nificance of a "device rule"? What does it mean, to
> "rule a device", or what sort of restrictions are being placed on this
> device?
My solution to simplify Gentoo...
waltd...@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask
sys-libs/pam
sys-apps/dbus
sys-apps/hal
You'll have to do a manual depclean (very carefully) and
revdep-rebuild, but it's worth the effort to purify your Gentoo system.
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pray tell?
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:18:43PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:57 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > > but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate
> > > with one another and removing it can stop your desktop wo
anti-linux strategy is to have its agents infiltrate the
linux developer community, and turn linux into bloatware.
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h Windows, thank you. I started with Blckbox and am now on
ICEWM.
I have to put up with Windows at work and one of the first things I do
with a new machine is to turn off indexing. It noticeably, speeds up
the system. I'll take the rare occasional long search versus continuous
disk-thrashing, thank you.
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ted in this thread was the fact that what
had been a formerly-standalone media player (audacious), now pretty much
demands dbus. dbus would be "bundled in" to my "basic service", i.e.
ICEWM.
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Sorry about the delay replying. I'm having major problems upgrading
to kernel 2.6.31-r6.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:53:08PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > XMMS followed
> > the original Unix philosophy... it did on
% /
udev 62464 2660 59804 5% /dev
/dev/hda6 37815936 24949736 11329424 69% /home
shm 62464 0 62464 0% /dev/shm
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be.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
> but can you suggest other applications which might?
Realplayer, or any other proprietary plugin.
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ning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite',
declared with attribute warn_unused_result
In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2487:
scripts/kconfig/expr.c: In function 'expr_print_file_helper':
scripts/kconfig/expr.c:1090: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite'
checking the obvious: you aren't manually patching your
> kernels and forgot to do it this time, right?
Nope, nothing like that.
PS, why isn't there a "gzcat" command in Gentoo?
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Unless I run into
problems, I'll promote 2.6.31-r10 to "production" then.
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lazy:
# rm '/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7'
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t; in the left panel set to "Modify Time", I get a
chronological listing of all the warnings. What could be easier?
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ny
OEMs load up their new machines with "craplets" is because they get paid
good money by the publishers of these apps to load them on. That in
turn reduces the price of a PC by more than what an OEM Windows licence
costs.
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:55:29AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote
> I now have no idea which of the 4126 e-mails has just arrived,
> and I don't intend to search for it!
Can you sort/filter email by date received? At least that would allow
you look at only recent emails.
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#x27;t run into problems during the weekend, how do I file a
stabilization request at bugzilla? Will it be one request lumping all 4
together, or will it be 4 separate requests?
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le connections
and then select which one I want, e.g. I want to try it at the local
public library. I do not like the concept of the netbook automatically
connecting to the first available access point. What do I have to do to
*NOT* connect automatically?
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sudo /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid any channel auto
sudo /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -iwlan0
sudo /sbin/dhcpcd -C resolv.conf -C mtu wlan0
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.open
=
# Connect to an open AP
network={
ssid="public library"
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=9
}
network={
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-9
}
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ot;
Fortunately, I'm an honest guy, and I choose to confine my "testing of
open system access" to places like the Toronto Public Library, where
they advertise it... http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/spe_ser_wir.jsp
A little bit of scripting, plus appropriate entries in /etc/sudoers, and
I'm all set.
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ng into the
/usr/local hierarchy. Does portage/emerge over-ride that, and if so,
what do I have to do to get send all files to the /usr/local hierarchy?
3) any glaring errors ?
I intend to pick it up next week, so I won't be able to test it
immediately. I do want my laptop to be ready to go when I bring the
tuner box home.
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stations in Buffalo (WUTV-FOX or WNYO-MyTV).
There's also one educational channel here in Toronto that is still
analogue-only, which the HDHomerun can't get. They'll flash-cut to
digital at the deadline. Canada's analogue shutdown is August 31, 2011,
assuming no delays.
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B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.open
sudo /sbin/dhcpcd wlan0
If you have a different chip, you'll need a different module. Having
gotten that to work, my next adventure will be getting the netbook to
work with a wireless router in WPA mode.
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t; for some of the smaller screens.
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E4600 and it
works fine.
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me it consumed when it broke
> things.
