On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 09:48 +0200, Tomek Lutelmowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to upgrade my gentoo production server (AMD64 2006.1/no-multilib
> profile, hardened kernel,gcc and glibc). Do you have any issues regarding
> this upgrade on AMD64 platform?
No, that should just work.
> Wha
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:42 +0530, widyachacra wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> following error is giving when emerge system with --emptytree option.
> please help me to solve this...
>
>
> ns1 / # emerge -e system
> Calculating system dependencies ... done!
>
> !!! Error: the s
Let me disagree with you a bit :-)
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:41 +0200, deadhead wrote:
> Reliability is fundamental so I'll buy from a vendor: if something
> (hardware) goes wrong you can call them to solve and stop.
That's why you want a small local shop. They have a direct interest in helping
you
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:52 +0200, Dave Strydom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm setting up a server which is mainly qmail / vpopmail
> i have a intel srcs16 raid controller card in the machine with 3 300GB
> hdd, and i want to configure it for raid5, what is the best stripe
> size to use?
That's hard to pred
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 22:29 -0600, Kirktis wrote:
> 125 E-mail accounts is a rather negligible number.
Depends on the hardware and the users - if they are regularly pushing
multi-megabyte attachments you may need faster hardware than expected.
But for normal users a Pentium-2 200 would be fast eno
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:30 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
> No one had any ideas on this? I can't emerge -uD world... :-(
emerge unmerge udev && emerge -upD world ?
looks like udev shouldn't be there, but portage is too "dumb" to realize
that it should block ...
Patrick
> Ben Munat wrote:
> > When I
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 16:59 +0200, Jean Blignaut wrote:
> I have recently been investigating different virtualization solutions
> such as linuxvserver, bsd jails and xen.
>
>
>
> This xen stuff is confusing the heck out of me at first I figured it
> was similar to a linux vserver setup (which I
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:31 -0600, Edward Muller wrote:
> Compiling apache 2.2.0 fails with the following error:
[snip]
That's what we have bugs.gentoo.org for, please use that.
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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:42 +0100, Thilo Bangert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Marton Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and ...
>
> in a recent discussion about raid on this list, somebody posted a link
> to BAARF - the Battle Agaist Any Raid Five
>
> http://www.miracleas.
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 17:19 +0100, Marton Gabor wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately
> we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID.
> Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need
> let's say
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:42 -0500, xyon wrote:
> (4 X 250GB ) - (1 X 250GB) = 750GB without hotspare. Although having a
> hot-spare may be worth it.
>
> You should be able to RAID-5 /boot and all other partitions (minus swap,
> of course). As long as the RAID modules are built into the kernel and
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 01:45 +0100, Jeroen Geilman wrote:
> > With 4 disks you could also build a raid5 with little overhead, takes a
> > tad more cpu and gives you 750G capacity (or 500 with one hotspare)
> >
> Take note that both using RAID5 and RAID10 in software will use a
> significant amou
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:40 +0100, Marton Gabor wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm going to recieve 4x250Gb SATA disks to our new server, and my first
> idea was to make 2xRAID1 and then make 1xRAID0 out of the RAID1 arrays
> using Linux software raid so that I have our data mirrored and still I
> can use 50
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:01 -0600, MIkey wrote:
> Patrick, lack of server support in the profiles is the bane of my existence.
> Thank you for starting to address it.
It's a known deficiency, so we should fix it :-)
> I would prefer for it to be kept as simple and stripped down, as possible.
> P
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:47 +0200, Jean Blignaut wrote:
> I don't see why you'd want to have a dhcp client on a server but any
> way...
"Just in case" ... I've been almost locked out of machines because they lacked
a dhcp client.
I'm not after a strictly-server-only profile, and having dhcp availa
Hi all,
I've been thinking about a restricted profile for servers. It should be
minimal (no crap useflags) and as secure as possible by default.
What I think should be in there:
- no X and multimedia useflags by default (-esd -gnome -gtk -kde ...)
