On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:51:47PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Understood - I have seen that article too. I must say, I've mainly had
experience with 'dump' on Freebsd and 'xfsdump' on Linux, and never had
restore issues with *either* of these. Now I'm not sure whether these are
supposed to
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:51:06PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
I wrote:
If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /),
then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image
that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dumpe2fs* etc
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:50:57AM -0500, Simon Turner wrote:
Hi Rasmus,
you will first need to resize your md device. Using mdadm, that
would be done with --grow (check the man, `mdadm /dev/md123 --grow
--size=500G` should do the trick).
Ah yes, thanks for that. For some reason I had not
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:39:48PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:31:29 +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
How do I reestablish python
and/or portage with the least pain? I have both in my PKGDIR, can I
'just' untar them on top of the existing installation?
Yes, untar
Hello,
It seems that my portage or python installation or the combination
thereof has become borked. Whenever I run a portage-related program
(emerge, eclean, portageq, etc) I get segfaults. Due to these being
scripts, gdb is not of much help... I am able to start python normally
and get it to
Hello,
I had a raid1/mirror array of two 200G disks. Then one failed and I
thought 'lets get two 500G disks and just ease them in, they are cheap'.
So I added the full 500G partition from the first disk to the degraded
array, watched the resync, removed the remaining 200G disk and added the
last
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:23:40PM +, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
Is there a quick way to access the help page of a singular module in the
kernel .config list, without having to fire up make menuconfig?
Something on the CLI to access just one particular help page.
I dont think there is a
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:30:54PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=thunar
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166573
How in hell are you supposed to find bugs for thunar when the
don't show up when you search on thunar?
If you include 'ALL',
Hi list,
I have a slightly offtopic question that I hope I can get help with
here. I have a home server, running an MTA for my domain. As of the last
month or so, I have experienced a huge increase in spam and spam
bounces. To combat this, I have upped my MTA's pickyness quite a bit but
would
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
Is formail the right tool for me to use here? Is there a tool to
deliver an mbox of messages to a maildir that I can use in place of '
gentoo_user/' above?
To googling for mbox2maildir or mb2md(?). With a bit of work I think
they
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:21:12AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I want to reconfigure my SMTP server from mbox to maildir. The problem
is that I have hundreds of messages saved in imap folders in the mbox
style. Is there a way to convert those folders to maildir style?
This one worked fine
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:11:44AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Uwe Thiem schrieb:
On 17 August 2006 20:04, Stefan Wimmer wrote:
How do you always avoid my filter that stores emails coming from this list
into my folder gentoo-user. You are the only one.
On my system, he's avoiding the
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are
SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has
not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it.
Use a livecd/knoppix
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:22:11AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
if revdep-rebuild complains that some of the stuff is no longer in portage,
how to find out which one?
emaint, I think.
Rasmus
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
Nothing to do with the original topic, BUT...
I'd be very interested to know how a flag called GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE
gets into one's USE ;) I'm assuming you didn't put it there yourself!
Thats only used by netcat, iirc, and enables
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and
then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the
security risk? if so i would be very interested in looking at that
script. Keeping 5 gentoo
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:58:30PM -0400, Christopher E wrote:
Hello All,
I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command
and the very beggining of the out put:
Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world
[blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090)
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:18:22PM +0800, fei huang wrote:
anybody who has some ideas about this prefix of numerous macros within linux
source code?
NR_TASKS for instance, I just could not find any explanation.
number
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:19:19PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
While on this topic, when I cut paste in Vim it automatically inserts
indents on the front of each pasted line which messes up my config
files. I had it fixed some time ago and now I noticed it's back - would
you know how I
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
Or use dvdisaster (free, get it from http://www.dvdisaster.com/). It
is especially useful for bad disks, and doesn't stop when encountering
an error.
I havent followed this thread closely but have the 'conv=noerror' option
to
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:24:38PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the
disks for better performance?
There is a hdparm for SCSI, sdparm. Never tried it though.
Cheers,
Rasmus
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:37:53AM -0500, Robin wrote:
bash: lsof: command not found.
I must be missing something
Have you emerged sys-process/lsof? The binary is in /usr/sbin/, so it
might not be in your path.
Rasmus
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:06:44PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Does the group have the
right to execute hddtemp?
Yep:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la `which hddtemp`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27712 21. Jan 08:02 /usr/sbin/hddtemp
BTW: sudo is also not what I'm after :) I'm after the
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:16:54PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing
the most disk reads/writes?
run 'vmstat 1'
that doesn't seem to tell me what processes are running, only what the
system totals are. I wanted to see
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:01:35PM +0930, Shawn Haggett wrote:
'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool
oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison?
Thanks!
'od | diff'
'cmp'
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