Re: [gentoo-user] surveillance cameras on gentoo

2020-03-25 Thread thegeezer
it's been a while, sorry all  for the top reply

Re: [gentoo-user] surveillance cameras on gentoo

2020-03-25 Thread thegeezer
Howdy I've had great mileage with https://motion-project.github.io/ =media-video/motion-4.1.1-r1:0 it supports a rake of cameras, so you should be good to go almost straight away; multiple network cameras, usb cameras etc it will do timelapse footage, and motion detection recording, and can b

[gentoo-user] CLVM and CMAN use flags dropped?

2019-04-21 Thread thegeezer
Howdy folks, around november 2018 the use flags clvm and cman seem to have been dropped for LVM2 the old ebuild has the lines if use clvm; then ... myconf="${myconf} --with-clvmd=${clvmd}" but the new ebuild just has the line myconf="${myconf} --with-clvmd=none --with-cluster=none" I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Small computing recommendations?

2016-10-13 Thread thegeezer
On 2016-10-12 13:16, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/10/2016 13:56, Daniel Campbell wrote: My birthday's coming up in 10 days and my SO and others are wanting to know what to get me for my birthday. I'm slowly growing tired of trying to keep my desktop Gentoo machine lightweight and "clean", so it'

Re: [gentoo-user] PPC64

2016-10-13 Thread thegeezer
On 2016-10-13 11:03, thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 2016-10-13 10:46, Alarig Le Lay wrote: On Thu Oct 13 10:26:48 2016, thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: can anyone point me in the direction of an "install-ppc64-minimal-20141204.iso" or hopefully something newer? my google-fu is letting me down

Re: [gentoo-user] PPC64

2016-10-13 Thread thegeezer
On 2016-10-13 10:46, Alarig Le Lay wrote: On Thu Oct 13 10:26:48 2016, thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: can anyone point me in the direction of an "install-ppc64-minimal-20141204.iso" or hopefully something newer? my google-fu is letting me down! thanks in advance! Hi, You have install-powerpc

[gentoo-user] PPC64

2016-10-13 Thread thegeezer
Howdy folks, I find myself in a position where I have some IBM pseries servers at hand, and of course my first instinct is to install Gentoo :) I've tried following the handbook[1] but I fail at the media step, as there is no ppc64 download, just /mirror/gentoo/releases/ppc inside there in 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-25 Thread thegeezer
On 2016-08-15 11:04, Azamat Hackimov wrote: Well, at least for me it's much easier just type genkernel --oldconfig=/etc/kernels/ been a bit silent on this list for the last year or so with personal life, come back and immediately find a nugget of info i had been doing make oldconfig and /th

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-07 Thread thegeezer
On 05/03/15 09:46, Marc Joliet wrote: > Hi all, > > at work I'm (well, *we* are) facing an interesting problem. Since we are sort > of stabbing in the dark here, I thought I'd ask here. Also, since this is > from > work, I will not be able to diverge very many details (not to mention that as >

Re: [gentoo-user] new linux router

2015-03-07 Thread thegeezer
On 04/03/15 15:10, James wrote: > Hello, > > It's time to build a new router. Surely, I would just like to > purchase hardware and run a minimized or embedded gentoo on it > along with iptables and a few other packages. But, I got to reading > and well it seems much has changed. Dansguardian is dep

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-11 Thread thegeezer
On 11/02/15 11:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:38:27 +0000, thegeezer wrote: > >> the confusing bits are that gentoo can use hotplug detection from udev >> to start/stop interfaces for you magically >> also netplug/ifplug will detect carrier changes

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-11 Thread thegeezer
On 11/02/15 10:38, thegeezer wrote: > i vaguely recall that openrc started it's own version of dhcp client yes it did [3] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Network_management_using_DHCPCD/OpenRC_message [4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.gentoo.dev/D_sFyfaQl2Y > not

