Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi All, > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. > > Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/mdstat

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 08 February 2010 21:34:01 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > [snip] > > > >>This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better > >> results also. > > > > [snip] > > > > These 4k-sector drives can be

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 13:46:40 Stroller wrote: > On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am > >> now > >> suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (inc

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:11:14 Stroller wrote: > On 9 Feb 2010, at 13:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > ... > > With Raid (NOT striping) you can remove one disk, leaving the Raid- > > array in a > > reduced state. Then repartition the disk you removed, repartition > &

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 19:25:00 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Stroller > wrote: > > > IMO this is a fdisk "bug". A feature should be added so that it tries to > > align optimally in most circumstances. RAID controllers should not be > > trying to do anything clever t

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 19:03:39 Neil Walker wrote: > Hey guys, > > There seems to be a lot of confusion over this RAID thing. > > Hardware RAID does not use partitions. The entire drive is used (or, > actually, the amount defined in setting up the array) and all I/O is > handled by the BIOS

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:13:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 > months old internal): > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > So no speedup for me then. :-/ > That doesn't mean a thing, I'm afraid. I have the 4KB d

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 00:22:31 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:47 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I now only need to figure out the best way to configure LVM over this to > > get the best performance from it. Does anyone know of a decent way of > > fig

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 08:08:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 01:22:31 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:47 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I now only need to figure out the best way to configure LVM over this > > > to get t

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 02:28:59 Stroller wrote: > On 9 Feb 2010, at 19:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > ... > > Don't get me started on those ;) > > The reason I use Linux Software Raid is because: > > 1) I can't afford hardware raid adapters > > 2) I

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:03:51 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > As for recovery, I always use "sysrescuecd" (http://www.sysresccd.org) > > and this has Raid and LVM support in it. (Same with the Gentoo-livecds) &

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel (kcore)?

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:51:26 James wrote: > Hello, > > > I booted up an old system off our a minimal 2006.1 cd > > > I'm looking for the kernel to copy it. > > > Is it this kcore file? > > proc # file kcore > kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 23:58:10 Dale wrote: > So, hal may be progress to you but it is a step backward for me. It's > the opposite of progress. You mean HAL = Congress? Sorry, couldn't resist ;) And now, back on topic :)

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:37:47 Stroller wrote: > On 10 Feb 2010, at 11:14, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 02:28:59 Stroller wrote: > >> On 9 Feb 2010, at 19:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> ... > >>> Don't get me started on

Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 February 2010 00:34:42 CJoeB wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and > copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the > unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I > am having tr

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, > why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 February 2010 20:20:53 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, > >> why not just using the filesystem ? > > > > Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:53:15 Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I > >> push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and run > >> th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 19 February 2010 09:07:59 James Homuth wrote: > _ > > From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] > Sent: February 19, 2010 1:55 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... > > > On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homu

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 26 February 2010 01:39:55 Joseph wrote: > On 02/25/10 22:17, Xavier Parizet wrote: > >From what i can see, please try to add full path to the ccd directory in > >client-config-dir directive on the server path. Also check permissions > >on that directory. On which user are you running open

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 26 February 2010 15:39:52 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 26 February 2010 12:17:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the > > content of multiple tabs at once. > > Really? I can't see how to do that. It could be useful. > In the menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 21:13:29 Stroller wrote: > On 16 Mar 2010, at 20:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +, Stroller wrote: > >> How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? > > > > You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own.

Re: [gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64?

2010-04-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:17:47 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd 64. java-config -L show i have two VMs on my > system: > > The following VMs are available for generation-2: > 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7.1 [icedtea6-bin] > *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.18 [sun-jre-bin-1.6] > > but when

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 16 April 2010 04:06:37 Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Stroller > > wrote: > > How are you connecting to the net? > > yes, i connect to the net through a router. and i share the router > with my roommates. > > > Are you sure this isn't the router? Have you tried swit

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman, Git, ... and Http-Proxies

2010-05-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 20 May 2010 23:24:24 Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > i tried to use layman (current stable version). The problem ist that i sit > behind a proxy server which covers the http(s) protocol only. All other > ports are closed. > > In the config file of layman (/etc/layman/...) i entered

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 16:00:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > Johannes Kimmel writes: > > On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use > > > all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little > > > more available?

