Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:42:39 Momesso Andrea wrote: Thanks for the advice. Will be a problem for lvm if I add a partition before it? I mean, will I need to change any config files while lvm is gonna reside on sda4 instead of sda3? It's not a problem. LVM scans the drive looking for pvs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 22 March 2009 23:00:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: Your data is safe if you do exactly the steps you said above. pvresize /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3: too

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:22:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2009 23:00:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: Your data is

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:18:09 -0500, Dale wrote: I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? If you gave the alias the same name as the command, just use the full path to the command to call it directly. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:08 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: It looks more like a workaround than a solution. If my non native English understood it well, it suggests to backup everything, recreate the pv for the whole size, and then restore from backup. Since you currently have plenty of free

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:19 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:08 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: It looks more like a workaround than a solution. If my non native English understood it well, it suggests to backup everything, recreate the pv for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:07:59 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to take the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in sda4 and run pvmove, then remove and recreate the PV on sda3 and pvmove the data back. Then you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:31:20 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:07:59 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to take the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in sda4 and run pvmove,

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-23 Thread BRM
I never said LVM would do data recovery or provide Data Integrity - thats the job of the soft-RAID - though even that won't prevent PEBKAC errors (e.g. delete file). And LVM adds more than a 'little' complexity. If I had just lost the drive, I would have known exactly what I had lost as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if the gtk+ update is relevant here but it was the only thing I could find that was recently upgraded that may fit. It used to be that if I was saving a file, picture or attachment in Seamonkey and created a

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors for AMD K10

2009-03-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know about a patch to make lm_sensors work with a PhenomII which uses AMD K10 for temperature sensing. sensors-detect detects it but there is no config file for that configuration. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH -

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if the gtk+ update is relevant here but it was the only thing I could find that was recently upgraded that may fit. It used to be that if I was saving a file, picture or attachment in

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors for AMD K10

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, does anybody know about a patch to make lm_sensors work with a PhenomII which uses AMD K10 for temperature sensing. sensors-detect detects it but there is no config file for that configuration. Many

[gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Has anyone any ideas? The syslog-ng is the usually the first line reported by top: 4097 root 20 0 3120 1060 708 R 48.3 0.1 677:46.38 syslog-ng The files in /var/log seem to be growing at an expected slow pace and aren't reporting anything unexpected. I followed a 'howto' and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

[gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I did eix-sync and upgraded portage but when I try to upgrade gentoo-sources portage wants to get v2.6.27 and for tuxonice-sources it goes for v2.6.24. How do I tell portage to get the latest packages? Maxim __

[gentoo-user] Re: can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I did eix-sync and upgraded portage but when I try to upgrade gentoo-sources portage wants to get v2.6.27 and for tuxonice-sources it goes for v2.6.24. How do I tell portage to get the latest packages? By keywording them. By default, portage only installed

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 17:08: I did eix-sync and upgraded portage but when I try to upgrade gentoo-sources portage wants to get v2.6.27 and for tuxonice-sources it goes for v2.6.24. How do I tell portage to get the latest packages? These are the latest stable versions. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
These are the latest stable versions. If you want testing versions you need to put the into /etc/portage/package.keywords [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 Nope, Using the model given: app-office/gnumeric ~x86 like this:

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 18:43: Nope, Using the model given: app-office/gnumeric ~x86 like this: =sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 ~x86 in package.keywords, gives the same result as above. No wonder =sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 does not exist :-) With = you set

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg-FIXED

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
=sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 ~x86 Yeah, I just found this out and rushed back but you beat me to it:) mw __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo!

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Caveat: I have no idea why this doesn't work, but if you make sda4 an extended partition and create sda5 as a logical with exactly the same start and end as you describe above, you do in fact lose all data. Obviously there is a difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 March 2009 21:27:15 Steve wrote: Steve wrote: destination sshguardproc { program(/usr/local/sbin/sshguard template($DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n)); }; The presence of the above line is definitely what triggers the excessive CPU usage - it is almost as-if

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Steve (gentoo_...@shic.co.uk) [23.03.09 20:27]: Steve wrote: destination sshguardproc { program(/usr/local/sbin/sshguard template($DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n)); }; program() only takes 1 argument: the programname. Any thing you want to pass, you have to define via a

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Steve wrote: Do others get this behaviour - is this a bug in syslog-ng? Sorry for the multiple posts... a slight error on my part. The sshguard process wasn't running - a /bin/sh process trying to spawn it was running (there was no link from /usr/local... to the binary) and when the binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Sebastian Günther wrote: program() only takes 1 argument: the programname. There aren't two arguments (no comma) - and, yes, the syntax is odd - but it is exactly what is given by the sshguard man page - and seems to be confirmed by the syslog-ng manual, too. BTW: Just curious: you do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Alan McKinnon wrote: In short: top lies, On this occasion, top was telling the truth. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Steve gentoo_...@shic.co.uk wrote: Steve wrote: Do others get this behaviour - is this a bug in syslog-ng? Sorry for the multiple posts... a slight error on my part. The sshguard process wasn't running - a /bin/sh process trying to spawn it was running

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I was planning to put the i686-2008.0-LiveCD-installer on a USB stick and install it on a Asus 900A eeePC. But I understand the kernel on the CD is v2.6.27 and therefore there is no Atheros driver for the eee's on-board wifi. Can someone confirm this? If true, can I simply add the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 22:31: I was planning to put the i686-2008.0-LiveCD-installer on a USB stick and install it on a Asus 900A eeePC. But I understand the kernel on the CD is v2.6.27 and therefore there is no Atheros driver for the eee's on-board wifi. Can someone confirm

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Daniel Pielmeier schrieb am 23.03.2009 22:40: You may want to take a look at the SystemRescueCd [1] afaik it is based on gentoo and more up to date. It is also possible to install it on a live-cd. Of course I want to say. You can install it on an usb-stick :-) signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] Re: can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 18:43: Nope, Using the model given: app-office/gnumeric ~x86 like this: =sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 ~x86 in package.keywords, gives the same result as above. No wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:40:30 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I was planning to put the i686-2008.0-LiveCD-installer on a USB stick and install it on a Asus 900A eeePC. But I understand the kernel on the CD is v2.6.27 and therefore there is no Atheros driver for the eee's on-board wifi. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world ??? Certainly a lot more typing. ;-) Use an alias

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/3/23 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Oh, OK.  Dale waves hand over head.  If it is set up to add that option, how do you tell it not to use it? alias ls='/bin/ls --color' alias l='ls -l' With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your environment), you can now use 'ls'

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world ??? Certainly a lot more

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread James Skinner
Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? On 3/23/09, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-23 Thread SOrCErEr
2009/3/24 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:38 +0900, SOrCErEr wrote: Hello, My gentoo system has a problem. It has not mounted sysfs while boot process. I have to do mount sysfs by my hand now. Of course, udev rc scripts has line of need sysfs. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2009/3/23 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Oh, OK. Dale waves hand over head. If it is set up to add that option, how do you tell it not to use it? alias ls='/bin/ls --color' alias l='ls -l' With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your