[gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
I feel like I should be able to solve this one, but it started after my last world update so maybe someone else has had a similar problem. We have a ruby script called 'mailshears' on our mail server that cleans up orphaned users and domains every night. The main script,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/11/2010 03:16 PM, Bill Longman wrote: snip What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking? No direct answer, sorry, Michael. You might want to use: /bin/bash -l -x -c

Re: [gentoo-user] libacl mess : further thoughts

2010-08-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/20/2010 11:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 100820 Philip Webb wrote: The next step seems to be to unpack the whole Stage 3 tarball in the netbook's / dir see what happens. After that, a full reinstall. Further examination of what's in Stage 3 + review of my detailed notes from

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/25/2010 03:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had more or less the opposite case -- a running daemon that was marked as stopped. Not exactly, because it was xdm marked as stopped, and kdm that was running. This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it somehow. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox (Namoroka-3.6.8, actually) and Epiphany-2.31-r1 both fail to show captchas

2010-08-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/26/2010 04:29 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On a number of websites, I've been unable to see the captcha that I need to complete my business. Neither the image nor the response show up. Opera, on the other hand, works

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/24/2010 06:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone

Re: [gentoo-user] Finalizing my backup system

2010-09-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/26/2010 03:13 PM, Grant wrote: I'm using backupninja to backup data from my laptop, desktop, and remote server onto a remote desktop system. backupninja is very simple and is really just an interface to a few other programs including rdiff-backup. I'm not worried about a good restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Finalizing my backup system

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/06/2010 01:40 PM, Grant wrote: I'm using backupninja to backup data from my laptop, desktop, and remote server onto a remote desktop system. backupninja is very simple and is really just an interface to a few other programs including rdiff-backup. I'm not worried about a good restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Finalizing my backup system

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/06/2010 05:43 PM, Grant wrote: I see what you're saying but don't I need to use the ssh command in order to use the rdiff-backup command? - Grant You shouldn't have to, rdiff-backup does it on its own. When you execute e.g., rdiff-backup /home usern...@backup.example.com::home

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/06/2010 06:17 PM, Grant wrote: I'm confused because I have in apache2 config: VirtualHost 1.2.3.1:443 ... SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/www.example1.com.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/www.example1.com.key ... /VirtualHost VirtualHost 1.2.3.2:443 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/24/2010 04:35 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I need to get to the work CVS server from home. It's not exposed to the internet but never fear! we have ssh -L and a convenient sshd host that is on the internets. So, locally ssh -Llocalhost::cvs.example.com:22 a...@gateway.example.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Should mysql crash sometimes?

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/29/2010 08:46 AM, Grant wrote: I'm told I need to run mysqld with --skip-grant-tables. I'm used to using Gentoo's mysql initscript. Should 'mysqld --skip-grant-tables' work? You can add it to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and restart. Remove it and restart again when you've finished. kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel section mismatch(es)

2010-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/27/10 23:06, Michael J. Barillier wrote: I'm trying to compile a hardened kernel (linux-2.6.36-hardened-r6) and the build is generating thousands (literally) of section mismatch warnings. I've copied my old .config (2.6.31, non-hardened) to the root of the source tree and did a `make

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/04/11 14:42, Grant wrote: Thank you, that fixed it. I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but functionality seems to be intact. Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of the older version of php that must be installed in another slot? I'm hoping that

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Way back when I first got an X2 they couldn't keep time for whatever reason. I used to have to add something like clock=pmtmr notsc to the kernel command line to make it behave. That issue was fixed in a later kernel, but you could start adding clock options to your kernel command line and pray

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/15/2011 12:55 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-01-05 7:21 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: A ton of crap broke with the PHP 5.2 - 5.3 upgrade. In theory, this will help with future upgrades; but I'm not sure how, since I can't *run* both versions at the same time. Does anyone know how having 5.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/20/11 17:08, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that uuencoding the result of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/24/2011 05:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language no one here is likely to use (EasyLanguage) into C? As an example I've attached a little EL