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-11 Thread thegeezer
On 11/02/15 00:43, Philip Webb wrote: > 150210 Mick wrote: >> Your desktop hasn't. When the link comes up again nothing kicks in >> to either request an IP address from the DHCP server >> or to self-configure one temporarily. Either enable IPv4LL >> or install ifplug/netplug to achieve the same e

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc & system init actions

2015-02-05 Thread thegeezer
On 05/02/15 11:11, Oleg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:41:22PM +0000, thegeezer wrote: >> howdy, >> don't use postup for this. >> netifrc is much cleverer >> u can directly in /etc/conf.d/net do >> >> rules_eth0=( >> "from 77.247.233

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk "renames" /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread thegeezer
On 03/02/15 13:14, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > In fact, do I really need an installation CD for a new installation? > Would I perhaps be better creating new partions then downloading a stage > 3 from my working system? > not at all. you can indeed just create a new LV called "newroot" or something mor

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc & system init actions

2015-02-03 Thread thegeezer
On 30/01/15 09:26, Oleg wrote: > Hi all. > > I need to have some ip policy rules at system startup which isn't depend on > any interface. In debian i do this through /etc/network/interfaces - i add > needed rules as post-up actions to lo interface. > > In gentoo i've made postup() in /etc/conf.d/

Re: [gentoo-user] iscsitarget or targetcli?

2015-01-29 Thread thegeezer
On 29/01/15 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to set up an iSCSI server (target in iSCSI terminology) running on > Gentoo. > Does anyone know which of the following 2 are better: > - sys-block/iscsitarget > - sys-block/targetcli > > Both don't seem to have had an update for over 2

Re: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer

2015-01-23 Thread thegeezer
On 23/01/15 12:57, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 23.01.2015 12:06, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >> I suppose you're referring to 'written' chat. > Yes! > >> At work, on a local >> network, I'm using pidgin client with SIPE plugin >> (x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe ). Works fine to chat with co-workers

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Question: The feasibility of a complete portage binhost

2015-01-22 Thread thegeezer
On 22/01/15 15:46, Jc García wrote: > 2015-01-22 6:11 GMT-06:00 Andreas K. Huettel : >> Am Donnerstag 22 Januar 2015, 16:50:45 schrieb Sam Bishop: >>> On 22 January 2015 at 01:54, Andreas K. Huettel >> wrote: Am Mittwoch 21 Januar 2015, 20:36:55 schrieb Sam Bishop: > So I've been thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing a thingy that does not have an ebuild

2015-01-07 Thread thegeezer
On 07/01/15 06:01, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to install an engineering package by the name of > Salome-meca. There is no ebuild for this. They claim to have a > "universal installer" but I've spent too much time trying to get this > thingy to work and can now confidently say i

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-30 Thread thegeezer
On 29/12/14 13:55, lee wrote: > thegeezer writes: > >> On 08/12/14 22:17, lee wrote: >>> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >>> >>>> create 1 bridge per physical network port >>>> add the physical ports to the respective bridges >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish

2014-12-16 Thread thegeezer
On 15/12/14 20:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/12/2014 18:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this question is not related to a fully fledged, >> big local area network with DMZs and such. >> >> Even the word "firewall" seems to be a little too >> "huge and mighty" in this context to me. >

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-09 Thread thegeezer
On 08/12/14 22:17, lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > >> create 1 bridge per physical network port >> add the physical ports to the respective bridges > That tends to make the ports disappear, i. e. become unusable, because > the bridge swallows them. and if you pass the device then it becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-08 Thread thegeezer
On 08/12/14 11:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, December 07, 2014 11:43:38 PM lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >>> On Thursday, December 04, 2014 07:11:12 PM lee wrote: > Why is the networking complicated? Do you use bridging? Yes --- and it was terrible to begin with and still is

