On Saturday 02 February 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > I 'tail'ed some likely suspects in /var/log/portage > but it didn't show. 'grep'ing emerg.log for "update" > only finds the --update switch. > > I'm all askeerd to reboot before finding out what it > was ;(
did you grep all the files in /var/log/portage/elog/ as well? That's where such notifications are normally stored. Some more likely candidates are gcc-config, java-config, perhaps python-updater or maybe one of these: nazgul ~ # ls -al /sbin/*update /usr/sbin/*update lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 2 09:55 /sbin/modules-update -> update-modules -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5546 Jan 17 22:33 /sbin/rc-update -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30356 Nov 2 10:00 /usr/sbin/conf-update lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 1 20:14 /usr/sbin/env-update -> ../lib/portage/bin/env-update lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 1 20:14 /usr/sbin/etc-update -> ../lib/portage/bin/etc-update -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1873 Jan 10 15:14 /usr/sbin/texmf-update nazgul ~ # ls -al /sbin/*config /usr/sbin/*config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53788 Nov 1 22:24 /sbin/ifconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71460 Nov 5 14:42 /sbin/iwconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 564648 Nov 2 08:00 /sbin/ldconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4412 Nov 1 22:24 /sbin/plipconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26020 Nov 2 08:00 /usr/sbin/iconvconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4171 Jan 2 13:48 /usr/sbin/paperconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10284 Nov 1 22:24 /usr/sbin/pci-config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18563 Nov 7 23:25 /usr/sbin/pwmconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3084 Nov 5 13:27 /usr/sbin/ruby-config -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list