Re: [gentoo-user] leap second
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:33:26PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 060101 00 . Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast adjust over a few hours or does something else alert it to correct things ? If the former, it could create problems for those running experiments; if the latter, does anyone know how it is done ? The last leap second was 1998/9 , before NTP was widely used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Unix_time These _might_ help you understand this confusing subject. For me they just gave me a headache. The best I can tell POSIX handling of time-keeping is just broken. In short, don't worry too much about it. If you really want to know what time it is use GPS time (a sane TAI-based system), then convert that to UTC. Jonathan Kollasch pgpJZyLNgRl9H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:50:22PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had changed. Can anybody recommend any tool(s) for the job? Gotchas? Does SATA prefer a certain fs? If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda IIRC) onto the new device. You then should be able to boot directly off of the new drive. Or you could create new file systems on the new drive then cp -PRp or rsync the old data to the new drive. In the later case you'd need to reinstall GRUB or LILO. Be sure to not erase the old drive until you're sure the data got copied correctly. Jonathan Kollasch pgp5T5I4iwKAU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6, now what?
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:46 am, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I recently got an IPv6 address for my small server (or perhaps I recently got a lot of IPv6 address, I cannot tell) from my ISP. This is what I did in attempt to activate this address (all following exactly what is written on the ISP's manual) server root # ip addr add 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2/64 dev eth0 server root # ip route add 2000::/3 via 2001:41c8:1:53ae::1 server root # ip -6 addr show eth0 5: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP qlen 1000 inet6 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2/64 scope global inet6 fe80::fcfd:50ff:fe44:5d98/64 scope link server root # ping6 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2 PING 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2(2001:41c8:1:53ae::2) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms 64 bytes from 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms server root # ping6 www.ipv6.org PING www.ipv6.org(igloo.stacken.kth.se) 56 data bytes --- www.ipv6.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4024ms Now what? Is my ipv6 address working now? I don't see a clue on how to do testing. Well it should be, but it's not. I can ping (your|their) router, but not your server. You might try a traceroute6 to see where the problem might be. If you still need help try #IPv6 on irc.freenode.net. Or if your ISP provides support for IPv6 talk to them. ~~~ One question important to me but I never understood well. If I have a website only defined on IPv6 address, is this website accessible from major platforms (e.g. Win2k+/modern Linux, IE 6+/Firefox 1+) without any special configuration on the client side? Windows (XP) has IPv6 disabled by default. Users would need to configure it. On Linux if an IPv6 router advertises itself configuration is often automatic. But once users have an IPv6 connection your site should be accessible (assuming you get your connection up). Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:40 am, W.Kenworthy wrote: I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not detected. Um, Broadcom + IEEE 802.11 + Free Unix = no support (unless you're running a Linux 2.4 kernel on the MIPS32-el architecture, and then it's a proprietary binary). Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0
On Friday 26 August 2005 06:20 pm, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to check what IP the device has on the network? I know the device MAC address and when I plug it IN, it obtains one of the IP via DHCP. With arp -a IP arp -e I can only check the MAC address. Is there a way to other way around. I know ethereal will capture the IP address, but I was wandering if there is any command line tool. Ethereal's CLI counterpart is tcpdump, (you can use tcpdump to make capture files for Ethereal) you could also look in your dhcpd's lease file, or see if it responds to a ping to 224.0.0.1. Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?
On Friday 26 August 2005 10:12 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I want to be able to access a desktop machine, and most importantly the bsd file server with my laptop, again with a dynamic assigned ip from remote locations. I suggest one of those trendy dynamic DNS services (or a _real_ ISP). Not sure how well VPNs can cope with a changing address (at your laptop or home) though (I don't think IPsec would like it). Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