Re: [gentoo-user] [half OT] WLAN totally beginners question

2014-12-07 Thread thegeezer
On 07/12/14 19:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am just starting to do the first steps in configuring WLAN. > The problem is: This topic seems to be rich of terms, which I > dont know yet how to evaluate: AP, WAP, WEP, FSK...and dozens more. > > Since my use case is very limited I want t

Re: [gentoo-user] samba and window 7 NTFS

2014-12-04 Thread thegeezer
On 04/12/14 18:49, Joseph wrote: > I just installed windows 7 in VB and would like to mount windows 7 > shares (folder) via samba on Linux. > I think, I need to enable "CONFIG_NTFS_FS" in kernel? no just cifs > > In order to format the USB stick to NTFS I need this option in kernel > as well, am I

Re: [gentoo-user] TPM feature - do I need it?

2014-11-30 Thread thegeezer
On 29/11/14 19:53, Mick wrote: > I'm looking to buy a new PC and while looking at FM2+ MoBos I saw ASUS offers > one with a TPM feature. It also sells it as a separate component it seems: > > http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=5793 > > I recall reading in this list about it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Slighty confused about net connections

2014-11-28 Thread thegeezer
On 2014-11-28 18:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Do I really need two interfaces isb0 and usb1 with different subnets here? Or do I miss something? howdy, yes you do. i.e. PC has real-eth0="192.168.1.1/24" PC has usb-eth0="192.168.2.1/24" PC has usb-eth1="192.168.2.2/24" sysA has usb-eth0="192

Re: [gentoo-user] World update and changed PYTHON_TARGETS

2014-11-26 Thread thegeezer
On 26/11/14 18:23, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:35:37 +0100 > schrieb Frank Steinmetzger : > >> Hey list >> >> during yesterday's upgrade I read the news about python 3.4 being the >> new profile default. > [...] > > Perhaps you've noticed by now, but the change was reverted in the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-26 Thread thegeezer
On 2014-11-22 18:12, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: The first 100 or so I looked at, are deprecated. They just need somebody to 'remove them' the BGO java backlog is being artificially used to prevent java work on gentoo. Somebody of authority needs to open up java for other folks to work on.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread thegeezer
On 24/11/14 19:13, Marc Stürmer wrote: > Am 24.11.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Gevisz: > >> I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing >> window button "x" to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of >> Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread thegeezer
On 25/11/14 23:35, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: > On 25 November 2014 at 23:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> The point was that it could be changed. […] >> >> […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. > No, the point was that sometimes even a small annoyance is plenty > enough to drive people away.

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 22:15, James wrote: > Hello, > > Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: > > https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml from the forum link from the news article http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-995118.html "One of the great things about this new livedvd besides that it c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread thegeezer
On 20/11/14 18:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > But I like that trackpoint yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackp

Re: [gentoo-user] Booted Gentoo the first time on the Arietta.G25...but...

2014-11-19 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 18:12, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi Joost, I tried that for the Beaglebone Black I also use. It will > not work constantly enough well to setup a complete system. There are > two sources for trouble: The makefiles access "meta-applications" like > moc fpr qt and either try to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb over Ethernet: The rise and fall of one usb0 ;)

2014-11-19 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 18:00, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > thegeezer [14-11-19 18:40]: >> On 19/11/14 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> the little Linux board Arietta G25 has a ethernet over usb feature -- >>> no real PHY, no RJ45 plug/jack. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booted Gentoo the first time on the Arietta.G25...but...

2014-11-19 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 17:44, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > J. Roeleveld [14-11-19 17:00]: >> On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 09:00:37 PM thegeezer wrote: >>> On 18/11/14 18:27, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>>> How can I configure Gentoo on the Arietta board >>>> to

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb over Ethernet: The rise and fall of one usb0 ;)

2014-11-19 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > the little Linux board Arietta G25 has a ethernet over usb feature -- > no real PHY, no RJ45 plug/jack. > > The board is not permanently connected to my PC. > Both are running Gentoo. > > When I connect the Arietta board to my PC via USB > its

Re: [gentoo-user] Booted Gentoo the first time on the Arietta.G25...but...

