On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the
>> new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what
>> was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is
Adam wrote:
On 04/18/10 15:21, Dale wrote:
Adam wrote:
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my
grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right
way to do it?
On 04/18/10 15:21, Dale wrote:
> Adam wrote:
>> I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
>> something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my
>> grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right
>> way to do it?
>>
>>
>
> Gen
On 4/18/2010 12:29 AM, Jonathan wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:46:25 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
If any Joe Schmoe could imbue a program with capabilities, this might
be true. But that's not the way the system works.
Sorry, I think i'm missing your point.
Only root can run the setcap program
Adam wrote:
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my
grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right
way to do it?
Gentoo doesn't use those runlevels. You need to read
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my
grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right
way to do it?
I intend to get the Silicon Dust HDHomerun dual tuner box. It has a
linux library and CLI plus a separate gtk+ GUI. The linux source comes
with a makefile that puts stuff in /usr/local. But I want at least a
"wrapper" ebuild so that Portage knows about the files, and can manage
them. I'd pref
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:46:25 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
> If any Joe Schmoe could imbue a program with capabilities, this might
> be true. But that's not the way the system works.
Sorry, I think i'm missing your point.
> Only root can run the setcap program to add capabilities to a program,
> a
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:05:23 -0700
walt wrote:
> Have a leisurely browse through /usr/include/unistd.h to answer your question.
That file has answer to my question.
Thank you.
On 04/17/2010 06:02 PM, Jonathan wrote:
What does the E in EUID stand for?
I did a quick Google and found RUID and EUID but I did not find anything else.
Did you really type what you meant? Doesn't make much sense as is, so I assume
there is a typo in there somewhere.
Have a leisurely browse
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:29:37 +1000
Lie Ryan wrote:
> sudoedit is mainly just a shortcut for "sudo $EDITOR" (plus doing a few
> things).
sudoedit is safer then sudo because sudoedit runs as root but nano (The editor)
runs as your user.
sudoedit uses a fixed path which is compiled into the progra
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:40:01 +0200, Jonathan wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their
permissions?:
>On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:45:57 +0100
>David W Noon wrote:
>
>> In fact, POSIX capabilities are a mechanism to *reduce* a program's
>> permissions, not incr
On 2010-04-17 6:31 PM, Alexander Tanyukevich wrote:
> If you want to compile whole kernel with new compiler you should run
> "make clean" first.
Crap, I remember that now... thanks for taking it easy with the
cluestick... ;)
--
Charles
On 04/17/10 08:13, Jonathan wrote:
> I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions of
> a user.
>
> 1: su -: Needs root password and you need to be in the group "wheel".
> 2: sudo: You need to be in the group "wheel" or in the /etc/sudoers file,
> using your own use
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> Ok, maybe I'm missing something...
>
> The first time I compile a kernel, it takes at least 4 or 5 minutes, if
> not longer (never really timed it)...
>
> But, I just switched my compiler from 4.1.2 to 4.3.4, and wanted to
> recompile the kern
On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
> On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
>>> everything *but* gcc)?
>> Of course I meant:
>>
>> emerge -e system -gcc
> You could try tem
Ok, maybe I'm missing something...
The first time I compile a kernel, it takes at least 4 or 5 minutes, if
not longer (never really timed it)...
But, I just switched my compiler from 4.1.2 to 4.3.4, and wanted to
recompile the kernel, so, I change to the /usr/src/kernel dir and ran
make again, bu
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:10:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping:
>On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote:
[snip]
>> Are they meant to make entries in cron.daily when installed?
>
>Not at all.
>
>They are meant to install crontabs in cron.monthly
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:59:07 +0200
KH wrote:
> Sounds a little like putting someone in prison and than telling him
> walking through the prison yard is increasing his freedom.
As Linux is a prison for programs then I guess your right.
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
>> everything *but* gcc)?
