[gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, (too) often I get dbus errors, especial when running an application as root e.g. Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute progra

Re: [gentoo-user] Put cron mail into local maildir

2013-07-10 Thread Davide De Prisco
I set the mailto variable on /etc/crontab and when something go wrong a mail is sent to my address. Is what you want? Il giorno 11/lug/2013 03:01, "Frank Steinmetzger" ha scritto: > Hey list > > I've been reading up on how to receive mails from cron (in my case > vixie-cron). I found stuff (inclu

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

2013-07-10 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Btw, rather than directly opening a terminal window, you may want to use the notify-send api / command line to do your popup. That way it gets rendered natively by your desktop of choice, and you don't have to fuss about searching which DISPLAY variable X is running on. You can do something like n

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

2013-07-10 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/7/11 Joseph : > I just want to monitor one file in a directory. > I usually copy the file over the network to another computer (same file > name) I'll overwrite the file. > > Once I copy the file, the system should notify a use that new file exist (a > message pop-up). If the use closes the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-10 Thread Dale
Davide De Prisco wrote: > > If you use a open source system probably you want that the community > help you with your security problems and you can help the community > with bug finder. Linux is not perfect but it's the best system that > the community can write. The community want you. > I do tha

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joseph
On 07/10/13 11:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/07/2013 18:54, Joseph wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Put cron mail into local maildir

2013-07-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hey list I've been reading up on how to receive mails from cron (in my case vixie-cron). I found stuff (including in this list's archives) about setting up sendmail (using m4, bleh) or postfix. ATM I use msmtp in connection with mutt to send mail to external mail providers. I “just” want cron mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-10 Thread Davide De Prisco
If you use a open source system probably you want that the community help you with your security problems and you can help the community with bug finder. Linux is not perfect but it's the best system that the community can write. The community want you. Il giorno 10/lug/2013 06:13, "Dale" ha scrit

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.07.2013 00:48, schrieb 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 se

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.07.2013 23:42, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > If it makes you feel better, then by all means go through the motions > . > > For my money, I reckon that's exactly what it is - motions and ritual. I > havew any anecdotal evidence to back it up, but it's fairly strong > anecdotal evidence: > > Over

Re: [gentoo-user] strange eix-sync

2013-07-10 Thread meino . cramer
Douglas J Hunley [13-07-10 17:24]: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:28 PM, wrote: > > > rsync: failed to set permissions on "/tmp/.tmpNBwK63.n6Acda": Function not > > implemented (38) > > > You don't have POSIX ACL )xattr) support on whatever fs you have for /tmp ? > > > -- > Douglas J Hunley (do

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

2013-07-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:32:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > The new version runs a couple of useful checks on the syntax of the > > configuration file - who would have thought that I had a duplicate > > directive in there! O_o > > Hmm ... I just tried 'less /var/log/syslog' and I now get a bin

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

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew Tselischev
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:32:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:30:08 Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:15:13 Dan Johansson wrote: > > > On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: > > > > Hi Gentoo-users, > > > > > > > > today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked c

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

2013-07-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:30:08 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:15:13 Dan Johansson wrote: > > On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: > > > Hi Gentoo-users, > > > > > > today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked config > > > file, I got this message: > > > > > > # /etc/init.d/s

Re: [gentoo-user] strange eix-sync

2013-07-10 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:28 PM, wrote: > rsync: failed to set permissions on "/tmp/.tmpNBwK63.n6Acda": Function not > implemented (38) You don't have POSIX ACL )xattr) support on whatever fs you have for /tmp ? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd

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

2013-07-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:15:13 Dan Johansson wrote: > On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: > > 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/sysl

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

2013-07-10 Thread Dan Johansson
On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: > 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 ob

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > My proposal is to fix and test growisofs. Well, growisofs is unmaintained since 5 years. The question is whether such a change would be suffucuent or whether there are many more problem (see the mode select problem I mentioned). > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wr

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already. The OP reports: > > > I compared each and every file on the disk with its original, > > > but yould not fin

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

2013-07-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/07/2013 18:54, Joseph wrote: > 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? > >

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

2013-07-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 08:57:07 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick wrote: > > > > cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs > > > > for creating the >10G isofs. > > > > > > > > I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) > > > > > > "Settings" -> "C

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > > Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. > > One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Well, I am not sure whether you noticed: the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already.

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > I thought it might be worth a mention as a temporary workaround. If the > growisofs file is removed, k3b won't find it and can't use it. Of > course, it may not work at all then either. I'm not a k3b expert but do > use it sometimes. > > Maybe one of these ideas floating around

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. > > In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? > > (Cough.) > > growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it It seems that you are not correcl

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. > > Just a thought. If growisofs is not available and if cdrecord at the same time is available, k3b should (if everything works correctly) select cdrecord. This may be a way to go. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schi

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > > > cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for > > > creating the >10G isofs. > > > > > > I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) > > > > "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" > > This just displays what's there. I ca

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Have a nice day :) Thomas

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thanasis
on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: > 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_DEFAU

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

2013-07-10 Thread Dale
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: >> I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. > In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? > > (Cough.) > > growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it > (by libburn) and believe to be able t

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it (by libburn) and believe to be able to judge its doings in respect to the