>> Hmmm, it didn't come back up with the server. I have this in
>> /etc/init.d/rc.local:
>
> My mistake, I misread the path you were using. You shouldn't
> change /etc/init.d/rc.local, you put your commands in
> the start or stop functions in /etc/conf.d/local.
>
> If you use baselayout-1, the com
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:59:53 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote:
>
> > $ make install
> >
> > supposes you are installing to the standard location.
> > I forget why off hand - probably due to the conversion to gentoo on
> > the machine a while back
2009/8/10 Stroller
>
> On 9 Aug 2009, at 08:01, Andrey Vul wrote:
>
> I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode
>> requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running
>> '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No
>> route to host' error
On 08/13/2009 02:53 AM, Grant wrote:
Hmmm, it didn't come back up with the server. I have this in
/etc/init.d/rc.local:
#!/sbin/runscript
depend() {
}
start() {
su - user -c /path/to/binary
}
stop() {
}
restart() {
}
I had to start it like I normally do instead:
# su - user
$ /path/to/binary
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:51 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan
>> wrote:
>> > We can't take the hard drive out and put a different one in. I strongly
>> > implied that my wife and I are clumsy.
=== On Wed, 08/12, Neil Bothwick wrote: ===
> start() {
> su - user -c /path/to/program/binary
> }
===
That works as long as the binary forks and runs as a daemon. If not,
you will probably have to use the start-stop-daemon helper program.
-- Keith Dart
--
--
Keith Dar
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:53:28 -0700, Grant wrote:
> Hmmm, it didn't come back up with the server. I have this in
> /etc/init.d/rc.local:
My mistake, I misread the path you were using. You shouldn't
change /etc/init.d/rc.local, you put your commands in
the start or stop functions in /etc/conf.d/lo
bn wrote:
>
> Oh no, other packages I more or less regularly update -now I'm just
> behind with Xorg 1.5 because of all the horror stories I've heard on
> this list.
>
>
>
Oh lets not even start on xorg-server-1.5. I already have a bug up my
butt about AT&T and DSL.
I think I mentioned, -hal
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:51 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > We can't take the hard drive out and put a different one in. I strongly
> > implied that my wife and I are clumsy. We don't have the fine motor
> > skills needed to put a hard dri
Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:22:31 -0500
> Dale wrote:
>
>
>> I'm in the process of switching
>> from dial-up to DSL. :-D :-D
>>
>
> Running gentoo on dialup for so long, you must be the most patient
> person in existence.
>
>
>
Wll, they are testing my pat
>> I run one program which needs to be started as a particular user
>> whenever the system comes up, but there is no ebuild. Is this the
>> Gentoo way?
>>
>> # cat /etc/init.d/rc.local
>> #!/sbin/runscript
>>
>> start() {
>> su user
>> /path/to/program/binary
>> }
>
> Yes, or you could use
>
> sta
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> We can't take the hard drive out and put a different one in. I strongly
> implied that my wife and I are clumsy. We don't have the fine motor
> skills needed to put a hard drive into a computer. She barely had
> enough skill to get that
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:41 +0100, Stroller wrote:
>
>
>> I don't know why anyone would choose to compile & install the kernel
>> any way other than manually. It's only a handful of commands, after all.
>>
>
> So you trust make to supervise the building of a couple
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:07:22 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> Why does everyone replying to my post snip the part in which I said
> that I'm an old dog?
We were bing polite :)
--
Neil Bothwick
Never argue with an idiot. First, they bring you down to their level.
Then they beat you with experience.
Stroller ha scritto:
>
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:43, bn wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Yes, that seems to be the usual reason users leave Gentoo:
>>> like owning a dog, you have to find time to maintain/exercise it.
>>
>> I am starting to be in trouble using Gentoo for this very reason. ...
>>
>> So I am becomi
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 23:02:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> C: (n.) the language following A and B. The world still awaits D and
> E. By Z, it may be acceptable for general use.
I sympathise with that. Nearly 30 years ago I found it easier to write in
assembler than C. Nowadays I don't program
Hi,
And another important problem. When I drag a window the mouse pointer
(including the window) jumping. Sometimes the mouse pointer moves during
the double click. After while the the mouse freezes and only switch to
text console (ctrl+alt+fx) unfreezes the mouse.
The dmesg gives:
psmouse.c: Dua
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:22 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 22:49, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Usually in the boot order section of BIOS one of those
> >> choices will be "removable disk" or "external device" or something
> >> like that. That will typically boot your USB disk
On 12 Aug 2009, at 22:49, Michael Sullivan wrote:
...
Usually in the boot order section of BIOS one of those
choices will be "removable disk" or "external device" or something
like that. That will typically boot your USB disk.
Nope. The only things it has are floppy boot (It doesn't even h
Hello,
I have interesting problem. When I running a video (using mplayer) and
another window partially overlap the video window the X.org crashes
(better say restarts) and the login screen appears.
The log is clean. The graphics card is intel i915 (or i945?). Using:
xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1
xorg
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 17:11 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivan
> >> wrote:
> >> > My server box died last week, and, as it was about
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivan
>> wrote:
>> > My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I
>> > decided to replace it. My wife and I opene
Excuse the top post - bb email. You might be able to change the hdd boot
priority in another menu to try usb hdd first then fallback on sata/ide
whatever. Also you might have to add a slowusb kernel boot param if after the
kernel boots you get a unable to sync vfs error when handing off to ini
On 12 Aug 2009, at 21:58, Mike Edenfield wrote:
I don't know why anyone would choose to compile & install the
kernel any
way other than manually. It's only a handful of commands, after all.
$ make && make modules_install
$ cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-hardened-r1-womba
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:40:49 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I run one program which needs to be started as a particular user
> whenever the system comes up, but there is no ebuild. Is this the
> Gentoo way?
>
> # cat /etc/init.d/rc.local
> #!/sbin/runscript
>
> start() {
> su user
> /path/to/program/bin
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote:
> $ make install
>
> supposes you are installing to the standard location.
> I forget why off hand - probably due to the conversion to gentoo on the
> machine a while back - but I'm installing to /boot/grub, not /boot. So
> far as I am aware (I
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I
> > decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the
> > hard drive (A major undertaking for
> From: Mike Edenfield
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:58:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood
>
On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote:
> > On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> maske install does that for you, it also sets up the
I run one program which needs to be started as a particular user
whenever the system comes up, but there is no ebuild. Is this the
Gentoo way?
# cat /etc/init.d/rc.local
#!/sbin/runscript
start() {
su user
/path/to/program/binary
}
- Grant
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I
> decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the
> hard drive (A major undertaking for us, I might add). We hooked the old
> hard drive up to a hard
My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I
decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the
hard drive (A major undertaking for us, I might add). We hooked the old
hard drive up to a hard drive enclosure and plugged it via USB into a
new computer we bo
On 8/12/2009 5:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote:
$ make&& make modules_install&& make install
too much to type.
make all modules_install install
is much better.
I always forget that the 'all' target (typically) does the same thing as
j
On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote:
> > On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and
> >>> vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config.
> >>
> >>
On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote:
On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote:
...
maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and
vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config.
But it doesn't do it the way that I do. I have used it a few times but
it didn
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:05:02 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> > mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile somefilm.mpeg
>
> No point though, really, is there? I mean, I'm happy with it this way,
> I'm not short of space, and to me that just seems to be complicating
> things.
Well it's a one line command
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:41 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> I don't know why anyone would choose to compile & install the kernel
> any way other than manually. It's only a handful of commands, after all.
So you trust make to supervise the building of a couple of million lines
of source code, but not
On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote:
...
maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and
vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config.
But it doesn't do it the way that I do. I have used it a few times
but
it didn't work like I do manually.
+1
I
On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:43, bn wrote:
...
Yes, that seems to be the usual reason users leave Gentoo:
like owning a dog, you have to find time to maintain/exercise it.
I am starting to be in trouble using Gentoo for this very reason. ...
So I am becoming very reluctant in updating critical compo
On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:58:11 +0100, Stroller wrote:
I guess I just prefer this encrypted.dd.iso image because it's a
single file to work with, rather than a directory containing a mess
of .vob files. Or, at least, the mess of .vob files are hidden
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:22:31 -0500
Dale wrote:
> I'm in the process of switching
> from dial-up to DSL. :-D :-D
Running gentoo on dialup for so long, you must be the most patient
person in existence.