>
> Of course I meant:
>
> emerge -e system -gcc
You could try temporarily masking it:
#echo sys-devel/gcc >> /etc/portage
On Saturday 17 April 2010 23:01:19 you wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 21:55:52 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote:
> > > > Do you have these packages installed:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids
> > > >
> > > >
On Saturday 17 April 2010 21:55:52 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote:
> > > Do you have these packages installed:
> > >
> > >
> > > nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids
> > >
> > > * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids ...
> > >
> >
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the
> new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what
> was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is wrong.
As long as /boot is not on RAID, or is on RAID1, you
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:25:18 -0700
walt wrote:
> I've been an amateur linux/*BSD user for about ten years or so, and I would
> love to
> answer your questions -- but I don't know the answers. Yet.
Around 4 years, 3 years with Ubuntu and one with Gentoo.
> While you and I wait for a guru to en
Am 17.04.2010 23:32, schrieb Jonathan:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:45:57 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
In fact, POSIX capabilities are a mechanism to *reduce* a program's
permissions, not increase them.
It's true that Linux "capabilities" are used to replace SUID and that does
reduce the programs pe
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM, David Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On
> boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm
> getting:
>
>
> I've booted with a live CD and checked the arrays they look good, i'm
> not sur
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I've never learned to do an initramfs as I've never used hardware
> in a Linux box that required it. However now I find myself using mdadm
> software-RAID and getting dinged on the linux-raid list when I ask
> about things like the ker
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:45:57 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
> In fact, POSIX capabilities are a mechanism to *reduce* a program's
> permissions, not increase them.
It's true that Linux "capabilities" are used to replace SUID and that does
reduce the programs permissions.
On the other hand programs l
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
> everything *but* gcc)?
Of course I meant:
emerge -e system -gcc
On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote:
> > Do you have these packages installed:
> >
> >
> > nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids
> >
> > * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids ...
> >
> > sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids)
> > nazgul ~
Is there a way to emerge, say, system, but omit one package in it?
For example, I've already recompiled gcc 4.3.4 with itself... is there a
way to now do something like:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Its not a big deal, I'm just curious
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:30:02 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?:
>On Friday 16 April 2010 23:13:34 Jonathan wrote:
[snip]
>> 4: Linux "Capabilities" or "caps": Which increases permissions on a
>> per-file basis. e.g. removin
On Samstag 17 April 2010, David Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On
> boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm
> getting:
>
> md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
> md: If you don't use raid,
On 2010-04-17 3:42 PM, KH wrote:
> Am 17.04.2010 21:30, schrieb Jarry:
>> On 17. 4. 2010 21:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> Whats the best way to uninstall a package - in this case, openldap, but
>>> really for any package - and get all of the dependencies it pulls in,
>>> but only ones that are not requi
On 04/17/2010 11:12 AM, Mick wrote:
I have however already installed both pciutils and usbutils.
Are they meant to make entries in cron.daily when installed?
I just discovered the network-cron useflag, thanks :)
Am 17.04.2010 21:30, schrieb Jarry:
On 17. 4. 2010 21:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
Whats the best way to uninstall a package - in this case, openldap, but
really for any package - and get all of the dependencies it pulls in,
but only ones that are not required for other unrelated (to openldap)
packages
On 17. 4. 2010 21:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
Whats the best way to uninstall a package - in this case, openldap, but
really for any package - and get all of the dependencies it pulls in,
but only ones that are not required for other unrelated (to openldap)
packages?
I'm using this sequence:
emerge
Subject says it all...
I've had openldap installed on my system since forever but never used it
(always meant to, but honestly I really don't need it).
Now I'm wanting to uninstall unused stuff before switching gcc versions
and recompiling system and world.
Whats the best way to uninstall a pack
Hello,
I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On
boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm
getting:
md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: Sc
On Friday 16 April 2010 23:13:34 Jonathan wrote:
> I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions
> of a user.
