[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Christer Ekholm
Dale writes: > Albert Hopkins wrote: >> >> Uh.. you don't "disable" it. You simply don't use the alias. >> > Oh, OK.If it is set up to add that > option, how do you tell it not to use it? You can type backslash before a alias to not use the alias. alias ls='ls --color' now ls lists with co

[gentoo-user] Re: Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-30 Thread Christer Ekholm
Timur Aydin writes: > Hi, > > I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the > resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping > says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns > server, which is running on the same host. But dig works > fine. Al

[gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Christer Ekholm
Albert Hopkins writes: > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 11:17 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote: > I would think (hope) that the python maintainers were smart enough to > know whether installing Python 3 would break portage. Then again, this > is Gentoo ;-) Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it

[gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Christer Ekholm
Adam Carter writes: >> Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it does! :) >> >> 19:14:44 poke:~ $ eselect python list >> Available python interpreters: >> [1] python2.6 >> [2] python3.1 >> 19:17:24 poke:~ $ sudo eselect python set 2 >> 19:17:31 poke:~ $ emerge --i

[gentoo-user] Re: Does openoffice really require pam?

2005-08-11 Thread Christer Ekholm
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo > | *REALLY* require pam? > > No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh. Is that

[gentoo-user] Re: Disabling job control in bash

2008-11-09 Thread Christer Ekholm
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I need to disable job control on a machine with 650+ users because way > too many of them believe that Ctrl-Z is how you kill processes. So, I > want Ctrl-Z to basically do nothing. I've found a great solution: > > set +m One other way could

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-23 Thread Christer Ekholm
"James Homuth" writes: > Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? I have used Gentoo at home for many years now. And I have never used pam. I even have # Don't want these, ever >sys-libs/pam-0 In /etc/portage/package.mask so that I detect if anything wants to pull in pam. A few times s

[gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-20 Thread Christer Ekholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After updating lvm2 from 2.02.02 to 2.02.03, the system mount / which > is on a primary partition but frefus to mount /usr,/var,/home and /tmp. > On the console I see: > Setting up the logical volume manager > Volume group for uuid not found: m6reV.(four times

[gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Christer Ekholm
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hm, did yo note the following warning? > > WARN: postinst > An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. > In order to avoid breaking packages that link against it, this older version > is not being removed. In order to make ful

[gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-05 Thread Christer Ekholm
[This is a followup to the whole thread, not any particular posting] Something interesting just happened to me that I would like to share. I realized that I have a program called usetool that I must have installed some time. What is that i thought, so my first try to find out was to try 'man uset

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread Christer Ekholm
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:14:53PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote >> Hi group, >> >> I connect to the web using >> >> $sudo /usr/sbin/pon >> >> on one machine(2.6.20-gentoo-r6). On another >> machine(2.6.19-gentoo-r5), I get >> >> :sudo: can't open /etc

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread Christer Ekholm
I was wrong. Sorry. I realize now that this cannot be your problem, sudo tell you that it is not setuid if it's not. $ sudo chmod -s sudo $ sudo ls sudo: must be setuid root > > Thanks Christer, never saw that command before, but > like I told Walter, a listing for sudo is indeed: > ---s-

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-26 Thread Christer Ekholm
maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > strace: > <...> > open("/etc/sudoers", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES > (Permission denied) > geteuid32() = 1 hmm, strange, geteuid should return euid which should be zero for root. Look for other occurences of geteuid in str

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-26 Thread Christer Ekholm
maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most similar instance is following the line: > <...> > readlink("/proc/self/fd/0, "/dev/tty2", 4095) = 9 > getuid32() = 0 >^ > note: no 'e' Yes that's also interesting, uid is zero, which is should be since you are runn

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-26 Thread Christer Ekholm
maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> root. Look for other occurences of geteuid in >> strace output. > > Most similar instance is following the line: > <...> > readlink("/proc/self/fd/0, "/dev/tty2", 4095) = 9 > getuid32() = 0 You should aslo check for any o

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-27 Thread Christer Ekholm
maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If by "successful" you mean the call returns >= 0, > then they're successful. Yes, > > There is this, however: > <...> > open("/etc/default/nss", 0_RDONLY) =-1 ENODENT (No > such file or directory) > <...> > connect(4,{sa_family=AF_FILE, > path="/var/

[gentoo-user] Re: CVS for kernel config?

2006-05-31 Thread Christer Ekholm
"Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I anticipate a > lot of experimentation/tuning with the kernel. > > I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably > Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Question about duplicate lines in file

2006-06-12 Thread Christer Ekholm
Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried > this: > > uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort > > It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the same thing over. > There are only 2 lines missi