Re: [gentoo-user] How much effort from udev-197-r3 to 206

2013-08-05 Thread Nick Khamis
please read the news it's a must. If your network card drivers are built as modules ''in theory'' you are not effected. If they are built into the kernel, you will have to delete a 70- something file, and replace it with an 80- something empty file, to keep the same ethN wlanN names. Sorry, i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-15 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Norman, Sorry for the delayed response What do you mean by replication? Oh I was referring to the replication of the entire NFS server with virtual drive images etc.. to other machines for fail over, maybe load balancing. Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-15 Thread Nick Khamis
Anyone using Hadoop for managing virtual machines and/or drives. Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Norman, Thank you so much for your response, and that is an interesting setup. we open up pools of up to 20 hosts which all mount the same NFS share which holds sparse file images as virtual hdds of the VM. How are these sprase file images initially built for each VM's virtual hdd? And

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Nick, the question is, what are you doing with it and why do you think you need a fibre channel SAN. Our goal indeed is to get rid of the SAN infrastructure as it is delicately to all kinds of failure with nearly zero fault tolerance. An example, you have an hicup or a power failure

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello, I tend to disagree. A correctly designed SAN (using dual Fabric among other things) is a lot more stable and has a lot better performance than any NAS (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI) solution. One other thing that also needs to be correctly configured to have a stable SAN infrastructure is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Nick Khamis
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Old cynic speaking here: Yes, they both have the same weak point: humans. In my experience the only storage technology that ever let me down badly was a decrepit Arena locally-attached badly designed POS. The

[gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-11 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Was wondering what people are running these days, and how do they compare to the 10,000 dollar SAN boxes. We are looking to build a fiber san using IET and glusterFS, and was wondering what kind of luck people where having using this approach, or any for that matter. Kind

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-27 Thread Nick Khamis
And who says you can't teach an old man new tricks huh geezer ;)? Thank you so much for your response!!! That sorts out outgoing traffic, have you had to setup rules for incoming traffic? I mean from the outside world to a server for example? Kind Regards, Nick.

[gentoo-user] Re: IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Any different if the links are VDSL? I have little experience in working with DSL based connections, and was wondering what was possible in terms or bridging/bonding etc.. if anything. N. On 5/25/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I missed out some crusial info in my last email

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
, maybe the session would suffice (i.e, per network session)? Although per packet would be preferred. Kind Regards, Nick. On 5/26/13, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 26 May 2013 22:35:14 J. Roeleveld wrote: On 25 May 2013, at 22:26, Nick Khamis wrote: ... As mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Sorry for the top post. N.

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
By downstream, I mean within our own network. Obviously downstream LB from the ISP's DSLAM would be impossible without MLPP, BGP support... N

[gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello everyone, I am looking to put together a linux router for small business, and was wondering if there was anything the suite (using quagga etc..) that would allow for load balancing of regular dsl links. Kind of like cisco with fast ethernet 0,1 and ip sef. If outgoing and incoming traffic

[gentoo-user] Re: IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Khamis
, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am looking to put together a linux router for small business, and was wondering if there was anything the suite (using quagga etc..) that would allow for load balancing of regular dsl links. Kind of like cisco with fast ethernet 0,1 and ip

[gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We recently moved our stateful firewall inside, and would like to strip down the firewall at our router connected to the outside world. The problem I am experiencing is getting things to work properly without connection tracking. I hope I am not in breach of mailing list rules

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
For testing purposes I changed the ssh rule to: -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.2.5 --dport 22 -j DROP And still no go. As mentioned before, everything works fine until I try to close up the rest of the ports not opened up in the chains UDP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Looks like the packet never gets to the tcp chain. what is --syn? It seems that way I am not sure what --syn is actually. But even if I comment it out it does not work. Also, for testing I changed the SSH rule to allow bidirectional traffic until this is fixed: -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp --dport

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Thank you so much for your responses. I agree Alan, total pain in the neck!!! But it's a ticket that was passed down to me. We moved the stateful firewalls inside the network, broken down to each department. But as a first on site defense on our BGP router running Quagga, we only

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Neal, As for the --sport flag for OUTPUT, should it not be left arbitrary? The SSH daemon should use unprivileged ports between 1024 and 65535. The only daemon I know thus far that does not is NTP which is hardwired to 123 both ways. Thanks Guys, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Thank you!!! On 5/12/13, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On 5/11/2013 20:39, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
I just realized that we were running 3.5.7 on the older systems, and the current version is 3.7.10. Would I be cutting too many corners to copy over the ..config from the older machine. Thanks in Advance, Nick. On 5/12/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you!!! On 5/12/13

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Please forgive me! Gmail client from hell!

[gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Our service provider requires all connections between us be done through IPSec IKE. From the little bit of research, I found that this is achieved using a system with IPSec kernel modules enabled, along with cryptography modules. On the application level, I saw ipsec tool,

[gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact modules etc copied over. Saw examples for genkern, but we build our own kernels. After copying the files over we

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
Thanks yet again Michael! Enjoy your weekend. N. On 5/11/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/11/2013 03:13 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Our service provider requires all connections between us be done through IPSec IKE. From the little bit of research, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your time. I missed the part about log^2 in the documentation. Kind Regards, Nick. On 5/10/13, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your response! I was reluctant to include configuration related material for the sake of not insulting anyone however, on the server we have set: server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer server tock.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst

[gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-08 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, A while back I was inquiring about the best way to have computers on the network synched. Long story short, we opted to go with an NTP server installed on one machine, and synching the rest of the machines against it. However, I am not sure if the NTP server is properly synched

[gentoo-user] Problem with iptables logging (iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.)

2013-05-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, While trying to include a logging chain to our IPTables rules, I am receiving the following error: (iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. The chain looks like: # Set Log Limit LOGLIMIT=2/s LOGLIMITBURST=10 $IPTABLES -N LOGDROP #echo -e- Logging Dropped Traffic

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with iptables logging (iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.)

2013-05-04 Thread Nick Khamis
We are using 3.3.8. I did see those in the kernel list. Anyone have any idea which ones are needed? Thanks in Advance, N. On 5/4/13, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-05-04 12:41 PM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Some searching caused me to make sure that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with iptables logging (iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.)

2013-05-04 Thread Nick Khamis
On 5/4/13, the guard the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: Суббота, 4 мая 2013, 12:41 -04:00 от Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com: Hello Everyone, While trying to include a logging chain to our IPTables rules, I am receiving the following error: (iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. The chain

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 26-Apr-13 16:10, Joseph wrote: On 04/25/13 10:33, Nick Khamis wrote: We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which would be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What we would like is to set up our

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/04/2013 17:54, Nick Khamis wrote: On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which would

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/04/2013 19:11, Nick Khamis wrote: Thank you so much for your response, and I totally understand the effort vs. benefit challenge. However, is it really that much trouble/unstable to setup our own ntp server that syncs with our

[gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are quite time sensitive. Thanks in Advance, N.

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/25/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. Yeah... I concur ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-24 Thread Nick Khamis
Who's paying for this bandwith? N. On 4/24/13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:07:05 +0100, Stroller wrote: That only works on small systems. I have systems here where a 'du' on /home would take hours and produce massive IO wait, because there's so much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Double checking the udevd version we are running 171. Not sure if we should be effected yet? I confess, I did a world upgrade and walked away. For some reason it was stuck on ipr.h for some apache related package, which was odd since apache is not installed on the machine. I reset the system and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
. If they're supposed to be statically configured, try using ifconfig to configure them manually. Now that I have internet connection, I am not sure what my line of action should be. N. On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Double checking the udevd version we are running 171. Not sure if we

