Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:11 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? > > I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously > > 15-20MB/s. > > I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously 15-20MB/s. I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and I've tried re-mounting the FS w/ "nobarriers" but the performance didn

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages for Python 2.3

2006-08-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I am developing some software that needs to be tested against Python 2.3. So my Gentoo box has both, Python 2.4 and 2.3. Now, I need to have some Python packages available for both (or at least, for 2.3), for example: mysql-python. How do I achieve that ? You may need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:30:48 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted > email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a > legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software > that dispat

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Jason Weisberger
Hello,I just had the same problem.  I switched to XFS about two weeks ago, and all I've heard out of my hard drive since then is churning and grinding.  Untarring large files is multitudes slower, even a simple emerge --sync takes extra time.  Booting was also much slower.  I never measured through

[gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously 15-20MB/s. I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and I've tried re-mounting the FS w/ "nobarriers" but the performance didn't improve. I've alre

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo - question

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I followed; Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml running "install-amd64-minimal-2006.0" CD to install Gentoo and encountered following problem; 1) Network connection ADSL broadband connection via ADSL modem --> telephone line Ethernet - on

[gentoo-user] ssmtp redirect root mail to a webmail account through smtp.gmail.com

2006-08-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Is it actually possible to make ssmtp's sendmail send all the mail directed to my local 'root' account to a real email address, such as the one I'm sending this email from ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? If not, would my best bet be to install Postfix? I tried this in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] emege -e system; emerge -e world and GCC4

2006-08-28 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:25:03 -0700 "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/23/06, michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ 8< ] > Considering that you just recompiled your system with a gcc version > that the gentoo devs consider to be broken for your archyes, yes, > and yes. :-

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea

2006-08-28 Thread Grant
> >Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted > >email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a > >legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software > >that dispatches an email to the sender of any email that is > >temporarily

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea

2006-08-28 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:38:37PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/28/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted > >email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a > >legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea

2006-08-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/28/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software that dispatches an email to the sender of

[gentoo-user] Greylisting idea

2006-08-28 Thread Grant
Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software that dispatches an email to the sender of any email that is temporarily rejected and do

Re: [gentoo-user] myhostname and mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf on a vhost

2006-08-28 Thread kashani
Noack, Sebastian wrote: Couldn't I also omit the hostname or origin instead of it? And if not, what would you propose as hostname? Something like "nohost" or does it have to be a real hostname, which is mapped to my ip address or maybe my ip address itself? I used vmail.domain.com on my last b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:26:22 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > As Dirk pointed out, LVM is not a filesystem. If you want maximum > > portability, FAT is the best choice. If you want to cram as much as > > possible on the device, either use ReiserFS or get a larger device. > > I just did a quick experime

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0: how to remove unwanted VIDEO_CARDS?

2006-08-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/28/06, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Corrected that and emerged again, now much less packages. >> >> Did that remove the unneeded/unwanted bunch of modules or do I have to >> correct that by doing something? > > "emerge --depclean --pretend" should s

[gentoo-user] uniprint, ggv, and utf-8 - argh...

2006-08-28 Thread Jeff Grant
Ok - so - I got yudit living on my box, which also contains the uniprint program. $ man uniprint uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing So - here's the command I'm using on what appears to be a Chinese utf-8 file: uniprint -in chinese_utf8.txt -out /tmp/chinese_utf8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 19:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What is the result (disk space) in comparison to vfat, ext2 etc.? > > As Dirk pointed out, LVM is not a filesystem. If you want maximum > portability, FAT is the best choice. If you want to cram as much as > possible on the device, either

[gentoo-user] Packages for Python 2.3

2006-08-28 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I am developing some software that needs to be tested against Python 2.3. So my Gentoo box has both, Python 2.4 and 2.3. Now, I need to have some Python packages available for both (or at least, for 2.3), for example: mysql-python. How do I achieve that ? Thank you. -- Pupeno <[EMAIL PRO

[gentoo-user] Re: [Solved] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Blumentritt
bijayant kumar schrieb: > Marc, > wow..!! Its worked for me this time. Many Many thanks to you. > What a man you areI will never forget you. You are really a genius guy. > Thanks once again... :) Your welcome. Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mdadm --create: very low speed on formated disk

2006-08-28 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm creating /dev/md's for my server with: mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 and I have noticed following thing: Whenever I create /dev/md0 on a "clean" (not previously formated) disk, the syncing speed is high (30-40MB/s, as shown

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:50:09 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > > lvmfs? Never heard of this ;-) > > > > That's why I asked if it counted ;-) > > What is the result (disk space) in comparison to vfat, ext2 etc.? As Dirk pointed out, LVM is not a filesystem. If you want maximum portability, FAT is the

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/28/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28 August 2006 14:35, Calvin Walton wrote: > Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change > to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to "24/10001" or "30/10001" > (the first for movies, second for tv shows) NTSC has diff

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0: how to remove unwanted VIDEO_CARDS?