- put a dhcp client back in system. Not having th
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 08:44 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Marc wrote:
> > The best part for simplicity is the RAID functionality is completely
> > transparent to the server. It's running ReiserFS just like it were on a
> > single drive, and could do the same with any file system. It just sees
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 15:19 +0100, Ramon van Alteren wrote:
> >I'm running a software raid spanned over 3 controllers ... I'm not aware
> >of a hardware-based solution that even comes close to that flexibility.
> How many disks can you put in ?
> AFAIK most motherboard interfaces support 4 SATA di
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 07:54 -0500, Sean Cook wrote:
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> > They are all different questions:
> >
> > * Hardware RAID vs Software RAID
> > Hardware RAID offers more performance and often more sophisticated RAID
> > features.
That is debatable :-)
F
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:47 -0700, JD Gray wrote:
> I'm going to be purchasing some hard drives for a raid5 array.
Better plan in a hotspare - the last batch of 160G disks I bought is
dying at an alarming rate.
> I'll be
> running them out of my gentoo fileserver. I've used md in the past for
> r
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 12:09 +0200, Jean Blignaut wrote:
> I have often considered and even tried a couple of times to setup a
> hardened box however I get confused between all the different options
> and all the different implications. What with Selinux Grsecurity 1/2
> RSBAC PIE etc. etc.
Each i
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:58 -0500, Andrew Kesterson wrote:
> This is going to sound a bit elitist, but was it really necessary
> to remove install instructions for a stage 1/2 from the handbook?
Technically no, but support / bugfixing was problematic.
> It seems
> to me like, if someone d
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:45 +0100, Andrea Carpani wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking around for alternatives to runscript style init scripts as I
> don't like very much default gentoo scripts. While I do like the
> depencencies stuff I still don't get why a "status" on a script gives
> "started" if
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 09:21 -0600, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've got two RAID-0 sets (I know, I know, but they really are expendable
> and it's my test box) but when I reboot, the RAID sets are not
> reallocated. I've looked in /etc/init.d/mdadm and
> /lib/rcscripts/raid_start.sh, but "m
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 00:16 +0800, Linux GNUbie wrote:
> Speaking of this issue, actually I'm planning to setup a box with a 24
> SATA HDDs RAID5 array on a dual Opteron box intended to run Subversion
> to handle huge video files before this year end. I'm still afraid of
> using Gentoo because I'm
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:20 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote:
> The idea I had (at least initially), was using the snapshot releng
> builds for their release as our base tree to use for a release. After
> they finalize the tree, I'd see a group of folks going through and doing
> another round of QA and
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:32 +1000, Phillip Berry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could some point me to, or provide a more specific breakdown of some of the
> roles and tasks that would need to be tended to?
>
> Forgive me if i appear ignorant to the problems and issues with maintaining
> an
> enterprise
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:09 +0200, KRAFT Benjamin wrote:
> Hello the list,
Hi!
> I'm writing here this mail because of incorrect characters displaying when
> getting informations from one AS400 and trying to display it on a web page
> with php.
>
> My server is running debian linux, and the unixOD
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 16:54 +0200, Christian Parpart wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I finally got it; my Operaton workstation with 2x Opteron248 CPUs and 4GB RAM
> is arrived. However, the BIOS says that I really have 4GB RAM inside, that I
> have, but the Linux is just telling me something about 3GB.
The
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:35 -0400, Karl Zander wrote:
> There is a Windows share that we would like to mount at boot time. Is that
> possible?
>
> We have smbsf compiled into the kernel. Using smbmount we can mount and
> access that share now. Is it somehow possible to put this into /etc/fstab
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 14:43 +, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> For those unfamiliar with anonymizer, it's essentially a web-based proxy
> that allows a user to enter a web address in a web form and have that site
> displayed in a frame. This is done to prevent web sites from identifying
> you personally.
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:44 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
> Some of you may have seen my posts regarding this on gentoo-user,
> thought i'd try here too.
>
> I runa 2.6 kernel. I have two NIC's. One is a built-in 100Mbps, and the
> second is a 64-bit PCI 1000Mbps NIC. The 100Mbps comes up as eth0, the
>
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