Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly O/T] mysql problems

2014-10-15 Thread Kerin Millar
On 15/10/2014 13:05, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 15 Oct 2014 02:14:37 Kerin Millar wrote: On 14/10/2014 23:25, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2014 21:15:48 Kerin Millar wrote: * Have you upgraded MySQL recently without going through the documented upgrade procedure? [1] I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly O/T] mysql problems

2014-10-14 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/10/2014 23:25, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2014 21:15:48 Kerin Millar wrote: On 14/10/2014 19:54, Mick wrote: # Uncomment this to get FEDERATED engine support #plugin-load=federated=ha_federated.so loose-federated As far as I recall this is a default setting. Should I change it

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly O/T] mysql problems

2014-10-14 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/10/2014 19:54, Mick wrote: Hi All, This may be slightly off topic, but I thought of asking here first. I noticed two problems, one specific to a particular database, the other more general. In reverse order: 1. I am getting this error when I start mysqld 141014 19:41:38 [Warning] /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/10/2014 21:13, James wrote: Hello, I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always have done. The handbook give instructions for untaring the

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 12/10/2014 13:08, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to send commands to ttyO1 (serial port on an embedded system). The commands are one line each and terminated with CRL/LF (aka "DOS"). Since this will be done from a batch script, it should be possible via commandline tools and non-inter

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/10/2014 09:31, Kerin Millar wrote: On 07/10/2014 09:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not in the tree, yet, like [blocks B ] Here is a generically applicable

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/10/2014 09:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not in the tree, yet, like [blocks B ] Here is a generically applicable approach to handling upgrades in situations

Re: [gentoo-user] VB - login from one Windows XP to another XP

2014-10-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/10/2014 07:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:17:49 PM Joseph wrote: > On 10/06/14 21:22, Jc García wrote: > >2014-10-06 19:52 GMT-06:00 Joseph : > >> I'm running Windows XP in VirtualBox. > >> I can NX to the running VB - Windows XP as (shadow or new) session.

Re: [gentoo-user] another "headless device"-question: In search of the LAN

2014-09-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/09/2014 15:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:00:39 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Using 'after' won't work unless both net.eth0 and ntp-client are in the default runlevel. Obviously, that condition is not satisfied if you are using ifplugd. Please try the soluti

Re: [gentoo-user] another "headless device"-question: In search of the LAN

2014-09-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/09/2014 14:42, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Kerin Millar [14-09-30 15:08]: On 30/09/2014 12:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick [14-09-30 12:44]: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:39:06 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [I] sys-apps/ifplugd Available versions: 0.28-r9

Re: [gentoo-user] another "headless device"-question: In search of the LAN

2014-09-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/09/2014 14:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:46:46 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: depend() { before cron portmap after eth0 use dns logger } for "after XYZ" I set net net.eth0 eth0 and none worked for me... Using &#x

Re: [gentoo-user] another "headless device"-question: In search of the LAN

2014-09-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/09/2014 14:46, Kerin Millar wrote: On 30/09/2014 14:42, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Kerin Millar [14-09-30 15:08]: On 30/09/2014 12:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick [14-09-30 12:44]: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:39:06 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [I] sys-apps/ifplugd

Re: [gentoo-user] another "headless device"-question: In search of the LAN

2014-09-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/09/2014 12:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick [14-09-30 12:44]: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:39:06 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [I] sys-apps/ifplugd Available versions: 0.28-r9[doc selinux] Installed versions: 0.28-r9(11:14:57 12/18/10)(-doc)

Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

2014-09-29 Thread Kerin Millar
On 29/09/2014 16:10, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 28.09.2014 10:44, schrieb Jorge Almeida: I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are unaccountably large. Really? Who cares. Storage is so cheap nowadays, that that kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Kerin Millar
On 28/09/2014 15:13, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal to write their status to and which are writing files which their results on a headless computer (beaglebone). I tried things like my_program -o file.txt -parameter value > /dev/n

Re: [gentoo-user] [Security] Update bash *NOW*

2014-09-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/09/2014 13:54, Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/09/2014 02:58, Walter Dnes wrote: [snip] ...with malicious stuff, and it could get ugly. app-shells/bash-4.2_p48 has been pushed to Gentoo stable. The same "env" command results in... Unfortunately, that version did fully address t