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/26/2011 12:56 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Michael, Thanks for the inputs. It gives me more to think about. In this case the input language is interpreted, not compiled. The trading platform interprets the program and internally turns it into buy sell operations. (Not the piece of

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/26/2011 01:25 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible to configure Spamassassin to filter out spam-mail, if the mail contains certain keywords and/or the subject line match a certain pattern without diving too deep into the source and the ruleset of spamassassin? The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/26/2011 02:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: REALLY great points about the math issues. Thanks. As for testing it _may_ be a slight bit easier than having to get to that level. There is a library in portage called ta-lib which implements lots of standard technical analysis constructs. After

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =)

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor email

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/13/2011 11:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm curious about setting up my compute server to monitor RAID array status and have it email me information at my GMail account. Does anyone have info on setting this up on Gentoo? In general I'm following:

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor email

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/13/2011 01:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'll read through the links you posted to look at creating a test case. From the page you posted above I'm trying this at the command line: mdadm --monitor --mail=markkne...@gmail.com --delay=1800 /dev/md126 but I assume you think it won't do

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor email

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/13/2011 01:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I think I'm there except maybe for kicking off some sort of regular tests of the arrays vs waiting for things to fail. Any mdadm test is going to pass up until the point that it doesn't, which is when you'd get the alert email anyway =) If you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/25/2011 08:13 AM, James wrote: Hello, Is the link below the best howto guide as to using an existing ebuild to hack a new ebuild? JFFNMS has been languishing despite repeated requests for a version bump; so I'm taking the plunge and going to update it on one of my systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/01/11 13:56, Jarry wrote: Hi, is there any way to move running (already started) process to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? Sometimes I start updating my server, but it keeps running for long time, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/01/11 16:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:12:31 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: (I'll do an ebuild for reptyr in the next week or so if nobody beats me to it.) It looks like somebody already has :) % eix reptyr * app-misc/reptyr [1] Available versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/15/2011 02:05 PM, Grant wrote: A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in real trouble. Will I be able to switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/15/2011 03:20 PM, Grant wrote: A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in real trouble. Will I be able to switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/15/2011 04:28 PM, Grant wrote: A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in real trouble. Will I be able to switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/06/2011 07:45 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: When I run qemu -no-kvm things work as expected under hardened kernel. Using regular kernel (none hardened) qemu works ok. So, the problem is running qemu under hardened kernel. If someone have some input, I'll be happy to hear it. I am a

[gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Has anyone successfully set up a Gentoo/FBSD system in the somewhat-recent past? I'd like to do some testing, but all of the install docs are out of date. I'd appreciate a thirty-second overview of how you did it.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] PHP memory problem

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/13/2011 02:42 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: I know this is Off-topic but I also know there are a lot of smart people lurking on this list. I have a PHP-script that does not run from a web-server but directly in a shell. When I run it I get the following error: # ./dj.php PHP Fatal

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/14/2011 10:38 AM, Fredrik Andersson wrote: Is the Handbook outdated? I dont know if I have ever seen it be out of date.. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/ The handbook is fine, but doesn't cover the FreeBSD install. I was almost able to do it by finding a FreeBSD 8.x live CD

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] PHP memory problem

2011-04-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/15/2011 11:26 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2011 03.12:34 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/13/2011 02:42 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: I know this is Off-topic but I also know there are a lot of smart people lurking on this list. I have a PHP-script that does not run from a web

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-Rebuild md RAID Arrays?

