Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Mark Knecht ha scritto: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
John Jolet wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:59, gentuxx wrote: - Mark Shields IIRC, RedHat kernels are relatively generic in that they have almost everything turned on, and/or build the modules so that they can maximize the hardware compatibility. So it is likely that there will be

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be set to 100 (IIRC default is 250) and also what exactly is it supposed to do for you. We did not have it before. In the past was fixed to 100Hz, then to 1000 appeared, now there is a third option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Rumen Yotov wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:29:17 -0300 Jos__ Pablo Ezequiel Fern__ndez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files (like portage tree) than ext2/3. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Mal Herring wrote: Hi List, Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair two NIC's so that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over... The situation is this: 8 HP DL380G4's all running Gentoo moving into a data centre rack, the firewall is currently a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge php fails

2005-09-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, emerge php fails if xml2 is not deactivated by USE=-xml2. Does it happen to you too ?. It seems that there is a double declaration in php and xml code. Thanks. here is working. php-5.0.4 should work too (and have a lot less problems). If you can lay down

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP with mysql backend (problems with libmyodbc.so = undefined symbol: lt_dlclose )

2005-09-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Claudinei Matos wrote: [...] Looking around I've found that libmyodbc3.so is provided by myodbc package which one I've emerged and setup in both odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini like the tutorial says, but now, if I try to run iodbctest that's what I get when I type DSN=ldap: 1: [iODBC][Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/php

2005-09-10 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Kurt Guenther wrote: dev-lang/php-5.0 popped up as one of my updates, so I dutifully deleted dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php, and emerged this package. Now, I can't find a suitable mod_php, and portage wants to reemerge dev-php/php-4.4.0. Seems like a catch-22, so I'm going to mask

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

2005-09-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bryan Whitehead wrote: I currently run php 5.0.4 as build thru portage For some reason, portage only has up to 4.4.0 now. Was php 5.x abandoned? What's going on? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_php looks like only 4.4.0-r1 is around now... what the heck?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
krzaq wrote: Hi list! Is it possible to tunnel IPX protocol inside VPN (for ex. openvpn) ? never used it, maybe ayiya ? http://unfix.org/~jeroen/archive/drafts/draft-massar-v6ops-ayiya-00.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-09-01 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote: You shouldnt have restarted. mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql daemons is normal and ok. [snip] I ran /etc/init.d/mysql stop and it stopped without error - all of them.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-08-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ow Mun Heng wrote: [quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), that is is there a program that can block foo from web access but allow it to imap and at the same time allow bar web access?

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Holly Bostick wrote: [snip] Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), Please anybody, correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik, this assumption that there are multiple firewall programs in the first

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 el nino simple user restricts

2005-08-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:38 +, Gyuri wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: Hmmm, If I'm reading this and if I'm seeing that this is not the problem of just one user ... I'll be very glad to install with 2005.0 8-| ... if this appears right after installation with 2005.1, of

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 el nino simple user restricts

2005-08-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Gyuri wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:38 +, Gyuri wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: Hmmm, If I'm reading this and if I'm seeing that this is not the problem of just one user ... I'll be very glad to install with 2005.0 8

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 el nino simple user restricts

2005-08-15 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Gyuri wrote: Hi guys, I've just downloaded, and installed Gentoo 2005.1 El Nino. I have some experiences with former Gentoo releases. But there is a little bug (maybe?) in el nino. A simple user cannot read the contets of the root ( / ) partition, she/he can only read and write in his/her own

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
should I move it to where /boot will stay, right? keep the bootable flag *only* on the win partition, it's the only one that need it. Thanks, Fernando. On 8/11/05, *Bastian Balthazar Bux* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade

2005-08-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant wrote: Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? - Grant Don't know, if you can't use your licence with 5.0 mask it doing the following: echo

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: - move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, cp -a or rsync would get better results? Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks: less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five

Re: [gentoo-user] Does openoffice really require pam?

2005-08-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo | *REALLY* require pam? No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh. So it's possible to #emerge -Ca

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, this is how my disk is divided: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

2005-08-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Holly Bostick wrote: [snip] Go, dev team! We believe in you! If anybody can manage this migration (relatively) painlessly, you can! have a preview, pasting from gentoo-dev: Donnie Berkholz wrote: |Donnie Berkholz wrote: | | I started a brief migrating to modular X howto, on popular demand. |

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Richard Fish wrote: Jarry wrote: Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and 6., and to automate it with some scripts... Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if I would really recommend it. If you are using a stage 1.5 with

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Richard Fish wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux #Command (m for help): q ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951 You missed a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

2005-07-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: In the newer kernels (= 2.6.10 ??) there is a search functionality callable with the key / . About time they had something like this! mm had them from ages. Do you rememeber when it reaches vanilla sources? Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

2005-07-28 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Tim Igoe wrote: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig edit the kernel options to set up the iptables parts needed in the kernel (can't rememebr where they are - not just at my normal box atm) then install the new kernel like you did originally Just a reminder here, all the answers are

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic restart of crushed processes...