Ditto for setting MAKEOPTS to -j1. Every once in a while, somebody
runs into a problem that is solved by it. I finally decided to let the
builds take a little bit longer, in exchange for saving me problems with
"unreproducable errors". This setting does not affect the final binary;
just how long it takes to build.
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:33:21AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:28:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > Ditto for setting MAKEOPTS to -j1. Every once in a while, somebody
> > runs into a problem that is solved by it. I finally decided to let
> >
ep is "equery depends dev-libs/poppler" ...which
finds absolutely nothing. No hits from the commands...
grep poppler /etc/portage/package.*
grep poppler /etc/make.conf
Not only that, but there doesn't appear to be a dev-libs/poppler in my
portage tree. Now what?
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it has ancient
stuff on it. There's a lot of stuff in /var/log/portage/elog to plow
through. I wonder what other problems I'll discover.
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Force2 chipset support
...in the kernel.
I notice there are both "nv" and "nvidia" drivers available. Which
one do I use? Also, are there any special settings in xorg.conf to
watch for?
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;setfont lat1-10" at a command prompt, and get back to 40 or 48 row
mode.
I now login on tty5 and type the setfont command first thing. When
switching out of X, I can {CTRL-ALT-F5}, and hit up-arrow and enter
(bash history) but it's still a nuisance. How can I stop this from
happening?
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(256));
internal();
file("/proc/kmsg");
};
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
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On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 04:06:26PM +0100, Mick wrote
> Any idea what I'm missing here? The directory I am trying to write
> into is owned by apache:
What user are you when trying to write into the directory?
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days. The backup doesn't seem to have this problem, but I'm catching up
on a world update. We'll see what happens there.
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inter -pipe"
If you're building 64-bit Gentoo, the "-mfpmath=sse" gets picked up by
"-march=native" and you can drop the explicit mention.
And you wouldn't believe how many weird build problems are solved by...
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
...even on multi-core cpus. The *BUILD PROCESS* is a bit slower, but
the final binary is identical with -j8 or whatever. And the time you
"save" by a faster build in a tty will be lost the first time you start
bashing your head into a brick wall over some weird build problem.
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in /var/lib/portage/world or in /etc/conf.d/local.start
Any more ideas?
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pt/VirtualBox
Thank you very much for your help.
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swap partition is how much I need for
hibernate-to-disk to work. Is there a rule about this, or should I
simply allocate 16 gigs out of my terabyte drive, and play it safe?
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at
modules are used when the system successfully boots. Also, do you have
AHCI support enabled?
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cc-4.4.3-r2, as
well as output from "emerge --info" and "emerge -pqv". I have a quite
conservative make.conf. Any ideas about the problem, or even better, a
solution?
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libtool: compile:
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2/work/build/./gcc/gfortran
-B/var
2 root root 60 Jun 24 21:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 14080 Jun 23 17:10 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 waltdnes users12 Jun 24 21:01 greeting.txt
waltd...@d530 ~ $ cat /dev/shm/greeting.txt
Hello World
waltd...@d530 ~ $
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:28:14AM +0100, Stroller wrote
> On 24 Jun 2010, at 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > ... The MSI motherboard has
> > PS/2 ports (YES!!!) so I don't have to tearfully throw away my genuine
> > IBM PS/2 "clickety-clack" keyboard.
>
>
y on earth will xorg-x11 *NOT* build if I mask out various arabic,
cyrillic, ethiopic, and jis fonts? My PC is *NOT* intended to be a
kiosk machine at UN headquarters fer-cryin-out-loud.
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/events/default I have...
action=chvt 1
Tapping the power button kicks me to tty1. You have to hold down the
button for a few seconds to do a panic halt. Note; when testing this
setup, it is strongly recommended to sync first before tapping the power
button.
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include "chvt 12" (without the quotes) in it. Another
option is to put it in /etc/conf.d/local.stop but be careful when doing
etc-update that it doesn't get overwritten by the default empty file.
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use
or keyboard action should wake up the screen. The 3 second delay is so
that the keyboard bouncing back from you hitting {ENTER} doesn't wake up
the screen.
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a bunch of stuff (cutting-&-pasting lines from
cleanscript), and revdep-rebuild hasn't found any breakages. If you are
unsure about any of its suggestions, please ask on this list.
