Comments inline:
moriah ~ # df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /
udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev
cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache
/dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr
/de
Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their
$HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir?
Dont know if you can stop that.
Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem,
if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings...
After logging there I get either message
Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I
can’t find a way to have it start in gnome. (it’s an applet)
John D
Michal Kurgan napsal(a):
Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on
write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel
(2.6.12) and "sync" mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat
filesystem.
This is my case, but i want to have
emerge mldonkey gives me this:
* If the compile with gui fails, and you have updated ocaml
* recently, you may have forgotten that you need to run
* /usr/portage/dev-lang/ocaml/files/ocaml-rebuild.sh
* to learn which ebuilds you need to recompile
* each time you update ocaml to a different versio
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 06:28 schrieb ext Mark Knecht:
>That's very helpful. To test my understanding
>
> /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M
Way too much.
> /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G
Can be on a logical volume, too.
> /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install?
Why? Use the LiveCD.
> /dev/hd
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW
> all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last
> hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo
> install pretty soon.
>
>
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:34 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
>
> > Don't think it's in the docs; I know about it from reading my emerge
> > output. The recommendation to run /usr/sbin/python-updater is in the
> > einfo displayed at the end of a Python emerge
Rajat Gujral, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks:
>Hi
>when i work in shell it shows me the complete path of the folder i am
>in ... this make the command promt to extend to almost half the screen
>.. How can i change the prompt so that it displays only the directory
>i
yep. it's a bug. As soon as I remove iptables from the kernel config,
ipw2100,ieee80211_crypt_tkip, ieee80211_crypt_ccmp, ieee80211_crypt_wep,
ieee80211 all show up fine in lsmod. no dmesg errors, and eth1 (wireless)
shows up fine. Off to bugz to log this.
John D
-Original Message-
F
OK, I'll give a shot - sounds promising... :)Regards,Martin S
/dev/hda3 is the backup/rescue. What I did last time I built a system,
is used this to build a working system. Put it into service,
adjust/configure until I am happy. Create the LVM in prep for the main
install. Copy the rescue system to the LVM and setup grub. reboot into
the main and go from
Hi
when i work in shell it shows me the complete path of the folder i am
in ... this make the command promt to extend to almost half the screen
.. How can i change the prompt so that it displays only the directory i
am in ..
Thnx & Rgds
Rajat
On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My scheme is:
> 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but
> its mostly "space" att)
>
> 2G swap
>
> 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes
> pear shaped, I have a backup including a
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:01 am, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was blanking a floppy but when I ran:
>
> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0
>
> /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting
> the machine relaunched udev which rec
The focus isnt on the number of packages per se, but on the size of the
install media that a modern distro requires. Gentoo (as long as it has
the "coverage") has a natural advantage here in that you only install
what you want to install from the repositories, or from a single,
relatively small CD
On 8/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that such a number wouldn't be useful for comparing with, say,other distributions or ports, because a) we can SLOT things, so wedon't need separate foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3 packages, and b) we don'tneed to do a zillion foo, foo-python, foo-p
ok. I got a clean kernel and removed iptables and firestarter. I then went
into the kernel config and _only_ turned on iptable support as a module, and
ran modules-update. all looks ok. Rebooting the kernel, however, I get
this in dmesg -
ipw2100: disagrees about version of symbol per_cpu__soft
My scheme is:
100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but
its mostly "space" att)
2G swap
4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes
pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning /boot on this
partition. Particularly useful with thin
Holly~
The Firestarter kernel requirements doc says -
*Device drivers
*Networking support [y]
*Networking support
*Networking options
*Network packet filtering [y]
*Network p
Depending on what you have installed, it will take more than 14
hours. Are you sure they're talking about emerge -e system and
not emerge -e world?On 8/29/05, Matt Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know that upgrading glibc can cause some programs to break if theywere built against the previou
iptables has an "extensions" use flag which you may or may not need
depending on what the firestarter scripts do.
After installing modules, you need to run modules-update to get the
modules database sorted out. This may fix the symbol error. In some
cases, you need to reboot into the new kernel
John Dangler schreef:
> I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I
> didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as
> the doc I found suggests)
Oh, John, to hell with "the doc you found" (which look to be from the
Wiki). No offense to the
Hi,
My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW
all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last
hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo
install pretty soon.
I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
Don't think it's in the docs; I know about it from reading my emerge
output. The recommendation to run /usr/sbin/python-updater is in the
einfo displayed at the end of a Python emerge (in the case you just
updated from 2.2.x to 2.3.x). So I remembered th
Jorge Almeida schreef:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The problem, from the looks of it, could be in Python, or in gentoolkit
>> itself.
