[gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mick writes: > echo "My first test message" | mail -v -s "Test for sSMTP 1" d...@gmail.com What about trying echo "My first test message" | mail -v -s "Test for sSMTP 1" root directly? Therefore you can see if your aliases are correct. -- Alberto

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:33:02 -0400 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > On Tue, Jun 24 2014, Marc Joliet wrote: > > > Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400 > > schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > > > >> I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I > >> do understand it correctly now. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate > and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is > rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago > was a WD drive. That said

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:15:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > I like this part: > > "Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub" > > ^ That part right up there. :-D That may be a new thread, if > needed. My first thought was "even Dale can't have problems with that". I soon reco

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh rekeying slow ?

2014-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2014 06:07, schrieb Dale: > I ran into a issue like this once a long time ago. I had something > wrong with my hosts file if I recall correctly. It never did make sense > as to how it messed things up but after fixing that, it worked fine. > So, I'd look at the hosts file and see if an

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/06/2014 05:54, Dale wrote: > Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate > and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is > rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago > was a WD drive. That said, all the other

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate >> and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is >> rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago >

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh rekeying slow ?

2014-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/06/2014 12:45, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 26.06.2014 06:07, schrieb Dale: > >> I ran into a issue like this once a long time ago. I had something >> wrong with my hosts file if I recall correctly. It never did make sense >> as to how it messed things up but after fixing that, it work

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:15:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I like this part: >> >> "Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub" >> >> ^ That part right up there. :-D That may be a new thread, if >> needed. > My first thought was "even Dale can't have prob

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with > was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6 > years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after > year - the servers were the nice big ones Dell makes with awes

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Dale wrote: > I'm thinking of something tho. Btrfs. While I have a new drive with no > file system on it, it's a good time to think on switching from LVM. > Hmmm. I'm currently on gentoo-sources 3.14. I think btrfs is usable, but not without its problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Dale wrote: >> I'm thinking of something tho. Btrfs. While I have a new drive with no >> file system on it, it's a good time to think on switching from LVM. >> Hmmm. I'm currently on gentoo-sources 3.14. > I think btrfs is usable, but

[gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread João Matos
Dear list, I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to AMD). I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I intended to use the new hardware, I compilled it changing "Processor type" and enable the SATA driver. The sistem seemed to boot properly (all boot messagens ok, all se

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:05:55 -0300, João Matos wrote: > I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to AMD). > > I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I intended to use the new > hardware, I compilled it changing "Processor type" and enable the SATA > driver. The sistem s

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:32:28 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to > > AMD). > > > > I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I intended to use the new > > hardware, I compilled it changing "Processor type" and enable the SATA > > dri

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/06/2014 13:20, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with >> was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6 >> years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after >> year - the servers were

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh rekeying slow ?

2014-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2014 12:54, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Is your delay about 30 seconds? hmm, I think it was shorter ... but around that, yes. > If so, that's almost certain to be related to dns lookups (30 seconds > being the magic timeout that almost everything seems to use) Which hosts might it be then

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2014 13:20, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with >>> was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6 >>> years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 13:05:55 João Matos wrote: > Dear list, > > I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to AMD). > > I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I intended to use the new > hardware, I compilled it changing "Processor type" and enable the SATA > driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 06:56:26 Mick wrote: >> Sort out access rights to 0604 > Oops! Potentially dangerous typo! Should be: "0640" of course. > Picking a short one to reply too. Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm not sure what I am going to be

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote: > Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm > not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so > impressed. LOL > > OK. So, what will send me a message now? Do I need to tell it to send > me so

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm >> not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so >> impressed. LOL >> >> OK. So, what will send me a message now? Do I nee

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > And do check on your warranty. You can migrate all your data to the > new drive, and then replace the old one as a backup disk. Either use > it with raid, or as an offline backup. If you want to do raid you can > set up mdadm with a degraded raid1 so that you can copy your dat

[gentoo-user] Tuneing ext4 for reliability (not necessaryly speed)

2014-06-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for backup storage (see previous thread) I decided to use ext4. After craling the net the reports I found about brtfs seemed to mixed to me. If there are alternatives I overlooked... I searched the net for answeres to the following question, but only found outdated answeres...: What options

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: power requirement (WAS: smartctrl drive error @60%)

2014-06-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:15:57AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > 33 power cycles seem very low but further down we see the power on time > > is just under two years which is also erring towards the lighter side of > > the mtbf > > About the only time I shutdown is when the power fails. My puter only >