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#!/bin/bash
echo exit > cleanscript
emerge --pretend --depclean |\
grep -A1 "^ .*/" |\
grep -v "^ \*" |\
grep -v "^--" |\
sed ":/: {
N
s:\n::
s/selected: /-/
s/^ /emerge --depclean =/
}" >> cleanscript
So RTFM becomes a little harder. Are there any up-to-date central
locations for qemu-kvm documentation?
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ict in that particular case.
Gentoo seems to differ...
waltd...@i3 ~ $ equery belongs `which qemu`
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/qemu in *... ]
app-emulation/qemu-kvm-0.12.4-r1 (/usr/bin/qemu)
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, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
Definitely looks like a binary.
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One more question; are there any reasonably up-to-date 32-bit Gentoo
disk images available? I'm currently looking at qemu-kvm, but I'll take
VMWare/whatever.
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(The host has 4 cores). Does
"-march=native" handle it properly, or do I have to "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
and select features that show up in the "flags" line?
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ations. KDE/GNOME
represent a lot of why I left Windows in the first place.
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means that from the host, you can
ssh -p u...@localhost
to ssh into the guest. Similarly...
scp -P fubar.txt u...@localhost:.
will copy a file to account user on the guest. With dhcp, the guest
can ssh/scp to the host, using its actual address (in my case
192.168.123.249), or the name if you set up /etc/hosts.
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ost" command to enable all users on your machine to run X apps on
your X session. E.g. my machine is 192.168.123.249 so I ran...
xhost +192.168.123.249
...to allow a 32-bit QEMU-KVM guest to run an X program on the 64-bit
host's Xwindows session.
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nside QEMU-KVM, which allowed me to install WINE
and 4NEC2
I did have to do quite a bit of trial-and-error before I got the thing
working, and I'll probably re-do, so I can do it right this time. An
active QEMU-KVM mailing list or forum would be helpful.
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On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:25:37AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
> On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 22:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > Do you know of any active end-user mailing lists or forums for
> > QEMU-KVM? I've found a few forums that seem to have a post every othe
ng the
path prevents running the wrong executable with root-level privileges.
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mentioned, I also have to copy a new ssmtp.conf. I'm aware of
the -C option for ssmtp, but then I'd have to muck around with mutt when
switching between ADSL and dialup. This way, mutt doesn't care. It
"just works".
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Kernel driver in use: i915
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this has been done by
portage. Am I paranoid?
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/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each
case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a
"touch .keep" inside the directory.
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64
power management:
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t bootup I get...
* Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...
* modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
I'm attaching dmesg output in the hope that someone can figure this
out.
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Linux version 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 (r...@d530) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Gentoo 4.3.2-
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
I apologize for wasting everybody's time. I didn't RTFM thoroughly
enough. Apparently, with the Sun install, and any time you build a new
kernel, you have to "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup". The result is...
[d530][
c SysReq Key got any response.
There doesn't seem to be anything in my Dell's BIOS setup about VT-x.
Is there any software that can probe the BIOS and enable VT-x, assuming
it exists? If not, I'm out of luck for OS/2 on this machine.
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a 700 meg (*COMPRESSED*) full-
blown system with pointy-clicky-touchie-feelie-oowee-GUI to do a
commandline install that could normally be done by a minimal install
image a fraction of that size?
What I'd like to do is put the minimal install image on a USB key and
boot from tha
dev/sdb or /hd?. The
latest weekly works with the Realtek ethernet chip, unlike the 2008.0
version.
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > 2) Is it *REALLY* necessary to download a 700 meg (*COMPRESSED*)
> > full-blown system with pointy-clicky-touchie-feelie-o
llow the install-under-Knoppix instructions at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml and hope to figure out the
hard drive.
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'm in EST
timezone (5 hours behind GMT), it complains on bootup about certain
config files having dates in the future. That will disappear in a few
hours. It's close to finishing an update. Next is "emerge system" to
be followed by "emerge world".
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a missing
driver; see my "Acer Aspireone AO751h install hints" thread. It's
finally up and running. I'll rebuild (emerge system and emerge world)
before I get any optional apps on it. That should speed things up a
bit.
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stall image, and make things a
lot easier for people down the road.
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hine, and may not apply to yours. It works great
for me.
