[gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread kitti jaisong
Hi All, I just install sparc machine. i found error failed: No space left on device (28) when i check inode by df -i command livecd ~ # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on tmpfs 1294124684 1247284% / /dev/hda 0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/25/2010 10:34 PM, Arttu V. wrote: On 5/25/10, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am currently using archlinux and windows 7 and want to try out gentoo. I guess grub will be overwritten by gentoo but will it contain the

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Bert Swart
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:38:46PM +0700, kitti jaisong wrote: Hi All, I just install sparc machine. i found error failed: No space left on device (28) when i check inode by df -i command livecd ~ # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 23:45:41 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm intrigued. How do you connect displays to them? I assume you'd need one for at least the first steps of installing an OS, no? no :) There is a serial port which is good enough

Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness

2010-05-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: xargs can suck with anything but plain ASCII-without-spaces filenames., and it quite unnecessary here. find -name *.ext -exe rm {} \; or maybe even find -name *.ext -exe rm {} + Just avoid xargs as it is the source of the proplem. find -name *.ext

Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness

2010-05-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Patrick Holthaus patrick.holth...@uni-bielefeld.de wrote: You might try: find -name *.ext -print0 | xargs -0 rm But this is non-standard. UNIX introduced -exec {} + 1990 (when David Korn rewrote find(1) and it is in the POSIX standared since some time. Jörg --

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, kitti jaisong wrote: Hi All, I just install sparc machine. i found error failed: No space left on device (28) when i check inode by df -i command don't hijack other people's threads.

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
don't use df. Use cp -a. Also, the exact errors would be helpfull.

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
kitti jaisong writes: I just install sparc machine. i found error failed: No space left on device (28) when i check inode by df -i command [...] /dev/sda4 2.0G 952M 963M 50% /mnt/gentoo/usr /dev/sda5 2.0G 83M 1.8G 5% /mnt/gentoo/var /dev/sda6 29G

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Harry Putnam writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). [...] dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192 which gave me a LOT of I/O errors after a short time. [...] From

[gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-26 Thread Steve
On a gentoo mailserver, I'm running Postfix 2.6.5 - and, having followed some howto or other, quite a long time ago, I have this section at the end of my main.cf: -- smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination,

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a single-user backup 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 single 2. Type in the root password. 3. Execute a single

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 26 May 2010 17:17:45 +0200 Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a single-user backup 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command kernel /boot/vmlinuz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-05-26 17:19]: On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). [...] dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192

[gentoo-user] Lov'n Gentoo

2010-05-26 Thread James
Folks, I just had to share this. So I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my part to keep publications about Linux alive. Occationally they write about something cool, though rarely related to Gentoo So I read about a very cool submarine game today on LJ:

RE: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Kurtis Koeber
OK, I have tried everything and while I made some progress I still can't get the Open-LDAP server to start. I loaded the initial entry, I believe and ran slaptest, which came back clean. However, I STILL can't get the server to start. And now I don't know what may be the issue, as slaptest is

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:52, Christopher Kurtis Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com wrote: However, I STILL can't get the server to start. And now I don't know what may be the issue, as slaptest is coming back OK. Any ideas? Try running slapd -d 65535 and tell us what it says. Ward

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-05-26 17:19]: On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors).

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 20:36, Christopher Kurtis Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com wrote: Ran the command: /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -F /etc/openldap/ -d 65535 See attached as the output was long. Not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated. Are you sure you specified a rootdn and rootpw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are only SATA1... is it this, which cause the problems? usually it shouldn't. It has done for me in the past. SATA2 drives usually have a jumper to switch them to SATA1. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are only SATA1... is it this, which cause the problems? usually it shouldn't. It has done for me in the past. SATA2 drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-26 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:40 +0100, Steve wrote: On a gentoo mailserver, I'm running Postfix 2.6.5 - and, having followed some howto or other, quite a long time ago, I have this section at the end of my main.cf: -- smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,

RE: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Kurtis Koeber
Sure. I guess that is the best. Thank you so much for your time. Regards, Christopher Kurtis Koeber (W): (202) 885-8654 (C): (301) 467-8417 http://www.chriskoeber.com -Original Message- From: Ward Poelmans [mailto:wpoel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:54 PM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: that is why I used 'usually' and 'shouldn't'. Have you considered a career in politics? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lov'n Gentoo

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 18:45:53 James wrote: I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my part to keep publications about Linux alive. I gave up on that one years ago - so many that I can't remember how many. I couldn't see why I should continue to buy a Linux mag that didn't help me to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-05-27 02:04]: On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: that is why I used 'usually' and 'shouldn't'. Have you considered a career in politics? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. Oh,

[gentoo-user] Splitting gentoo into /usr and /usr/local

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there any reasonable way to keep any stable installation (those done without using ~x86 in package.keywords) in /usr while anything installed as unstable (using ~x86) under /usr/local ? best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's

[gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:45 +, James wrote: Folks, I just had to share this. So I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my part to keep publications about Linux alive. Occationally they write about something cool, though rarely related to Gentoo FTA: The Web site

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:28 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: All very well if you happen to have such a device lying around. I don't, however, and Google doesn't show me a source of them either, so I'll just wait for something more suitable to come along. Cheaper, too, with any luck, such as

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread walt
On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. I add smartd to my default runlevel so the hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [10-05-27 04:08]: On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. I add

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
The xdm conf file has display manager as gdm. I guess changing that to xdm would help. On 5/26/10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 09:10:18 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: styleblockquote {padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: #cc 1px solid;} p

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
The xdm conf file has display manager as gdm. I guess changing that to xdm would help. On 5/26/10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 09:10:18 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: styleblockquote {padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: #cc 1px solid;} p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com [10-05-27 04:08]: On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:52 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: So something like SMART is the only way for the average Joe to get the health of a drive. Google has lots on this sort of thing That sentence is correct in more than one way! Google the generic term for any web page found via searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Something happened on the way to X : solved

2010-05-26 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Installing Gentoo on my computer... with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx INPUT_DEVICES=evdev everything's fine until I emerge xorg-server, which returns: [ebuild N] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7