[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:01:28 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: If you machine dies and your backups are inadequate, you may want to try and recover the disc by putting it into another system. How? If you didn't back up a bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:18:47 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: if I remember correctly, and it has been quite a while, vgscan only works if your lvm.conf is intact. You remember incorrectly. lvm.conf is not needed to use LVM. It configures some aspects of LVM, such as filtering out devices to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: But again, the average person with a single disk running on a laptop computer probably has no use for LVM. Actually I'm very happy I've chosen LVM for my laptop because I didn't know that I would keep 20GB worth of videos on my home partition when I've made up the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:18:47 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: if I remember correctly, and it has been quite a while, vgscan only works if your lvm.conf is intact. You remember incorrectly. lvm.conf is not needed to use LVM.

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Sean, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set up diskless booting recently but I'm by no means an expert, so take my comments with plenty of salt. Below is my in.tftpd file. # /etc/init.d/in.tftpd # Path to server files from # Depending on your application you may have to change this. #

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread sean
Roger Mason wrote: I set up diskless booting recently but I'm by no means an expert, so take my comments with plenty of salt. Sounds like you have had better success than me. INTFTPD_PATH=/tftpboot/ What happens with INTFTPD_PATH=/tftpboot? (remove trailing / ) Since removed. Made no

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:06:30 -0500 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it specifies filename /pxe/pxelinux.0; it will start the boot but finally halts stating cannot find kernel image: linux. If it specifies filename /lts/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1; then I get the NBP is to large for memory

[gentoo-user] Elibc GNU userland...

2007-11-06 Thread pk
Hi, Yesterday I made an emerge --sync and was afterwards treated to this (emerge -DupN): These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2007g ELIBC=(glibc%*) (-FreeBSD) [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Elibc GNU userland...

2007-11-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pk wrote: Hi, Yesterday I made an emerge --sync and was afterwards treated to this (emerge -DupN): These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2007g

[gentoo-user] boot from iscsi anyone ?

2007-11-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, gentoo-users, I am currently researching the pros and cons of booting machines from iscsi-targets (provided by a central storage). I found examples using Debian etc., but none using Gentoo. Maybe I used the wrong search terms, maybe there is no good info yet. Does anyone of you

Re: [gentoo-user] Elibc GNU userland...

2007-11-06 Thread pk
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 21:18:30 pk wrote: Can someone in the know explain what this means? I googled and saw that GNU userland is related to Gentoo/BSD. Not really. Gentoo/GNU/Linux uses a GNU userland. Gentoo/*BSD uses a BSD userland.. My guess would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Elibc GNU userland...

2007-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 21:18:30 pk wrote: Can someone in the know explain what this means? I googled and saw that GNU userland is related to Gentoo/BSD. Not really. Gentoo/GNU/Linux uses a GNU userland. Gentoo/*BSD uses a BSD userland.. My guess would be that the Elibc is also BSD

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: heap. It's a classic example of second system syndrome as defined by the mythical Man month. Errh, what? rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five chapters are as relevant today as they were when it was first published. It explains why

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Alan
mirroring, it's still not worth it. Here's a simple example why not. If you machine dies and your backups are inadequate, you may want to try and recover the disc by putting it into another system. How? If you didn't back up a bunch of magic information from the original system's /etc

[gentoo-user] OT - vsftpd won't let local users connect

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
My vsftpd server won't let users with accounts connect. This used to work, and the only thing I can think of after checking the docs is that pam got upgraded. Here is my info: baby pam.d # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.16 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.19-hardened-r6 i686)

[gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-06 Thread 525225097
There are somebody said the gentoo 2007.1 will release in this man month it is wrong or right.Is there more detailed information。 Thinks