Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-07-30 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Daniel van Ham Colchete skrev: actually it's the 965, but the link Tim sent me shows that it's not a chipset limitation... It's a 32bits design limitation... Thats not true, I run 32bit Gentoo with 4 GB Memory and has no slowdown issues I can measure with the naked eye. Seems to me like you

[gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-17 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is creating the problems... Things like kicking someone reading impaired, because they are

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-17 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Bo Ørsted Andresen skrev: On Friday 17 August 2007 10:24:55 Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: Could we please re-educate the #Gentoo ops and get them to have a bit more professionalism and tact or maybe consider that not everyone has the skills to be a good community representative. Sooo.. have

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-18 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is creating the problems... Things like kicking someone

[gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

2007-08-22 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
I find it hard to make sure that I deal with restarting software after I upgrade, so since I found the debian package debian-goodies contains a tool called checkrestart, that checks if any in memory applications is referencing old code, I converted it to using qfile and qlist from portage-utils.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

2007-08-22 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: Code can be found at: http://www.arcdraco.net/~dragon/checkrestart Yeah Yeah, I know, I'm talking to myself, but I created a new version based on upstreams debain-goodies 0.29 (old one was based on upstream 0.27). Changelog: 0.29: Better layout of the report

Re: [gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

2007-08-22 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Dan Johansson skrev: Great tool, thanks!!! Yes, best thing since sliced bread, I'm glad I found it. BUT! It runs on four out of five boxes here. This is the error I get on the fifth box (I'm not a phyton programmer). Neither am I, but that wont stop me. o.O # bin/checkrestart Found 54

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Alan McKinnon skrev: What is this desktop search engine thingy whereof the OP speaks? I do not know of such a thing... Desktop search engines is this centuries wheel invention. It's simply put a major breakthrough in how we work with our desktop. Now the wheel didn't start out all that nice

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. skrev: LOL Wow, I've got my dose of hype for the next month (or more). Sometimes it's not that hard to see the future if you have a clue, some things is just darn good. Fire, Wheel, Internet, The Web, Desktop Search Engines. People all laughed at them, but they

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Volker Armin Hemmann skrev: because I have seen more than one non-booting totally f* up kernel created by genkernel. I won't touch it ever again. If something sucked in the past, the change is great that it sucks again in the future. Plus it doesn't really make things easier, does it?

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Ryan Sims skrev: I think Volker's point about genkernel not making things easier is just that it seems to be a source of confusion and complexity in this Go read his post please, he is making things up and blaming the tool for an idiot using it wrong. He somehow thinks that genkernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Ryan Sims skrev: Please stop using inflammatory language. Everyone. If you must have an argument, start a new thread or take it off list. It's perfectly fine for someone to criticize genkernel, or portage, or a hammer, or a car, or any other tool. It's also fine if you disagree with their

Re: [gentoo-user] what about Xen finally?

2007-08-31 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby skrev: I have a computer with a intel 4965 wireless chipset on which I want to run Xen and only use ebuilds. Think I'm missing something here. Xen is in, as masked ebuilds, but it's there. So, I need a recent gentoo kernel (some 2.6.22 but I dont know which

[gentoo-user] checkrestart security fix

2007-09-01 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Thomas de Grenier de Latour found a codeing mistake in checkrestart, that allowed a shell user to trick checkrestart into running code. This bug exist in debian-goodies at least as far back as 0.23 and I inherited it into my modified version of checkrestart that I announced here. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Kevin O'Gorman skrev: My 00_default_vhost.conf: === start 00_default_vhost.conf == # If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here. # #ServerName www.example.com:80 http://www.example.com:80 ServerName www.kosmanor.com:80

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPd limits?

2007-09-09 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman skrev: Typical problems Out of memory Gentoo doesn't have any default limits, so I don't know how this rumor came about. You find system wide defaults in /etc/security/limits.conf smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPd limits?

2007-09-09 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman skrev: Great, thanks for the data. Would you mind that I contact you privately, so we can compare notes? It's my first time going public with an NTP server, and the input from a fellow Gentooer will be greatly appreciatted! You can find details of my US located

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPd limits?

2007-09-09 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman skrev: Would you mind sharing your ntp.conf too? # /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd # 1-3 Servers for a client. 5 servers for a pool.ntp.org server. server x.x.x.x server x.x.x.x server x.x.x.x server x.x.x.x server x.x.x # Default access configuration #

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Norberto Bensa skrev: Quoting Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :| CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer I have an Athlon 64 X2, Hmmm...

Re: [gentoo-user] disable dropping to -j1 when building certain programs

2007-09-20 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Marzan, Richard non Unisys skrev: How can I disable portage dropping or overriding my MAKEOPTS variable setting when building certain programs? Isn't that self defeating, when an ebuild contains enforced -j1 it's because the program can't compile with -j2 or higher. The makefile is written

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Grant skrev: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Armagetron and Gentoo?

2007-10-17 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Daniel Pielmeier skrev: For the correct usage of layman take a look here [1]. [1] http://projects.gunnarwrobel.de/scripts/wiki/layman He is using layman correctly... so this is less than helpful. The overlay he is trying to add seems to be missing/not working in some way, maybe the project

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 failed [linuxstreams/wvinterface.o] Error 1

2007-01-06 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Dale wrote: OK. I masked that specific version and got a older version. Will try that and see what blows up. ;-) I've not had time to look into this yet, but it's my understand that from 2.6.19+ things changed in the kernel, there is now a make headers install feature, so the package