Re: [gentoo-user] [Security] Update bash *NOW*

2014-09-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/09/2014 02:58, Walter Dnes wrote: [snip] ...with malicious stuff, and it could get ugly. app-shells/bash-4.2_p48 has been pushed to Gentoo stable. The same "env" command results in... Unfortunately, that version did fully address the problem. Instead, upgrade to 4.2_p48-r1 or any of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-19 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2014 14:12, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 09/18/2014 05:17 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: On 17/09/2014 21:20, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is not good u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2014 19:27, James wrote: Kerin Millar fastmail.co.uk> writes: The need for the OOM killer stems from the fact that memory can be overcommitted. These articles may prove informative: http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/ Yea I saw this article. Its dated February 4, 2009. How m

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - "and' condition

2014-09-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2014 17:44, Joseph wrote: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an "or" condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on d

Re: [gentoo-user] OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2014 16:48, James wrote: Hello, Out Of Memory seems to invoke mysterious processes that kill such offending processes. OOM seems to be a common problem that pops up over and over again within the clustering communities. I would greatly appreciate (gentoo) illuminations on the OOM issu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 17/09/2014 21:20, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is not good unless you're doing a massively parallel read (what it was designed for). I can elaborate why if anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 17/09/2014 19:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 17 September 2014 20:10:57 CEST, "Hervé Guillemet" wrote: Le 16/09/2014 21:07, James a écrit : By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file system on top o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-16 Thread Kerin Millar
On 16/09/2014 15:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 14/09/14 10:24, Gevisz wrote: I have just installed unix2dos utility (never had a need to use it before) and just after that tried to install dos2unix but the installation of dos2unix failed complaining on the fact that "app-text/unix2dos" is blo

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Kerin Millar
On 13/09/2014 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: If I do: fdisk /dev/sda t 1 fd Won't it destroy data on /dev/sda? No. Although mdadm will. A simple solution is to create the array with only the second disk as the initial member and designate the other device as literally "missing". The array

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Kerin Millar
On 13/09/2014 04:17, Joseph wrote: On 09/12/14 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I can swap the drives and boot. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/09/2014 06:32, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 06:10, Kerin Millar wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. I just had a HD crash so I selected a replacement SSD and I'm re installing the software. I had backup of /etc/ and

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/09/2014 06:01, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/09/2014 05:16, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 04:57, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/09/2014 04:50, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 04:27, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/09/2014 04:21, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 03:59, Kerin Millar wrote: On 09/09/2014 19:36, Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/09/2014 05:16, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 04:57, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/09/2014 04:50, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 04:27, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/09/2014 04:21, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 03:59, Kerin Millar wrote: On 09/09/2014 19:36, Joseph wrote: [snip] Running on my other

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/09/2014 04:50, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 04:27, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/09/2014 04:21, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 03:59, Kerin Millar wrote: On 09/09/2014 19:36, Joseph wrote: [snip] Running on my other system I get: equery b libstdc++.so.6 * Searching for libstdc++.so.6 ... sys

Re: [gentoo-user] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 09/09/2014 22:38, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2014 20:15:09 Joseph wrote: On 09/09/14 14:46, Todd Goodman wrote: * Joseph [140909 14:37]: I was installing an application gimp and all of a sudden I got an error: [SNIP] configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/gimp-2.8.10-r1/wor

Re: [gentoo-user] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/09/2014 04:21, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 03:59, Kerin Millar wrote: On 09/09/2014 19:36, Joseph wrote: [snip] Running on my other system I get: equery b libstdc++.so.6 * Searching for libstdc++.so.6 ... sys-devel/gcc-4.5.4 (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.4/libstdc++.so.6

Re: [gentoo-user] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 09/09/2014 19:36, Joseph wrote: I was installing an application gimp and all of a sudden I got an error: Emerging (7 of 8) media-gfx/gimp-2.8.10-r1 * gimp-2.8.10.tar.bz2 SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] * gimp-2.8.10-freetype251.patch SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR partition

2014-09-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/09/2014 01:28, Dale wrote: Kerin Millar wrote: On 06/09/2014 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/09/2014 14:48, Dale wrote: James wrote: Joseph gmail.com> writes: Thank you for the information. I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with sector sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR partition

2014-09-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/09/2014 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/09/2014 14:48, Dale wrote: James wrote: Joseph gmail.com> writes: Thank you for the information. I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with sector starting at 2048, I will re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63. Tak

