Maidenhead, England Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD autogenerated by update-rsync-motd on Sun Apr 1 01:05:34 UTC 2012 receiving incremental file list timestamp.chk rsync: failed to set permissions on "/tmp/.tmpFmdYeR.y0q8Nx": Function not implemented (38) Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 1 Total file size: 32 bytes Total transferred file size: 32 bytes Literal data: 32 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 27 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 98 Total bytes received: 620 sent 98 bytes received 620 bytes 478.67 bytes/sec total size is 32 speedup is 0.04 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1518) [generator=3.0.9] >>> Retrying... >>> Starting retry 4 of 6 with rsync://88.198.83.249/gentoo-portage >>> Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect to 88.198.83.249 (88.198.83.249): Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.9] >>> Retrying... >>> Starting retry 5 of 6 with >>> rsync://[2607:f740:0:29:230:48ff:fef8:a064]/gentoo-portage >>> Checking serve
Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Does it make sense to apply some sort of burn-in-procedure before > actually formatting and using the disks? Running badblocks or something? > > I ask because I wait for that shiny new server and doing so might not > hurt before installing gentoo. Or is that too paranoid and a waste of time? Initially I ran the SMART long test and it found no errors. Then I did badblocks read-only scan and it found some bad sectors. After that, SMART tests failed to complete due to "failure reading LBA x". I used hdparm to remap those sectors, but didn't feel entirely confident in the disk at that point in time. So I ran the badblocks destructive read-write test and it completed (after a couple days) with zero errors! How can it be? Checking the SMART statistics afterward, I can see now there are dozens of newly reallocated sectors. So that means the drive silently replaced those bad sectors with spares, which is good! That is what it is supposed to do! I don't feel happy about the fact that those bad sectors exist in the first place, but the drive did what it was designed to do when it encountered them. After the r/w badblocks test cycle finished, I ran SMART long-scan again and this time it completed with no errors. So I recommend to do the destructive read-write badblocks test, if you can afford the hours (or days) spent waiting for it to complete. SMART alone did not detect the errors initially, but neither did badblocks actually identify the errors during its write test (because the drive hides it). But the combination of badblocks and the self-repairing code in the drive's firmware accomplished the goal of making my disk free of errors (logically). Notes: WARNING! Be careful to give the correct device name when doing the badblocks write test! There is no confirmation prompt! It immediately starts destroying data at the beginning of the disk. If you have a disk with 4k sector size, be sure to tell badblocks to use a 4096 byte block size. It uses 1k block size by default, which can cause the test to be very slow! In my system badblocks with 1k block size read at 15MB/sec, while 4k block size read at over 160MB/sec! Using 1k block size on a 4k-sector disk also causes all errors to be reported 4 times each. Good luck :)
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
On Monday 08 Jul 2013 07:53:14 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:06:36 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Any ideas what could have gone wrong? > > > > > > It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from > > > your attachment. > > > > > > k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is > > > installed. Is cdrecord missing or why did k3b use growisofs? > > > > > > Did you explicitely try cdrecord? > > > > Hi, > > > > cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for > > creating the >10G isofs. > > > > I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) > > "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Dale wrote > Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through > java/javascript/flash? There are two levels of "infection"... 1) One-off execution of bad stuff when you visit a web page. 2) A more permanent infection that survives restarting the web browser, and rebooting the machine. But that would need to be linux executable. > Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? Usually, unless they find a privilege escalation hole. Then again, it's the user-info (bank login and password, credit card number, etc) that's really profitable for organized crime. > How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? If/when it results in the end of Flash, that's an improvement. The thing I worry about is that anything "powerful enough" can be (ab)used. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?
Hi Gentoo-users, today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked config file, I got this message: # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng checkconfig * Checking your configfile (/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) ... WARNING: Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your configuration; keyword='time_sleep', change='time_sleep() has been deprecated since syslog-ng 3.3' [ ok ] # So I checked the new syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf, but there is nothing about time_sleep() being obsolete or deprecated. Quite on the contrary: it is listed as valid option, and even mentioned in the chapter 17 "best practices" as a way of handling lots of parallel connections. So how is it then? Is time_sleep() supported and valid, or obsolete/deprecated? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:54:31 -0600, Joseph wrote: > I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window > with a simple message. I think a simple bash script and a cron job > would do the trick or is there a better solution? > > I've tried cron + bash script I think incron may be a better fit, its jobs are triggered by file creation, deletion or modification. > When I open terminal and type: "terminal" new windows pops up > But if close all the terminals and run wall.sh script the terminal will > not open. I get an error message: (terminal:24945): Gtk-WARNING **: > cannot open display: You probably need to export DISPLAY in your script. -- Neil Bothwick I get enough exercise just pushing my luck. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: 3D printers && Gentoo
