Re: [gentoo-user] distributed emerge

2017-09-27 Thread Adam Carter
o take extra care to set CFLAGS to the lowest common function set across his fleet, since he wants to use the same binaries on each system.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:49:48 GMT Michael wrote: > I'm glad you got it going. I don't use NFS at the moment, but with a fleet > of ancient systems hanging around I may start doing this soon to accelerate > emerges for most of them by using a faster PC. Well, I haven't got tha

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread James
will be indistinguishable to the masses of users. Everyone is cheap, so the price of Intel processors will plunge. Arm, being ethereal by nature, is far too fleet-footed for the aged behemoth, known as Intel. The planet is CHEAP, and that has, shall and will dominate Not to mention there'll be a big

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
me in the right >> direction? I don't want to use distcc please. >> >> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" >> CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > > Switching to -mtune=native seems to work. Time for an emerge -e world. Also ti

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
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Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
gt; Thank you both for the clue. No more head-banging for the moment. I'm glad you got it going. I don't use NFS at the moment, but with a fleet of ancient systems hanging around I may start doing this soon to accelerate emerges for most of them by using a faster PC. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
If so, could anyone point me in the right >>> direction? I don't want to use distcc please. >>> >>> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" >>> CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" >> >> >> Switching to -mtune=native seems to w

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/29/2019 12:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: I don't see the value in using a different configuration on a box simply because it happens to work on that particular box. Dracut is a more generic solution that allows me to keep hosts the same. And if all the boxes in the fleet can function

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
SSL via resigning or owning both end > >> points). > > > > AFAIK in an enterprise MITM works by having a local CA added to the cert > stores of the workstation fleet, and having that CA auto generate the certs > for MITM. That didn't work with certificate pinning, but pinn

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Adam Carter
r certificate store" AFAIK in an enterprise MITM works by having a local CA added to the cert stores of the workstation fleet, and having that CA auto generate the certs for MITM. That didn't work with certificate pinning, but pinning has been deprecated. > If its only your own communicat

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Rich Freeman
works by having a local CA added to the cert > stores of the workstation fleet, and having that CA auto generate the certs > for MITM. That didn't work with certificate pinning, but pinning has been > deprecated. So, I don't know all the ways that pinning is implemented, but if you're ta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
>>> This is exactly the use-case ansible was designed for: declarative, >>> idempotent, predictable management of a fleet of machines that may or >>> may not be around when you feel like updating something (so it catches >>> up later), and needs o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/09/2017 22:55, Grant wrote: >> This is exactly the use-case ansible was designed for: declarative, >> idempotent, predictable management of a fleet of machines that may or >> may not be around when you feel like updating something (so it catches >> up later), and ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
use shell scripting to make > vixie cron into such an implementation. Vixie cron and it's clones needs to die, really. The number of places where it makes sense is falling by the day; showing no sign of slowing down. I think I have 3 cronjobs left across my fleet that actually make sense and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

2016-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
us ever ask our computers to do is > what portage needs to figure out for emerge -avuND world That dependency tree logic seems simple to some of the stuff I've seen in the past. It's still one of the most complex calculations one can come up with. > Like Dale correctly keeps pointing ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

2016-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
g out, this isn't Ubuntu which only gives you one choice - the one the package maintainer made. Gentoo is unique in that it has to cope[1] with any choice the user decided to make, and still get the answer right. Even my fleet of FreeBSD servers doesn't offer that choice - I can compile from ports,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/09/2017 02:01, Grant wrote: >>>> This is exactly the use-case ansible was designed for: declarative, >>>> idempotent, predictable management of a fleet of machines that may or >>>> may not be around when you feel like updating something (so it catches

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

2017-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
ents, etc) or you operate a >> proper time server, you absolutely do not need this behaviour ever.[1] >> > > I'd argue the opposite. Assuming your system boots with approximately > the correct time then slewing the clock is going to be the best way to > maintain time. Yeah but t

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
n that allows me to keep hosts the same. > > And if all the boxes in the fleet can function without an initramfs? > Then why have it? Why not apply Occam's Razor & Parsimony and use the > simpler solution. Especially if more complex solutions introduce > additional things that

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread William Kenworthy
th end >>> points). >> AFAIK in an enterprise MITM works by having a local CA added to the cert >> stores of the workstation fleet, and having that CA auto generate the certs >> for MITM. That didn't work with certificate pinning, but pinning has been >> deprecated.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

2022-07-15 Thread Grant Taylor
e keys. No, they don't. You just need to account for current and prior keys. I've done exactly this on a fleet of about 800 Unix systems that I helped administer at my last job. You do something like the following: 1) Log into the remote system explicitly using the prior key. 2) Append the curren

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
), then Sendmail is definitely not what you want. That depends. If you have a fleet of Sendmail servers, chances are good that you will prefer to re-use the same solution, even in small / simple role. Read: The Devil that you know. If you don't need local queueing (so you can send email while

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

2022-07-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
ed individually and you won't find the same admin-account-username on more then 1 system) > > Either way, to do this automatically, all the desktop machines need > > to be powered and running while changing the keys. > > No, they don't. > > You just need to account for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-07 Thread Grant Taylor
The few places that I've seen do it are using Fibre Channel. Which, handily enough, shows up as SCSI directly attached disk. Except then you're tailoring your bootloader to individual systems. Not really. My current employer has about fifty different model servers in the fleet, from about

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread lee
ection. >> >> >> >> It is as much problem of the company when they want the employees to >> >> work at home. And the employees don't have a choice, they can only get >> >> a connection they can get. >> > >> > If the company insists peopl

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
eone who can still afford it at all, and it might become difficult to > find an employer willing to spend the money it takes to provide the > employees with offices. True, but if you end up paying for the privilege to work, why work at all? If I would end up with a negative balance because m