2005-07-26 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jarry wrote: Greetings to all Gentoo-users! Is it somehow possible to check, whether a certain process is running, and if not, then start it? I would like to use it for some processes that crush sometimes (like teamspeak and some game-servers), and to mointor sshd, because it is critical

Re: [gentoo-user] Big data Cluster

2005-07-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
David Busby wrote: I'm looking for reccomendations for storage clustering. I'd like to network together some Gentoo boxes which internally are SCSI+RAID5 and then be able to store data on these multiple boxes as though they are one big filesystem. Similar to what Isilon does but with Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Antoine wrote: Hi, I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux user, though not a fanatic like me ;-)) that there are free

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ramón Gutiérrez wrote: go to */ect/make.conf* and add *ACCEPTS_KEYWORDS=~x86 * case sensitive -- Ramon Gutierrez no don't go, stay with us -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 stopped logging referrers

2005-06-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant wrote: It seems that apache2 has stopped logging referrers. Where can I set it to log them again? - Grant into httpd.conf put something like this: ErrorLog logs/this.is.your.site.com_error CustomLog logs/this.is.your.site.com_log common CustomLog logs/this.is.your.site.com_referer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Stoian Ivanov wrote: On Monday 06 June 2005 18:24, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: I think this may happen if you're emerging in parallel (e.g. emerge started on two consoles) Nope this is not the case: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # grep MAKEOPTS /etc/make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Stoian Ivanov wrote: On Monday 06 June 2005 20:09, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: Stoian Ivanov wrote: Nope this is not the case: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # grep MAKEOPTS /etc/make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # That option does not mean that you can not start emerge in parallel. Is says

Re: [gentoo-user] Unregister

2005-06-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Junk Funk wrote: Cant unregister this mailinglist Tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] With no result. GRRR Help /J it's in the headers of every message: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe @ gentoo.org --

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs not in /var/lib/portage/world

2005-05-26 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...]They will **not** be added if you used emerge =whatever-1.23 (or any ranged dep) There are plans change this case? Is it a wanted behaviour ? -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean

2005-05-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James wrote: Hello, Cleaning up a system, I ran emerge -pv depclean. The list looked fine, so I preceeded. The only problem I seem to have is 'updatedb' has disapeared. Any ideas how to get it back? eupdatedb still works fine, although I'm not sure they are equivalent? thoughts?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Hi, Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't seem to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks for the openssl

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant wrote: How do you tell an app to use linuxthreads instead? What is the point of +nptlonly? A more compact installation? A trick to make an app use linuxthreads is set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in the env your app will run in. --

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James wrote: I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: -r 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore I guess this is not a good file to remove? Kernel images are only this big: -rw--- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL and glibc

2005-04-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Dave Nebinger wrote: I have recently built a new Gentoo 2005.0 box with a stage3 tarball. I set the NPTL flag (among others) and rebuilt the entire system. It does not appear that NPTL is sticking and I am not at all sure why; instead it has pulled in the linuxthreads package. Can anybody help

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -C package doesn't clean up /etc/ config files

2005-04-28 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Edward Catmur wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to config-protect or is it something

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone done anything big with the new compiler yet? Like an emerge -e world? This bug : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21167 make some things difficult, anyway you can compile 95% of emerge -e but do it only in a thrashing ready environment. -- No

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic process restarter

2005-04-22 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I need to monitor some processes on a server and if they die, they must be restarted. Before reinventing the wheel again (create my ons script) i search the internet and the most intresting soft i found was: procautostart

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Pavel wrote: Since I put Gentoo on my workstation (2 years ago ) , never had segfaults with reiser3fs ;) I prefer ***CENSURED*** for my /usr/portage , reiserfs for my /usr,/var,/boot,/home and XFS for my isos and music ssshhh don't ever mind at that file system if ciaranm is around ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen

[gentoo-user] emerge -uDv --newuse world want a lot of java (aka teach me DEPEND)

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ola' can someone explain what is trying to emerge the two blackdown java vm ? Also strange is that -java* Related stuff: a) The box (~x86) has finished yesterday the following sequence: # emerge -ev world # emerge --sync # emerge -uDv --newuse world # emerge -uDv --newuse world #

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Reno Romanin wrote: I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/make.profile ln -sf blah blah... Well, it didn't seem to go as smooth this time, now every time I try to emerge something, including '-u world' I get errors, specifically on gcc I get this *** This

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:14 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 | kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better What, are these turn absolutely everything to Y kernels? Three compressed kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few questions: 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already installed). Don't know but i think it has utility for ext3 too 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not present on my

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not present on my boxes I guess I meant udev - I just checked and it looks like its already installed. you can avoid using it ... but why ? It's the /dev manager for 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] difference between GENTOO_MIRRROS and SYNC

2005-04-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello, I just installed gentoo 3 days ago. I don't understand the difference between GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC when using emerge --sync. Thank you for your help. Al Bayrouni welcome, GENTOO_MIRRORS is used when downloading source packages *not* with emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

2005-04-15 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, Every time I open up a terminal(gnome-terminal or xterm) I get the message above. I've read up on the profile changes and made the change which I think is correct: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 8 08:39 /etc/make.profile -

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD and install everything via serial console? thanks, ---eric people has used the ps2 mouse attach too ;) some crazy boy

Re: [gentoo-user] No MySQL 4.1 Support ?

2005-04-13 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, Gentoo must be the only distribution on the planet that doesn't have support for MySQL 4.1, what's up with that ? Lack of interest from the community ? I see a 4.0 stable ebuild and 4.1 which has been masked but still can't understand why there isn't a stable

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Maxim Vexler wrote: = $ man -k mkdir mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a directory mkdirhier(1x) - makes a directory hierarchy mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a