Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: > The standard Unix "HUP" (hang-up) signal. Most daemons will reload > their configs and do other appropriate things if they get such a > signal. I suggest you do "pkill -1 syslog-ng" as root and see if stuck > logs come out. That's equivalent to

Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: > I don't think Postfix writes its own log files, but uses syslog to do > it. You should probably be debugging syslog-ng instead. A simple > SIGHUP might fix it. What is 'SIGHUP'? I have never debugged 'Syslog' before. :(

Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' > > always use less to view log files. vim makes a copy of the files you > open, and that could be a lot of unnecesseary IO for big log files. I wanted to really just clear all my log errors and mes

[arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' which is the default location Postfix MTA writes everything it does to. I was sadly in that file using Vim and deleted the last line. I didn't restore the removed line and simply saved the file. I noticed now that the Postfix daemon no longer writes anything to

Re: [arch-general] Postfix Package Upgrade

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > My bad, I just checked this mirror (in my country) > ftp://ftp.inescn.pt/pub/net/mail/postfix/index.html for the downloads > available but it seems this mirror is not up to date. Paul just released the Postfix 2.7.0-1 package in 'Testing' for

Re: [arch-general] Postfix Package Upgrade

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:28 PM, dave reisner wrote: > Geez, a whole week? Arch must be falling apart at the seams. I was pretty clear in my initial post that I was asking if there is a way a user can view package release schedules. I used Postfix as an example. I wasn't making any accusation tha

Re: [arch-general] Postfix Package Upgrade

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > I guess that will happen when postfix dev release the final stable > version, right now it seems to be just a stable _release candidate_. I show on their site that Postfix 2.7.0 is released as stable and not a R.C. Am I missing something? ht

[arch-general] Postfix Package Upgrade

I was curious how a user like myself can find out when the 'Postfix' package from Arch Linux will be upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.7.0? Is there a way I can see the release schedule or a round about guess-tamite as to when it will be released?

[arch-general] Viewing Actual Kernel Release Version

I noticed today when doing a system upgrade via Pacman, it wanted to upgrade my kernel and install 'kernel26-2.6.32.7-1' however I wanted to know how this version differs from my current version kernel. When I run 'uname -r' command, I just get "2.6.32-ARCH". Can someone please tell me how I can f

Re: [arch-general] Colored Output

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Daniel Griffiths wrote: > That's the traditional way to do it. OK - thanks. I modified my /etc/skel/.bashrc file to reflect color for both ls & grep. This means all new users will have this created in their .bashrc, correct?

Re: [arch-general] Colored Output

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Antle wrote: > As root, create the file `$HOME/.bash_profile` with the content: > >  . $HOME/.bashrc > > This file is in `/etc/skel` as well. So I need to do the following? cd /root echo ".$HOME/.bashrc" >> /root/.bash_profile I don't get what I am pointi

[arch-general] Colored Output

I noticed that when I login to my new Arch server & attempt to use commands like 'ls' or 'ls -l', I have no color. It's just white text so it's hard to visually differentiate the difference between files and directories. I did read the Wiki below which advises me to modify my ~/.bashrc which comes

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:01, Ananda Samaddar >> wrote: >>> I really like Arch. I switched about a year ago after being a Debian >>> user for nine years.  There is something that trou

[arch-general] Gnome is Working But Missing Apps

I have Gnome Desktop Environment up and running perfect on my Arch x86_64 system but I elected to not install "gnome-extra" packages because it installs too much junk I don't want and or need. My question is I am missing two applications from Gnome and don't know what they're called and or what to

Re: [arch-general] Software RAID w/ 4 Drives Fails

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Robert Howard wrote: > Yes, you should be able to do it either way. I have built 6+ drive arrays > from clean install before without any problem. > > IIRC, the command should just be mdadm /dev/md0 -level=5 -raid-devices=4 > /dev/sd[a-d]1 > > You can also add a swi

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Fagiani wrote: > I suggest taking a look at the Font_Configuration > article in the > Wiki, it's got a lot of useful tweaks. Also, I found myself very comfortable > with the Cleartype packages, namely

[arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only install what I need. I am have been using an Ubuntu 10.4 workstations and got everything working on my new

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > See this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231?project=6 > > You should be able to continue booting by entering these commands > at the ramfs$ prompt: > udevadm trigger > exit I ran the command listed above and it just throws me int

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > See this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231?project=6 > > You should be able to continue booting by entering these commands > at the ramfs$ prompt: > udevadm trigger > exit > > It's not a fix but a workaround. And this bug really

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > The other machines you're talking about, do they too have SATA DVD-ROM > drives ? If yes, then try out with USB install image, provided it is > supported by your $1000 PC. Most modern boxes after around 2005 do. The machines that they

Re: [arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

I looks like the best result I get from the following: 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.2mail.iamghost.com mail 192.168.0.100 " "

[arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

Every time I try and install Arch Linux 2009.08 Netinst .ISO disk on my newly built PC hardware, I get the following error: Waiting for boot device... Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds... Falling back to interactive prompt. You can try and fix the problem manually, log out when yo

Re: [arch-general] Software RAID w/ 4 Drives Fails

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Robert Howard wrote: > RAID5 is one of the levels that can be added to after creation. I think you > should boot from the install CD and read the mdadm man page. It contains all > the information you need to do what you want. That said, when you try to > build the

[arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

I have never understood Arch's approach to properly setting a FQDN on a server. According to the Wiki...and I will quote: "Add your hostname, coinciding with the one specified in /etc/rc.conf, as an alias, so that it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost yourhostname If

[arch-general] Software RAID w/ 4 Drives Fails

I am successfully able to install Arch Linux with 3 drives in a RAID5 array on Arch Linux using: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 Now when I attempt the install with 4 physical disks and add the same command above with just attaching /dev/sdd2 and c

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Xavier wrote: > Where is the link to the bug report ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17827

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > I still think /arch/setup *should* generate this file itself if it > detects software raids in use for the target. The wiki even seems to > suggest, that it does. > > Could some releng shine light on this, please? I completely agree.