2014-11-18 Thread thegeezer
hi meino, i was curious about the board you are using, and found this page http://watchmysys.com/blog/2014/08/building-arietta-g25-kernel/ which says that the ethernet is a "Davicom DM96xx USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adaptor" you need kernel modules dm9601 (USB_NET_DM9601) and sr9700 (USB_NET_SR9700)

Re: [gentoo-user] Booted Gentoo the first time on the Arietta.G25...but...

2014-11-18 Thread thegeezer
On 18/11/14 18:27, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > How can I configure Gentoo on the Arietta board > to use ethernet-over-usb to be started while > booting the Arietta board? > > By "replace everything eth0 with usb0" ??? ;) if you still have emdebian image you can boot that and see which modules

Re: [gentoo-user] question about binhost's

2014-11-17 Thread thegeezer
On 17/11/14 21:01, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hi list, > > I was setting up an binhost recently and i couldn't found any > information how to keep old builds. > Usually, for example a newer version of tcpdump gets build, the old > build will be deleted. Only different slots were keeped. Howev

Re: [gentoo-user] kexec

2014-11-17 Thread thegeezer
On 17/11/14 03:25, wraeth wrote: > Would I be correct in guessing that this is dependant on > sys-apps/kexec-tools being installed and CONFIG_KEXEC being enabled in > the kernel? correct. > And, with CONFIG_KEXEC, is that required for the old kernel, new > kernel or both? just the one you are kex

[gentoo-user] kexec

2014-11-16 Thread thegeezer
howdy folks, i've had a bit of a hiatus of internet access and just catching up with mails i notice a recurring systemd related spark about boot times. please this message is not to recreate a flame but to suggest something that may benefit folks from all preferred init systems. kexec is a g

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-16 Thread thegeezer
On 15/11/2014 16:47, Daniel Frey wrote: If the above fails (if the above does indeed fail, some troubleshooting should happen to try to figure out why it doesn't work), KILLDELAY is the parameter you likely seek, but it is dangerous. If you set this it will wait x seconds after a shutdown was re

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey

2014-10-24 Thread thegeezer
On 24/10/14 15:37, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/22/2014 01:12 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: >> Ive been running postgrey for years without any problems but today I >> noticed I hadn't gotten email for awhile and realized upon investigation >> that postgrey wasnt running so postfix was rejecting mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey

2014-10-22 Thread thegeezer
On 22/10/14 06:12, Ajai Khattri wrote: > > Ive been running postgrey for years without any problems but today I > noticed I hadn't gotten email for awhile and realized upon > investigation that postgrey wasnt running so postfix was rejecting mail. > > What's maddening is that I can run postgrey qui

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-19 Thread thegeezer
On 18/10/14 20:10, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On 10/18/2014 02:13 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> I have no idea what's going on. I think what I'm gonna do is install my >> old router behind the new router and plug in all my device to that one >> and see if it works, because I absolutely need my desk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-19 Thread thegeezer
On 19/10/14 04:15, James wrote: > thegeezer thegeezer.net> writes: > > >> there is a little more here >> http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Improve_responsiveness_with_cgroups >> which will allow you to script creating a cgroup with the processID of >> an interacti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread thegeezer
On 18/10/14 22:51, James wrote: > thegeezer thegeezer.net> writes: > > >>> So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the >>> terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) >>> faster? >>> the typing latenc

Re: [gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread thegeezer
On 18/10/14 16:49, James wrote: > Hello, > > > OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor > system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores > (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily > uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not > even close to exhaust

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs

2014-10-15 Thread thegeezer
On 15/10/14 04:14, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2014-10-15, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> >>> The main problem (imnho) is that you think CentOS cares about >>> configurability/multiple ways of doing things. >> Oh, I don't think that -- it's pre

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-13 Thread thegeezer
On 13/10/14 10:08, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 10/13/14 11:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:36:55 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: >> >>> By using this approach, you might be able to send a command, but most >>> probably (never tried) will not be able to receive the device's reply

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cohorent pool size too small...