>>
>> Have you updated Python recently? Perhaps you need to run
>> /usr/sbin/python-updater to make sure everything is copacetic.
>
> py
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:03:37 +0200, Michal Kurgan wrote:
> When i mount by hand without sync my flash work as usual but it start
> writing on umnount command, this is not what i want...
I can confirm the same here, with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9.
Copying a 96MB file to a usb stick and then unmoun
Okay - it's not that then .
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jorge Almeida wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I've seen messages like that from portage and when I run the command again
it works. It seems that sometimes portage is running and executing a
command like that cause it to
I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I
didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as
the doc I found suggests) all of the options as modules under iptables. (The
doc also says that if they are compiled as modules, I didn't need to
reboo
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I've seen messages like that from portage and when I run the command again it
works. It seems that sometimes portage is running and executing a command
like that cause it to get confused.
This has happened for some time now, on my office computer
I've seen messages like that from portage and when I run the command again
it works. It seems that sometimes portage is running and executing a
command like that cause it to get confused.
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jorge
Almeida wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
The problem,
The problem is not OO but xorg (upstream). Mask the current version and
downgrade to 11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1.
There's a bug in bugzilla about it.
BillK
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:46 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi !!
>
> I'm compiling with CFLAGS "-mtune=pentium-m -O3 -pipe
> -fomit
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
The problem, from the looks of it, could be in Python, or in gentoolkit
itself.
Have you updated Python recently? Perhaps you need to run
/usr/sbin/python-updater to make sure everything is copacetic.
python is up-to-date, and I just run /usr/sbin/pyt
Jorge Almeida schreef:
> equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for
> good measure.
>
> $ equery depends vim
> [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1551, in ?
> cmd.p
Matt,
Check out net-firewall/firestarter, http://www.fs-security.com/, it is a gui
frontend for iptables and has a way to monitor the communication.
Sean
On Monday 29 August 2005 02:54 pm, Matt Randolph wrote:
> I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my qu
equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for
good measure.
$ equery depends vim
[ Searching for packages depending on vim... ]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1551, in ?
cmd.perform(local_opts)
I read through a few firewall products for my workstation and settled on
firestarter. In reading through their docs, they say to enable 'every
option under iptables'. there are 36 possible choices here! (counting the
sub-choices under Full NAT Packet Filtering). Is it necessary to build all
of th
Le 29 août à 20:42:38 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment:
| OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is:
| DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same
>
| Mail is still in "maildir" format but at least in /var/spool/mail.
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME (no slash at the end) should g
El 27/ago/2005 a las 14:00 -0300, Alex me decía:
> Joe writes:
>
> > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
> > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
> > Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which
> > overwri
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:48:54 +0200 (CEST), Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hm, short addition here: ...and don't forget to use tar's "p" option!
This is the default on tar now, and has been for quite some time.
--
Neil Bothwick
Electric chairs are period furniture: they end a sentence
pgp15oGTZY
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:42:38 +0200, Jarry wrote:
> > MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
> > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/
> > at the top of /etc/procmailrc
>
> OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is:
> DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same
>
> Mail is still in "maildir" format but at least in /
John Dangler schreef:
> On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm.
> I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I
> close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save
> mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have
On Monday 29 of August 2005 22:02, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote:
> are you accessing it as /dev/sda or /dev/uba?
>
> Ever since the new "usb-block device" option has been in the kernel I've
> noticed this as well. I don't believe it has anything to do with the
> sync option, but I have been known to be w
yes well when it is in portage the file will be updated into the portage
tree automatically. in the meantime you have to download both the ebuild
and the wrapper script, same as for any other new ebuild. Sorry if I
didn't make this clear in the email with the new ebuild.
I don't think its correct
On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm.
I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I
close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save
mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have mozilla available when I
login
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
> Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their
> $HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? That way they could
> circumvent my /var userqouta settings (100MB) and use /home
> settings (5GB)...
Dont know if you can stop that.
> One more problem: I
are you accessing it as /dev/sda or /dev/uba?
Ever since the new "usb-block device" option has been in the kernel I've
noticed this as well. I don't believe it has anything to do with the
sync option, but I have been known to be wrong.
I can't remember off the top of my head, but if you check
but I don't think running a firewall on a unix desktop is necessary.
I certainly do. What about ssh multiple-login attacks? I know that pam
can easily fix this
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/GWikInstall_Essential_Daemons#Securing_SSH), but
I know there are other services (portmap) that can be vulner
Nick Rout wrote:
did you have the laby wrapper script
in /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/files ??