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-05 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/09/2014 04:10, Joseph wrote: On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote: I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. Not that it particularly matters but a partition dedicated to /boot contains a Linux filesystem and

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread Kerin Millar
On 28/08/2014 16:42, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple (non-gentoo) error on my part. In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/dia --integrated ls -l /home/gottlieb/bin/dia gives -rwxr-xr-x

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1 - FIXED

2014-08-26 Thread Kerin Millar
On 26/08/2014 17:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 17:00:37 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 15:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 14:21:19 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-26 Thread Kerin Millar
On 26/08/2014 15:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 14:21:19 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-26 Thread Kerin Millar
On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: I now wonder if this is a race condition between the init script running `mdadm -As` and the fact

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 12:17, Peter Humphrey wrote: Well, it was simple. I just said "rc-update del mdraid boot" and all is now well. I'd better revisit the docs to see if they still give

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 12:17, Peter Humphrey wrote: Well, it was simple. I just said "rc-update del mdraid boot" and all is now well. I'd better revisit the docs to see if they still give the same advice. -- Regards Peter Very interesting indeed. I now wonder if this is a race condition between the

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 13:18, Kerin Millar wrote: No, I get the same result. Just a red asterisk at the left end of the line after "Starting up RAID devices..." It since dawned upon me that defining AUTO as such won't help because you define the arrays explicitly. Can you try again

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 10:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2014 19:22:40 Kerin Millar wrote: On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 So I decided to clean up /etc/mdadm.conf by adding these lines: DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* ARRAY /dev/md5 devices=/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 ARRAY /

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For several years I've been running with / on /dev/md5 (0.99 metadata), which is built on /dev/sd[ab]5. At each boot I see a message scroll by saying something like "No devices found in config file or automatically" and then lvm LVM does n

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --config

2014-08-21 Thread Kerin Millar
On 21/08/2014 12:07, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am building some VM's using scripts and want to run "emerge --config mariadb" automaticly. However it asks for a new root password (entered twice) as part of the process - I was going to make an expect script to enter the password for me .

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 19:06, Timur Aydin wrote: Hi, I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is "beyond compare" by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc. I have patched my existing

Re: [gentoo-user] bash script question

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 15:18, Kerin Millar wrote: On 18/08/2014 15:02, Stroller wrote: On Mon, 18 August 2014, at 1:16 pm, Kerin Millar wrote: ... (( count += matches )) done < <(grep -hcm1 -F "$string" ${files[*]}) Oh, this is lovely. I've learned some things tod

Re: [gentoo-user] bash script question

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 15:02, Stroller wrote: On Mon, 18 August 2014, at 1:16 pm, Kerin Millar wrote: ... (( count += matches )) done < <(grep -hcm1 -F "$string" ${files[*]}) Oh, this is lovely. I've learned some things today. if (( count == ${#files[@]} ));

Re: [gentoo-user] bash script question

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 12:29, Stroller wrote: On Mon, 18 August 2014, at 10:42 am, wraeth wrote: On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 18:54 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: But this matches if grep fails both times as well as when it matches both time. Any ideas? If you don't mind using a quick loop, you could use somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/08/2014 17:50, Kerin Millar wrote: On 04/08/2014 15:46, Roger Cahn wrote: *man emerge sh: most : commande introuvable Erreur pendant l'ex�cution du formatage ou de l'affichage. Le syst�me retourne pour (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 11.1i"

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/08/2014 15:46, Roger Cahn wrote: Hello all, I encounter some problems with python compiling and man errors. 1- Python : I can't emerge some python packages (ie pyorbit, libmpeg2, libbonobo-python, etc...). Even the installed python packages can't emerge anymore. Here is the error messag

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

2014-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2014 23:12, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 23:02:38 Kerin Millar wrote: On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote: Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with some blockers, I ran: emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 28/07/2014 16:34, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-28 1:00 GMT+03:00 Kerin Millar : On 27/07/2014 21:38, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 22:13 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:33:47 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: That's what replaces it when eth0 comes up. It looks like eth0 i

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

2014-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote: Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with some blockers, I ran: emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*') emerge -uD1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') as advised by perl-cleaner, be

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 21:38, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 22:13 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:33:47 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: That's what replaces it when eth0 comes up. It looks like eth0 is not being brought up fully It sounds logical. But how can I fix it? By identifying how f