>
> 1: su -: Needs root password and you need to be in the group "wheel".
> 2: sudo: You need to be in the group "wheel" or in the /etc/sudoers file,
> usin
On Saturday 17 April 2010 16:39:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 17:10:14 Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
> > > > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:2
Hi,
I've never learned to do an initramfs as I've never used hardware
in a Linux box that required it. However now I find myself using mdadm
software-RAID and getting dinged on the linux-raid list when I ask
about things like the kernel autodetecting RAID drives at boot time as
the mdadm develop
On Saturday 17 April 2010 17:10:14 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
> > > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:2
On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
> > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> > >
> > > Blimey! That sounds like horri
hi,
i use kvm -soundhw ac97 ... to start my win7 guest, and i see a
'Multimedia Audio Device' in my device manager. but i cannot manage to
get a driver for it. according to kvm -soundhw ?, the ac97 sound card
is a intel ac97 audio device. but windows cannot find a driver for it,
neither can i find
On 04/17/10 23:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
>> On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
>>> On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
>>> Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!
>>>
>>> Which cro
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Intel HDA here. Mic input on my works fine.
>
> 1) Make sure mic volume is up and mix is not muted.
>
> 2) Compile Alsa as modular. Almost always works better and is
> recommended modular by Alsa developers over the years.
>
> The one thing th
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i searched for a while and found out microphone does not work in linux
> for most people...
>
> despite of this, i still post here, and hope someone could help me.
>
> my system is thinkpad t61, intel HD audio, gentoo amd64, i have ALSA
> a
On Sa, 2010-04-17 at 20:55 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i searched for a while and found out microphone does not work in linux
> for most people...
>
> despite of this, i still post here, and hope someone could help me.
>
> my system is thinkpad t61, intel HD audio, gentoo amd64, i have ALSA
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:09 +1000
Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> >
> > Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!
> >
> > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop?
>
On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> > Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!
> >
> > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop?
>
> One
On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
>
> Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!
>
> Which cron do you recommend for a desktop?
One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed v
hi,
i searched for a while and found out microphone does not work in linux
for most people...
despite of this, i still post here, and hope someone could help me.
my system is thinkpad t61, intel HD audio, gentoo amd64, i have ALSA
and intel audio driver compiled in my kernel.
--
Best Regards,
On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:51:39 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mick writes:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a
> > secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is
> > down, without some bespoke DIY script?
>
> Not give you the run
Yeah checked...at time of install sourceforge was doing maintenance...
Thanks :)
On 17/04/10 18:32, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/4/17 ubiquitous1980 :
>
>> Hey guys...no downloadable source for emesene from the sunrise overlay...
>> Thought I would check first before I write a bug for bugzill
Yeah checked...at time of install sourceforge was doing maintenance...
Thanks :)
On 17/04/10 18:32, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/4/17 ubiquitous1980 :
>
>> Hey guys...no downloadable source for emesene from the sunrise overlay...
>> Thought I would check first before I write a bug for bugzill
2010/4/17 ubiquitous1980 :
> Hey guys...no downloadable source for emesene from the sunrise overlay...
> Thought I would check first before I write a bug for bugzilla.
>
> Thanks
>
> ubiquitous1980
Go to http://sourceforge.net/ and you will find out.
--
Daniel Pielmeier
On Saturday 17 April 2010 10:47:15 Mick wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> > > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote:
> > > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't a
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:00:02 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
vixie-cron keeps stopping:
>On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
[snip]
>> ... and as for vixie-cron: When software doesn't act like it's
>> supposed to, breaks in horrible ways without giving me any clue
>> (l
On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:51:39 Harry Putnam wrote:
> comp.mail.sendmail
Thank you Harry, I will. Just thought that there may be a Gentoo user who's
already tried this - plus this is my favorite list alright. ;-)
--
Regards,
Mick
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On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote:
> > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly
> > >> first time, not even on th
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