[gentoo-user] Cryptic error from some cron job

2013-11-25 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have rebuilt a PC which has started sending me this error whenever it runs logrotate: Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated error: stat of /var/log/cups/access_log failed: No such file or directory error: stat o

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:14:33 +0100 Marc Stürmer wrote: > When working under X11 in a terminal and I type "exit" in the shell, > the terminal does not close itself anymore. Hi Marc, Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-termin

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} video monitoring

2013-11-25 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > I've been using motion along with USB cameras for a while. I need to > expand my monitoring capacity and I'm wondering if I should consider > changing software or hardware. motion seems fairly dead but is > stable. I'm reading conflicting info about the current stat

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I know it has affected someone else as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} video monitoring

2013-11-25 Thread thegeezer
On 11/23/2013 07:03 PM, Grant wrote: > I've been using motion along with USB cameras for a while. I need to > expand my monitoring capacity and I'm wondering if I should consider > changing software or hardware. motion seems fairly dead but is > stable. I'm reading conflicting info about the cur

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-25 17:15, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I k

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} video monitoring

2013-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:51:02 +, thegeezer wrote: > the bug bear for scaling up is you do need a usb controller (not just a > usb port) per camera if you want anywhere near sensible resolution with > usb webcams. This depends greatly on the specific cameras. Microsoft webcams, while giving goo

[gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-25 Thread edwardu...@live.com
Hello, My Bash skills are not that advanced, so I am wondering if it is possible to nest one command inside in another command, not in a script,but on the command line,for instance to copy a file to a different destination while changing permissons at the same time, all in one line. -- edward

Re: [gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/11/2013 08:59, edwardu...@live.com wrote: > Hello, > > My Bash skills are not that advanced, so > I am wondering if it is possible to nest one command inside in another > command, not in a script,but on the command line,for instance > to copy a file to a different destination while changin

Re: [gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-25 Thread edwardu...@live.com
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:16:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > You don't do it that way. I understand what you want to do, but your > description makes no sense. > > How you do it is by running two commands on one line, one after the other. > > To copy a file "myfile.txt" to /tmp and also change it'