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was updated to 1.3.0 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 12:30, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 13:39 GMT+03:00 Walter Dnes : On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:21:23PM +0300, Grand Duet wrote This is a continuation of the thread: "Something went wrong with DNS, plz help!" Now, the issue became clearer, so I decided to start a new thread with mor

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-19 Thread Kerin Millar
On 19/06/2014 12:56, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:40:08 +0800, Amankwah wrote: Maybe the only solution is that move the portage tree to HDD?? Or tmpfs if you rarely reboot or have a fast enough connection to your preferred

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-23 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/02/2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi. I am again, with a similar question to previous. I want to install RAID on SSD's. Comparing THEORETICALLY, RAID0 (stripe) vs RAID1 (mirrior). The performance would be something like this: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2 writ

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 22/02/2014 11:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, February 22, 2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/09/2013 07:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to run 2.6.25 kernel (no DEVTMPFS)?

2014-02-14 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/02/2014 21:31, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-02-14, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: I need to do some testing with kernels as far back as 2.6.25. I've currently got a Gentoo box that can build and run kernels ranging from 3.14.rc2 to 2.6.32. The

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/02/2014 01:23, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:28:43AM +, Kerin Millar wrote On 10/02/2014 23:57, Walter Dnes wrote: What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for the emerge update process? It's the principle of least privilege

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 20:30, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/02/2014 16:05, Stroller wrote: Hello all, I'm a little bit rusty, but my recollection is that I should be able to perform `eix-sync` (or `emerge --sync`?) as a user to synchronise my local copy of the portage tree with Gentoo's master po

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 23:57, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:10:50PM +, Kerin Millar wrote As mentioned in a few other posts, recent snapshots are portage:portage throughout so it's a done deal for new installations. How "recent"? Looking back into ~/Maildir/

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 19:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/02/2014 21:03, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:09:55PM +, Stroller wrote >> >>On Mon, 10 February 2014, at 4:55 pm, Gleb Klochkov wrote: >> >>>Hi. Try to use sudo with no password for eix-sync. >> >>I'd really rather not. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 16:05, Stroller wrote: Hello all, I'm a little bit rusty, but my recollection is that I should be able to perform `eix-sync` (or `emerge --sync`?) as a user to synchronise my local copy of the portage tree with Gentoo's master portage tree. User is in the portage group: $ whoam

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 19:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:09:55PM +, Stroller wrote On Mon, 10 February 2014, at 4:55 pm, Gleb Klochkov wrote: Hi. Try to use sudo with no password for eix-sync. I'd really rather not. Thanks, though. Being in group "portage" is not enough.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-29 Thread Kerin Millar
hasufell wrote: If we support disabling all useflags on package level (and we do), then we support disabling all on global level as well. All _unexpected_ breakage that occurs due to that are ebuild bugs that have incorrect dependencies or missing REQUIRED_USE constraints. Defaults are just

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-25 Thread Kerin Millar
Johann Schmitz wrote: We use Dell servers exclusively and have for 15 years. I think we're up to 400+ physical boxes now and the number of Linux-compatibility issues in all that time is exactly zero :-) That's good to hear. If Dell sold server-class hardware that wasn't 100% supported in Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread Kerin Millar
the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is the the first time I'm dealing with wifi and the second time with NAT. I have a server (access point) with a ppp0 interface (internet), eth0, wlan0, tun0 and sit0. A dhcp server is listening on wlan0 and provides local ip ad

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/10/2013 21:55, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's posit two network interfaces net1 (192.168.x.y/16) and net2 (172.16.a.b/16). There's a NAT/gateway available on each of the networks. I want to use the 172.16 gateway for TCP connections to port 80 and the 192.168 gateway for everything else. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/10/2013 11:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my beloved Gentoo got a little outdated. So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/10/2013 20:27, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's say you wanted to configure routing of TCP packets based on destination port like in this example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.netfilter.html [which contains a series of 'ip' and 'iptables' commands to get packets destined

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/10/2013 13:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and /usr/port

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work?

2013-10-02 Thread Kerin Millar
On 02/10/2013 17:47, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 02.10.2013 18:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 02.10.2013 15:54, schrieb Kerin Millar: Run "modinfo kvm kvm-amd" and check for discrepancies between the details of the two, especially regarding the vermagic field. [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work?

