[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-09 Thread Martin Vaeth
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 t

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Dale
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 i

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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 d

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-09 Thread Dale
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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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 G

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-09 Thread Dale
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 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-09 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-09 Thread Dale
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 perm

[gentoo-user] strange eix-sync

2013-07-09 Thread meino . cramer
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 to

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-09 Thread Paul Hartman
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 install

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Mick
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 th

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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 r

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?

2013-07-09 Thread Jarry
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message

2013-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] Re: 3D printers && Gentoo

2013-07-09 Thread James
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://

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
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 >>>

[gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message

2013-07-09 Thread Joseph
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 * * *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-09 Thread Thanasis
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