Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

2017-09-02 Thread R0b0t1
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > A week or two ago I was investigating some other weirdnesses and at one > point I zeroed out the first partition: the unformatted one containing the > UEFI data. It took longer than I expected, having only 2MB to fill.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

2017-09-02 Thread R0b0t1
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Marvin Gülker wrote: > Am 02. September 2017 um 22:57 Uhr +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon > : >> OK, so disclaimer up front. I detest Ruby. I hate it with a passion. > > There is nothing one can do against that,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

2017-09-02 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote >>> On 2017-08-31 08:47, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> 1) To protect my gear against power surges/spikes/drops 2) To protect against

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote >> On 2017-08-31 08:47, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> > 1) To protect my gear against power surges/spikes/drops >> > 2) To protect against the rare occurence when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

2017-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > On 2017-08-31 08:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > 1) To protect my gear against power surges/spikes/drops > > 2) To protect against the rare occurence when power goes off for 1 > >or 2 seconds > > I do the same. Or at least I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

2017-09-02 Thread Marvin Gülker
Am 02. September 2017 um 22:57 Uhr +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > OK, so disclaimer up front. I detest Ruby. I hate it with a passion. There is nothing one can do against that, but... > Each new minor version of ruby is a whole new language and the devs > are OK with

[gentoo-user] Re: conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-09-02 22:01, Mick wrote: > ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 Ah, that's where the "via" comes from. I didn't realize when I wrote my OP that iproute2 would be used by default, and not the old route program from net-tools. Thanks. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > What is the exact syntax of the *_routes lines in the /etc/conf.d/net > file, or where is it documented? > > The wiki gives a couple of examples, but they are all either just for > dhcp (so no configurable routes) or

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

2017-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/09/2017 15:33, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, > I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. > Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting > to update: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 19:54:48 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > What is the exact syntax of the *_routes lines in the /etc/conf.d/net > file, or where is it documented? > > The wiki gives a couple of examples, but they are all either just for > dhcp (so no configurable routes) or else they are

[gentoo-user] Re: conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-09-02 21:05, Simon Thelen wrote: > > Motivation: I want to add a route for a point-to-point interface. > You probably only need to list the peer address on a single line and > then that peer should become routable. The problem was that _two_ routes were being added: the host-specific

[gentoo-user] Re: conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-09-02 21:11, Branko Grubic wrote: > > Motivation: I want to add a route for a point-to-point interface. > > Some examples you can find > in /usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.5.1/net.example.bz2 That didn't really help much, sorry. I figured out how to do it, but only by reading the shell code

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-09-02 at 11:54, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > What is the exact syntax of the *_routes lines in the /etc/conf.d/net > file, or where is it documented? [..] > "via" is not something I can use on the command line of the route > command, at least according to its manpage. So it can't be just >

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Branko Grubic
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 11:54:48 -0700 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > What is the exact syntax of the *_routes lines in the /etc/conf.d/net > file, or where is it documented? > > The wiki gives a couple of examples, but they are all either just for > dhcp (so no configurable routes)

[gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
What is the exact syntax of the *_routes lines in the /etc/conf.d/net file, or where is it documented? The wiki gives a couple of examples, but they are all either just for dhcp (so no configurable routes) or else they are of the form eth0_routes="default via eth0" "via" is not something I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Grant wrote: > My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which conflicts > with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running > Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will work > well with any USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

2017-09-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 14:33:31 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, > I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. > Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting > to update: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

2017-09-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 13:28:44 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > I once encountered the problem with my Crucial SSD. > I found a procedure to make the SSD detected which worked for me. > http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-did-my-SSD-quot-disappear-qu > ot-from-my-system/ta-p/65215

[gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

2017-09-02 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting to update: [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.4.1-r4 [2.4.1-r3]

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Grant wrote: > > My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which conflicts > with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running > Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will work > well with any USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

2017-09-02 Thread Jacques Montier
Hello, I once encountered the problem with my Crucial SSD. I found a procedure to make the SSD detected which worked for me. http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-did-my-SSD-quot-disappear-quot-from-my-system/ta-p/65215 Hope this will help. Cheers, *--* *Jacques* 2017-09-02 11:51

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

2017-09-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 10:32:23 BST I wrote: > ... Now smartmon appears to run ok - provided that I remove DEVICESCAN > from /etc/smartd.conf and give it a specific device to monitor ... Some months ago someone here mentioned a test suite for SSDs, but I can't remember what it was called

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

2017-09-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 02:24:57 BST Adam Carter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > For the last week or two my NVMe SSD isn't being detected on startup. I > > get this error on manual invocation: > > > > # smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

2017-09-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 1 September 2017 10:54:45 BST Arthur Țițeică wrote: > În 1 septembrie 2017 12:46:39 EEST, Peter Humphrey a scris: > >Hello list, > > > >For the last week or two my NVMe SSD isn't being detected on startup. I > >get > >this error on manual invocation: > > > >#

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 09:10:13 -0700 Grant wrote: > My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which conflicts > with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running > Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will work > well with any USB disks that happen to

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

2017-09-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:38:42 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I want > to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still > functional. With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's generally > snappy. But there are a few