[gentoo-user] Xen 3.2.1 - all HVM network packets dropped

Dear, I've attempted to upgrade a Xen box from 3.1.2 to 3.2.1. Unfortunately it has been a partial success only. At this point I'm really stuck with a network problem that affects my HVM machines (Linux PV run fine). The really odd thing is that everything seems to work properly, except that the

[gentoo-user] Restore Gentoo, portage not consistent with actually installed

Dear, I have yet again tried to upgrade my Xen software to a later version, which almost worked fine. Since I needed it fully working I have restored my original installation. Basically this is just using xfsrestore for / (root), dd to restore /boot. However I have left /usr/portage alone, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Script to kill long-running application

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: Dear, I'm looking for a script that can kill an application after it has been running for a 'long' time. I like to measure the start time (as it offloads work, the CPU time time is not a good estimate). D

[gentoo-user] Script to kill long-running application

Dear, I'm looking for a script that can kill an application after it has been running for a 'long' time. I like to measure the start time (as it offloads work, the CPU time time is not a good estimate). Does anyone have something useful or some pointers to something I can use for this? Prefe