Dale wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> I just did an "emerge --sync" followed by an ask fetchonly, which I
>> do to avoid unpleasant surprises. Emerge is sending the following
>> message to stderr. I don't like the concept of masking out stuff for an
>> ordinary emerge. Any idea what gives?
On 2007-12-21, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced
>
I wrote:
I have used xfs on 2 Gentoo servers for the last year of so - several
power outages, no problems:
$ df -m
Doh! meant to type 'mount' not 'df':
$ mount
/dev/md/2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/md/0 on /boot type xfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/md/3 on /tmp type xfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/md/4 on /v
Mick wrote:
Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . .
especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these.
Has anyone got a particularly good experience with XFS vs e.g. Reiserfs? What
about JFS?
I have used xfs on 2 Gentoo ser
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:19:47 +
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to clarify the situation, Sylpheed is still Sylpheed.
> Sylpheed-Claws became Claws-Mail since it no longer follows the
> Sylpheed code.
right; sorry. i started using it right when that was happening.
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On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced
> >> bread . . .
> >> especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sur
On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote:
>> ...
>> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced
>> bread . . .
>> especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of
>> these.
>
> A TV episode might well b
Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>>
>> With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste
>> of
>> space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is
>> in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents
>> of /usr/portage elsewher
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 08:46 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
> Portage can continue to build packages if one fails.
>
> # emerge -options package/list_of_packages || until emerge
> -same_options_as_before package/list_of_packages ; do : ;done
yes but wouldn't this continue regardless of
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:34:53 +, Mick wrote:
> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced
> bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got
> many of these.
I found that too, so I use XFS for partitions that handle large files
(ISO images, video
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:26:55 -0500, Boris Fersing wrote:
> > If you can SSH into the machine, you can also do it with
> >
> > echo u >/proc/sysrq-trigger
> > echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger
> >
> > Do not use e or i this way as they will kill sshd.
>
> Or just type 'reboot' (or anything else you wa
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:32:52 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:
> I don't. Thunderbird is, like most mozilla products, slow an bloated.
> Claws-Mail (as sylpheed is now called, BTW) is light and fast
Just to clarify the situation, Sylpheed is still Sylpheed. Sylpheed-Claws
became Claws-Mail since it no l
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:00:36 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make
> some notes on this:
>
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500
>
> Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I manually edited the file
> > /usr/src/li
On Thursday 20 December 2007 03:40:07 am Mick wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were
> > uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic.
> >
> > The card I have is an 8197, not an 818
Mick wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, I'll browse through these.
>
It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This
seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as
Maxtor I wonder?
I have been getting these errors for some time now. They pass the tests
tho.
On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote:
...
Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced
bread . . .
especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of
these.
A TV episode might well be 700meg.
Has anyone got a particularly good experience with XFS vs
Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:40:48 -0600
>>
>> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Philip Webb wrote:
>>>
071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote:
> - ReiserFS looks unsupported now
>
What
Mick wrote:
>
>
> With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste of
> space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is
> in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents
> of /usr/portage elsewhere (even in the 3.8G p
Stroller wrote:
On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:26, kashani wrote:
I used Redhat, Fedora, and Gentoo on 2550, 1650, 2650, 1750, 1850,
and 2850 PowerEdge servers ...
Blimey! You obviously know your stuff. So how do you find Gentoo
measures up to Redhat / Fedora on these machines?
Never had an iss
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote:
> >>
> >> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of
> >> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a
> >> very similar error. My Western Di
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:40:48 -0600
>
> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Philip Webb wrote:
> > > 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote:
> > >> - ReiserFS looks unsupported now
> > >
> > > What do you base that assessment on ? It's true
> > > that RFS 4 wa
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:12:17 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Then, create a volume group spawning [hs]da3 with name vg00 (you can
> > choose the name freely) and create logical volumes inside:
>
> I'd use a less generic name, otherwise you'll ha
Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote:
>
>>
>> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of
>> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a
>> very similar error. My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all.
>>
>> Thank
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> > I used mutt for a long time but when I tried squirrelmail my
> > productivity when up 5 fold. I'm thinking switching to a desktop app
> > would be even better. Plus no PHP on my server.
>
> I like Thunderbird.
I think that it i
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I
> > can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other
> > day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors
> > occurred when I f
On Thursday 20 December 2007 19:44:12 b.n. wrote:
> Grant ha scritto:
> > I've been using squirrelmail on my server and I think I'd like to
> > switch to a desktop app. I'm the only user. Is sylpheed-claws the
> > only one bound to satisfy a Gentooer? Is anyone pro-webmail?