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 02:14:55 Jake Moe wrote: > I've got two Gentoo boxes, and would like to run X apps from both on one > display. From reading up on it, it appears that while this is possible, > it's also not recommended from a security standpoint, and the few HOWTOs > I've found for it seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 02:04:28 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/06/10 09:58, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Jake Moe writes: > >> j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 > >> Password: > >> Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 > >> j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox > >> Error: no display speci

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:15:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > when creating a file system on a partition on a brand new hard disk, > I have always used the '-c' twice to check for bad blocks. > This works for ext3 and ext4. > Now, I'd like to use a btrfs file system on some partitions but the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: > > Hi > > > > i get the error: > > > > { > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > > pulled > > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot co

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 13 August 2010 15:36:23 Daniel Wagener wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:17:50 +0200 > > "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 22:02:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: > Stroller a écrit : > > On 9 Sep 2009, at 19:06, Xavier Parizet wrote: > > ... > > Does anyone know how I can force postfix to add the domain to the > > search > > query? > > Is mydomain parameter set in /etc/p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:35:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: > > Are you seeing something very different at your end? > > Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the > Details tab I get a list of configuration variable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:04:52 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an > > ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. > > I always do it with: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote: > I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo > Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the > radeon card which is now an older offering: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Studio_XPS_16

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 20 November 2009 17:43:20 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Mick wrote: > > 2009/11/20 J. Roeleveld : > >> On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote: > >>> I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:20:03 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean > converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I > know Unicode has a different "normalize" meaning, but for my purposes, > that has already be

[gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/mdstat ") Is there a way that will speed this up? The drives are new, but contain random data lef

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: > On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > ... > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software > > raid to > > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:49:46 brullo nulla wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:56:33 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > >> Since when I live in UK, I have troubles with my SMTP servers. It > >> seems that everyone has the "nice" habit of changing my

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows-only wireless AP?

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:37:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:34:07 Grant wrote: > > I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 wireless router via wicd, but I can't > > get past the authentication. The owner insists the password is > > correct. I've spoken to the administrator and I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and old java (commercial software)

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 16:47:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in need to use some commercial software (Matlab and Maple) which > come with their own (probably old) version of Java. > > Now, both of those software packages cannot print, they don't see any > CUPS printer UNLESS I remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need advice in selecting a mail server

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 06 July 2009 23:01:13 Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have three boxes (baby, camille, and catherine) in my LAN, and for > some reason (this was years ago) I set up an exim server on each of > them. camille and catherine were supposed to forward their mail to > baby, which has a working dove

Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 17:26:04 brullo nulla wrote: > > Hmmm, I run my own postfix, but I use the virgin SMTP server as a relay > > host. I don't get my email addresses mangled > > I don't think this is a solution. I am using a laptop, and how can I > reach my postfix server (assuming that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption

2009-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 17 August 2009 16:53:43 Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi Dale, > > On 8/17/09, Dale wrote: > > According to the USE flags, it appears that Kopete supports encryption. > > I have no clue how good it is or if this is exactly what you are looking > > for but you may want to look into it. > > Yes, K

[gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi all, Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? Reason for this: I have one server containing all the databases, one that operates as a NAS and the DNS is running on server 3. In order for the different machines to st

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 11:23:09 Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:51:14AM +0200, Penguin Lover J. Roeleveld squawked: > > Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A > > wait for a service on server B to be started? > > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 12:44:33 Carlos wrote: > J. Roeleveld a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A > > wait for a service on server B to be started? > > > > Reason for this: > > I have

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 13:47:51 Cinder Cinder wrote: > Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! > I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook "Working With Gentoo" and > I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and xorg-server > (As per th

[gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this list knows how to do this. My current situation: Postfix gets an email delivered for user X Postfix passes this to cyrus (lmtp-transport) if user X does not exist within cyrus, the email gets bounced. I would like this

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:26:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:54:33 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > if user X does not exist within cyrus, the email gets bounced. > > > > I would like this bounced email to be delivered to a seperate cyrus > > email

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote: > J. Roeleveld a écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this list > > knows how to do this. > > > > My current situation: > > Post

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:49:37 Xavier Parizet wrote: > J. Roeleveld a écrit : > > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld a écrit : > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I know this is probably off-topic, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:56:28 Xavier Parizet wrote: > J. Roeleveld a écrit : > > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:49:37 Xavier Parizet wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld a écrit : > >>> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote: > >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:53:22 Dirk Uys wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 > ebuild fails: > > > I have the latest version of libXi (1.2.0). I tried searching the net, > but the only answer I got was that some guy on the kde forums had the > s

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 00:26:19 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Has ~amd64 portage such games for my 7 years old son? Have a look at "worldofpadman", not seen any blood in there :) You fight with paintguns and such like and it all looks cartoony. http://worldofpadman.com/ -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, January 26, 2012 8:16 am, Dale wrote: > Hi list, > > I ran across this news item about Google: > > http://alturl.com/s7xi5 > > The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google > since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next > they will want

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote: > The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm > hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light > on this. The light staying on could also be because the floppy-flatcable is plugged in incorrectly. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote >> > Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a >> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won >> $5. >> >> I was using Win3.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 2, 2012 2:08 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. > > Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, > I should upgrade even if the "funny" turns out to be just a config error > on my laptop. > > This is a home

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote >>>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: > > A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was > previously) to 0.9.8.4. > > One of the scripts in /etc/init.d was a symlink to /opt/some/pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: >> >> Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> > >> > On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" > > <mailto:jo...@ant

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 23, 2012 12:25 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Just don't do what I did earlier: sit in Joburg and configure the > firewall on a Xen host in deepest darkest Africa where there's no > tarred roads to get to it. How did you get the server there? Flown it in? I've seen the roads in Afric

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, February 28, 2012 4:34 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, > > does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo? > > I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs: > > # rpm -qa | grep cyrus > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > >> Alex Schuster wrote: >> >> Also, it is already set up with LVM and >> ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? > > Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or > something, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 8:10 am, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >>> tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 >>> >>> Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that >>> then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy.