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
server. N. On 4/7/13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:38:23 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: Double checking the udevd version we are running 171. Not sure if we should be effected yet? I confess, I did a world upgrade and walked away. For some reason it was stuck on ipr.h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Installing wpa_supplicant got the network scripts working again. Not sure why. Does anyone know why we need wpa_supplication now? On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I am upgrading each package (25) one by one, and leaving the meat and potatoes (udev) for last. I am really sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
a hard dependency of some other package. On 04/07/2013 10:22 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Installing wpa_supplicant got the network scripts working again. Not sure why. Does anyone know why we need wpa_supplication now? On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I am upgrading each package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 10:20:02 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: I am upgrading each package (25) one by one, and leaving the meat and potatoes (udev) for last. I am really sorry about the noise guys and gals. It's been a while since I had such a scare You should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/7/13, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 07 Apr 2013 17:00:24 Nick Khamis wrote: You should do udev first, that way if it breaks you have the maximum amount of time to get things working again. Not that I'm a pessimist... PS Please don't top-post, it is frowned upon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
/7/13, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-07 9:38 AM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Double checking the udevd version we are running 171. Not sure if we should be effected yet? I confess, I did a world upgrade and walked away. Well, hopefully you learned a valuable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
07.04.2013 16:32, schrieb Nick Khamis: No... I'm stumped. I really don't want it in there either... I will attempt removing it once finished updating the system. N. On 4/7/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using 802.1x or wireless on that machine? If not, I can't think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Ooops I should have been more specific the net cards are not esp5s0 and esp6s0. And the drivers for the network cards are built as modules. N On 4/7/13, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-07 1:48 PM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I just did got udev updated. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Is changing it back to eth0 and eth1 like pulling teeth? N On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops I should have been more specific the net cards are not esp5s0 and esp6s0. And the drivers for the network cards are built as modules. N On 4/7/13, Tanstaafl tansta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
For those that have an error compiling udev 200: # emerge -1 XML-Parser # perl-cleaner --all There was not mention of this in the news. Nor will the package pull them in as a dependency. N. On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Is changing it back to eth0 and eth1 like pulling teeth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
was still eth0... N. On 4/7/13, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 07.04.2013 20:08, schrieb Nick Khamis: For those that have an error compiling udev 200: # emerge -1 XML-Parser # perl-cleaner --all There was not mention of this in the news. Nor will the package pull them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Oooops, I meant option 3.1: 3.1 Create a new empty file: touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules and reboot. The kernel will rename the interfaces hopefully as they were before. N. On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I went into the kernel, rebuilt it with no changes

[gentoo-user] Myrient Fiberchannel Drivers

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, On our test machines we are using and EOL Myrinet fibercahnnel card: 01:05.0 Network controller: MYRICOM Inc. Myrinet 2000 Scalable Cluster Interconnect (rev 03) The problem is that their open source driver only supports up to 2.6 kernels. And with us running gentoo 3.x kernel

[gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message: /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is wireless command not found /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 548: _exists command not found Errror: Interface eth0 does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Our net card was also build as a module Volker, did you include your net driver for example in /etc/conf.d/modules? N. On 4/6/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Oh dear what did I start!@!@! I'm sorry, I did not know this was a machine brewing. Don't follow the mailing list all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 06.04.2013 23:19, schrieb Nick Khamis: Our net card was also build as a module Volker, did you include your net driver for example in /etc/conf.d/modules? no I removed the 70-something rules, and did pretty much nothing else. /etc/udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
In attempted to delete 70-something rules from /etc/udev/rules.d/ and it was recreated on boot with the same content. I don't think the device got renamed since ifconfig eth0 shows the correct info. Your help is greatly appreciated, N. On 4/6/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Well I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
and lo returns the interface with no tx and rx traffic. And no ip address as set in conf.d/net. Please help guys. Server room is numbing.. N. On 4/6/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: In attempted to delete 70-something rules from /etc/udev/rules.d/ and it was recreated on boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
The problem with eudev is that we are using the hardened profile and not sure if it is part of our source tree. Right now, I just would like to pinpoint this stubborn little issue I just wanted to mention that name did not change. ifconfig eth0 still pulls up the interface, and same for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/06/2013 08:53 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: I took a closer look at /etc/udev/70-something-rules-net and /sys/class/net/eth0/ and all the ATTR (i.e., address, type, dev_id) line up fine. I did not find a name file in /sys/class/net/eth0 however, name=eth0 in etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
? N. On 4/6/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/06/2013 08:53 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: I took a closer look at /etc/udev/70-something-rules-net and /sys/class/net/eth0/ and all the ATTR (i.e., address, type, dev_id) line up fine. I did not find a name file in /sys/class/net/eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
you're trying to get your unicast addresses working properly. ifconfig -a On 04/06/2013 10:35 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Sorry I did mean /sbin/ip... Long day. Regardless, /sbin/ipmaddr does now show any ipv4 related material. Other than the network card driver, what module should I ensure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Can't do nothing right now, no network connection... Don't feel like burning a livecd and chrooting to jail... N. On 4/6/13, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:35:22 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: As for /sbin/ip. I have no such command. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
/? If the former, then OK, this is a different issue. If the latter, be aware that this isn't a supported configuration! You may very well have to rename your interfaces before this is done, or let udev rename them for you. On 04/06/2013 10:55 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: ifconfig -a and ifconfig

[gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Just got a ticket assigned to me where we need to update our production servers. uname -a Linux noun 3.4.9-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Oct 13 09:35:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux eselect [18] hardened/linux/amd64 * I don't think they have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
with flags included. Thanks again, Nick. On 3/28/13, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Just got a ticket assigned to me where we need to update our production servers. uname -a Linux noun 3.4.9-gentoo #2

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
/28/2013 11:38 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Just got a ticket assigned to me where we need to update our production servers. uname -a Linux noun 3.4.9-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Oct 13 09:35:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux eselect [18] hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
So basically, no long weekend for me here in Canada. Thanks a lot guys for your time.Wish me luck. Happy easter/holidays!!! N. On 3/28/13, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 03/28/2013 12:56 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hahahah udev hell!! I did go through that updating from 2.6 to 3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
revert back to the previous configuration. !!! Allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --search, --sync, and We were always running hardened. Never changed the profile. N. On 3/28/13, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 03/28/2013 01:16 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: So basically

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
/linux/x86/13.0/eapi' Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... And still can't update portage. N. On 3/28/13, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 03/28/2013 01:43 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: First hickup emerge -puDN1 world !!! Unable to parse profile: '/etc/portage/make.profile' !!! ParseError

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
But we never changed our profile? Always running hardened server. N. On 3/28/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I switched to the default profile from hardened: eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/13.0 * env-update !!! Unable to parse

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
As mentioned earlier a temporary change of profile got me on my way eselect profile set 0 env-update eselect profile set 7 Moving forward... Thanks guys. On 3/28/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: But we never changed our profile? Always running hardened server. N. On 3/28/13, Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-28 Thread Nick Khamis
Yeah these guys seem to think that our servers MUST run on the hardened profile... On 3/28/13, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nick Khamis wrote: Hahahah udev hell!! I did go through that updating from 2.6 to 3.4. That was quite an experience But for kernel 3.* has udev not been phased

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Arm Cluster board

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Khamis
Someone watched some news regarding HP moving towards ARM ;) http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19240331 Nick. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So Sorry, I just think that in a few years, Gentoo will be more about ARM( 64 or 128 bit) than Intel...

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?

2011-10-08 Thread Nick Khamis
cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig select the list of modules/drivers you need for your box make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.3.whatever you want to call it vi /boot/grub/grub.conf nano if you have not used vi before part of grub.conf title Gentoo Linux 2.6.36-r1 root

[gentoo-user] command not found xmlinclude

2011-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I have a problem compiling Heartbeat, the error is: glib-2.0.so ../replace/.libs/libreplace.a -lbz2 -lz -lc -luuid -lrt /usr/lib/libltdl.so -ldl creating cl_respawn gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Heartbeat-3-0-STABLE-3.0.4/tools' Making all in doc gmake[1]: Entering

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Ultramonkey

2009-09-28 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Mike, Thanks a lot sir... Much appreciated. Regards, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ultramonkey 3 + Gentoo a Match Made in Hell?

2009-09-28 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Guys, Thank you for your posts, I will keep working on Gentoo + UltraMonkey 3. I use it on Debian it is very useful. Will keep those of you whom are interested posted. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Ultramonkey

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone I am new to gentoo, usually I use Debian. I have a fresh install x86 2.6.30 kernel and I was trying to get Ultramonkey going on the box. I looking for the equivilant to the following deb packages for Gentoo please * libdbi-perl * libdbd-mysql-perl * libmysqlclient14-dev If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Ultramonkey

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Khamis
at 11:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Montag 28 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone I am new to gentoo, usually I use Debian. I have a fresh install x86 2.6.30 kernel and I was trying to get Ultramonkey going on the box. I looking

[gentoo-user] Ultramonkey 3 + Gentoo a Match Made in Hell?

