Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, April 25, 2013 07:48, Joseph wrote: SNIP I just tried as you suggested, the only active line in: pg_hba.conf local all all trust anything else is commented out. I restarted the server but I still can connect to postgresql from another computer via Firefox. Joseph, Let

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, April 25, 2013 01:48, Joseph wrote: On 04/24/13 22:27, J. Roeleveld wrote: [snip] Thank you for explanation. That is what I'm confused about. When I connect to pstgresql database from the same machine as postgres is running on I can understand. It is a local connection from localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/04/2013 17:22, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-24 6:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my pair of MTAs: $ uptime 12:24PM up 1295 days, 13:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.20, 0.31 $ uptime 12:24PM up 1925 days, 20:30, 4 users, load averages: 0.90, 0.75, 0.84

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/04/2013 16:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: -- Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/04/2013 17:22, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-24 6:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my pair of MTAs: $ uptime 12:24PM up 1295 days, 13:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.20, 0.31 $ uptime 12:24PM up 1925 days,

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/04/2013 09:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/04/2013 17:22, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-24 6:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my pair of MTAs: $ uptime 12:24PM up 1295 days, 13:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.20,

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-24 10:23 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My Gentoo VMs in the cloud (using VMware's vCloud) uses PV-SCSI. It's stable... but kind of sensitive: Everytime the cloud provider do something with their storage, my VMs become Read-Only. Ouch... so, how do you fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-25 3:47 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/04/2013 17:22, Tanstaafl wrote: You seriously haven't upgraded your kernel on those machines for 3.5/5.2 years?? Yes, something like that. Politics get involved. But please let's not go there - the pain is too much to

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 25, 2013 5:54 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-24 10:23 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My Gentoo VMs in the cloud (using VMware's vCloud) uses PV-SCSI. It's stable... but kind of sensitive: Everytime the cloud provider do something with their

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

2013-04-25 Thread James
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: My immediate reaction to this is to suggest creating a PDF. My mail client shows PDFs inline, so this would display quite nicely. You could create the circle using Postscript, then dump the postscript document to PDF; PDFs allow arbitrary

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-25 7:44 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 25, 2013 5:54 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-24 10:23 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: My Gentoo VMs in the cloud (using VMware's vCloud) uses PV-SCSI. It's stable... but kind of sensitive: Everytime the cloud provider do something

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-25 Thread Joseph
On 04/25/13 09:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, April 25, 2013 07:48, Joseph wrote: SNIP I just tried as you suggested, the only active line in: pg_hba.conf local all all trust anything else is commented out. I restarted the server but I still can connect to postgresql from

[gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are quite time sensitive. Thanks in Advance, N.

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Dale
Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are quite time sensitive. Thanks in

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-25 10:40 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: For contrast, having all nodes sync to pool.ntp.org results in time variance of up to 2-3 minutes across a dozen or so machines. That makes no sense... Not calling you a liar or anything, but it just doesn't make sense. I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-25 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Are these virtualized? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/25/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. Yeah... I concur ;)

[gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same. I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU.

[gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-25 Thread gottlieb
I get the following in /var/log/messages EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) ... EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities ... EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Here is the entry

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same. I'm on an HP DL585 G7

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: Not that it likely affects a lot of people, but pulseaudio can transmit sound over the network to other pulseaudio servers -- a possible use case I can think of are media centers, though I'm sure there's more. There's

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 16:26, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I get the following in /var/log/messages EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) ... EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities ... EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head. Complex setups require complex software... deal with it. An analogy is that an 18-wheeler semi-tractor trailer with a 17-speed manual transmission (plus air brakes that

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-25 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 25.04.2013 18:26, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get the following in /var/log/messages EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) ... EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities ... EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with

[gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] bus error during compilation of gcc

2013-04-25 Thread the guard
Воскресенье, 21 апреля 2013, 13:27 +01:00 от Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 20 Apr 2013 20:29:31 the guard wrote: Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 15:25 -04:00 от Forrest Schultz f.schul...@gmail.com: Doesn't lowering makeopts just reduce the number of parallel compilations?

