[gentoo-user] Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello! I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). So, I'd like to know if any of you have successfully paravirtualized Gentoo on XenServer? I also have some questions: 1. Is it true that PV mode is

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello! I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). So, I'd like to know if any of you have successfully paravirtualized Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello! I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). So, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: snipped previous attempts More

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: -- snip -- Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules in my Xen domu's (All are PV). I wonder if compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo

[gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'? The latter I saw also pulled in and installed the latest version. So, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 22:26, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello list! Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 21:28, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 16:22, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2011 15:28:56 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 21:28, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld

[gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:58, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely

[gentoo-user] emerge --update --newuse world before emerge source?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello again. I hope you're not yet bored of my newbie questions... Out on a whim, I just did `emerge --update --newuse --pretend world` *just* before emerging the sources. I got this: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.45 [2.1.9.25] USE=-python2% [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.11.3

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --newuse world before emerge source?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 16:05, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 31.03.2011 10:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello again. I hope you're not yet bored of my newbie questions... Out on a whim, I just did `emerge --update --newuse --pretend world` *just* before emerging the sources. I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to install open-vm-tools, which installs

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:57, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least

[gentoo-user] How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just for fun, not for boasting ;-) Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest. `free -m` directly after booting + login: Mem: total 499 used 28 free 470 shared 0 buffers 1 cached 12 Granted, system is quite possibly unusable for serious purposes,

[gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Good grief! How'd you do that?! *bow in respect* Rgds, On 2011-04-02, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:36 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just for fun, not for boasting ;-) Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 03:28, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 02:22 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Good grief! How'd you do that?! *bow in respect* Rgds, Well, firstly, I managed to get it down to 3MB (though I cheated *a little*): lilpenguin ~ # sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 09:09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I would hate to know that you guys got bored and needed something to do.  LOL And here I am reading this thread while Firefox using

[gentoo-user] Which network monitoring?

2011-04-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello users! I am transitioning my infrastructure back-ends from Windows to Gentoo Linux. The next server to be transitioned is our infrastructure monitoring server. Currently, we're using WebWatchBot. Its abilities that we use are: - Monitoring Internet connection up/down (we have 4 Internet

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
I've been experiencing failures trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 Here are the information: emerge --info =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5: http://pastebin.com/vCWDbYwH build.log : http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=2720253da=y (1MB, zipped into 61KB) environment :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:04, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2011 15:13:09 luis jure wrote: on 2011-04-03 at 10:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage might be a little too challenging. 3.5? wow, i always

Re: OT: Computers-memory-lane.... [Was: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?]

2011-04-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:35, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Monday 04 April 2011 11:13:58 Pandu Poluan wrote: Oh, the nostalgy... :-) My first computer I believe was an Apple ][, a hand-down from an uncle. It ran only for 1-2 weeks before it went to the Bit Bucket in the Sky

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 18:41, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 April 2011 10:56:43 Pandu Poluan wrote: I've been experiencing failures trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 Here are the information: emerge --info =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5: http://pastebin.com/vCWDbYwH

Re: [gentoo-user] issues with apache config

2011-04-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
Based on the symptoms, i.e., works from CLI but fails during boot, I suspect a problem with privileges/attributes. What UID is Apache running as? Anyways, what's wrong with Cherokee? I really like to know because I am currently considering deploying Cherokee. Rgds, On 2011-04-04, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-05 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 19:34, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/4/2011 8:07 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j3 {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:146362: Error: open CFI at the end of file; missing .cfi_endproc directive xgcc: Internal error: Killed

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-05 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 14:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 19:34, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/4/2011 8:07 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j3 {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:146362: Error: open CFI at the end of file

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 21:42, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/5/2011 3:03 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 19:34, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/4/2011 8:07 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j3 {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input

Re: [gentoo-user] issues with apache config

2011-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
I knew I forgot to reply to someone... On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 00:58, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: Hi Pandu, Thanks for the response. What kind of permissions / privileges issues would cause this sort of behavior. ~ % ps aux | grep -i apache root      2421  1.1  0.3 224928 12312 ?        Ss  

[gentoo-user] screen just saved my day!

2011-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
Someone really should mention 'screen' in the handbook; that venerable tool just saved my day :) I was in the midst of 'emerge --update --newuse world' over SSH when my office had a 'temporary power failure'. Luckily, I had started a 'screen' session. When the power is restored 5 minutes later, I

Re: [gentoo-user] screen just saved my day!

2011-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:31, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2011 05:44:17 Pandu Poluan wrote: Someone really should mention 'screen' in the handbook; that venerable tool just saved my day :) I was in the midst of 'emerge --update --newuse world' over SSH when

Re: [gentoo-user] screen just saved my day!