TryMethod disk.conf
Distribution gentoo
DownInterfaces auto
PowerdownMethod shutdown
UseSysfsPowerState disk
UpInterfaces auto
OnResume 99 chvt 1
OnResume 98 setfont lat1-10
OnResume 97 /etc/init.d/sshd restart
OnResume 96 alsactl restore
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:58:13AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 10:39 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > OnResume 97 /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>
> how come? To kill any stale ssh connections? I find that they clean
> themselves up fairly well. In fac
CD" (actually on a
USB stick) has no problems running at 1024x768.
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This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for
've used for
the past several years.
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'll
be installing either Blackbox or Fluxbox on it.
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Programmers all seem to have gaming rigs. It's been a struggle to
keep hal and dbus off my machines. And I was unhappy when Firefox put
SQLite in as a hard dependancy. I think you'll simply have to give up
on KDE and its applications.
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this will be on an 11.6" netbook, currently running 1024x768, and
hopefully 1366x768 one of these days. And the less processor power it
requires to render, the better.
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de, but does not remember the non-default font, which is why
I have to reset the font via the OnResume option.
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, almost unreadable font. And what's worse, I *CANNOT* resize the
font. xterm totally ignores anything I set by hitting
{CTRL}{RIGHT-CLICK} inside an xterm. Any ideas?
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nd the second is
"Experimental". I do my screwing around with the experimental version.
If it dies during bootup, I can always go back to production, and
restore from a backup copy of .config. If the experimental kernel runs
OK for a couple of weeks, I promote it to production.
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:27:47PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> Speaking of Fluxbox, I have it installed. I've experimented with some
> fonts. I find that regardless of the fonts I install, xterm runs a
> tiny, almost unreadable font. And what's worse, I *CANNOT* resize
dered not allowing password-based logins at all for ssh?
Use RSA keys instead. It's much easier, and much more secure.
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There are two types of screen blanking. One mode is fake, with the
lcd backlight being left on. A "black" foreground is placed over top of
everything. In X, there is a DPMI option to really power down the LCD
backlight. What is the equivalant on a textmode console?
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de, ldap, quicktime,
thunar, startup-notification, bluetooth, or consolekit, thank you.
There may be additional stuff that cascades in by default. Gentoo is
about the user having control, which is why the "-*".
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-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fdc0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1
Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
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are running
sshd is not how the install manual suggests to do it. The webpage...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2
shows that you can pass the kernel options...
dosshd passwd=temppassword
at bootup, where "temppassword" is a temporary password. This allows
you to log in by typing the temporary password.
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Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_del"
EndSection
MagicSysReq and the modified ctrl_alt_del both work from a text
console, but not from X. What do I have to do to enable them? BTW, I
am not running HAL or DBUS.
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too.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294843 Any ideas from the log?
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>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking dosemu-1.4.0.tgz to
>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/dosemu-1.4.0/work
[32;01m*[0m Applying dosemu-1.3.4-shm.diff ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;0
l your home machines in /etc/hosts
on all your home machines. That may be a problem if the laptop gets a
dynamic IP via dhcp.
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An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
an
|
portmap |
rmnologin | boot
rsyncd |
serial | boot
sshd | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron |
xdm |
xfs |
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An infinite number of monkeys pou
"enabled" button on the far right, half-way down
the menu dialog
- click on "OK"
==
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An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboard
nf.
Thanks. That seems to have done the trick.
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An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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d
the "wheel" group. "info su" doesn't even find "su" at all! It takes
me to info about "sum". Now what?
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An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Wi
s
send their output to root. Given that ssmtp forwards everything to my
ISP's MTA (as "smart-host"), my cron jobs were sending email to root at
my ISP (not appreciated). In addition to the above fix, I also diverted
all email not from my regular userID to a dead-end non-functiona
n older machine right now. Are there any Gentoo
issues with drivers for the 9250?
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An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote
> Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Walter Dnes:
>
> > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other
> > machine, I can't. Before anyone asks...
> >
> > [...]
> >
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:48:02AM -0400, Craig Duncan wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other
> >machine, I can't. Before anyone asks...
> >
> > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel
Additional notes. I ran...
USE="-pam -skey" emerge app-admin/sudo
Here's /etc/suauth
[m1800][root][~]cat /etc/suauth
root:waltdnes:OWNPASS
After logging off and back on, I still get...
[m1800][waltdnes][~]su -
You are not authorized to su root
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