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, April 25, 2013 14:35, Joseph wrote: On 04/25/13 09:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, April 25, 2013 07:48, Joseph wrote: SNIP I just tried as you suggested, the only active line in: pg_hba.conf local all all trust anything else is commented out. I restarted the server but

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, April 25, 2013 18:08, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/25/2013 10:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-25 10:40 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: For contrast, having all nodes sync to pool.ntp.org results in time variance of up to 2-3 minutes across a dozen or so machines. That makes no sense... Not calling you a liar or anything,

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 18:08, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs? Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems? Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/25/2013 11:02 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-25 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Thursday 25 April 2013 08:09 PM, Dale wrote: Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 25.04.2013 19:48, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head. Complex setups require complex software... deal with it. An analogy is that an 18-wheeler semi-tractor trailer with a 17-speed

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-25 Thread Joseph
On 04/25/13 18:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: So pg_hba.conf only controls direct connections to postgreSQL. Correct. Since apache group is in postgres user; apache was given permission to access the database in this case py-passing the setting in pg_hba.conf Wrong, Postgresql does not check

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Therefore Ext2 is a perfect match: * it is so old, that I guess by now most bugs have been found and squashed; * it is so old, that virtually any Linux (or Windows, FreeBSD, or most other knows OS's) are able to at least read it; * it is so old, that by now I bet there are

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike udev...) Of course from many threads

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So are you saying plugs are no longer required or that they are only needed for certain apps that take over the audio device. I don't even know exactly what ALSA plugs are, and ALSA has worked perfectly for all these years, so yeah, whatever an ALSA plug is, either it is not required

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:48:07PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote Analogy: 99% of people aren't going to need a11y. But the whole point of installing it by default on most desktop systems is that you can't predict who will need it, and _it does not harm_ (or very little harm) to the people

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 22:10, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/04/2013 17:48, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head. Complex setups require complex software... deal with it. An analogy is that an 18-wheeler semi-tractor trailer with a 17-speed

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Steven J. Long
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:31:43PM +0400, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 25.04.2013 19:48, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head. Complex setups require complex software... deal with it. An

[gentoo-user] Re: How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread walt
On 04/24/2013 03:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: We can't blame any of the software for this That, from a sysadmin? Any more of that kind of talk and I'll recommend that your bofh certificate be revoked!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 00:43, walt wrote: On 04/24/2013 03:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: We can't blame any of the software for this That, from a sysadmin? Any more of that kind of talk and I'll recommend that your bofh certificate be revoked! Take a ticket and get in line :-) There's 570 users

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/04/13 23:07, Nick Khamis wrote: Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. Yeah... I concur ;) Define critical! - to my mind if its critical you should be running your own atomic clock, and something like a pps system to distribute it ... or somewhere in the middle a local

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Dale
Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2013 08:09 PM, Dale wrote: Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests that are resumed, or the whole virtualisation system is hibernated? (ntp refuses to resync after guest

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread staticsafe
On 4/25/2013 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests that are resumed, or the whole virtualisation system is hibernated?

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 26/04/13 07:57, staticsafe wrote: On 4/25/2013 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests that are resumed, or the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the same problem with ext4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff yks-...@yandex.ru wrote: On 25.04.2013 19:48, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head. Complex setups require complex software... deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is actually a RAID

[gentoo-user] How to run Firefox Beta?

2013-04-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
I downloaded Firefox Beta official tbz2 from mozilla.org and extract into ~ But, ldd libxul.so says libasound.so.2 not found, even though /usr/lib where libasound.so.2 exists is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. How to run it? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run Firefox Beta?

2013-04-25 Thread Alecks Gates
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: I downloaded Firefox Beta official tbz2 from mozilla.org and extract into ~ But, ldd libxul.so says libasound.so.2 not found, even though /usr/lib where libasound.so.2 exists is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. How to run it?