Re: [gentoo-user] How can I create "dynamic" link?

2010-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 00:09:13 Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/10/2010 02:06 PM, Jarry wrote: > > Hi, > > I am facing this problem: I have subdirectory, let's say > > "/some/dir". I would like to create some kind of "dynamic" > > and "preliminary" link, so that any future subdirectories, > > crea

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Petric Frank writes: > All hints are welcome. I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 4096 11. Aug 10:48 /tmp If this ^ t is missing, do a chmod +t /tmp, and try again. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-11 Thread linux
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:14:55PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am incurring a strange problem when trying to burn DVDs. When I > > apply the command: > > > > # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 -R -J test/ > > > > I get the following outp

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > /etc/init.d/hald status > * status: stopped > > using cdrecord on a DVD+RW works fine, but I have this error when I > try to burn a DVD-R: OK, could you send the outout from cdrecord -v -minfo with this medium? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-11 Thread linux
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > > > /etc/init.d/hald status > > * status: stopped > > > > using cdrecord on a DVD+RW works fine, but I have this error when I > > try to burn a DVD-R: > > OK, could you send the outout from cdrec

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-11 Thread linux
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 05:00:45PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > > > > > > > /etc/init.d/hald status > > > > * status: stopped > > > > > > > > using cdr

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > > Ritek may not be the best media quality. Did you try Verbatim? > > > > > > J?rg > > They were from Aldi, however I used also CDR from there, they seem to > be manufactured by Plasmon Data Systems (both are labeled > Tevion). With those CDR I have usually no pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 07:15:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured > > > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. > > > > To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. > > > > > After login the KDE4 desktop st

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 10:59:33 Alex Schuster wrote: > Petric Frank writes: > > All hints are welcome. > > I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. That is a rather new direction. I never checked this. > ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp > drwxrwxrwt 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-11 Thread Stroller
On 10 Aug 2010, at 20:22, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: ... Good Luck getting people to change them frequently and haveing your techs and it departments meeting complexity and length policy. I'm pretty sure that's a trivial setting for expiration policy and a PAM plugin or option to enfor

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-11 Thread Stroller
On 10 Aug 2010, at 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... The major threat by analysis on a workstation is stepping away for a leak and forgetting to lock the screen. sudo is adequate protection against this as long as more than 5 minutes have elapsed since the last sudo was run - ... And I seem

[gentoo-user] Re: bluetooth device bd address is 11:11:11:11:11:11

2010-08-11 Thread Heorhii Valakhanovich
On 08/09/2010 03:10 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i have a usb bluetooth device, after i plug it into the usb slot and > ran hciconfig, it shows the bd address is 11:11:11:11:11:11. is it > correct? or maybe the driver is not loaded correctly? > > Some devices use "fake adresses" like that. Usua

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on LUKS

2010-08-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 07.08.2010 11:48, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi list! > > I'm building a new Gentoo system (notebook) and want to rearrange a few > things. I thought it would be good to have the following layout: > > - boot on a normal partition > - root on a normal partition > - one big encrypted partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-11 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 10 Aug 2010, at 20:22, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: ... Good Luck getting people to change them frequently and haveing your techs and it departments meeting complexity and length policy. I'm pretty sure that's a trivial setting for expiration policy and a PAM plugin or

[gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
I feel like I should be able to solve this one, but it started after my last world update so maybe someone else has had a similar problem. We have a ruby script called 'mailshears' on our mail server that cleans up orphaned users and domains every night. The main script, /root/src/mailshear

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
> What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron > runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking? No direct answer, sorry, Michael. You might want to use: /bin/bash -l -x -c /root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears to at least help debug it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/11/2010 03:16 PM, Bill Longman wrote: What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking? No direct answer, sorry, Michael. You might want to use: /bin/bash -l -x -c /root/src/mailshears/bin/m

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 18:58:02 Stroller wrote: > On 10 Aug 2010, at 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... The major threat by analysis on a workstation is stepping away > > for a > > leak and forgetting to lock the screen. sudo is adequate protection > > against > > this as long as more than 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 20:16:42 Dale wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > On 10 Aug 2010, at 20:22, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > >> ... > >> Good Luck getting people to change them frequently and haveing your > >> techs and it departments meeting complexity and length policy. > > > > I'm pretty s

[gentoo-user] python modules

2010-08-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Hi Is there a way to safely install python modules ? Except from portage itself (or do I need an overlay ?) Thanks -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloa

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/11/2010 01:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I refuse to implement password expiration policies and have a vast array of > literature to back me up when some dimwit damager gets on his expiration high > horse. > > My users pick their own passwords - I present a list of 5 from apg and let > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 August 2010 00:11:12 Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/11/2010 01:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I refuse to implement password expiration policies and have a vast array > > of literature to back me up when some dimwit damager gets on his > > expiration high horse. > > > > My users pick

Re: [gentoo-user] python modules

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > Hi > > Is there a way to safely install python modules ? Except from portage > itself > (or do I need an overlay ?) > > Thanks > -- > > The ones in portage are best (that is, most likely to work and keep working). You can use an overlay fo

[gentoo-user] DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-11 Thread James
Baseline- I'm lazy and not very smart: So my console output upon booting berated me about continuing to use sysfs. OK. So I removed it and built a new kernel (AMD 64). Everything works but the DVD. Ok, so I need a udev rule to fix it? Googling has produced lots of antiquated info; nothing useful.

[gentoo-user] root in LVM with ext4 as mount ext2

2010-08-11 Thread sam new
Hi all, I transfer data to a new harddisk ,and use LVM . when it boots up ,the root is mounted as ext2 ,the real filesystem is ext4 ,how should I do ? here is /etc/fstab /dev/sda5 /boot ext3noatime 0 1 /dev/mapper/sysvg-root /

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 August 2010 00:11:12 Bill Longman wrote: > > On 08/11/2010 01:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I refuse to implement password expiration policies and have a vast > array > > > of literature to back me up when some dimwit damag

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> >> On 26 Mar 2010, at 22:21, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH >>> voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA contr