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Does anyone have any experience building Ultramonley 3 on Gentoo. I downloaded ultramonkey 3 from here http://www.ultramonkey.org/download/3/source/ultramonkey-3-1um.1.tar.gz;. It is in the source folder but Is see no source. I understand how this could be an ultramonkey question

Re: [gentoo-user] Ultramonkey 3 + Gentoo a Match Made in Hell?

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Khamis
So no Ultramonkey 3 on Gentoo? Anyone?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where are the following LVS kernel modules

2009-09-09 Thread Nick Khamis
How I recompile the kernel is select the module that I need M IP virtual server support - [*] TCP load balancing - [*] UDP load balancing then do a make followed by a make modules_install. ip_vs is in my list of modules (the only ip_vs*) and does not return an error

[gentoo-user] Gentoo LVS

2009-09-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello everyone I am having problems with using LVS in Gentoo, I needed the following modules built into the kernel: ip_vs ip_vs_rr ip_vs_wrr ip_vs_lc ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_lblc ip_vs_lblcr ip_vs_dh ip_vs_sh ip_vs_sed ip_vs_nq ip_vs_ftp How I recompile the kernel is select the module that I need M IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where are the following LVS kernel modules

2009-09-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Albert, When issuing a find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name ip_vs*.ko I see only /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r6/kernel/net/netfilter/ip_vs.ko I do not see the rest #lvs ip_vs ip_vs_rr ip_vs_wrr ip_vs_lc ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_lblc ip_vs_lblcr ip_vs_dh ip_vs_sh ip_vs_sed ip_vs_nq ip_vs_ftp Thanks in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where are the following LVS kernel modules

2009-09-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, I build the kernel via: make menuconfig make make modules_install cp arch/... /boot/... I did issue a depmod and still just: /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r6/kernel/net/netfilter/ip_vs.ko when issuing a find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name ip_vs*.ko Thanks in Adnvanced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVS

2009-09-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Xavier, I do appologize for the two messages, it will not happen again. When issuing a find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name ip_vs*.ko I see only /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo- r6/kernel/net/netfilter/ip_vs.ko I do not see the rest #lvs ip_vs ip_vs_rr ip_vs_wrr ip_vs_lc ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_lblc

[gentoo-user] Where are the following LVS kernel modules

2009-09-08 Thread Nick Khamis
I have included in my kenrel configuration the following: M IP virtual server support - [*] TCP load balancing - [*] UDP load balancing I have added to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 the follwing #lvs ip_vs ip_vs_rr ip_vs_wrr ip_vs_lc ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_lblc ip_vs_lblcr

[gentoo-user] Creating virtual server using VirtualBox

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I am using my laptop to test virtualization before setting it up on the servers. I am familiar with vmware but since I am unable to get vmwre-server going on kernel 2.6.3r5, I am using virtualbox. My question is in terms of the HardDisk setting. The host has SATA hdd and I do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Khamis
1) Security is for exploiting 2) If they are well versed on the drivers that virtualization technologies use, then yes they can tell they are on a virtual machine and not on dedicated server. 3) You can bridge network connection physically on the network minus the nic of course 4) Virtualization

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling virtual box

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Everyone, This is the error I am experiening when trying to build vmware-server: /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Open':

[gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Everyone, I have been at this for a week now, going from amd64 to x86. I still want to use 2.6.30-r5. When trying to build vmware-server this is the error I am presented with: /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey William, Thanks again for your help I have attached the complete build log file. I know with the layman overlay vmware-server 2 is easily done but I woule rather vmware-server 1x. I know there are a few pathces for this I just want to make sure after shcking with you guys what I should do.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Now for the real build log (oops) vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2.ebuild Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Arghhh to early in the morining here in Toronto. This is the build.log build.log Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Guys, I really apperciate your help but as it sits I am unable to compile vmware-server 1.x or XEN. I have attached the build log. Basically I know I can larman the new version of vmware-server2 but I heard it is a clunker. I really need to get virtual servers up on the server before I get

[gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and vmware-server build.log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I have been at this for a week, and I am stumped. Trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9 using x86 environment and 2.6.30 kernel. I gave up on amd64 earlier this week please help. Attached is the build.log Thanks In Advanced! Ninus. build.log Description: Binary data

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