2006-08-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/28/06, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Corrected that and emerged again, now much less packages. Did that remove the unneeded/unwanted bunch of modules or do I have to correct that by doing something? "emerge --depclean --pretend" should show if anything is installed that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 09:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:38:22 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > I put LVM on a memory stick recently, does that count? > > > > lvmfs? Never heard of this ;-) > > That's why I asked if it counted ;-) What is the result (disk space) in

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:09:11 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: > Whether -u update will do incremental copying for those files having > been updated That's not what -u does, rsync does incremental copying by default, read the man page. -- Neil Bothwick Bald spot? No -- solar panel for brain pow

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Valerio, > Try to add --delete. Could you please provide more detail? TIA B.R. SL > On 8/28/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > > > > In the rsync man page. > > > > > > rsync -ax ~/ /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ > > > > > > should do it. > > > > On which file of cron shall I

[gentoo-user] Nice article about the Sony PS3

2006-08-28 Thread Jerry McBride
The folding cluster will be the most powerful machine on earth... Not bad for a game console running linux. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5287254.stm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 August 2006 14:35, Calvin Walton wrote: > Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change > to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to "24/10001" or "30/10001" > (the first for movies, second for tv shows) NTSC has different frame rates for different *content*? How stra

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread bijayant kumar
Marc,    wow..!! Its worked for me this time. Many Many thanks to you. What a man you areI will never forget you. You are really a genius guy.Thanks once again...RegardsBijayant Kumar Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. > > > dvd authoring and 2. just compress

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Calvin Walton
On 8/28/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > For DVDs, try this: > > mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \ > -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \ > -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_s

RE: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0: how to remove unwanted VIDEO_CARDS?

2006-08-28 Thread Fernando Ferrari
Hi Stefan, the easy way, Search the modules installed with the command eix eix xf86-video look the item "install:" and what module it install and unmerge only you dont need. Saludos Fernando Ferrari http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com -Mensaje original- De: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Blumentritt
bijayant kumar schrieb: > Marc, > I tried it also, but no luck this time also. Also i want to > show you my /var/log/syslog also, which may be useful to rectify my problem :- > > > Aug 28 16:18:01 bijayant slapd[8302]: conn=145 fd=16 ACCEPT from > IP=127.0.0.1:49850 (IP=0.0.0.0:38

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild problem with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

2006-08-28 Thread Xavier MOGHRABI
Thanks a lot for that information it solved the previous problem. But now when I launch revdep-rebuild, I got that : broken /usr/lib/libsystray4j.so (requires libkdecore.so.4 libkdeui.so.4) broken /usr/lib/openoffice/program/kdebe1.uno.so (requires libkdecore.so.4 libkdeui.so.4 libkio.so.4)

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Roger Luethi
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:26:09 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > If you want to synchronize (i.e. update > > to the latest version, no matter where it is), try unison. > > Whether you suggested; > Unison > File Synchronizer > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Yes. One of the more underestimate

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. > > dvd authoring and 2. just compressing to keep on my HD. > > For DVDs, try this: > > mencoder -oac la

Re: [gentoo-user] Oops on heavy load

2006-08-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:49 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 11:24, CapSel wrote: > > > Process kswapd0 (pid: 162, threadinfo=c2272000 task=c2201a50) > > Stack: c014d48c f5064090 f5064098 002f c01604fb 002f > > 0080 c5e52248 c446cab8 7080 0081 c20

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Valerio daelli
Try to add --delete. Valerio Daelli On 8/28/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Neil, > In the rsync man page. > > rsync -ax ~/ /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ > > should do it. On which file of cron shall I add following line to rsync /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ quarterly? 0,15,30,45 * * * * rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] myhostname and mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf on a vhost

2006-08-28 Thread Noack, Sebastian
> Your domain can be any one of your domains. Your hostname should not > match anything in your virtual file. When you set your origin use the > hostname and not the domain. That'll make things less likely to screw up. Couldn't I also omit the hostname or origin instead of it? And if not, what wou

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Neil, > In the rsync man page. > > rsync -ax ~/ /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ > > should do it. On which file of cron shall I add following line to rsync /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ quarterly? 0,15,30,45 * * * * rsync -ax ~/ /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ Whether -u update will do incremental copying for those fil

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0: how to remove unwanted VIDEO_CARDS?

2006-08-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greetings, yesterday I upgraded my notebook to xorg-x11-7.0-r1. Compared to doing this on my desktop-system (where I ran into heavy dependency-problems, solved it already ...) it went through without problems. I had added INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS to /etc/make.conf, according to my hardware,

Re: [gentoo-user] Oops on heavy load

2006-08-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 August 2006 11:24, CapSel wrote: > Process kswapd0 (pid: 162, threadinfo=c2272000 task=c2201a50) > Stack: c014d48c f5064090 f5064098 002f c01604fb 002f > 0080 c5e52248 c446cab8 7080 0081 c20fe520 c01605ce > c01394db 001c2000 7080

Re: [gentoo-user] myhostname and mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf on a vhost