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > I didn't know, where to put a proper reply in this thread, because > basically you are all doing the same mistake. I will just outline the > procedure here briefly and then explain where it all went wrong :) > > 1 - cfdisk  # the setti

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

Thanks for everyone's input. It appeared to have failed both ways. I guess Arch is not in the cards for me. It sucks because I love the rolling release aspect of Arch. I just find the documentation very confusing and something as simple as RAID should be far more simplistic even for a text based in

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:58 AM, dave reisner wrote: > Hrmm, I've followed the wiki [1] a few times and it hasn't steered me > wrong. While it does combine some of the old with the new, it makes > one point fairly clear when messing with Grub: > > "Nowadays (2009.02), with the mdadm hook in the i

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM, dave reisner wrote: > With mdadm in your initrd, you don't need to specify the parameters of > the array in Grub. Foregoing that, the first parameter passed to the > "md" option is the type of raid array (e,g, 0, 1, 456) and not the > number of devices in the arra

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > Try the params on the /boot/grub/menu.lst line OK - So I am starting from scratch again since my previous attempt failed. I boot from the disk. Load modprobe raid1 modules from command line and then create the RAID1 mirror with 'mdadm'. I have r

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > I always wait cat /proc/mdstat until the raid is finished, even though it says > you don't have to, I don't want any trouble :) I see your point but when you have 2x 1 TB drives, you're in for a wait. >> #mdadm -D --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf > >

[arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

OK - I am once again attempting to use Arch install for 2010 on my system which has two identical hard drives and I simply want to mirror both drives in a RAID1 array. I have read the Wiki so much at this point it has become memorized. I am NOT using LVM or anything, just a Arch user who wants RAID

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:50 PM, toomanymirrors wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:30 -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > Looks good. Does it not work? > Jackson It works perfect when only doing so in a RAID1 configuration. I just have two drives and each drive has 3 identical partitions ea

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > Try the ISOLINUX ISO and see if that boots. Your machine might not > like booting from a CD via GRUB. Boots fine.

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > I think that usually means that your grub+initrd combo is broken > somewhere. Post your configs? There are no configs. I am trying to do a fresh install. There are no Grub configs...yet. I just downloaded the 2009.08 netinst ISO and burned it

[arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

I have a Dell server (Power Edge 1855) blade that I am trying to install Arch Linux on. I have no problems installing / running Debian, CentOS, or Ubuntu on this hardware but when I try to boot from Arch CD (2009.08 Netinst or Core), I get an error: Waiting for boot device... Error: Boot device di

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:11 PM, toomanymirrors wrote: > Yes, no matter where you mount a raid partition to, you will necessarily > need the raid modules loaded. Accessing hardware requires drivers. > Jackson So in my rc.conf file, do I need them in any specific order or that does not matter? ***

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, toomanymirrors wrote: > I agree, with /dev/md0 being your home directory there should not be any > kernel panic even if it's not being properly mounted at boot. It sounds > like there is another issue going on. Try the suggestion above for grub > and I didn't notic

[arch-general] Post Install for RAID Configuration?

I have a stand alone server running Arch 2009.08 x64 and it was configured via the 'Netinst' CD however during the time of the installation, the server had only one physical disk. I installed the system as follows: * /dev/sda1 = swap * /dev/sda2 = boot * /dev/sda3 = / * /dev/sda4 = /var Now I hav

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Phillip Smith wrote: >> I guess I will just explain what I am doing in detail. If anyone can >> please take some time and review my steps in accordance to what you >> know to be successful, please let me know. I am so badly trying to get >> this working on Arch. >>

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Dienstag 27 Oktober 2009 schrieb Carlos Williams: >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> > You could also give the archboot files a shot, there is also raid support >> > included:

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > You could also give the archboot files a shot, there is also raid support > included: > ftp.archlinux.org/iso/archboot What is 'Archboot' and the link in the email is dead. I'd like to more ahead on just getting basic 2009.08 Arch instal

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM, toomanymirrors wrote: > I believe you need to add md-mod and raid1 to your rc.conf modules line. > I would suggest using the installer to configure grub since /boot and / > are not on raid partitions. So you're saying during the System Configuration section I simp

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Xavier wrote: > If you want to be constructive, create a wiki page only about raid, if > there isn't already one. > > And you have to figure out which strange modifications are needed and > why, try finding the real problem, and report it on the bug tracker. I gue

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phillip Smith wrote: > 2009/10/27 Carlos Williams > I've installed on RAID several times in the last week (diagnosing hardware > problems!) and everytime after I installed, I had to boot the LiveCD and > re-run `mkinitcpio -p kernel26` before

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phillip Smith wrote: > I've installed on RAID several times in the last week (diagnosing hardware > problems!) and everytime after I installed, I had to boot the LiveCD and > re-run `mkinitcpio -p kernel26` before the system would boot... When I fist asked why I d

Re: [arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:06 PM, toomanymirrors wrote: > I have always had to edit my /boot/grub/menu.lst > I have /boot on md1 and root on md0 so my menu.lst looks like this: > > # (1) Arch Linux > title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26] > root   (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/array/root ro >

[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

I have been struggling with successfully installing Arch Linux on my PC with just two S-ATA drives. I am using the LiveCD / Netinst "2009.08". The only partition I want for RAID is simply /home. I have two identical disks and am partition as follows: /dev/sda1 = 2048 (bootable) */boot* /dev/sda2 =