>
> I use Thunderbird
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:50:33 Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
>> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
>> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
>> on the root partition (3.8 GB).
> That's way too much. 256M
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:09:09 -0800
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have a web server they would lend me a page of? I have
> one but it hosts my business website and I don't want it to become the
> target of super-savvy folk. ftp, ssh, even copy-paste would be
> greatly appreciated
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:40:48 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
> > 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote:
> >
> >> - ReiserFS looks unsupported now
> >>
> >
> > What do you base that assessment on ? It's true
> > that RFS 4 was going nowhere even before its creator's legal
>
> > > > > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this
> > > > > thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and
> > > > > shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work
> > > > > completed on them? Because living costs money and Gentoo
> > > > > doesn't pay.
> > >
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:24:01 +0100
Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which would add an awful lot of complexity and require major design
> changes in order to gain anything. The beauty of the ebuild format is
> its simplicity. I don't really think it's worth it.
I agree. I have not
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:31:58 -0800
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this
> > > > thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and
> > > > shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work
> > > > completed on them? Becaus
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:50:33 +
"Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough
> space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition
>
I have 2 systems with Gentoo and Openoffice. It is built with the
USE-flags "cups firefox kde pam" and nothing else on both systems. On
one system it is impossible to write certain letters, such as üéè.
Nothing happens when first the ¨ key and then the u key is pressed. It
works in all programs in
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:11:19 +0100
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> leave it out completely on systems with >=1G RAM, but there may be
> cases where swap is needed even with this large amount of memory.
I don't think this is wise, as context switching in low-memory
scenarios seems to p
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:19:13 -0500
Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Plus no PHP on my server.
How can you have a webserver without PHP? I cringe : )
> I like Thunderbird.
I don't. Thunderbird is, like most mozilla products, slow an bloated.
Claws-Mail (as sylpheed is now called, B
On Dec 18, 2007 3:41 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:53:18 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>
> > the 'best' sequence is e-i-u-b (u = remount ro also syncs.. and leaves
> > the fs in a clean state).
> >
> > To get the keyboard back from X try K (to sack X) o
Grant ha scritto:
> I've been using squirrelmail on my server and I think I'd like to
> switch to a desktop app. I'm the only user. Is sylpheed-claws the
> only one bound to satisfy a Gentooer? Is anyone pro-webmail?
I use Thunderbird. Go figure. :)
m.
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Grant wrote:
> I used mutt for a long time but when I tried squirrelmail my
> productivity when up 5 fold. I'm thinking switching to a desktop app
> would be even better. Plus no PHP on my server.
I like Thunderbird.
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On Thursday 20 December 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 22:58:25 Walter Dnes wrote:
> > This is a wonderful idea, and I have it implemented now.
>
> Sounds pretty good to me too!
>
> > emerge acpi
>
> Doing that didn't give me this file:
> > change the uncommented lines
> > I've been using squirrelmail on my server and I think I'd like to
> > switch to a desktop app. I'm the only user. Is sylpheed-claws the
> > only one bound to satisfy a Gentooer?
>
> Nah, mutt is the only mail client for the truely Gentoo-at-heart.
I used mutt for a long time but when I tried
On 2007-12-20, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been using squirrelmail on my server and I think I'd like to
> switch to a desktop app. I'm the only user. Is sylpheed-claws the
> only one bound to satisfy a Gentooer?
Nah, mutt is the only mail client for the truely Gentoo-at-heart.
> Is
The ELOG for my linux-headers update says:
Kernel headers are usually only used when recompiling your system libc, as
such, following the installation of newer headers, it is advised that you
re-merge your system libc.
Failure to do so will cause your system libc to not make use of newer
features
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:46:12 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
> Portage can continue to build packages if one fails.
>
> # emerge -options package/list_of_packages || until emerge
> -same_options_as_before package/list_of_packages ; do : ;done
Yes it can, but not with this, which will re
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:40:29 +0100, purple wrote:
> > This should really go in /etc/revdep-rebuild/99revdep-rebuild
> > nowadays.
> same thing continue to bugs me even with this :\
> dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 rebilds again :|
Doesn't the ebuild create such a file for you? I
have /etc/revdep-rebu
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:12:17 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Then, create a volume group spawning [hs]da3 with name vg00 (you can
> choose the name freely) and create logical volumes inside:
I'd use a less generic name, otherwise you'll have problems if the
computer fails and you try to connect th
On Thursday 20 December 2007 15:39:59 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Here is what I would recommend for a normal linux system:
> >
> > [hs]da1: /boot, 64M, ext2
> > [hs]da2: /, 256M, ext3 or xfs
> > [hs]da3: LVM
>
> I used to use something like this for a lon
I've been using squirrelmail on my server and I think I'd like to
switch to a desktop app. I'm the only user. Is sylpheed-claws the
only one bound to satisfy a Gentooer? Is anyone pro-webmail?