2011-04-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/19/11 17:05, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: Hello All, I am in the research phase of building a Gentoo-based backup/NAS target using md software RAID or (maybe) btrfs or zfs. One thing that I am not finding much info about is any facility for automatically rebuilding an array when a new,

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hi list, I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv to check for dangling

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/20/2011 12:15 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com mailto:mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hi list, I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/26/11 10:31, Dan Cowsill wrote: Why I love this list in one thread. Anyway, just an update on the situation. As far as I can tell, this 'you have no world file' error only shows up when i'm doing a --depclean. Also, it is intermittent. Right now, -pcv works just fine and reports

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Script to crack gpg passphrase

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/28/2011 10:04 AM, Mick wrote: This finds the passphrase and prints it out on the terminal. However, its success depends on the dictionary file I use. Also, it's not particularly fast ... Any idea how I can create a dictionary file? I've used apg but it's aheam! too random. :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] rdate stopped working, and I just upgraded to baselayout 2

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/11/2011 08:09 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Mick wrote I recall that not all ntp servers respond to rdate - perhaps the server(s) you tried have changed their configuration? Finally found one... nist1-ny.ustiming.org I'm in Toronto Canada,

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle plan. Among the 8 attempts, once I used

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/15/2011 09:25 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source /etc/profile env-update`. AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years on two different systems. The OP's probably appears to be that he

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle plan. Among the 8 attempts, once I used

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/15/2011 09:43 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow

2011-05-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2011 08:49 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine. For a few seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the point of seeing the image being rendered in slow motion, a row at a time if

Re: [gentoo-user] Where be the hardened Stage3?

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/03/11 09:28, Pandu Poluan wrote: Anyone knows why current-stage3/ no longer has the hardened stage3 tarballs? Rgds, Try this for now? http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Nobody wants portage to delete modified config files. Some people might think they do, but they don't: they just don't know it yet. See also: condoms, seatbelts.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where be the hardened Stage3?

2011-06-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/03/2011 01:01 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where be the hardened Stage3? From: Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com Date: 2011-06-03 23:05 On 06/03/11 09:28, Pandu Poluan wrote: Anyone knows why current-stage3/ no longer has the hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion

2011-06-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/14/11 11:46, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: What is the difference of USE=loop-aes and USE=crypt? Why are the versions oscillate that way? HELP ! :) Thank you very much for any hint in advance!:) Maybe helpful:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/03/2011 09:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm just wondering... I'm implementing an email gateway using postfix. The gateway lives as a VM in my ISP, and it will deliver 'accepted' emails to the company's email server which lives in the DMZ. The email server's port is shifted to a non-25

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2011 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: If I try the same thing with Konqueror there is no problem, I login and Konqueror immediately lists the directory contents. How can I see what Konqueror's ftp client sends to and receives from the server? log_ftp_protocol When enabled, all FTP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2011 12:39 AM, pk wrote: Yes, since a htpc doesn't need a powerful cpu (or a powerful gpu) My learned-this-the-hard-way advice: while this is generally true, if you ever come across a 720 or 1080p video that doesn't use a hardware-accelerated codec, you would rather the HTPC not sound

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2011 11:29 AM, Mick wrote: log_ftp_protocol Thanks Michael, where am I supposed to set this up? I do not have access to the ftp server, or its logs. Oh. It would have gone in vsftpd.conf. Um, wireshark your FTP conversation?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/06/11 15:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2011 19:23:51 pk did opine thusly: On 2011-07-06 18:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And what is happening to the developers lately? Some of them have become hostile and arrogant against their own users. I noted the same from the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/07/11 15:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: And what about gnome? Does that not impose a fantastic testing burden, alongside which gnome-mplayer is small in comparison? Yes, but the value of one's time isn't relative. If you'll allow me to make up the numbers, just because it takes a month of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/09/11 12:18, Dale wrote: András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple times, but this is even worse and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: No worries. Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you missed something. I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think with no errors. That takes a while when you have 16Gbs. o_O Ah, ok. I'd also try a hard drive scan to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/11/11 09:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as stable. This has no direct link to the usability of the software itself. Nuh uh. From http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html, arch (x86, ppc-macos) Both the package

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/11/2011 07:40 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:43:06 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation' to everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It nearly always means 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is nearly

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/16/2011 12:53 PM, Stroller wrote: I have no illusions that attempting this *will* be a pain the ass, because in the past I've updated machines which have been ignored for 18 months, and that required lots of manually digging in the Portage CVS attic and copying files into the local

