After the last KDE Update an annoying message popped up at login here, showing me my last login time. Pretty uncool if you want your system to do its stuff automatically without confirmation of such dialogs. So I did a small research about where that bugger comes from. So far I didn’t find much in the KDE land.
Tag: gentoo
Syslog-NG rants
Today was the day of another lovely Syslog-NG update, which included upgrading the config file. In other words, browsing the docs for any important changes and migrating those. Isn’t that exactly one of our favorite tasks as it kills way too much time preventing us to do the important stuff? In the meanwhile I migrated to rsyslog as […]
Safenet Authentication Client 8.1.0-4 vs Gentoo64?
Today someone pointed me towards SAC 8.1 which is the middleware for my eToken which I am trying to use on Gentoo (pure 64bit) for quite a while. After downloading and unpacking I peeked at the binaries shipped, as the old version offered 32 bit ones which I couldn’t use on my system. So a quick check using […]
Unpacking a .deb package without dpkg
Debian is a nice distro, as long as you don’t need to mess around with its packages on other systems. Today I was playing around with the SafeNet stuff for eTokens on gentoo – and all I had was the debian package, but no dpkg command. After looking at the package it was quite simple to open it: […]
Extending Grub2 to detect Memtest+
Grub2 using Gentoo doesn’t detect if a Memtest86+ boot image is available – so I tried to come up with a solution which looks as follows:
Testing Grub2
Gentoo is a distribution where you decide about software you install. This was reason enough for me to give Grub2 a spin. Installation wasn’t that hard after unmasking and keywording the grub package: echo “sys-boot/grub:2 **” >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo “sys-boot/grub:2” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask emerge -av sys-boot/grub:2