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Portage can continue to build packages if one fails.
# emerge -options package/list_of_packages || until emerge
-same_options_as_before package/list_of_packages ; do : ;done
All with a little help from bash, of course. I think Andressen taught me this
trick. It makes no sense to leave your box
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here is what I would recommend for a normal linux system:
>
> [hs]da1: /boot, 64M, ext2
> [hs]da2: /, 256M, ext3 or xfs
> [hs]da3: LVM
I used to use something like this for a long time as well,
but I think it was Neil from this list, who made me think
i tried what Neil suggested:
> put this in your make.conf:
> SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt /home"
> This should really go in /etc/revdep-rebuild/99revdep-rebuild nowadays.
>
same thing continue to bugs me even with this :\
dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 rebilds again :|
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Mick ha scritto:
> This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't
> understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The
> machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I
> forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB d
On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:50:33 Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
> on the root partition (3.8 GB).
That's way too much. 256M is enough.
> As a result,
I won't answer you with a size since its mainly depends on your own
needs, but don't you know that solutions like lvm or evms provide lots
of flexibility to manage your HD resources ? I advise you to look at
lvm howto. It allows you to add/remove/move/enlarge your partitions as
you need in a truly
Mick wrote:
> This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't
> understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The
> machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I
> forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:53:17 Dale wrote:
> I did a euse -i gcj but it may as well be greek.
When I did that, the output was peppered with these:
/etc/make.conf: line 40: PORTAGE_RSYNC_INITIAL_TIMEOUT: command not found
/etc/make.conf: line 41: PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES: command not found
I
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:32:26 Albert Hopkins wrote:
> The way I see it there are two possible solutions:
>
> 1. Create a new runlevel, say "nox" and just don't put xdm in the
> runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain another
> runlevel.
I don't see what maintenance load thi
I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I
had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different
distro in t
This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't
understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The
machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I
forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver crashed and locked
Hi Jeff,
On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were uninstalled.
> I think that the problem I have may be more basic.
>
> The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the
> problem. Could it be that t
Walter Dnes wrote:
> I just did an "emerge --sync" followed by an ask fetchonly, which I
> do to avoid unpleasant surprises. Emerge is sending the following
> message to stderr. I don't like the concept of masking out stuff for an
> ordinary emerge. Any idea what gives?
>
> < SNIP >
>
>
>
On Thursday 20 December 2007 09:43:20 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> flagedit will warn you if you have any unsupported USE flags set. That
> and eix-test-obsolete are useful for keeping make.conf and /etc/portage
> clear of cruft.
And the config-decruft ruby script that can be used with Paludis can do th
On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:08:13 Rumen Yotov wrote:
> >> Watch out for some scripts (perl-cleaner, claw-mail, etc.) in which the
> >> use of portage/emerge is embedded. Put 'paludis' as USE-flag.
> >
> > Unless you use a crappy, unsupported overlay no such use flag exists.
[...]
> Regarding cl
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 22:58:25 Walter Dnes wrote:
> This is a wonderful idea, and I have it implemented now.
Sounds pretty good to me too!
> emerge acpi
Doing that didn't give me this file:
> change the uncommented lines in /etc/acpi/events/default to read
> event=.*
> action=chvt 1
W
On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:31, Steve Dommett wrote:
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote:
I maintain a few Poweredges, I think mostly 2950. Just yesterday
we swapped a
drive on the Fusion MPT SAS controller. We were prompted to take
the drive
out of service by an email from 'smartd'..
On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:26, kashani wrote:
Stroller wrote:
Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using
Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell
PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers?
...
I used Redhat, Fedora, and Gentoo on 2550, 1650, 2650, 1750, 1850,
a
> Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis:
>
> http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored
>
> Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis?
Yes, and very satisfied. Even with the earlier versions.
ralf
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:17:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> put this in your make.conf:
> SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt /home"
This should really go in /etc/revdep-rebuild/99revdep-rebuild nowadays.
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:08:13 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Regarding claws-mail there's a script to rebuild it's plugins - see
> elogs. Since i first tried paludis-0.2.1, may still have some old use
> info (laziness) about paludis USE-flag (IIRC revdep-rebuild &
> portage-utils, etc.had it).
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