Re: [gentoo-user] best cflags and cpu for gentoo qemu virtual machine

2011-07-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/16/2011 09:54 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I'm creating a router based on Gentoo, that needs to run as a vm using qemu. The mother machine will be Core I7 4 cores. What cpu and CFLAGS should I use to get the best performance out of this vm? Thanks, Kfir CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/18/2011 09:26 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, After cleaning off my Opensuse O.S. and installing Gentoo, I'm having trouble getting my 3-disk nvidia SATA raid5 array back on line. The gentoo OS is on a separate non-raid IDE disk, and I can see the three individual disks which make

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here. So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if I run the command mdadm --assemble --scan, would this find all the components and create a /dev/md0 disk

Re: [gentoo-user] strange, but Makefile is missing from gentoo-sources

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/19/2011 08:57 AM, Space Cake wrote: Hi, I don't know exactly what happened but yesterday morning Makefile is disappeared from my /usr/src/linux directory rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 89856 jún1 12.18 config_38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 92513 jún1 12.18 config_39 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/20/2011 12:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:16:06 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers (evdev being one of them). Usually there is some elog message telling you to run qfile to find what is need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/20/2011 07:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/18/2011 11:45 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 07/18/2011 06:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 18 July 2011 14:30:28 Stroller wrote: On 18 July 2011, at 12:18, Mick wrote: Is it a matter of waiting a bit longer? Yes, I think he'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/20/2011 07:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 18:36:39 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/20/2011 07:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/18/2011 11:45 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 07/18/2011 06:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 18 July 2011 14:30:28

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/21/2011 04:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:34:03 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: I've always wondered why, if portage knows that has to be done, can't portage just go ahead and do it? Now that we have a set to do this, I see no reason why this could

Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/21/2011 04:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:27:58 Grant did opine thusly: Thanks Paul. I'm leaning toward leaving swap disabled. So I'm sure I have the concept right, is adding a 1GB swap partition functionally identical to adding 1GB RAM with regard to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/21/2011 02:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/21/2011 11:38 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/20/2011 07:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Is it a matter of waiting a bit longer? Yes, I think he'll be eligible for parole beginning 2023. please refrain yourself from idiotic remarks

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and adding ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc mdadm --assemble --scan returns something different mdadm: /dev/sdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/25/2011 08:00 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and adding ARRAY /dev/md0

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/01/2011 12:00 PM, kashani wrote: On 7/31/2011 7:06 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: contribution to colorgcc

2011-08-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/07/11 01:28, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: Yes, there is not upstream. I am looking for a gentoo maintainer who can accept patches. Alternatively, i can roll out a colorgcc tarball and start a new upstream. I use the program with 4 of these compilers on a daily basis and maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd: how can I chroot both anon and auth users to the same dir?

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/10/11 12:37, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm using vsftpd and I'm quite satisfied, except for one problem which I can not solve: Anonymous users are chrooted to base ftp-server directory /home/ftp but local users are chrooted to their own directories /home/ftp/$USER and they can not move

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd: how can I chroot both anon and auth users to the same dir?

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/10/11 13:52, Jarry wrote: If I wanted to have one more problem (anonymous users not able to access local users' files) I would do it... :-) I'll try to explain it one more time. I have local users user1, user2, userX and their home directories are: /home/ftp/user1 /home/ftp/user2

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/17/11 13:35, Grant wrote: Is there a way to restrict SSH keys to the rsync command? Yes, via the authorized_keys file. you can add a command directive. this will always force that command to be executed whenever a connection is made using this key. I'm using the command directive

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/19/11 14:00, Grant wrote: We're doing the same thing for our backups. Here's that chunk of our documentation, if it's helpful. Thanks Michael. You've found that a shell account is required on the backup server in order to push backups to it? Yes, you have to be able to run a command

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

2011-08-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/23/11 23:38, Mark Knecht wrote: * Messages for package app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.1.2: * CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT: is not set when it should be. * Please check to make sure these options are set correctly. * Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems. SNIP k2

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed:jpeg_resync_to_restart() and zathura pdf reader

2011-09-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/03/2011 05:44 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: Hello list, I was wondering if someone could explain me what ebuild provides the jpeg_resync_to_restart() function as when I try to run a pdf using a zathura-pdf-mupdf plugin, it gives me the following error:

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/modules, 2.6, and 3.0

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/03/2011 02:25 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Upgrading /etc/modules, I notice it has 2_6 for all its examples; should this be changed to 3_0 if running a 3.0 kernel? I am going to expand it with both, for the time being, but all the gentoo.org docs still show 2_6, and it made me think,

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/05/2011 11:48 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure if this will be delivered until

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/05/2011 02:21 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:16:08PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 11:48 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working

Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/05/2011 02:38 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: I got the test message; everything looks perfect, sorry =) Well thanks for trying Michael. Tomorrow I will call up one of the providers and ask them to check through logs and see whats going on. I'm hoping they'll oblige. Many thanks Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/17/2011 07:00 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: There was a standards body tracking ORB, I forget which one, but none of that matters as the folks who should use it - system builders - saw it's flaws quite quickly. Even Gnome has dropped it and are now moving over to dbus. Ooh, I know this

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/26/11 16:01, Grant wrote: I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website. I don't want to provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file or files being worked on. Does anyone know of a development framework that would help facilitate that sort of thing?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/26/11 16:13, Grant Edwards wrote: That's hilarious. The Linux developers are _constantly_ changing APIs in ways that break existing device driver code. There are repeatedly wholesale re-designs of some APIs that happen between minor versions of a supposedly stable kernel. We

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/26/11 19:04, Harry wrote: Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say. I've been wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new install booted. Many failures led me to finally resorting to genkernel... but you may know already that is a full day of compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/27/11 00:05, Grant Edwards wrote: Contribute your drivers upstream. When the devs change an API, they'll update your code for you. That sounds good, but in practice it doesn't work. 1) The kernel developers don't support any existing customers. Bugs are only fixed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead?

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/28/2011 10:42 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: Doh! I had forgotten there was a seperate kvm-enabled build of Qemu. I'll have to give that a try. You can use qemu-kvm whether or not you have a kernel/CPU with KVM support: $ cat /usr/bin/kvm #!/bin/sh exec

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/29/2011 04:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:23:30 -0700, Grant wrote: For some reason I thought SFTP would provide access control but now I'm thinking it's just like SSH in that access control is based on file ownership and permissions? If that's the case, can anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with the stability pact?

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/29/2011 01:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! Why are there so many packages whose versions never become stable? By many, I mean here at least two. :-) These are the kernel and Firefox. My kernel is currently 2.6.39-gentoo-r3, built on July 18. By examining ebuilds, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead?

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/29/11 16:07, Matthew Finkel wrote: $ cat /usr/bin/kvm #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm $@ But I was under the impression you can only use -enable-kvm if you have KVM built into the kernel/load the module. It will spit out a warning, but

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with the stability pact?

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/29/2011 09:42 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Several days ago I did raise my concern on this behavior when I noticed that emerge wants to downgrade my hardened-sources. Although I'm using ~amd64, I draw the line on 3.0 and specified ~2.6.39. Now I'm forced to maintain a private/personal

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/30/2011 07:59 PM, Grant wrote: Thanks for that. I haven't thought it all the way through, but if Unix ownership and permissions aren't granular enough and subversion's path-based authorization won't work, I will need to use ACLs. I think both subversion's path-based authorization and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/01/11 19:46, Grant wrote: I think separate repositories would only be necessary when using distributed version control (git) as opposed to centralized (subversion). I think subversion's path-based authorization should eliminate the need for separate repositories? Separate repos

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health

2011-10-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/03/2011 10:19 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: If I may add: try a cup of normal (i.e. non-decaf) coffee about 1 hour after you start using the computer. Ok, but how do you survive the first hour?

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/03/2011 05:54 PM, Grant wrote: Would multiple repos work in a scenario where different developers have access to different stuff and some stuff should be accessible to multiple devs? I don't think you want the same stuff in more than one repo. It seems like managing multiple repos

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