[gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/net I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating GenToo upto several times a week) and 'rsync' the other ones. Now, rsync'ing a life root filesystem is risky. I don't see any problems for the FS

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 31 Jul, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/net I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating GenToo upto several times a week) and

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/net I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating GenToo upto several times a week) and 'rsync' the other ones. Now,

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:59:02 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've done so in the past but I've made bad experience. Unfortunately portage isn't so clever, yet. portage is a lot cleverer than it used to be, especially with regard to blocks. Many times (on the 'clones', as well) I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 31 Jul, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:59:02 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've done so in the past but I've made bad experience. Unfortunately portage isn't so clever, yet. portage is a lot cleverer than it used to be, especially with regard to blocks. Yes, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:46:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: No, on the 'master' machine I have in /etc/make.conf FEATURES=buildpkg -stricter and on the clones I use '-k'. But still, portage checks dependencies on the clone. And, if it sees a problem (like those when upgrading to

[gentoo-user] Re: How send mail when user login on ssh or local ?

2009-07-31 Thread Doug O'Neal
On 07/30/2009 06:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 31 July 2009 00:05:16 Harry Putnam wrote: Somebody know how I to so send mail with IP and Date/time when same user login on shell ( remote or local ) ? I work with another admin's and I never told me when they access and for what

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-31 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mike Mazur wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunesfs.antu...@gmail.com wrote:  I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel 965GSM , xorg and xfce ~x86, gentoo 2.6.30 with KMS, anymore.   Both kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-31 Thread Grant
I read on this list that the kernel needs *some* swap, even just a tiny amount, to function properly.  Is that true?  If so, do you think it would be OK to put this tiny amount of swap on a cheap SSD? I have no swap and things work just fine. (8 gigs of RAM) Obviously, running without swap

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-31 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mike Mazur wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunesfs.antu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-31 Thread Grant
Anyway, the point of all this is to prevent an HD failure from stopping the system.  An SSD is much safer, right? SSDs are still relatively new technology, so predicting failure rates is less reliable. What's wrong with using RAID-1? It's proven technology and totally resistant to a single

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

2009-07-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've got portage's dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36, but nevertheless several packages have started to fail during emerge for lack of Perl's XML::Parser. Even the simple script fails to run under perl: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use XML::Parser; print yes\n; Do I have to get it from CPAN? Consider libgksu;

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/net I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating GenToo upto several times a week) and

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:57:48 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Dealing with unexpected side effects of syncing in-use files could be a lot more problematic. perhaps a digest of some kind? md5 the files, write up a little script to keep the rest of the nodes synced up?

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

2009-07-31 Thread ABCD
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got portage's dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36, but nevertheless several packages have started to fail during emerge for lack of Perl's XML::Parser. Even the simple script fails to run under perl: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use XML::Parser; print yes\n; Do I have to get it