2014-10-06 Thread thegeezer
On 06/10/14 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen [14-10-06 17:56]: >> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:44:03PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> walt [14-10-05 19:36]: On 10/05/2014 07:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > walt [14-10-05 16:16]: >>> On 10/05/2014 0

[gentoo-user] net-mail/courier-imap-4.15-r1:0 and courier-imapd-ssl headsup

2014-10-06 Thread thegeezer
howdy all, just a friendly heads up after upgrading to latest courier i had a message that said Messages for package net-mail/courier-imap-4.15-r1: * Please read http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/INSTALL.html#upgrading * and remove TLS_DHPARAMS from configuration files or run mkdhparams * For a

Re: [gentoo-user] Again some "headless" stuff/question

2014-10-05 Thread thegeezer
On 05/10/14 05:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > for starting and running a script on a headless system for me "nohup" > works perfectly. > For interactive session via ssh screen/tmux turned out to be the > solution to detach from jobs started from the commandline. > Both are hints/help I re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-03 Thread thegeezer
On 03/10/14 16:19, James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > >> I was also wrong in stating I use isohybrid for the LXFDVDs. I used to >> but since switching to using GRUB to boot the DVDs, there is no need for >> it. GRUB bootable DVD ISOs can boot from USB sticks by default. > Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.

2014-09-30 Thread thegeezer
On 30/09/14 15:05, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > with lot of help of this forum (***TAHNKS!***) I now > have a embedded device which is able to > dis/connect itsself from/to the LAN, set the clock via ntp-client > and is able to fire up a tool, which collects > data from sensors and put thos

Re: [gentoo-user] another "headless device"-question: In search of the LAN

2014-09-30 Thread thegeezer
On 30/09/14 11:21, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2014 11:12:34 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Thank you very much in advance for any help! >> Best regards, >> mcc > Typically used on laptops: > > [I] sys-apps/ifplugd > Available versions: > 0.28-r9 [doc selinux] > Install

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-25 Thread thegeezer
On 17/09/14 10:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > how do I need to configure my Gentoo box to allow for reverse > tethering from my (rooted) Android phone? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut > not sure if you can do this even on a rooted phone. the trouble is that usb tethering starts a dhcp se

Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing

2014-09-25 Thread thegeezer
On 17/09/14 19:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: > AFS has caching and can survive temporary disappearance of the server. > For me, I need to be able to provide Samba filesharing on top of that > layer on 2 different locations as I don't see the network bandwidth to > be sufficient for normal operations. (AD

Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing

2014-09-25 Thread thegeezer
On 16/09/14 20:07, James wrote: > Hello, > > By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo > systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file > system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not > all file systems, particularly the distributed

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD discard / fstrim

2014-09-04 Thread thegeezer
On 04/09/14 20:07, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Сергей wrote: >> You need to run Fstrim if you mounted your partition WITHOUT "discard" >> option and did lots of changes. For example, if you installed your >> system without "discard", do fstrim and then add "discard" to >>

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-02 Thread thegeezer
On 02/09/14 15:10, Joseph wrote: > On 09/02/14 14:38, thegeezer wrote: >> On 02/09/14 14:10, Joseph wrote: >>> On 09/02/14 10:56, Mick wrote: >>>> On 2 September 2014 09:00, Dale wrote: >>>>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>>>> On Tue,

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-02 Thread thegeezer
On 02/09/14 14:10, Joseph wrote: > On 09/02/14 10:56, Mick wrote: >> On 2 September 2014 09:00, Dale wrote: >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:23:45 -0500, Dale wrote: >> DeviceBoot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sdb1 *0389119 194560 17 Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-18 Thread thegeezer
On 18/08/14 15:31, J. Roeleveld wrote: > valid points, and interesting to see the corrections of my understanding, always welcome :) > Looks nice, but is not going to help with performance if the application is > not designed for distributed processing. > > -- > Joost > this is the key point i wo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
On 29/07/14 18:04, behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everyone. > I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! > So far so good! > Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box > and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) > Now I am thinking abo