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 9:10 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-02-29 08:23, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Stefan, >> >> I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't "wait" this long. >> Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 6

2012-03-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, March 13, 2012 9:45 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've also found one > situation where I need to take one extra step to run without udev. I > have a laptop with a Radeon GPU that requires a binary blob for the > video driver. emerging radeon-ucode downloads a whole slew of binary > blobs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, March 19, 2012 1:31 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > When I started administering remote servers, Citrix's XenServer is Good > Enough™ to deploy in production, so now it's the first thing I install > on a > virgin box, even if said virgin box will host only one VM. > > This provides me with a u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 22, 2012 12:55 am, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> I said this before, but it sounds useful to try to reiterate: >> >> * It's probable that service-specific files should not be included in >> the init system package. >> * Service-

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!]

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, March 19, 2012 3:56 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: > William Kenworthy writes: > >> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just >> > fine, as it does my media center. > >> Genkernel doesnt, bugs and wo

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, March 18, 2012 8:30 am, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. > wrote: >> >> >> >> On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >>> initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server >>> with / on a RAID6, not because I needed

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!]

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 29, 2012 12:40 pm, wdk@moriah wrote: > > > On 29/03/2012, at 17:35, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > >> >> On Mon, March 19, 2012 3:56 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: >>> William Kenworthy writes: >>> >>>> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do > updates. Just wait. Patience is a virtue! I wonder how many threads we'll get with "I haven't updated my Gentoo for over a year, how do I best do the upgrade?" from people fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, March 30, 2012 9:23 am, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 29/03/12, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> >> > Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do >> > upda

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: > As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? > You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is > hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. Be careful here, not all SATA-controllers/ports o

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: >> >> >> >>> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old >>> disk? >>> You don&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, April 23, 2012 3:21 pm, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > strange error when trying to start postgres. > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start > *

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic shaping - downstream data

2012-06-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:27 pm, Datty wrote: > Hi all > > I'm looking for some help setting up traffic shaping on my internet > connection. I have a bit of an odd setup in that I run a remote VPN server > that all of my traffic is pushed through and out on to the internet. As I > understand generall

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:06 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit card ;-) > > That's implicit in the wedding vows :( That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job hers

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 1:37 am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > > [snip] > >> Felix, did you follow any >> analogous steps for the 4TB drives? >> >> (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my >> aggregate volumes.) > > > Complet

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 4:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:54:26 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> >> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit >> >> card ;-) >> > >> > That's implicit in the wedding

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > More update on my odyssey. > > I went back to HVM and reboot using the Install CD. I did a 'chroot' > followed by 'rc-update add ss

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. >> >> Knowing nothing about "barriers" I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Hmmm... currently I set xencons=hvc0 (also in /etc/inittab, >>> s/tty0/hvc0/) >>> >>> I'll see what happens if I return them to tty0. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > -- snip -- > >>>> Hmm... I don

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:57 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> -- snip -- >> >>>> Can't hurt to try, now that I've gotten a bootable kernel. Can always >>>> fallback to the previous one. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>> On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Polu

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such >>

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, April 7, 2011 7:31 pm, BRM wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: Joost Roeleveld >> On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:52:26 BRM wrote: >> > - Original Message >> > >> > > From: Joost Roeleveld >> > > >> > > On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote: >> > > > - Origi

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:01 pm, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> >> >> root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb >> Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created >> root@fireball / # >> >> Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol >> >> Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put any

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:13 am, Adam Carter wrote: > # dmesg | grep firm > [ 70.453673] r8169 :02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch > rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) > # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 > /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:52 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and > using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here > too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being >

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 3:06 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2011 11:07:31 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> There also was a thread called "[gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for >> idiots >> like me" by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, October 17, 2011 12:35 am, Florian Philipp wrote: > > I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants > to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for > the first time so I doubt he values his time very high ;-) ), I suggest > he either im

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > Semi-solved. > > On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer >> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> >>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >>> tried with kscd and

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules for an iPod Touch?

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, November 6, 2011 6:49 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag 05 November 2011, 20:45:15 schrieb Joost Roeleveld: > >> Virtualbox has decent USB-pass-through support. Even quite high >> performance. >> >Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it > > virtualbox is also pretty broken a

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:13 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi All. > > This problem is not strictly related to gentoo, however I'm sure someone > here will be able to help me in some way: sorry if I bother you! > > I'm having a really strange problem: for some reason, everytime I reboot > my

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