On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:51, Volker Armin
>
> Hemmann wrote:
> > systemrescuecd is even more helpfull
>
> Yes, but a ubuntu (or any distro) on an usb drive is more usefull
> IMHO. An usb drive is smaller and less fragile then a cd so it's a
> bet
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:51, Volker Armin
Hemmann wrote:
> systemrescuecd is even more helpfull
Yes, but a ubuntu (or any distro) on an usb drive is more usefull
IMHO. An usb drive is smaller and less fragile then a cd so it's a
better choice when you are very mobile. It also has the advantage o
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:20:34 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> I do it this way. I keep at least two working kernels in /boot. If
> >> I need to, I can edit the grub boot line to boot the old kernel if
> >> the new one doesn't work. I do NOT use the make install thing. I
> >> do mine manually and name t
Ward Poelmans ha scritto:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>>> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup
>>> laptop".
>> Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around
>> usually
>> is enough to fix most kinds of breakages.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Is it because I'm more experienced, or perhaps more cautious? I am running
> ~amd64, and have several overlays installed under layman. I don't know, but
> I tend to think the distribution is more mature.
Welcome back! :)
I seem to feel th
Philip Webb wrote:
> 090812 Dale replied to bn :
>
>>> I am becoming very reluctant in updating critical components -
>>> eg my kernel, which is basically untouched since I installed late 2007.
>>>
>> I keep at least two working kernels in /boot.
>> I do mine manually and name them in my
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:37:44 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> I do it this way. I keep at least two working kernels in /boot. If I
>> need to, I can edit the grub boot line to boot the old kernel if the new
>> one doesn't work. I do NOT use the make install thing. I do mine
>
090812 Dale replied to bn :
>> I am becoming very reluctant in updating critical components -
>> eg my kernel, which is basically untouched since I installed late 2007.
> I keep at least two working kernels in /boot.
> I do mine manually and name them in my own way,
> something like bzImage--.
> Wh
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:37:44 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I do it this way. I keep at least two working kernels in /boot. If I
> need to, I can edit the grub boot line to boot the old kernel if the new
> one doesn't work. I do NOT use the make install thing. I do mine
> manually and name them in my ow
bn wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>
>> 090812 Alan E. Davis wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a little reluctant to say this, but it's been a couple of months now
>>> since I switched back to Gentoo, and I want to shout out my pleasure
>>> that this system has been performing admirably well this time aro
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:13:18 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
>
>> I've watched Gentoo plummet in the popularity ratings, for example at
>> distrowatch.
>>
>
> Distrowatch isn't really an indicator of popularity. You'll notice that
> distros rise up the rankings when a n
On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu
wrote:
> >> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup
> >> laptop".
> >
> > Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around
> > usually is enough to f
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup
>> laptop".
>
> Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around usually
> is enough to fix most kinds of breakages. Also building binary packages is
>
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 12:43:27 bn wrote:
> So I am becoming very reluctant in updating critical components -one
> example is my kernel, which is basically untouched since I installed, in
> late 2007. I know it's counterproductive, because the more I wait, the
> worse it is, but it's always a
> worse it is, but it's always a matter of time, and I don't have that
> time -not to update per se, which I have, but to face problems in case
> critical updates don't go smooth.
>
> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup
> laptop".
>
> > However, unlike a dog, yo
Philip Webb ha scritto:
> 090812 Alan E. Davis wrote:
>> I'm a little reluctant to say this, but it's been a couple of months now
>> since I switched back to Gentoo, and I want to shout out my pleasure
>> that this system has been performing admirably well this time around,
>> in comparison with ea
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:58:11 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> I guess I just prefer this encrypted.dd.iso image because it's a
> single file to work with, rather than a directory containing a mess
> of .vob files. Or, at least, the mess of .vob files are hidden from
> me. ;) I guess I've just gotte
- Original Message -
From: "Stroller"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cloning movie DVDs with dd - only works after
accessing disk with another command?
On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-08-11, Stroller wrote:
I'
090812 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I'm a little reluctant to say this, but it's been a couple of months now
> since I switched back to Gentoo, and I want to shout out my pleasure
> that this system has been performing admirably well this time around,
> in comparison with earlier installations. None of
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:13:18 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I've watched Gentoo plummet in the popularity ratings, for example at
> distrowatch.
Distrowatch isn't really an indicator of popularity. You'll notice that
distros rise up the rankings when a new release is due, because people
are checki
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