2011-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 19:58, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Gosh, now I feel stupid and illiterate ;_; Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Welcome to my world.  ROFLMAO Dale :-)  :-) Of course, after

[gentoo-user] WallMator : Firewall Automator

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I've made a rudimentary system to do a simultaneous backup/restore of: + ipset + iptables + iproute2 RPDB routing tables At: https://github.com/pepoluan/WallMator Feedback is definitely welcome! Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com

[gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/

Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 16:20, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 16:06:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your

[gentoo-user] Re: WallMator : Firewall Automator

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, *don't* pull it yet. There's been some strangeness... I think there's a setting-specific complication... it worked on 2 systems but failed spectacularly on the 3rd. I'm debugging it. Rgds, On 2011-04-08, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello list! I've made a rudimentary system

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office. The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module. If you're using LSI Logic, select Fusion MPT instead. Don't

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-04-09, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office. The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module.

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-04-10, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2011 11:13 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office. The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:17, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/9/2011 4:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:02:14 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI  RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module.

[gentoo-user] screen, screen+byobu, or tmux?

2011-04-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
So, anyone got any experience using screen and screen+byobu and tmux? What's your opinion in general of the three alternatives? Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:58, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com wrote:  On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. After a few weeks of effort, I've just gone live with my very own Gentoo system.  :-) Hi Alan! Welcome to the club :-) [-- snip --]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-04-19, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:31, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: This is way OT, but this list is such a great resource I suspect the advice gotten here will be more to the point. ( I have posted to a network hardware group as well) I've bumped my home lan router to a gigabit from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:  pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:    pepoluan More on me:  My LinkedIn Account  My Facebook Account On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 16:25, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011

[gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is there any performance and/or complexity issues? Thanks in advance. Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer

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

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:19, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 06:35, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  writes: Your previous post showed this as total. *All prices are in British Pounds*      *Subtotal*      244.00 *Delivery*      0.00

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 17:24, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 16:49:26 Pandu Poluan wrote: Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:      pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:            pepoluan More on me:  My LinkedIn

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Forgive my top-posting) try: curl_opts=-x \'\' Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: yes, i use the '-x' option, and i can see the expansion now. and i found there are too many quotes. i tried curl_opts=-x , does not work. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus in stackovervlow.com. My handle there is 'pepoluan'. Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like:

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler) using Gentoo? I really don't need many things OpenFiler provided, so I think I want to roll-out my own 'GentooFiler'. Here's what I need: * iSCSI target * Replication * RAID 0 striping (redundancy will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello list! Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler) using Gentoo? I really don't need many things OpenFiler provided, so I think I want to roll-out my own 'GentooFiler'. Here's what I need: * iSCSI target * Replication

RE: [gentoo-user] One-time boot from alternate kernel?

2011-05-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
Turn on the grub menu? Rgds, -original message- Subject: [gentoo-user] One-time boot from alternate kernel? From: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org Date: 2011-05-15 10:46 Is it possible to pass a to do a one-time reboot to other than the default kernel? -- Walter Dnes

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To? From: pk pete...@coolmail.se Date: 2011-05-15 17:47 On 2011-05-15 12:05, Florian Philipp wrote: BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are quoting. That makes reading longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 15.05.2011 05:37, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 14.05.2011 21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello list! Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler

[gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge --update package), or use --deep against world

[gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hmmm... just installed a new system... and when I type `mount`, I get this: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755) sysfs on /sys

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-17, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Juan Diego Tascón writes: I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string str=one two five # remove all from the first blank on, but will not work

Re: [gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
-- 8 -- lots of snippage -- 8 -- Thanks everyone for the answers! I had thought my system had gone mad. Apparently not. :-) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~

[gentoo-user] open-vm-tools FATAL: Module vmblock not found

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
I've emerged open-vm-tools, but why does startup now showing FATAL: Module vmblock not found. ? That said, system boots okay. It's a virtualized (cloud) server on top of VMware vSphere Cloud. When I created the VM, I specified using PV-SCSI instead of LSI Logic. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them

[gentoo-user] Re: open-vm-tools FATAL: Module vmblock not found

2011-05-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:15, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I've emerged open-vm-tools, but why does startup now showing FATAL: Module vmblock not found. ? That said, system boots okay. It's a virtualized (cloud) server on top of VMware vSphere Cloud. When I created the VM, I

[gentoo-user] Re: open-vm-tools FATAL: Module vmblock not found

2011-05-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 14:31, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:15, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I've emerged open-vm-tools, but why does startup now showing FATAL: Module vmblock not found. ? That said, system boots okay. It's a virtualized (cloud

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 21:17, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Dale writes: Way back when, --update did not record to the world file.  That may have changed but I sort of doubt it. It has changed indeed.        Wonko So, if I do: emerge --update --newuse --pretend --deep world

[gentoo-user] RE: open-vm-tools FATAL: Module vmblock not found

2011-05-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: open-vm-tools FATAL: Module vmblock not found From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-05-18 21:29 On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Alright, it works... so what does vmblock actually do

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hmmm... that would be a nice start, thanks! Now to figure out how to carry out RAID 0 Striping and Replication. Do you think this 'GentooFiler' thingy I'm planning is worth it to be suggested in [gentoo-project] ? Rgds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 14:45, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, Is it true that tgt will replace IET? Last time someone asked that question on the IET mailing list the answer was no. I can't find the relevant thread right now but I think the general idea was that IET concentrates

[gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Due to the increase of spam/phishing emails received by my office, I decided to explore the idea of implementing a spamfiltering 'frontend' in front of my email server. Here's how I plan to do it: fetchmail (G) -- postfix (G) -- amavisd+spamassassin+database (G) -- postfix (G) --

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-21, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: On 21/05/11 06.13, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! Due to the increase of spam/phishing emails received by my office, I decided to explore the idea of implementing a spamfiltering 'frontend' in front of my email server. Here's how I plan

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-21, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 21/5/2011, at 5:13am, Pandu Poluan wrote: ... Due to the increase of spam/phishing emails received by my office, I decided to explore the idea of implementing a spamfiltering 'frontend' in front of my email server. Here's how

[gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
Does anyone know what configure flags are enabled/disabled for net-proxy/squid? There are some flags I need and some I don't; it seems that net-proxy/squid's USE flags don't map to squid's. Second question, then: how do I specify my own configure flags? Thanks in advance. Rgds, -- Sent from

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 22:12, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:50:02 +0200, Pandu Poluan wrote about [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid: Does anyone know what configure flags are enabled/disabled for net-proxy/squid? Run:     eix -e squid Um, I

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:36, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 22:12, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:50:02 +0200, Pandu Poluan wrote about [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid: Does anyone know what configure flags

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 14:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:36:15 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Um, I was referring to the flags passed to the ./configure utility, e.g. --enable-htcp or --enable-icmp, *not* the USE flags. Run ebuild /path/to/ebuild configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 15:06, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine.  I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
You might want to look into Mikrotik's offering. They are not only inexpensive, but they are extremely reliable. Many Internet cafés in my country use Mikrotik: they put the device in an outdoor box, and stuck it on the pole bearing the wireless antennae connecting the café to the ISP. The boxes

Re: [gentoo-user] time issue

2011-05-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
IIRC, starting from baselayout-2 the timezone is in /etc/timezone Just one line: Region/City Rgds, On 2011-05-30, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to setup my clock because about my machine the current time

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Are you using a recent stage3 tarball? If so, I suspect your booting problem has got something to do with this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597 Rgds, On 2011-05-31, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: In preparation for the upcoming upgrade to gnome3, I've installed the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. *My* suggested solution: Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot what exactly). This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. (To the herd of

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. *My* suggested solution: Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is using genkernel's

[gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-05-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello! I've been having problems with my Squid-equipped Gentoo box: For some sites, Squid just times out. But if I access the sites directly, they appear in my browser. And doing a direct wget from the Squidbox also works. Now I'm not sure whose 'fault' it is, but just in case it's Squid's, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-06-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:10, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 01 June 2011 11:52:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: I see.  In my head it is as if we're going

Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-06-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hi! Sorry for not answering sooner; got sidetracked by other high-priority job demands... On 2011-06-01, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 01.06.2011 03:31, schrieb Adam Carter: I've been having problems with my Squid-equipped Gentoo box: For some sites, Squid just times

Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-06-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 14:01, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2011 03:31:29 Pandu Poluan wrote: Here's one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302323.aspx -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ Works here: Squid

Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-06-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:48, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 14:01, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2011 03:31:29 Pandu Poluan wrote: Here's one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302323.aspx -- Pandu E Poluan

Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-06-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 14:57, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 6/2/2011 11:48 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 14:01, Joost Roeleveldjo...@antarean.org  wrote: Works here: Squid version = 3.1.8 enabled USE-flags = epoll ipv6 kernel_linux ldap pam ssl Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-06-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 14:50, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:48, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 14:01, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2011 03:31:29 Pandu Poluan wrote: Here's one: http

[gentoo-user] Where be the hardened Stage3?

2011-06-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
Anyone knows why current-stage3/ no longer has the hardened stage3 tarballs? Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com

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

2011-06-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
-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 stage3 tarballs? Try this for now? http

RE: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

2011-06-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid? From: Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net Date: 2011-06-04 15:45 Am 04.06.2011 02:54, schrieb Stroller: On 3 June 2011, at 09:59, Pandu Poluan wrote: ... Oookay... something's wrong with the box itself

RE: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-04 21:54 Indi wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:22:57AM -0500, Dale wrote: That one was inline with the rest. Yeppie !! Thanks for the

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

2011-06-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 05:55, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: I asked on the hardened list and haven't heard anything for a few days. We might just have to wait until someone notices and fixes it. Thanks. Pray tell us when there's nows and/or explanation :) Rgds, -- Pandu E

RE: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-09 08:25 And now I'll try not to talk about Windows on this list again for the remainder of the year. ;) Naaah, is okay... as long as you don't do it excessively

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 09:15, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Now what was I thinking.  Oh, wait.  I wasn't thinking.  There was the problem right there.  I hadn't enabled any of the IPv6 stuff in the kernel.  Jeeez, what a idiot.  I haven't even thought of the kernel settings. sighs You

[gentoo-user] Error while `emerge grub`

2011-06-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, what's going on here... While `emerge grub` I got configure: error: unsupported CPU type Here's /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10/work/grub-0.97/config.log : This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

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