Re: [gentoo-user] Contradictionary behaviour of SMART on hds ?!?

2014-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/27/2014 06:50:49 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Mick, thanks for your reply on the topic. I executed the mkswap/dd combo a several times today. Since I have no logs I repeated again. Here are the results: solfire:/home/usermkswap -L swap -f -c /dev/sda2 1 bad page mkswap: /dev/sda2:

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 08:44:02 PM Kerin Millar wrote: On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the broken machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind

[gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I don't run telnet at all. I don't even have it installed on my machine yet tonight I had a look in /var/lib to try and find a reason as to why something else is failing and lo and behold there is a telnet dir. Having a look inside shows: ** bluey telnet # pwd

Re: [gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir

2014-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/07/2014 16:45, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I don't run telnet at all. I don't even have it installed on my machine yet tonight I had a look in /var/lib to try and find a reason as to why something else is failing and lo and behold there is a telnet dir. Having a look inside shows:

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello every body. I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. thanks On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-28 Thread Grand Duet
2014-07-28 1:00 GMT+03:00 Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk: On 27/07/2014 21:38, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 22:13 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:33:47 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: That's what replaces it when eth0 comes up. It looks like eth0 is not

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. Please do not top-post

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? openntpd seems to be easier to set up according to wiki.gentoo.org. The list's advice would be much appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Douglas J Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or some other package? openntpd seems to be easier to set

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.07.2014 18:47, schrieb Rich Freeman: Anybody have a decent comparison of timedated vs ntpd or anything else for that matter? Running ntpd isn't hard at all, so I'm not really sure why I'd want to switch. At the very least I'd want to ensure that the replacement covers the basics.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.07.2014 23:20, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I am running networkd and I'm very happy with it. Setting it up for dhcp-only is brain-dead simple, and I have it serving up a bridge for containers/kvm with fairly little trouble as well. shameless pointer to an older blog entry:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use?

2014-07-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.07.2014 23:20, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: As far as I understand this: if other ntp-software is installed, systemd-timedated.service uses the ntp-unit with higher priority (in my current case chronyd.service) for ntp-syncing. So you may use the systemd-timedated.service to do

[gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE look has disappeared

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Fired up the 'puter last night and instead of a backdrop showing the dog doing something stupid, a task bar, the start button thingy, and a few other bits and pieces, I had the default KDE backdrop. The task bar was on the second screen, the backdrop was the default, there was no