[gentoo-user] To be updated or not to be updated, Second Part

2013-09-13 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, after updateing I got this as result: * Copying old database to /var/cache/eix/previous.eix * Running eix-update Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 159|159 (100%) Finishe

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sep 13, 2013 9:53 PM, "Yuri K. Shatroff" wrote: > > On 13.09.2013 17:43, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >>> >>> On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: >>> [ ... ] >>> This one should work: find /home/joseph/

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/13/2013 05:47 PM, Grant wrote: > > I had no idea. How awesome. So the entire array shows up as /dev/sda > when using a real hardware controller? Just enable an extra kernel > config option or two and it works? > Yep. >> Yes. RAID10 both stripes and mirrors. So you can lose one, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/13/2013 03:47 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 13 Sep 2013 14:47:35 Grant wrote: > >> Would the hot spare be in case I lose 2 drives at once? Isn't that >> extraordinarily unlikely? > > Not really. One fails and you don't notice for a while, or it takes a while > to > recover from i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 Sep 2013 14:47:35 Grant wrote: > Would the hot spare be in case I lose 2 drives at once? Isn't that > extraordinarily unlikely? Not really. One fails and you don't notice for a while, or it takes a while to recover from it. Then a second one fails. You're up queer street. -- Rega

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Grant
>> It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: >> >> Dual Xeon E5-2690 >> 32GB RAM >> 4x SSD RAID10 > nice >> Can I count on this system to keep running if I lose an SSD? > if a built in raid controller, yes. one thing you might want to check is > linux tools for management -- you wou

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread thegeezer
On 09/13/2013 09:00 PM, Grant wrote: > It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: > > Dual Xeon E5-2690 > 32GB RAM > 4x SSD RAID10 nice > Can I count on this system to keep running if I lose an SSD? if a built in raid controller, yes. one thing you might want to check is linux tools

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Grant
>> It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: >> >> Dual Xeon E5-2690 >> 32GB RAM >> 4x SSD RAID10 >> >> This would be my first experience with multiple CPUs and RAID. Advice >> on any of the following would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the b

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Grant
>> It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: >> >> Dual Xeon E5-2690 >> 32GB RAM >> 4x SSD RAID10 >> >> This would be my first experience with multiple CPUs and RAID. Advice >> on any of the following would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the b

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/13/2013 07:48 AM, Joseph wrote: I want to list recursively certain type of files eg. *.pdf but I want to display: date, path and newest file first. What is the easiest way of doing it? Perhaps not the most elegant solution. ls -lt `du -a|grep -i '\.pdf$'|awk '{ print $2 }'`|awk '{ prin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/13/2013 04:00 PM, Grant wrote: > It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: > > Dual Xeon E5-2690 > 32GB RAM > 4x SSD RAID10 > > This would be my first experience with multiple CPUs and RAID. Advice > on any of the following would be greatly appreciated. > > Are there any a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/09/2013 22:00, Grant wrote: > It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: > > Dual Xeon E5-2690 > 32GB RAM > 4x SSD RAID10 > > This would be my first experience with multiple CPUs and RAID. Advice > on any of the following would be greatly appreciated. > > Are there any admi

[gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Grant
It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: Dual Xeon E5-2690 32GB RAM 4x SSD RAID10 This would be my first experience with multiple CPUs and RAID. Advice on any of the following would be greatly appreciated. Are there any administrative variations for a dual-CPU system or do I ju

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-13 Thread Grant
> Yes, I just had to do this myself. > > There are two packages: jhead and exiftool. The former does jpegs only. > I wound up using exiftool, there's a single command to strip all metadata: > > exiftool -all= *.jpg > > If I remember right that creates a copy of the file it processes. > > You can us

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-13 Thread Grant
>> > +1 on Alan's hunch. I have not used Squid to comment on the specifics >> > and also Grant stated that another proxy gave him similar symptoms. >> > From my limited knowledge a proxy could be stalling because of cache >> > configuration problems, like running out fs space, or inodes and also >

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling mosh

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 16:55, schrieb Yohan Pereira: > On 12/09/13 at 09:21am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> ps: anyone using mosh already? Experiences? opinions? > > I've been using mosh for almost a month now for my remote servers and > when I'm away, for my workstation. I like the local echo and the >

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 19:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > /usr/sbin/lvm > > which does not exist. > > I linked it from /sbin/lvm and this seems to help ... I still don't know > exactly where this comes from ... still digging. > > I also removed lvm2 completely ... checked for lvm-related unit-files

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 15:33, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 13.09.2013 14:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> new info here (for me): >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066#c19 >> >> gotta test ... right now I don't have the time. > > first tests with "genkernel --udev ..." : negativ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > All old ebuilds are always available in CVS: > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-client/chromium/?hideattic=0, > which you could put in a local overlay. > > Don't forget to file a bug so the science team knows abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:04:09PM +0400, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > On 13.09.2013 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote: > > On 13/09/2013 21:35, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > >> On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > Hi people, > > I am ab

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >> Hi people, >> >> I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. >> Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which > > No > > >> appear to be required now? I have set USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 13.09.2013 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 13/09/2013 21:35, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: Hi people, I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and a

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 13/09/2013 19:10, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Arg... dev-lang/v8-3.19.18.19 breaks sci-geosciences/osgearth-2.4. Downgrading to dev-lang/v8-3.18.5.14 breaks www-client/chromium-29.0.1547.57 Can't downgrade www-client/chromium below 29.0.1547.57 because there is no older version in chromium. Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 13.09.2013 17:43, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: [ ... ] This one should work: find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} + -exec is not suitable here because it spawn

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 13/09/2013 21:35, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: Hi people, I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which No Pity. appear to be requ

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: > [ ... ] > >> >> This one should work: >> >> find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} + > > > -exec is not suitable here because it spawns a `ls` process per each found

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: [ ... ] This one should work: find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} + -exec is not suitable here because it spawns a `ls` process per each found entry; aside from being slow, this disallows sorting at all. You'd prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 14:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > new info here (for me): > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066#c19 > > gotta test ... right now I don't have the time. first tests with "genkernel --udev ..." : negative. More details maybe later this evening.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
new info here (for me): https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066#c19 gotta test ... right now I don't have the time. S

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Joseph
On 09/13/13 08:50, Florian Philipp wrote: [snip] Hm, I've tried: ls -l --sort=time $(find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg") got: ls: invalid option -- '/' The exact same command (changing joseph with canek) works for me, except in directories/filenames with spaces, as expected. Do you have an alia

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 20:23, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Stefan, what initramfs are you using? dracut, run via your kerninst-script. > Could you please explain how is exactly your layout? From drives to > partitions to PVs, VGs and LVs? And throw in there also the LUKS and > RAID (if used) setup. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: Hi people, I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which No Pity. appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > Hi people, > > I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. > Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which No > appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it > doesn't seem to help. > My current KDE

[gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
Hi people, I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it doesn't seem to help. My current KDE installation is quite happy without that stuff (which also b

[gentoo-user] How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Arg... dev-lang/v8-3.19.18.19 breaks sci-geosciences/osgearth-2.4. Downgrading to dev-lang/v8-3.18.5.14 breaks www-client/chromium-29.0.1547.57 Can't downgrade www-client/chromium below 29.0.1547.57 because there is no older version in chromium. Bonus: I'm afraid to upgrade my kernel since I us