Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:52:42 +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: So I thought there's gotta be something that fits these criterias, but so far I've found only dar and it seems quite slow and a bit unsuited for these needs. What backup medium are you using? If hard disks, do you have a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:25:38 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: What backup medium are you using? Oh my, I've managed to forget about it! The medium is regular sata2 hard drives with ext3 filesystem on a dedicated backup machine with quite rusty debian (etch) linux. Most backed-up

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: It seems that tar/gzip/bzip2 are almost universal solutions for unix-like system backups and we're using tar/gz combo to create backups from the dawn of times. But as the time goes by I stumble upon two misfits of such a combination more and

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: BackupPC should cope with this. It uses rsync over SSH, so only needs to transfer new/changed files, and will restart where it left off if the connection fails (this happens to me sometimes when I switch off my laptop while it is backing up and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling (joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de) [30.04.09 12:31]: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: BackupPC should cope with this. It uses rsync over SSH, so only needs to transfer new/changed files, and will restart where it left off if the connection fails (this happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:18:33 +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: The medium is regular sata2 hard drives with ext3 filesystem on a dedicated backup machine with quite rusty debian (etch) linux. Most backed-up systems (that I care about) are actually freebsd 6, the rest are linux. Most stored backups

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:23:19 +0200 Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de wrote: * Joerg Schilling (joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de) [30.04.09 12:31]: What rsync does can also be done by star by running something like: ... 10 lines where 1 is sufficient? Not so userfriendly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:22:00 +0200 joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: People on Linux who use the term tar are usually not talking about tar bug about gtar which is not 100% tar compatible and thus creates problems with archive interchange. In fact, I'm more used to

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards

2009-04-30 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Anyway, one feature I'd like to investigate with this card is MythTV over s-Video. I already use this on another old machine which is ATI-based but that ATI driver requires an old kernel so the machine hasn't been completely updated in a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards

2009-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:31 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes:    Anyway, one feature I'd like to investigate with this card is MythTV over s-Video. I already use this on another old machine which is ATI-based but that ATI driver requires

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards

2009-04-30 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: solution currently hooked to the big screen. ATI dripped support for the chipset in that box in the Linux driver and Gentoo decided not to support the old driver or the kernel required to run it so that machine hasn't been updated in over 2 years.

[gentoo-user] MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Hello. I have Gentoo server Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64 connected to LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d 2nd NIC is connected to LinkSys switch, but the switch shows that device

[gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread James
Sergey A. Kobzar sergey.kobzar at mail.ru writes: LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: How is it possible? Often the MAC is printed on the nic. Some (few) devices have MAC set in firmware and it is hackable. MAC numbering is often suspect in a variety of circumstances. My suggestion is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6:22:27 PM, James wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar sergey.kobzar at mail.ru writes: LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: How is it possible? Often the MAC is printed on the nic. Some (few) devices have MAC set in firmware and it is hackable. MAC numbering is often

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6e (Intel Corporate) # macchanger eth0 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Anthony Metcalf wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6e (Intel Corporate) # macchanger eth0 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c (Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-04-30 Thread Grant
X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I get: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Xlib: connection to localhost:10.0 refused by server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-04-30 Thread Alejandro
2009/4/30 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I get: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Xlib:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-04-30 Thread Denis
In your /etc/ssh/ssh_config (not sshd_config), make sure you have: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes I used to get the same error, and after I enabled these options, it worked like it should. I also do ssh -Y u...@machine - but that may be redundant, I'm not sure. Denis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread James Stull
You can actually change your MAC address using ifconfig for many types of NIC's. --James 2009/4/30 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com Anthony Metcalf wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC:

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards

2009-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:22 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: solution currently hooked to the big screen. ATI dripped support for the chipset in that box in the Linux driver and Gentoo decided not to support the old driver or the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-04-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Apr 2009, at 16:59, Grant wrote: X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I get: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Xlib: connection

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it won't last all that long. Gave ~5 mins. So I let it charge for 24 hrs now it gives me 36 mins.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 7:27:43 PM, James wrote: You can actually change your MAC address using ifconfig for many types of NIC's. --James 2009/4/30 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com Anthony Metcalf wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it won't last all that long.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:31:45 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: In the conf file I have DEVICE: /dev/ttyS[0-3] because the default, /dev/ttyS0, locks out the modem. But why does the UPS need to know about serial ports? It connects by this funny RJ-45/USB cable. I wonder does the manufacturer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:09 +0300, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Hello. I have Gentoo server Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64 connected to LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d 2nd

[gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird thing tho that

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 10:34:28 PM, Daniel wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:09 +0300, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Hello. I have Gentoo server Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64 connected to LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c eth1

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is done that way for the stage 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there,

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is done

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 1) Better use -cjvpf (f) takes an argument (the filename of that tar to be crated) so it must be at the end. That's why I usually use tar -cjvp -f blabla.tar.bz2. I always seperate options that take an argument from the rest. But -cjvpf works too as long as f is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
    It's not supposed to say DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 for USB, it should just be blank as per /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf Previously I had v.3.14 which I had installed from a tarball; now I'm using 3.12 installed via portage. And even though in both cases the conf file defaults to UPSTYPE usb the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
The relevant lines from my apcupsd.conf are Yep, that's what I got. UPSCABLE usb UPSTYPE usb DEVICE blank didn't work in v3.14 for me. Now, with v3.12, this might change. I'll give it a whirl. DEVICE -- Neil Bothwick Das Internet is nicht fuer gefingerclicken und

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:45:36 -0500, Dale wrote: The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. tar cf archive.tar -C /mnt/gentoo . Well, it don't like that here. I used your command and replaced with the correct parts of course: r...@smoker / # tar cf

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:56:06 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: UPSCABLE usb UPSTYPE usb DEVICE blank didn't work in v3.14 for me. Now, with v3.12, this might change. I'll give it a whirl. DEVICE I'm using 3.14.5-r2. Post your complete configuration file. -- Neil Bothwick I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1790 (94678-94727)

2009-04-30 Thread John Hennessy
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