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
On 17/08/14 20:54, thegeezer wrote: > On 17/08/14 20:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> apps that actually work with each other. >> > honestly i've never had issues cross app -- copy/paste of text or files > from dolphin to konqueror have never been an issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
On 17/08/14 20:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer: >> from my own experience a DE gives you >> 1. easy hotplug devices i.e. usb disks (or you can emerge dbus,polkit >> and udisks and add policy rules manually) >> 2. "session&

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
there are many way to do clustering and one thing that i would consider a "holy grail" would be something like pvm [1] because nothing else seems to have similar horizontal scaling of cpu at the kernel level i would love to know the mechanism behind dell's equallogic san as it really is clustered

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
> > udisks +1 > > Google knows enough about it to lead you to the nirvana state of > increased understanding. > +1 very loosely: udisks needs polkit to check the current user is authorised to mount internal drives or usb drives (this threw me at first as there are two rules you need to assign) u

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
Howdy, on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3) krunner equivalent is "start everything module" and resembles gnome-do i prefer to use pc

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about updating process

2014-07-29 Thread thegeezer
On 29/07/14 12:00, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:52 AM, behrouz khosravi > wrote: >> well chromium was just an example. I just think that when there is a version >> upgrade, a patch should be enough. > For things like backports you're fairly likely to only get a patch. > However

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross system dependencies

2014-06-28 Thread thegeezer
On 06/28/2014 07:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 01:39:41 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:36:11 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> I need a way to add dependencies to services which are provided by >>> different servers. For instance, my mail server uses DNS to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread thegeezer
On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random > characters in sequence. sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuneing ext4 for reliability (not necessaryly speed)

2014-06-27 Thread thegeezer
On 06/26/2014 05:13 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > for backup storage (see previous thread) I decided to use ext4. After > craling the net the reports I found about brtfs seemed to mixed to me. > If there are alternatives I overlooked... > > I searched the net for answeres to the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread thegeezer
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote: > > I got a drive picked out at Newegg. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844 slightly offtopic - i notice that the drive has a 2year limited warranty has anyone managed to get anything from hard drive warranties ?

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread thegeezer
On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote: > thegeezer wrote: >> this is pretty bad. > Here is the output: > > root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc > smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Frank

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread thegeezer
On 06/25/2014 06:05 AM, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this: >>> >>> root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc >>> smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo]

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 09:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Don't ignore the potential for logical errors. If you have some script > that magically rsyncs stuff then don't make the mistake of moving data > over and rsyncing the old copy over the new, or mounting the devices > in a manner that isn't robust when u

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 04:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MDU with > sentences like: "The Btrfs file-system changes for the Linux 3.15 > kernel mostly deal with bug fixes and performance fixes while some > corruption fixes are also expected to come.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 03:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > contain the same contents. > > Currently there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Ifplugd breaks services

2014-06-18 Thread thegeezer
On 06/17/2014 10:59 PM, Mick wrote: > I can't recall ever having heard a beep when the cable is > disconnected. :-/ odd. i wish i knew with certainty where ifplug hooks in. if you # ps aux | grep ifplug do you have a "-b" on the line? such as /usr/sbin/ifplugd -b --iface=eth0 that's how you

Re: [gentoo-user] Ifplugd breaks services

2014-06-17 Thread thegeezer
On 06/14/2014 11:24 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 10 Jun 2014 11:43:31 thegeezer wrote: >> I used to really like ifplugd. mostly for the audible beep when things >> are disconnected as it's easier to diagnose from afar. > What audible beep? Am I missing some obscure confi

