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2009-07-27 Thread eduardo . otubo
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Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 03:18:34 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jul 2009, at 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). ... ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08 /projects ... When its mounted the permissions change

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jul 2009, at 10:12, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... What's about the pictire quality of the Playstation Eye Cam, Scroller? Ok? Good? Better? Best??? ;))) Well, I haven't tried it under Linux, and I'm afraid I can't easily do so either. I'll also disclaim myself as not an expert by

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

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jul 2009, at 11:46, Grant wrote: ... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage? Would each system keep running if the HDs died? If so, I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 27 Juli 2009 03:18:34 schrieb Harry Putnam: I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Nevynxxx
Neil Bothwick wrote: That's still two commands :) You can do it in one with emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Ho-Ki Au
I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5 kernel) with

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) It should, unless you are woefully out of date. -- Neil Bothwick Mr. bullfrog says: time's fun when you're having flies. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:45:28 +0800, Ho-Ki Au wrote: I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. When I boot from

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Carlos
Ho-Ki Au a écrit : I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
It took Carlos' reply for me to reread make sense of the original post. On 27 Jul 2009, at 11:46, Carlos wrote: Ho-Ki Au a écrit : ... In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. ... Under /dev, I only saw sda, but there was no sdb, sdc.

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

2009-07-27 Thread Grant
... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage?  Would each system keep running if the HDs died?  If so, I think that would offer as good or better system

[gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread Brenton
Hi, Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems to be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK md5sum: ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: No

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after 3 days of re-syncing and retrying. The build dies early on in the patch-appliaction stage, so log.txt is small.

Re: [gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread Justin
Brenton schrieb: Hi, Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems to be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK md5sum:

Re: [gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton brentons.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems to be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? You just have to download stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS,

[gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-27 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Hello, emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: $emerge -pv kde-misc/kdirstat [ebuild N] kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 USE=-debug -xinerama kcleanup.moc.o: In function `KDirStat::KCleanup::~KCleanup()':

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/27/09, Nicolai Beuermann nicolai.beuerm...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: This bug has someone fighting with this package with moderate success (uninstalling : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248883 -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/27/09, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/27/09, Nicolai Beuermann nicolai.beuerm...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: This bug has someone fighting with this package with moderate success (uninstalling :

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: There is nothing much you can do about this except: Renumber your gid's locally to match the nfs server, or renumber the nfs share gids to match your local machine Looking into that I noticed, as you thought the gid of the share on solaris is

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Further to A McK's reply, suggest use of `ls -ln`. Assuming the -n is supported on Slowaris all will become clear. But after the changes mentioned in a reply to Alan M. it now shows the same on both the source /projects (on solaris) and the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:35 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: WebCam: Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks, 2009er model which is not affected by the firmware bug of previous versions of the same cam. First, check the info and forums at http://www.quickcamteam.net/ if you have not already. Lots

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

2009-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: ... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage? Would each system keep running if the HDs died? If so, I think that would offer as good

[gentoo-user] Not getting cron emais that should go to root user

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file: 27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09 failed user root parsing pr 2002; Thilo Bangert

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

2009-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Where I work, we have a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) NAS. Albeit being the second most powerful machine we have in our server room (quad core CPU, lots of RAM, three redundant power supplies and a good dozen HDDs), the OSS itself resides on a removable card not bigger than

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

2009-07-27 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Grant schrieb: snip You don't need to buy SSD drives - instead you could use CF cards and a cheap adaptor. These are commensurate in capacity cost with USB flash drives (4gig, maybe 16gig?), but CF

[gentoo-user] Re: Not getting cron emais that should go to root user

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/27/2009 10:58 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file: 27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:47:30 Harry Putnam wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Further to A McK's reply, suggest use of `ls -ln`. Assuming the -n is supported on Slowaris all will become clear. But after the changes mentioned in a reply to Alan M. it now shows the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:40:43 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: There is nothing much you can do about this except: Renumber your gid's locally to match the nfs server, or renumber the nfs share gids to match your local machine Looking into that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0.  I keep getting the same error message after 3 days of re-syncing and retrying.  The build dies

[gentoo-user] Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread ABCD
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) It should, unless you are woefully out of date. Not true: the versions of portage that support sets (including

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after 3 days

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:39:27 -0400, ABCD wrote: It should, unless you are woefully out of date. Not true: the versions of portage that support sets (including @world) are all hardmasked currently. Still? I unmasked them ages ago, but though that had all been sorted out by now. But yes, sets

[gentoo-user] Re: 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Parizet wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton brentons.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems to be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:39:27 -0400, ABCD wrote: It should, unless you are woefully out of date. Not true: the versions of portage that support sets (including @world) are all hardmasked currently. Still? I unmasked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com  wrote: On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of

[gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-27 Thread Brenton
Hi, When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my change when I edit in grub. I make a change then go back to check and it never saves. I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. Thanks, Brenton. -- This electronic communication (including any

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Brentonbrentons.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my change when I edit in grub.  I make a change then go back to check and it never saves. I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:46:55PM -0700, walt wrote 3.0.12 is also marked unstable, so I assumed that Walter (the other one) is running an unstable gentoo. Because these rapid updates to firefox are all security patches it would be nice to get the latest one... Contrary to what some

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] Logging my user out and back in I see the gid 15 now is wheel so the same as solaris. When you do this, you only change the username attached to the gid. Remember that the filesystem does not know or care what username you use, it only