[gentoo-user] tar extract command failed at least partially

2011-04-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
All KDE ebuilds, at the unpack stage, say: tar extract command failed at least partially - continuing anyway But otherwise stuff seems to work correctly. This is with tar 1.26. Is this normal or should I file a bug about it?

[gentoo-user] WallMator : Firewall Automator

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I've made a rudimentary system to do a simultaneous backup/restore of: + ipset + iptables + iproute2 RPDB routing tables At: https://github.com/pepoluan/WallMator Feedback is definitely welcome! Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com

[gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/

Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?

2011-04-08 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 08 April 2011 16:06:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. Rgds, Without actually testing and seeing which can be best

Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 16:20, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 16:06:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
I been reading this howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html It hasn't been updated in several years now. Should I be reading this or is it up to date enough that I wont end up confused because of changes that have occurred since that howto has been updated? I don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing unpartitioned. No. A physical volume is an area of disk. It can be the whole disk but it more usually a partition.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 08 April 2011 05:42:59 Dale wrote: I been reading this howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html It hasn't been updated in several years now. Should I be reading this or is it up to date enough that I wont end up confused because of changes that have occurred since

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing unpartitioned. No. A physical volume is an area of disk. It can be the whole disk but

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 April 2011 15:40:18 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing unpartitioned. No. A physical volume is an

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Little light bulb here.  physical volume is the same as a physical drive?  If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing unpartitioned. No. A

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 08 April 2011 08:40:18 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing unpartitioned. No. A physical volume is an

[gentoo-user] Re: WallMator : Firewall Automator

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, *don't* pull it yet. There's been some strangeness... I think there's a setting-specific complication... it worked on 2 systems but failed spectacularly on the 3rd. I'm debugging it. Rgds, On 2011-04-08, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello list! I've made a rudimentary system

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 08:40:18 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Little light bulb here. physical volume is the same as a physical drive? If I understand it correctly, it is the whole thing

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 08 April 2011 09:45:48 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 08:40:18 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Yes. correct. Don't forget to set the partition type to Linux LVM (8e). That would be done in cfdisk I

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:50:03 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS: [snip] Ooooh. Still some progress tho. lol So, if I was going to use LVM, I create a partition first, either whole drive or part of it then use LVM on that? You use pvcreate to create a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 09:45:48 Dale wrote: He tends to want to get away. That's where the slimy part comes in. I'm not sure where you are from but in some parts of the USA, some bright people do fish with their hands, usually very large catfish too. I saw it on

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2011 08:57:40 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:21:33 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I think Dale will probably succeed in breaking it :) Dale, this comment isn't meant as an insult. I honestly think you would

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:25 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: I'm going to give this a stab here. I go buy a new drive. I use cfdisk to make it ready for LVM, the 8E thingy. Yes I then tell LVM to make it a Physical Volume, either in whole or in part. Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?

2011-04-08 Thread kashani
On 4/8/2011 2:06 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. For light relaying both are about the same. I'd give the edge to Postfix in a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:25 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: I'm going to give this a stab here. I go buy a new drive. I use cfdisk to make it ready for LVM, the 8E thingy. Yes I then tell LVM to make it a Physical Volume, either

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:39 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: [snip] Yea, I didn't type that in the way I meant it. PV is the bottom level, then VG goes on top of that then the LV. I think I am typing that in right. Basically, I create the PV first, then the VG

[gentoo-user] mutt $index_format syntax

2011-04-08 Thread Alexey Mishustin
Hello list, Could anyone tell me where I could find an explanation of mutt $index_format syntax. I read mutt manual, but it's not enough for me. For example, I don't understand what does -15.15 mean (in default value %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s ), why there are no width values for each

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Brennan Shacklett bp.shackl...@gmail.comwrote: I think that package is there, but I'll check this weekend. I didn't feel like carrying my laptop today. It would be nice if I just had to install it, but I would think revdep-rebuild should pull it in . . . or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links

2011-04-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 April 2011 19:51:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run that manually once in a while, but regularly clean a bunch of other things with a script I call cleanup, -#!/bin/bash -dispatch-conf -revdep-rebuild -lafilefixer --justfixit -perl-cleaner all The last one is

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 19:39 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: [snip] Yea, I didn't type that in the way I meant it. PV is the bottom level, then VG goes on top of that then the LV. I think I am typing that in right. Basically, I create the

[gentoo-user] 4k disk block problem

2011-04-08 Thread James
Hello, After reading up on the issue, It has beensuggested to use this formating for a 2T drive, regardless of manufacturer: fdisk -c -S 56 -u /dev/sda OK, so why not use this: fdisk -c -S 64 -u /dev/sda Yes, I trying to prepared my disks (2) 2T seagates for a Raid 1 array Ok so once I do

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt $index_format syntax

2011-04-08 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2011/04/08 02:40PM, Alexey Mishustin wrote: For example, I don't understand what does -15.15 mean (in default value %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s ) The -15.15 is the same as the printf(3) format. The minus sign means left align the field, the first number is the minimum field width, and

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb Physical volume /dev/sdb successfully created root@fireball / # Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything important on it tho. Just a temporary thing right now. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:01 pm, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb Physical volume /dev/sdb successfully created root@fireball / # Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything important on

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:01 on Friday 08 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb Physical volume /dev/sdb successfully created root@fireball / # Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol Now to see what else

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:01 pm, Dale wrote: root@fireball / # I'm still trying to figure out how the naming part works tho. Now to mount it and put something on it. See if it works. Naming part, there are 2 ways of finding it. 1:

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 20:38:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: So when I get ready to make a file system, say ext3, then it would be mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/whatever. Then it would be ready to put stuff on. Yup. You'll have to poke around /dev/ a bit to see how your udev does it today but you

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:23:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Cool so far. Now make a few more LVs (check the man pages, I'm doing this from memory): lvcreate -L 20G -n test2 sdb-vg lvcreate -L 30G -n test3 sdb-vg A little time saver, if you have only one VG, set $LVM_VG_NAME to its name and you

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:23:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Cool so far. Now make a few more LVs (check the man pages, I'm doing this from memory): lvcreate -L 20G -n test2 sdb-vg lvcreate -L 30G -n test3 sdb-vg A little time saver, if you have only one VG, set

FEATURE: fixlafiles (was: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links)

2011-04-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Apr 08 2011, Mick wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 19:51:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run that manually once in a while, but regularly clean a bunch of other things with a script I call cleanup, -#!/bin/bash -dispatch-conf -revdep-rebuild -lafilefixer --justfixit -

[gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-08 Thread Adam Carter
Hi All, I'm getting the usual cant boot root device error on my gentoo guest. AFAICT i've built all the relevant scsi adapter and filesystem drivers into the kernel. Most of the info on the web is a bit old and talks about other vmware versions - can someone share a working .config? The guest is

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Quick question about LVM. I have a 750Gb drive that has miscellaneous stuff on it. Stuff likes videos, music, pictures, ISO files and a few other things. It's not full yet but it is working on it. I have my OS on sda.

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office. The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module. If you're using LSI Logic, select Fusion MPT instead. Don't

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
OK. I learned something. Check this out: root@fireball / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on SNIP /dev/mapper/sdb--vg-test 51606140 48910048 74652 100% /mnt/temp root@fireball / # This is what I am doing here. As I posted a