2006-08-28 Thread kashani
Noack, Sebastian wrote: Hi, I'm currently setting up a mail server according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml and I don't understand "Code Listing 2.2". myhostname = $host.domain.name mydomain = $domain.name If this suppose to be a configuration for virtual hosts, than I don

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread bijayant kumar
Marc,  I tried it also, but no luck this time also. Also i want to show you my /var/log/syslog also, which may be useful to rectify my problem :-Aug 28 16:18:01 bijayant slapd[8302]: conn=145 fd=16 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:49850 (IP=0.0.0.0:389)Aug 28 16:18:01 bijayant slapd[8302]: conn

Re: [gentoo-user] removing phpmyadmin

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Arnau Bria schrieb: > Hi, > > I've installed phpmyadmin with and without vhost use flag. > > I don't know which files it has modified (when I emerge without the > flag), but now, I'd like to completly remove phpmyadmin... > > is there any way for doing it? "equery files phpmyadmin" tells you w

[gentoo-user] Oops on heavy load

2006-08-28 Thread CapSel
My server crashed twice with same Oops info. It runs apache,mysql,nfs (client only), it has more than 2GB swap partition (does not use it very much), 2GB ram, disk is Raptor on SATA... I have two clones of this machine (computers with same parts, system is copied by RSYNC) and only one of them has

[gentoo-user] amarok and mysql database

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Stear
Hi All, I have a strange problem with amarok rebuilding the database everytime I start it, so all of my scores etc have been lost. I am using amarok 1.4.1 and mysql 4.1.20, I'm sure it's just a setting somewhere but I can't think where. Any help? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail w

[gentoo-user] hostname

2006-08-28 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I know this is a recursive question, but this weekend I've been reisntalling a box, and, as I had some hostname problems, I decided to look for "the definitive answer" I did not find it. Finally, decided to set hostname and dnsdomainname in /etc/conf.d/ files. But with that set, hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Blumentritt
bijayant kumar schrieb: > Hi Marc, >First of all i want to thank you for your response. I > tried everything which you have suggested to me, but unfortunately it didnot > worked for me. It still taking 15 to 20 seconds to authenticate. Does it > takes too much time or i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-28 Thread Xupeng Yun
2006/8/27, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop.  Did you set the "dvd" USE when you emerged mplayer?like this:USE="dvd" emerge mplayer-- I like Python & Linux. Blog: http://recordus.cublog.cn

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper failure

2006-08-28 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hi all, Trying to install a usb-wifi card, I'm following the howto in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-364599-highlight-wifi+netgear.html I found the right driver and installed it; now "ndiswrapper -l" returns: Installed ndis drivers: athfmwdl

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice.org Build Failure: libpython: Missing Symbol "Deflate"

2006-08-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/27/06, Neil Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Here is the information. Ok, I think I found it. This is similar to a problem that was fixed last year [1], but looks like was recently re-introduced [2]. You will probably want to watch [2], and try merging after it is resolved. Or y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:38:22 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > I put LVM on a memory stick recently, does that count? > > lvmfs? Never heard of this ;-) That's why I asked if it counted ;-) -- Neil Bothwick You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. signature.asc Description: P

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi Marc,                   First of all i want to thank you for your response. I tried everything which  you have suggested to me, but unfortunately it didnot worked for me. It still taking 15 to 20 seconds to authenticate. Does it takes too much time or i am doing something wrong. Please help

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 28. August 2006 10:30 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:07:59 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > It makes me wander if anybody experiment with other file systems > > (besides dos, ext2) on on memory sticks? > > I put LVM on a memory stick recently, does that count? lvmfs? Never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:07:59 -0600, Joseph wrote: > It makes me wander if anybody experiment with other file systems > (besides dos, ext2) on on memory sticks? I put LVM on a memory stick recently, does that count? -- Neil Bothwick Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts. signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:26:57 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: > Where can I find similar syncing and cron script examples? TIA In the rsync man page. rsync -ax ~/ /mnt/extdisk/myhome/ should do it. -- Neil Bothwick RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Blumentritt
bijayant kumar schrieb: > Hi, >I have installed openldap on my gentoo-linux . My purpose is to use > LDAP server for login authentication using PAM. slapd is running fine. > ldapsearch command is also running fine. But the problem is, it takes too > much time to authenticate the user. M

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Roger, Tks for your advice. > If you want to synchronize (i.e. > update > to the latest version, no matter where it is), try unison. Whether you suggested; Unison File Synchronizer http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ I'm trying to find out whether real time synchronization is possible

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 August 2006 21:22, Grant wrote: > It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old. I don't like gmplayer > either. Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the > command line to play DVDs? No idea about the GNOME world but there is kmplayer for KDE. For DVDs, I use kmplayer, mpla

[gentoo-user] myhostname and mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf on a vhost

2006-08-28 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Hi, I'm currently setting up a mail server according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml and I don't understand "Code Listing 2.2". myhostname = $host.domain.name mydomain = $domain.name If this suppose to be a configuration for virtual hosts, than I don't have a specific hostnam