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

2014-06-17 Thread thegeezer
On 06/14/2014 10:23 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I can't figure out a way around this one. Usually keywording, maybe > that should be unkeywording, a newer version works but doesn't seem to > in this case. This started as part of a emerge -uvaDN world. > > Error I get: > > WARNING: One or more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Secure DNS servers

2014-06-16 Thread thegeezer
On 06/16/2014 10:08 PM, James wrote: > thegeezer thegeezer.net> writes: > >> generally using something like ISC BIND you can set filters and easily >> create an external view and internal view, so that you can do split dns >> based on network connection. if doing some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Secure DNS servers

2014-06-16 Thread thegeezer
On 06/16/2014 08:57 PM, James wrote: > Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > >> On 06/16/2014 02:15 PM, James wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm reading up on how to secure DNS primary and secondary servers. >>> I guess DNSSEC is pretty important. Any other areas I should read >>> up on? It's been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Secure DNS servers

2014-06-16 Thread thegeezer
generally using something like ISC BIND you can set filters and easily create an external view and internal view, so that you can do split dns based on network connection. if doing something like this test it and then test it again to make sure there is no leak due to a typo. it would be easier i

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 07:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > looks promising: > awesome. i did have a look through the diff, there are lots of scsi drivers selected, storage (block) cgroups but i think the crucial factor was the HZ was set at 100 previously and 1000 now. i guess it has helped kernel-io

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 03:15 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: >> >>>> So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? >>> I suspect that in your fully

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with power management of SATA hard drives

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 02:12 PM, Ralf wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using Gentoo ~amd64 on my NAS. > > This is my setup: > Mainboard - Asus E35M1 > CPU - AMD E350 > HDD - 1x 500GiB WD Caviar Green WD5000AADS (root) > HDD - 4x 3TiB WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX (Raid10) > > As these hard drives are desktop hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 01:41 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 13:52, schrieb thegeezer: > >> ok baffling. >> sdc i already said would be slower but not this much slower >> it certainly should not be slower than the lvm that sits on top of it! >> i can'

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 12:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 13:18, schrieb thegeezer: > >> just out of curiosity, what happens if you do # dd >> if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 # dd if=/dev/sdc >> of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 > > > bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for >>> /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) >> >> OK here is the clue. >> if the LVs are also sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for >>> /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) >> >> OK here is the clue. >> if the LVs are also sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 12:14, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> Basically 3 RAID-6 hw-raids over 6 SAS hdds. >> OK so i'm confused again. RAID6 requires minimum of 4 drives. >> if you have 3 raid6's then you woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:14 AM, thegeezer wrote: > just some extra thoughts *cough* yeah i meant to keep typing! the extra thoughts are that the better way of doing this would be to create up RAID1 physicaldisks1+2 RAID6 physicaldisks3,4,5,6 then put lvm on there as vg01 with two PVs, one on the ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 10:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 11:19, schrieb thegeezer: > >> Hi Stefan, >> block size / stripe size mismatches only really penalise random io, if >> you are trying to use dd and have slow speeds this would suggest >> something

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 05/27/2014 02:03 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I think I have some IO-topic going on ... very likely some mismatch of > block sizes ... the hw-raid, then LVM, then the snapshot on top of > that ... and a filesystem with properties as target ... oh my. Chosing > noop as IO-scheduler helps a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcamera ... view: YES record: NO ?

2014-06-10 Thread thegeezer
On 06/07/2014 04:18 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > the Logitech c920 HD Pro webcam is able to deliver 1920xq080x30fps > (H.264). > > Now I am trying to display (watch) and record the video stream. > Currently I am using guvcview. > > Most of the time watching is not an problem: no video d

Re: [gentoo-user] Ifplugd breaks services

2014-06-10 Thread thegeezer
On 06/08/2014 10:25 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: > Hi > > I also have other problems in my life. One of them is on one of my gentoo > server. This server has two network cards one serves intranet and the other > internet. The on that is on the internet is attached to a cable modem. The > modem is bug

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