[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-20 Thread Johann Schmitz (ercpe)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, we are planning to upgrade our virtualization infrastructure in the near future. We are currently looking at 2 Dell PowerEdge R720 or R715. The hardware (more or less): - - Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 - - 24+ GB RAM - - H710/H710P RAID controller -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-20 Thread Johann Schmitz
We use Dell servers exclusively and have for 15 years. I think we're up to 400+ physical boxes now and the number of Linux-compatibility issues in all that time is exactly zero :-) That's good to hear. If Dell sold server-class hardware that wasn't 100% supported in Linux, their sales would

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org down?

2014-01-10 Thread Johann Schmitz (ercpe)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.01.2014 17:06, Tanstaafl wrote: Anyone else experiencing this? I routinely eix-sync every day, and this morning the overlays started failing. emerge --sync works fine... http://infra-status.gentoo.org/ says it's down. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-09-26 Thread Johann Schmitz
Hi Alan, On 26.09.2013 22:42, Alan McKinnon wrote: You will break things horribly and will curse the day you tried. Basically, puppet and portage will get in each other's way and clobber each other. Puppet has no concept of USE flags worth a damn, cannot determine in advance what an ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive

2008-09-26 Thread Johann Schmitz
Try sys-process/iotop: Iotop has a top-like UI used to show which process is using the I/O. -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Discover IP address of random Windows boxes on network?

2008-08-08 Thread Johann Schmitz
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:45:57 -0700, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem I'm now seeing some new messages saying 'Unable to connect to mail port 25'. Is that arpwatch trying to email updates to me? If so, do I have to run a mail server to make that work? Yes, arpwatch sends a mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Discover IP address of random Windows boxes on network?

2008-08-07 Thread Johann Schmitz
if a machine has attached by | wireless. | | Thanks, | Mark | - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkibyyQACgkQZsUt7MqpQk3XKQCbB5Rl09O+g40J+butYPuXKQOH 0gsAn2eF1eJ0VkkVB9iCK26fAH+F1wMJ =c1ua -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast

2008-07-19 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? Yes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Johann Schmitz
the up-to-date check? - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhrmoIACgkQZsUt7MqpQk0T2QCg58tpDGUhsRrgDRWK9HLyECCw vm4An193DP7Ki+3bu3LXDWHTnweIDJDl =EI9H

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-01 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Carter schrieb: | I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? Fast, really stable, fast, ugly with the default theme... Did i mentioned fast before? - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote install @Hetzner

2008-06-21 Thread Johann Schmitz
that spooky things happen! Here is a working gentoo-sources kernel config for a DS 3000: http://files.j-schmitz.net/2.6.24-gentoo-r3.config Maybe it is just a root fs mistake in the kernel config. If dont want a sw raid, you can disable this stuff in make menuconfig. - -- Johann Schmitz http

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote install @Hetzner

2008-06-20 Thread Johann Schmitz
| see what's happening :( | | Did anyone manage to get an remote install in such an situation ? | (maybe even @ Hetzner). | | | thx - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Johann Schmitz
. | Cheers | Matt - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkgYl40ACgkQZsUt7MqpQk0B4ACfdSv5T9h3kd45vseh3vKg5vun ga4AoKL6nnAiobGsWIwHgND7DChxUNy6 =ESvU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Two instances of MySQL Database Server

2008-04-01 Thread Johann Schmitz
/5.0/en/multiple-unix-servers.html to | create multiple instances of MySQL Database Server. I wanted it for | Gentoo Linux | | is there a HowTo for configuring multiple instance of MySQL Database | Server on Gentoo Linux | | Thanks and Regards | | Kaushal - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel File not found

2007-12-23 Thread Johann Schmitz
points to /boot: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll /boot/boot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 1. Jul 00:01 /boot/boot - . Now you can write kernel /kernel-x-y-z and kernel /boot/kernel-x-y-z and both lines will point to the same kernel ;) -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED