Re: [gentoo-user] Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos wrote: > Hi list, > > do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I > googled and I didn't find. > > The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of > search for alternatives to systemd (that is really go

[gentoo-user] Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-21 Thread João Matos
Hi list, do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I googled and I didn't find. The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of search for alternatives to systemd (that is really good). I also set up some servers, using openrc on them, so, somet

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> We discussed using a simple RC timer to cut power to the device after a > certain amount of uptime, but if I pointed out that if we were spend the > time going to that trouble, we may as well go whole-hog and add built-in > encryption and make money off the thing. > > I think the grab-data-and-e

[gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > Looking at the difference between the output of smartctl for before > and during the test, there has been an increase in errors detected > for ID #195 > > Before test: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 001 001 000Old_age Always > - 24182

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl and external hard drives

2013-03-21 Thread covici
J. Roeleveld wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > >I have a couple of external hard drives -- one is a 1.5t disk which has > >failed and the other is a brand new Seagate 3t disk -- both in USB > >enclosures one a Roseweil USB 3 and the other one a Startech USB 3. > >When I run smartctl agai

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: parental control software

2013-03-21 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > I'm looking for software that can be used to control a child's usage of > the computer (not Internet filtering). At the very least it should be > able to control length of login sessions and when the child is able to > login. Ideally it would also be able t

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Oom Killer is Not instant, can take a long time or get stuck or kills something vital. ... Am 21.03.2013 07:52 schrieb "Carlos Hendson" : > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT. > > It's a strong indicator, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl and external hard drives

2013-03-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >I have a couple of external hard drives -- one is a 1.5t disk which has >failed and the other is a brand new Seagate 3t disk -- both in USB >enclosures one a Roseweil USB 3 and the other one a Startech USB 3. >When I run smartctl against them, the newer one gives a se