[gentoo-user] local repo kernel ebuild search for tar.bz2 instead of tar.xz

2014-06-26 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I have copied ebuild from sys-kernel/hardened-sources to my local repository, in order to patch the sources. I didn't change the ebuild for now, but repoman manifest does not work. It tries to download files with extension tar.bz2 and not tar.xz. If I delete my local copy of the ebuild, emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: power requirement (WAS: smartctrl drive error @60%)

2014-06-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/26/2014 09:19 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Gosh, power must be really cheap in your corner of the world (or is it just > stupidly expensive over here?) I wouldn’t call 150 W “only”, especially for > a 24/7 device. Or is that the maximum under load? > Where I am power 7.52 cents per kWh.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/26/2014 05:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Take care of the environmental factors, and statistics fall in your > favour making the odds good you'll get the life you expect > Yep, but sometimes crap just fails for no reason whatsoever. As an example, my old house had central A/C and never w

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: power requirement (WAS: smartctrl drive error @60%)

2014-06-26 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:15:57AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> About the only time I shutdown is when the power fails. My puter only >> pulls about 150 watts so I just leave it running 24/7. > Gosh, power must be really cheap in your corner of the world (or is it just > stupi

[gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-06-25, Dale wrote: > I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread > going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't want to add to > my system unless I have to. It's sort of like the init thingy. I don't > want to add something else that will eventual

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread João Matos
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:05:55 -0300, João Matos wrote: > I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to AMD). > > I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I intended to use the new > hardware, I compilled it changing "Processor type" and enable the SATA > driver. The sistem se

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/25/2014 08:54 PM, Dale wrote: > Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate > and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is > rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago > was a WD drive. That said, all the oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread João Matos
2014-06-26 9:32 GMT-03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:05:55 -0300, João Matos wrote: > > > I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to AMD). > > > > I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I intended to use the new > > hardware, I compilled it changing "Proce

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Matti Nykyri schrieb: > If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple > one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of > the random data. If the result is 62 or 63 you will discard the data and > get the next 6 bits. This selectively modifies the

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuneing ext4 for reliability (not necessaryly speed)

2014-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/06/2014 18:13, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > for backup storage (see previous thread) I decided to use ext4. After > craling the net the reports I found about brtfs seemed to mixed to me. > If there are alternatives I overlooked... > > I searched the net for answeres to the follow

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh rekeying slow ?

2014-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/06/2014 15:12, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 26.06.2014 12:54, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > >> Is your delay about 30 seconds? > > hmm, I think it was shorter ... but around that, yes. > >> If so, that's almost certain to be related to dns lookups (30 seconds >> being the magic timeout that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 21:00:04 João Matos wrote: > 2014-06-26 9:32 GMT-03:00 Neil Bothwick : > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:05:55 -0300, João Matos wrote: > > > I upgrade my mobo/CPU/mems. They're completely different (Intel to > > > AMD). > > > > > > I built the kernel myself, and, as soon as I int

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:00:04 -0300, João Matos wrote: > > > I'm not sure, but It seems my usb keyboard is not recognized. I > > > tried to solve it using "make localmodconfig", but it didn't work. > > > > Do you have both OHCI and UHCI drivers built in your kernel? I can > > never remember which

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Kai Krakow schrieb: > Matti Nykyri schrieb: > >> If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple >> one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of >> the random data. If the result is 62 or 63 you will discard the data and >> get the next 6 bits.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread João Matos
2014-06-26 18:58 GMT-03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:00:04 -0300, João Matos wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure, but It seems my usb keyboard is not recognized. I > > > > tried to solve it using "make localmodconfig", but it didn't work. > > > > > > Do you have both OHCI and UHCI drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-26 Thread João Matos
> OK, look at the sysrescuecd kernel driver and enable the same in your > gentoo > kernel. > > "make localmodconfig" did it for me. It didn't work on 3.7 but it was pretty fine on 3.14. > -- > Regards, > Mick > -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/3

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: power requirement (WAS: smartctrl drive error @60%)

2014-06-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 27/06/14 01:05, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/26/2014 09:19 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Gosh, power must be really cheap in your corner of the world (or is it just >> stupidly expensive over here?) I wouldn’t call 150 W “only”, especially for >> a 24/7 device. Or is that the maximum under load

[gentoo-user] Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-26 Thread Ajai Khattri
Ive ran into a brick wall trying to update one of my servers. I have been using Gentoo for a long time but I haven't been following it as closely for the past year so maybe there have been changes Im not aware of. Ive already Googled and checked archives without really solving my problem. Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype now will only work with pulseaudio?

2014-06-26 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 22 June 2014, at 5:53 pm, Mick wrote: > … without audio skype would lose its core functionality > - i.e. making voice calls? I guess someone may only use it for IM chat, but > that I would think is an edge use case. Most people I know would use it for > voice and perhaps video calls.