[gentoo-user] Script to kill long-running application

2008-04-28 Thread Joris Dobbelsteen
Dear, I'm looking for a script that can kill an application after it has been running for a 'long' time. I like to measure the start time (as it offloads work, the CPU time time is not a good estimate). Does anyone have something useful or some pointers to something I can use for this? Prefe

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for ATI RAdeon HD3650

2008-04-28 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > What would be the best driver for a ATI RAdeon HD3650 graphic interface ? > Preferably Open Source. > Thanks for sharing your experience I finally install ATI proprietary driver, as it seems to be the only one to fully support this HD3650 card. It emerges fine, but wh

[gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'd like to automatic purging of portage's temporary files from time to time (eg. nightly). But this doesn't work since downloaded uncompressed files have their original timestamps, not the time of fetch/uncompress. Is there any way to tweak this to the current timestamp ? thx -- -

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:28:35 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I'd like to automatic purging of portage's temporary files from > time to time (eg. nightly). But this doesn't work since downloaded > uncompressed files have their original timestamps, not the time > of fetch/uncompress. What's wrong wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 28 April 2008, 10:28, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'd like to automatic purging of portage's temporary files from > time to time (eg. nightly). But this doesn't work since downloaded > uncompressed files have their original timestamps, not the time > of fetch/uncompress. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with > > pgrep emerge || rm -fr $(portageq envvar PORTAGE_TMPDIR)/portage This removes everything in /var/tmp/portage. I don't want this, just those which have certain age (eg. 1 day), otherwise it could interfere w/ running builds. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 April 2008, 10:28, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'd like to automatic purging of portage's temporary files from > > time to time (eg. nightly). But this doesn't work since downloaded > > uncompressed files have their or

Re: [gentoo-user] Script to kill long-running application

2008-04-28 Thread Anton S. Ustyuzhanin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: Dear, I'm looking for a script that can kill an application after it has been running for a 'long' time. I like to measure the start time (as it offloads work, the CPU time time is not a good estimate). Does anyone have some

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:56:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >Do you know of a source for the unsupported & hence deleted > profiles? http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/deprecated?hideattic=0&rev=1.4&view=log -- Neil Bothwick Those who can, do. Tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:57:09 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > pgrep emerge || rm -fr $(portageq envvar PORTAGE_TMPDIR)/portage > > This removes everything in /var/tmp/portage. I don't want this, > just those which have certain age (eg. 1 day), otherwise it > could interfere w/ running builds.

[gentoo-user] Re: Mono/C#: cannot listen with TcpChannel

2008-04-28 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Having trouble with TcpChannel throwing an exception: > > [...] > > Unhandled Exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is > known > at System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName (System.String hostName)

Re: [gentoo-user] Script to kill long-running application

2008-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 April 2008, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > Dear, > > I'm looking for a script that can kill an application after it has > been running for a 'long' time. I like to measure the start time (as > it offloads work, the CPU time time is not a good estimate). Does > anyone have something useful

[gentoo-user] test

2008-04-28 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It won't interfere with running ebuilds, because pgrep emerge > will cause it to exit if emerge is running. Ah, I missed that point ;-o > Deleting anything over a day old is dangerous, think openoffice > on a slow/loaded machine. Therefore I'm us

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'su -' and become root where everything is allowed. > 'sudo' or a gui derivative. If the user has been authorized by root, > just run the whole command with root priviledges as the user can > obviously be trusted. You could also try my su-wrapper - i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2008, 15:49, Roger Mason wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client > > to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the > > server uses tcpwrapper. > > http

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:56:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Do you know of a source for the unsupported & hence deleted > > profiles? > > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/

[gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Has anyone else run into this: emerge virtual/emacs [snip] >>> Unpacking m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11/work unpack m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring. >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11 ... !!! ERROR: sys-deve

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Justin
Roger Mason schrieb: Hello, Has anyone else run into this: emerge virtual/emacs [snip] Unpacking m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11/work unpack m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring. Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BTW: if you don't actually *need* NFS, but just some network > filesystem, you might want to try 9P. I finally got this solved with some help from this list. Your comment about the 9P filesystem is interesting as I'm somewhat interested in an operat

[gentoo-user] sys-libs/-MERGING-pam

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm just about done cleaning up a machine that I haven't touched in a while. For the first time I used eix-test-obsolete to look for inconsistencies in the portage config files. It worked wel. The machine is clean in terms of emerge -DuN world;emerge --depclean;revdep-rebuild. However I am l

Re: [gentoo-user] Script to kill long-running application

2008-04-28 Thread Joris Dobbelsteen
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: Dear, I'm looking for a script that can kill an application after it has been running for a 'long' time. I like to measure the start time (as it offloads work, the CPU time time is not a good estimate). Does anyone have some

[gentoo-user] Baselayout 2 - one more (unpleasant) surprise

2008-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, on a machine with a ppp (ADSL) connection my atm_over_ethernet bride always dies when started during boot. I first tried to start it (after boot) via /etc/init.d/net.nas0 restart which reliably shows the same effect. 4 # /etc/init.d/net.nas0 restart * Bringing up interface nas0 * Start