I posted the wrapper script with the first version of the ebuild.
Nope, I didn't keep a copy of it at the time. To be considered
complete, the ebuild should either include a copy o
did you have the laby wrapper script
in /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/files ??
I posted the wrapper script with the first version of the ebuild.
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 09:49 -0700, Greg Bengeult wrote:
> Holly Bostick wrote:
> > Holly Bostick schreef:
> >
> >
> >>You can see that 'l
iptables really isn't that difficult if you just want to do what the
average home user wants to do- accept certain services and block
everything else.
Provided that you have kernel support for iptables you can just
copy/paste some example code in a text file.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Ipt
Jonas Geiregat schreef:
> Fernando Canizo wrote:
>
>> El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía:
>>
>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
>>>
>>>
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '.
>
On Monday 29 of August 2005 20:14, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Make sure you haven't enabled BLK_DEV_UB in your kernel.
I am sure.
--
Michal Kurgan
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
I use shorewall on my gateways / firewalls, but it's probably a bit overkill
for you.
A really simple setup can be done with firehol(.sf.net), but I don't think
running a firewall on a unix desktop is necessary.
Oscar
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:54:46 -0400
Matt Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if anybody used mysql to store and load the
rules for iptables and if there is any script for this allready
available or any sugestions. ( Personally I woul like to try a
combination of mysql + php + iptables to be able to remotely control the
firewall, and I do no
>From what I could find from a quick search on the gentoo forums, it's as
>simple as plug'n'pray :)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354115-highlight-k750i.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374017-highlight-k750i.html
Oscar
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:58:29 +0200
Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECT
Matt Randolph schreef:
> I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is
> different enough to warrant a new thread.
I think you're not quite right :), but I can see why you'd think this.
>
> I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm
> product for Wi
inferno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>If it's any help: I'm using 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 kernel not a
>genkernel. Maybe the version of kernel on your computer is newer than
>the one on the live cd, try a downgrade and see if it help.
>Best regards
I found the problem. The US
KFireWall (I think it's called) if you use KDE.Regards,Martin S
Anyone played with the USB feature of the Ericsson phone? I forgot to
bring the cable to my new phone from work - but I suppose I just plug
it in and it will be found as an extra drive (like my USB memory
stick). Anyone can verify this?Regards,Martin S
I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is
different enough to warrant a new thread.
I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm
product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself
iptables if there is a simple alternative.
I'
Neil Bothwick wrote:
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/
at the top of /etc/procmailrc
OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is:
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same
Mail is still in "maildir" format but at least in /var/spool/mail.
Q: How can I prohibit users fr
I know that upgrading glibc can cause some programs to break if they
were built against the previous glibc. This happens to me all the time
and I have gotten in the habit of simply re-emerging any packages that
misbehave since a glibc upgrade.
Well, I have upgraded both glibc and gcc within t
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:12 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > According to the portage man-page you must include the version of
> > the package
>
> Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new?
> But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an
> older
Alec Shaner schreef:
> Holly Bostick wrote:
>
>>
>> This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did
>> forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since
>> there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem.
>>
>> I could be wrong, though, espe
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:11:04 +0200, Michal Kurgan wrote:
> Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s
> on write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new
> kernel (2.6.12) and "sync" mount option, that is now correctly(?)
> respected by fat filesystem.
Fernando Canizo wrote:
El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '.
The questions would be:
- why gentoo h
Thank you all,
> From:: Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:32:24 +0200
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT)
> "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi,
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT)
"Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this
> output:
> [...]
Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual
task): partition table of a floppy disk? well,
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that
> it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting?
# mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0
--
Cheers, Alex.
pgphQj8fBbRIL.pgp
Description: PGP signature
> Easiest way would be to try "mformat a:" (yes, that is the actual
> command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not,
> but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies.
emerge mtools
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Easiest way would be to try "mformat a:" (yes, that is the actual
command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not,
but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies.
--
Wade Brown
On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Using fdisk
Holly Bostick wrote:
This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did
forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since
there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem.
I could be wrong, though, especially since it works under KDE. Why wou
Hi All,
Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output:
===
# fdisk /dev/fd0
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/fd0: 0 MB, 737280 bytes
2 heads, 9 sectors/track, 80 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 18 * 512 = 9216 bytes
Device Boot Start
Holly Bostick wrote:
Holly Bostick schreef:
You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess
that must be it in /usr/lib/laby?
Yes, indeed it is:
la /usr/lib/laby
totaal 5388
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 110112 aug 29
Hi !!
I'm compiling with CFLAGS "-mtune=pentium-m -O3 -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointers", and what I want I've done is recompiled all my
system with an "emerge -ve world". Now everything has been recompiled
with those CFLAGS. What I've noticed since that "update" is that my
icons (on dialogs, menus, too
Holly Bostick schreef:
> You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess
> that must be it in /usr/lib/laby?
>
> Yes, indeed it is:
>
> la /usr/lib/laby
> totaal 5388
> drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 110112 aug 29 17:20
Alec Shaner schreef:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in
>> /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into
>> /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be.
>>
>> Those of you who have expressed an interest
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0800 William Kenworthy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo?
| Stable, ~x86 etc?
Note that such a number wouldn't be useful for comparing with, say,
other distributions or ports, because a) we can SLOT thin
Hello!
Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on
write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel
(2.6.12) and "sync" mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat
filesystem.
This is my case, but i want to have sth like sync when
Nick Rout wrote:
OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in
/usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into
/usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be.
Those of you who have expressed an interest in this game please try it
out. If it
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 13:52 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
> Greg Armer wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I am having a few issues with the below setup, the wireless lan
> > connection intermittently drops and reconnects every couple seconds.
> > This only happens while using wireless, and only with the setup b
Michael Kintzios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> I was blanking a floppy but when I ran:
>
> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0
>
> /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the
> machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there a
On 27/08/05, David Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> List,
>When I use this Windows based SSH tool to connect to my new dev box with
> sftp it get's two dialogs about 'enter auth
> response' as if the sftp-subsystem is spitting out extra control characters.
> That's not a real big issue but
On Monday 29 August 2005 13:09, Ric de France wrote:
> What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it:
> a) Wait for the fix to be sync'ed into portage?
> b) Emerge "gst-plugins-flac"?
It's (b)
Or you could do
$ emerge --oneshot gst-plugins-flac (which wont record it in your world file)
and wait for
> From:: Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:36 +0200
> Why -u?
> From the man page:
>
>
> Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not t
Hi All,
I have noticed that the fonts in some applications (in say, their drop down
menus) have changed to something that looks like a Courier font, which I don't
like much for this purpose. Applications which appear to have been affected
and display their menus in Courier (or whatever that fo
Michael Kintzios:
> There's nothing wrong with dd, but I see no reason to create my own
> script to extend the basic dd functionality. I would rather use
> shred which does everything I want it to do - if only I can avoid
> the deletion if the device node itself.
Why -u?
>From the man page:
Alex,
On 8/30/05, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it the same as this one?
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860
It sort of describes some of the problem, as I can see the same error
a little higher on in the page.
What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it:
a) Wait for the fix to
Hi Holly,
Thanks for the prompt response...
On 8/29/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, first of all, you should know it can work:
>
> eix totem
> * media-video/totem
> Available versions: 1.0.2-r1 1.0.4
> Installed: 1.0.4
> Homepage:http://
> From:: Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:35:28 +0200
>
> Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root?
Well, yes because when I run it as a plain user I am d
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:32, Ric de France wrote:
> Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly
> appreciated.
Is it the same as this one?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860
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Cheers, Alex.
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Thanx brian that helped .. now i am able to log in
On 8/29/05, Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 29 August 2005 12:02, Rajat Gujral wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur
> > suggestions it wouldnt have been possible ..
Ric de France schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I recently did a:
>
> $ emerge -DNuva world
>
> which came back with:
>
>
> ...
> [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd
> +flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine
> +xv
> ...
>
>
> Thinking it was so
Hi!
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:07 + (GMT) "Michael Kintzios"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was blanking a floppy but when I ran:
>
> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0
>
> /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished.
> Rebooting the machine relau
Hi,
I recently did a:
$ emerge -DNuva world
which came back with:
...
[ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd
+flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine
+xv
...
Thinking it was so good, so far... I went with the upgrade and got this:
.
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:02, Rajat Gujral wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur
> suggestions it wouldnt have been possible ..
>
> Now that i have completed installation and created users .. I am not
> able to log into the superuser mode thro
Hi there
Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur
suggestions it wouldnt have been possible ..
Now that i have completed installation and created users .. I am not
able to log into the superuser mode through my login , it keeps
showing
su -
Password:
su: Permission
Hi All,
I was blanking a floppy but when I ran:
$ shred -u -v /dev/fd0
/dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the
machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there another way to avoid
having to reboot)?
On the sec
Greg Armer wrote:
Hi List,
I am having a few issues with the below setup, the wireless lan
connection intermittently drops and reconnects every couple seconds.
This only happens while using wireless, and only with the setup below.
Not sure if it's the same problem but I had the same symptoms a
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