Jean-Christophe Bach gmail.com> writes: > Of course, all these software are working without any problem on > Gentoo. > JC > [1] http://www.nybi.cc (in Frenchi :\ ) > [2] http://www.reprap.org > [3] http://www.thingiverse.com > [4] http://www.thingiverse.com/watsdesign/designs > [5] http://reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap > [6] http://www.ulule.com/foldarap/ (first batch) > [7] http://goteo.org/project/foldarap-peer-to-peer-edition (2nd batch) > [8] http://www.reprappro.com > [9] http://github.com/kliment/Printrun > [10] http://slic3r.org Hello Jean-Christophe Thanks for sharing your experiences. I read overviews of how folks are (3D) printing with metals, but find few details. I have some ideas on larger things to build, but in a 50-100 components sizes that fit together. I what to build a series of modules using a 3D printer that fit together with the lamiated beams to realize the a pickup-camper shell. I found super-strong, light weight composites that can be laminated for the structural beams, in lieu of metal. I'll have to design and model thing, but I have used Autocad and ProE so no worries on using Blender for the modelling So my real need is to find some resources (folks) that know about the myriad of different feedstock material you can use in a 3D printer and the resulting strengths. Platics, Polymers and such are are not my area of expertise, but I do have a petrochemical degree and some chemical process (refinery) experience. How do you find out about which 3D printers handle which matierals? Is it difficult to build a modified 3D printer to handle customized feedstock materials? James
Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller
On 08/07/2013 20:27, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 08.07.2013 17:58, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman >>> wrote: ST4000DM000 >>> >>> As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB "Desktop" edition drives I bought >>> already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives >>> have each encountered dozens of unreadable sectors so far. I was able >>> to correct them (force reallocation) using hdparm... So it should be >>> "fixed", and I'm reading that this is "normal" with newer drives and >>> "don't worry about it", but I'm still coming from the time when 1 bad >>> sector = red alert, replace the drive ASAP. I guess I will need to >>> monitor and see if it gets worse. >>> >> >> >> Way back when in the bad old days of drives measured in 100s of megs, >> you'd get a few bad sectors now and then, and would have to mark them as >> faulty. This didn't bother us then much >> >> Nowadays we have drives that are 8,000 bigger than that so all other >> things being equal we'd expect sectors to fail 8,000 time more (more >> being a very fuzzy concept, and I know full well I'm using it loosely :-) ) >> >> Our drives nowadays also have smart firmware, something we had to >> introduce when CHS no longer cut it, this lead to sector failures being >> somewhat "invisible" leaving us with the happy delusion that drives were >> vastly reliable etc etc etc. But you know all this. >> >> A mere few dozen failures in the first 100 hours is a failure rate of >> (Alan whips out the trust sci calculator) 4.8E-6%. Pretty damn >> spectacular if you ask me and WELL within probabilities. >> >> There is likely nothing wrong with your drives. If they are faulty, it's >> highly likely a systemic manufacturing fault of the mechanicals (servo >> systems, motor bearing etc) >> >> You do realize that modern hard drives have for the longest time been up >> there in the Top X list of Most Reliable Devices Made By Mankind Ever? > > Does it make sense to apply some sort of burn-in-procedure before > actually formatting and using the disks? Running badblocks or something? > > I ask because I wait for that shiny new server and doing so might not > hurt before installing gentoo. Or is that too paranoid and a waste of time? If it makes you feel better, then by all means go through the motions . For my money, I reckon that's exactly what it is - motions and ritual. I havew any anecdotal evidence to back it up, but it's fairly strong anecdotal evidence: Over the last 5 years, the team I'm in, the teams we work closely with and the Storage guys have commissioned >1000 pieces of hardware and probably more than 4000 drives, the vast majority from Dell. I have no idea what burn-in Dell applies, if any. We've had our fair share of infant mortality failures, prob ably less than 20 in 5 years. And here's the kicker - every single one failed in production. Most of that hardware, and ALL of the SANs, went through heavy pre-deployment testing. Usually, this means cloning the -dev system onto it and running the crap out of it for a decent length of time. Once the techies were happy, install the production version and switch it on. I conclude that the likely reason we only found failure in prod is that only prod gives a decent viable test that approximates real life and dev is always a mere simulation. It's not usage that kills a few drives early, it's the almost random pattern of disk access that you get in real life. That tends to shake out the weak links better than any test. However, this is all anecdotal so use or discard as you see fit :-). I no longer worry about data loss as we have 4 hour warranty turnaround SLAs in place and company policy is to only deploy storage that is guaranteed to survive loss of any one drive in an array. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message
How to design a sticky note pop-up when file is present? I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window with a simple message. I think a simple bash script and a cron job would do the trick or is there a better solution? I've tried cron + bash script cron: 32 10 * * * sh /home/joseph/xp_share/wall.sh wall.sh terminal wall file ready When I open terminal and type: "terminal" new windows pops up But if close all the terminals and run wall.sh script the terminal will not open. I get an error message: (terminal:24945): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays
on 07/08/2013 09:39 PM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: > Thanasis wrote: >> >> So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set >> KEEP_VIRTUALS=true >> REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 > > With the current default setting of separate databases for the > local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and > for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix), > KEEP_VIRTUALS=true makes no sense: > > The purpose of KEEP_VIRTUALS=true was to update the local > cache data without changing the remote data with eix-update > (if both are in the same file). > > However, especially if you set REMOTE_DEFAULT you should call > eix-remote add1 > after every eix-sync so that your local eix cache is > copied into the remote eix cache > (see the manpage how to do this automatically with eix-sync). > Thanks, Martin. So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option when I want to search the remote cache and no option for searching the local (installed) overlays and portage, is that correct?
