[gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Fired up the 'puter last night and instead of a backdrop showing the dog doing something stupid, a task bar, the start button thingy, and a few other bits and pieces, I had the default KDE backdrop. The task bar was on the second screen, the backdrop was the default, there was no star

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.07.2014 23:20, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > As far as I understand this: > > if other ntp-software is installed, systemd-timedated.service uses the > ntp-unit with higher priority (in my current case chronyd.service) for > ntp-syncing. > > So you may use the systemd-timedated.service to

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.07.2014 23:20, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> I am running networkd and I'm very happy with it. Setting it up for >> dhcp-only is brain-dead simple, and I have it serving up a bridge for >> containers/kvm with fairly little trouble as well. shameless pointer to an older blog entry: http

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.07.2014 18:47, schrieb Rich Freeman: > Anybody have a decent comparison of timedated vs ntpd or anything else > for that matter? > > Running ntpd isn't hard at all, so I'm not really sure why I'd want to > switch. At the very least I'd want to ensure that the replacement > covers the basic

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> >> >> Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or >> some other package? >> >> openntpd seems to be easier to set up according to wiki.gentoo.org.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Alexander Kapshuk < alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or > some other package? > > openntpd seems to be easier to set up according to wiki.gentoo.org. > > The list's advice would be much apprec

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: > I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a > subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I > dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. Please do not top-post Ple

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-28 Thread Grand Duet
2014-07-28 1:00 GMT+03:00 Kerin Millar : > On 27/07/2014 21:38, Grand Duet wrote: >> >> 2014-07-27 22:13 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >>> >>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:33:47 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: >>> > That's what replaces it when eth0 comes up. > It looks like eth0 is not being brought up ful

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello every body. I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. thanks On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir

2014-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/07/2014 16:45, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I don't run telnet at all. I don't even have it installed on my machine > yet tonight I had a look in /var/lib to try and find a reason as to why > something else is failing and lo and behold there is a telnet dir. > Having a look inside sho

[gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I don't run telnet at all. I don't even have it installed on my machine yet tonight I had a look in /var/lib to try and find a reason as to why something else is failing and lo and behold there is a telnet dir. Having a look inside shows: ** bluey telnet # pwd /var

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 08:44:02 PM Kerin Millar wrote: > On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > >> Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: > >>> So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year > >>> without rpcb

Re: [gentoo-user] Contradictionary behaviour of SMART on hds ?!?

2014-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/27/2014 06:50:49 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Mick, thanks for your reply on the topic. I executed the mkswap/dd combo a several times today. Since I have no logs I repeated again. Here are the results: solfire:/home/user>mkswap -L swap -f -c /dev/sda2 1 bad page mkswap: /dev/sda2: