Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

2019-11-12 Thread rudi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Would this be a case for "ps"? If you would like to know the PID of the process that calls your script you could execute "ps -o comm= $PPID" https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/ps.html Rudi November 11, 2019 5:34 PM, "Jack"

Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

2019-11-12 Thread Poison BL.
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:37 PM Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that > know the name of the process that is trying to access > it, and based on its name, it links it to a file? Yes, and that's used pretty extensively in busybox. Symlinks named

Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

2019-11-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:37 PM Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > i think if we have this, we can solve slotting in a simpler > way. e.g. we install libs in their own non-conflicting > locations, and then install for them such fancy sym links > with access that routes accessing processes to the ri

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /usr/portage?

2019-11-12 Thread Mickaël Bucas
Le lun. 11 nov. 2019 à 14:38, Dale a écrit : > > Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 11 November 2019 13:00:20 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Mickaël Bucas wrote: > >>> Le lun. 11 nov. 2019 à 09:35, Mick a écrit : > On Monday, 11 November 2019 08:25:06 GMT n952162 wrote: > > I re-installed gentoo from the

[gentoo-user] Kernel headers

2019-11-12 Thread Anthony Delannoy
Hi, I'm using vanilla kernel outside of portage directly from kernel.org for few years now. I was wondering if I can also uninstall the kernel headers package and install them separatly ? I never tried because a lot of packages seems to have them as a dependency. Have a nice day -- Envoyé d

Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

2019-11-12 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/10/19 9:37 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that know the name of the process that is trying to access it, and based on its name, it links it to a file? I've not heard of that specifically. e.g. `ln -s X Y` will create link Y that alwa

[gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-12 Thread n952162
I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore.  What do I have to do to have it issue a shutdown?  This is an openrc system. I have this, but it doesn't work: $ cat  /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn event=button[ /]power.* action=/sbin/poweroff