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread Stroller
On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that they will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that doesn't need root to install. H. Is this not - substantially - the same as the reason for the Portage QA

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed that after my upgrade to bl2/openrc and upgrading coreutils (and unmerging mktemp) that wgetpaste complains about mktemp not being found. Uwe Thiem wrote: | On Saturday 26 April 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: |> Hello, |> recently sys-apps/mk

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/-MERGING-pam

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam > /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1 > gandalf ~ # > I'm never taken the time to understand exactly how portage keeps track of what is on a system so I'm now curious what repr

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-28 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi everybody, I have a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 with an ATI Mobility X1300 video card and Kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I installed ATI driver using emerge ati-drivers, the version installed 8.40.4, after the installation I did the aticonfig --initial but I not getting acceleration, plus there is anot

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 April 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > I've noticed that after my upgrade to bl2/openrc and upgrading > coreutils (and unmerging mktemp) that wgetpaste complains about > mktemp not being found. 1. Please don't top post. This thread now reads in the sequence 2,3,1 which is harder to parse

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 28. April 2008 schrieb Francisco Rivas: > I have a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 with an ATI Mobility X1300 video card > and Kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I installed ATI driver using emerge > ati-drivers, the version installed 8.40.4, after the installation I did the > aticonfig --initial but I

[gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Frederick
Hi all, I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security a little. I was wondering if there's an easy way to restrict 'emerge --sync' to only work on the server, while still letting all the nfs client mach

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. > Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security > a > little. I was wondering if there's an easy way to restrict 'emerge > --sync' t

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 April 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that > > they will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that > > doesn't need root to install. H. > > Is this not - su

RE: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread John Krukoff
> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:48 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once > coreutils is gone? > > On Monday 28 April 2008, Stroller wrote: > > On 2

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 28 April 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. > > Everything is working great but I would like to increase the > > security a > > little. I was wonderi

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Frederick
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security a little. I was wondering i

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Frederick
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security a little. I was wondering if there's an easy way to restrict 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 failed. >> >> I looked on bugzilla, where it was suggested to run: >> >> emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils >> >> I did that but the error on m4 persists. >> >> If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. >> >> Thanks, >> Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 15:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: [..] > > Also you should disable locking on distfiles if you use it over NFS: > > FEATURES=-distlocks. > > > > > > -a > > > > Why would I need to disa

[gentoo-user] ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread James
Hello, I've been using FTDI's usb-serial converters for a few years now with great success. I have not used minicom in a month or so and now it's broken on all(3) of the laptops where it use to work. I have googled for a while today, with not luck on this issue. It the /etc/minicom/minirc.dfl u

Re: [gentoo-user] ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 April 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using FTDI's usb-serial converters for a few years now with > great success. I use one of those gadgets. Wonderful devices, they always JustWorked(tm) > I have not used minicom in a month or so and now it's broken > on all(3) of the la

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/-MERGING-pam

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam > > /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1 > > gandalf ~ # > > > > I'm never taken the time

Re: [gentoo-user] ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 28 April 2008, James wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been using FTDI's usb-serial converters for a few years now > > with great success. > > I use one of those gadgets. Wonderful devices, they always > JustWorked(tm) Indeed, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/-MERGING-pam

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Unless someone comes up with some addition info on things I should do > to clean this up more completely I figure I got a little bit of > education which is cool. There was a post to this list explaining this not long ago. AFAIR, the MERGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/-MERGING-pam

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Unless someone comes up with some addition info on things I should do > > to clean this up more completely I figure I got a little bit of > > education which i

[gentoo-user] Re: ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > Maybe you forgot to configure EXPERIMENTAL=Y ? Yes, sure that's it but "where" exactly do you indicate Y to the Experimental? That must be what I cannot find. Under "USB Serial Converter support" I'm not seeing any of the experimental driver choices, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
James wrote: > I cannot find it. cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig Then, hit the "/" key. Type in FTDI. This should bring up the path for that driver. In any case, why can you not use a module? -- Ian Graeme Hilt -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > Maybe you forgot to configure EXPERIMENTAL=Y ? Well, I'm not sure how, but my kernel sources were wacked. I deleted them and installad ~2.6.25-r1 and all is fine now. thanks for the help James -- gentoo-user@li

[gentoo-user] different strange kernel name - 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty

2008-04-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I want to add my codes to the kernel source( I use gentoo-source ) and compile it as modules. All my codes are under the directory /usr/src/linu/fs/dnfs/. The problem is why everytime after I changed my codes and re-complied the kernel, I got a different strange kernel image. Here is the detai

[gentoo-user] HP dv9000 video hang

2008-04-28 Thread James
Hello, I have an hp laptop that works except when the screen goes blank (screen saver kicking in). If I boot the system and use it for a whille, all is fine. If I leave the system for a short while, I can never get it back after the screen blanks. No matter which keys I touch the screen stays bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Maybe you forgot to configure EXPERIMENTAL=Y ? > > Yes, sure that's it but "where" exactly do you indicate Y > to the Experimental? That must be what I cannot find. You'll have found it straight away now that you've re