Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:14:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > >> So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ? > > > > That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as > > FAT and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread wabenbau
Am Dienstag, 10.03.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Justin Findlay : > On 03/10/2015 01:35 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Most modems and routers have really bad DNS proxies. I tend to > >> either run my own or use Googles DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 > > > > I don't like the idea that google is getting al

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ? > > That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as > FAT and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs > RAID and it works well. I wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: >> >> I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but >> setting up NM without a gui is simple. >> >> This is my home wifi setup: >> >> # cat /etc/NetworkManager/sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:27 PM, German wrote: > > Did you hear about CLI wi-fi tool iw? I am testing it right now, > but seem cannot figure out how to use it iw is OK to set up an unencrypted or wep connection but you need wpa_supplicant for a wpa connection; and you need either ip or a dhcp cli

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager emerged, system unstable

2015-03-11 Thread Josh Lemerand
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, German wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:25:00 -0400 > Josh Lemerand wrote: > > > " nmcli dev wifi con "Cafe Hotspot 1" password caffeine name "My cafe" > > > > creates a new connection named "My cafe" and thenconnects it to "Cafe > > Hotspot 1" SSID using password

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: > I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but > setting up NM without a gui is simple. > > This is my home wifi setup: > > # cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/thsky > [connection] > id=thsky > uuid=e03d75e4-043a-

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager emerged, system unstable

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:25:00 -0400 Josh Lemerand wrote: > " nmcli dev wifi con "Cafe Hotspot 1" password caffeine name "My cafe" > > creates a new connection named "My cafe" and thenconnects it to "Cafe > Hotspot 1" SSID using password "caffeine". This is mainly useful when > connecting to "Cafe

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager emerged, system unstable

2015-03-11 Thread Josh Lemerand
" nmcli dev wifi con "Cafe Hotspot 1" password caffeine name "My cafe" creates a new connection named "My cafe" and thenconnects it to "Cafe Hotspot 1" SSID using password "caffeine". This is mainly useful when connecting to "Cafe Hotspot 1" for the first time. Next time, it is better to use 'nmcl

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:35:26 -0600 Jc García wrote: > 2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German : > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: > >> > >> > > > eix-e: command not found. What to do? > >> > > > >> > > Insert a spa

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Jc García
2015-03-11 12:35 GMT-06:00 Jc García : > search info(man, google) about nmcli. also nmtui, it seems easier to use, I hadn't looked at the list of NetworkManager tools in a while, but still the wicd cli interface is easier from what I remember.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Jc García
2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German : > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: >> >> > > > eix-e: command not found. What to do? >> > > >> > > Insert a space between "eix" and "-e". >> > > >> > >> > Same result - command not fo

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:52:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I generally set up boot on a RAID1 across all disks. You can still > > access individual disks in a RAID1 array, so you can set your > > computer to boot from sda1 then sda2 etc but mount /boot on the > > array, so all updates ar

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11.03.2015 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Then I spent some hours fiddling with grub2, gummiboot et al to >> get that box booting up fine. dracut doesn't assemble the >> rootfs-raid etc etc ... -> fun > > I found this with a LUKS root filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:16:04 -0400, German wrote: > > emerge eix, then run eix-update as root. > > Ok, done that. Indeed there are anything related to x11-lib, but when I > do emerge --ask net-misc/networkmanager I see x11-proto and x11-libs to > be emerged. Use variable is set to "-X". Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: > > > > > eix-e: command not found. What to do? > > > > > > Insert a space between "eix" and "-e". > > > > > > > Same result - command not found > > emerge eix, then run eix-update

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-11 Thread Marko Weber | 8000
hi martin, Am 2015-03-10 19:03, schrieb Martin Jerabek: On 10.3.2015 17:07, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: Hi, on one of my gentoo-servers i try to update the system with 'emerge -uD world'. i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. Can anyone help me or guide

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-11 Thread Marko Weber | 8000
hi neil, Am 2015-03-10 21:05, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:07:32 +0100, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: on one of my gentoo-servers i try to update the system with 'emerge -uD world'. i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. Can anyone help me or

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: > > > eix-e: command not found. What to do? > > > > Insert a space between "eix" and "-e". > > > > Same result - command not found emerge eix, then run eix-update as root. -- Neil Bothwick Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarca

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:12:04 +0100 Paul Klos wrote: > Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 08:03:06 schreef German: > > eix-e: command not found. What to do? > > Insert a space between "eix" and "-e". > Same result - command not found > -- German

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Klos
Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 08:03:06 schreef German: > eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between "eix" and "-e".

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:52:02 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/03/2015 13:40, German wrote: > >> wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless > >> > interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be > >> > NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/03/2015 13:40, German wrote: >> wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless >> > interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be >> > NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Both are in portage. >> > >> > Alternatively, you could just set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:06 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: > > > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. > > > What > > package should I em

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:20:25 +, Mick wrote: > >> > Google only keeps the latest versions so that ebuild is usually only >> > good for a short while after it gets marked stable. >> > Just keyword the unstable package. >> >> So users of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: > > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. > > What > package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or > command line? Any

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:45:54 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > yesterday I received a shiny new server for a client. > > It brings 4 x 1 TB SATA disks, is capable of UEFI and I started setting > it up. > > GPT partitioning, small partition(s) for the ESP, some swap, and bigger > partitions of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:20:25 +, Mick wrote: > > Google only keeps the latest versions so that ebuild is usually only > > good for a short while after it gets marked stable. > > Just keyword the unstable package. > > So users of the stable package have to be really fast, or lucky? Gentoo sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. What package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are welcome. Thanks > > net-

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 11 March 2015, at 6:52 am, Mick wrote: > ... > I googled for it and downloaded it from a mirror. Am I correct that if the > hash is not right the ebuild will complain about it, Yes.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread Stroller
On Tue, 10 March 2015, at 6:16 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > ... > The problem vanishes as I powercycled my DSL modem. > > Was my DSL modem hacked? I think it's far more likely the router ran out of memory, a process hung or something. Perhaps other sites worked because they were cached.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread Adam Carter
The second argument to both host and nslookup, specifies the server to use for the lookup. So, you can compare the results of the DNS server specified in /etc/resolv.conf, with others like those mentioned above, eg host youtube.com 8.8.8.8 or nslookup youtube.com 4.2.2.4 However, youtube.com will

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 19:16:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I rebooted my Gentoo box...no help... > > The problem vanishes as I powercycled my DSL modem. > > Any other access was working the whole time. > > Was my DSL modem hacked? > Does anyone else noticed a glithc in the matrix? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-11 Thread Stroller
On Tue, 10 March 2015, at 4:07 pm, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: > ... > i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. > Can anyone help me or guide me? Search the list for "perl" - perl update conflicts have been discussed several times in the last few weeks. Stroller

[gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. What package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are welcome. Thanks -- German

Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:11 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: [...] > Canek, > > I don't see these long filenames in your filetree-listing. > You have a directory with the UUID, but then just the kernel-version numbers. > > Or am I looking at the wrong email? You are: # tree -l /boot/loader/ /boot/loader

Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, March 08, 2015 11:11:49 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 10:51:38 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > > > Are the ownership and mode of > > > > "e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.1-gentoo.conf" the same as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:38:03 -0700 schrieb walt : > On 03/10/2015 10:12 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > > is there a specialised ML for the > > Linux USB stack? > > Yes, I follow it on gmane.org as gmane.linux.usb.general (not sure what > the real name of the mailing list is) and Sarah Sharp is the xhci