2013-10-02 Thread Kerin Millar
On 02/10/2013 13:27, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I try to set up KVM/QEMU on that new and shiny AMD server 24 cores of Opteron: processor : 23 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6344 nice I want gentoo-sou

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 29/08/2013 08:54, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! Here's my scenario: Currently there is a server performing 2 functions; one runs on, let's say, port 2000, and another one runs on port 3000. Due to some necessary changes, especially the need to (1) provide more resource for a function, and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/08/2013 16:23, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Pandu Poluan mailto:pa...@poluan.info>> wrote: I know that the (theoretical) best performance is to use -march=native , but since the processors of the HP servers are not exactly the same as the Dell's, I'm c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/08/2013 13:15, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18:41PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors. They currently are acting as XenServer hosts. How do I determine the 'least common

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/08/2013 17:40, Stroller wrote: On 7 August 2013, at 13:41, Kerin Millar wrote: On 06/08/2013 23:42, Stroller wrote: On 6 August 2013, at 14:04, Kerin Millar wrote: ... If undefined, the value of LC_COLLATE is inherited from LANG. I'm not sure that overriding it is particu

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/08/2013 23:42, Stroller wrote: On 6 August 2013, at 14:04, Kerin Millar wrote: ... If undefined, the value of LC_COLLATE is inherited from LANG. I'm not sure that overriding it is particularly useful nowadays but it doesn't hurt. It's been a couple of years since I l

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/08/2013 15:26, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:40:04PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Apparently, "utf8" is the canonical representation in glibc (which provides the locale tool): http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2004/12/msg00028.html That eselect enumerates

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/08/2013 14:24, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:04:00PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Legitimate locales are those installed with glibc. These can be shown with either "eselect locale list" or "locale -a". Having never used eselect with locales (AFAIR) bef

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/08/2013 15:55, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:12:01 +0100 schrieb Kerin Millar : On 31/07/2013 12:31, Marc Joliet wrote: [snip] There's also "-cpu host", which simply passes your CPU through to the guest. That's what I use for my 32 bit WinXP VM. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/08/2013 23:52, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You generally do this by setting the LANG variable in /etc/conf.d/02locale. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-02 Thread Kerin Millar
On 02/08/2013 01:13, walt wrote: On 08/01/2013 03:08 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: On 30/07/2013 22:04, walt wrote: On 07/29/2013 06:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on a vbox install of gentoo as guest. Working on a fresh install but

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-08-01 Thread Kerin Millar
On 01/08/2013 22:38, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:41:56AM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote You can use march=native on your gentoo hosts, that's no problem, as long as you don't use it on your guests. That's the hole idea of VMs: being able to move the virtual machine to another m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-01 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2013 22:04, walt wrote: On 07/29/2013 06:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on a vbox install of gentoo as guest. Working on a fresh install but don't have gentoo running anywhere to rob a .config from. This one worked for m

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-07-31 Thread Kerin Millar
On 31/07/2013 12:31, Marc Joliet wrote: [snip] There's also "-cpu host", which simply passes your CPU through to the guest. That's what I use for my 32 bit WinXP VM. You can use it if you don't mind not being able to migrate your guest, but it sounds to me like you're doing this on a desktop m

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-07-31 Thread Kerin Millar
On 31/07/2013 11:11, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm looking at setting up 32-bit WINE to run a 32-bit Windows app. Since I'm on a pure 64-bit (no multi-lib) machine, that doesn't exactly work, which is why I'm looking at QEMU. I need to run WINE in 32 bit mode, on a 32-bit install in a VM. Is a 64-b

Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

2013-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2013 11:36, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-30 4:11 AM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: It needs a couple of kernel modules to work, but emerge will promt to you what it needs. Side question... I want to run the vmware tools on my gentoo VM (so the host can safely power it down), but it also req

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 10:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When booting off the install cd

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote 2) What "vncviewer" or "vncconnect" parameters do I use to get to the qemu session? Assuming both server and client are run locally, connecting to either "localh

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 04:24, Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks to all who replied. sys-firmware/seabios needed the "binary" flag and sys-firmware/ipxe needed the "qemu" and "vmware" flags. It's starting now, and most of my problems are solved. I still have permission problems as a regular user with qemu

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 19:22, Mick wrote: I am getting messages like the one below from portage every now and then. Especially, about /var/run, but in this case about a different directory: * Messages for package dev-libs/klibc-1.5.20: * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk: DOS/GPT

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 12:25, Pavel Volkov wrote: Is fdisk lying to me? It would appear so. If you are fond of fdisk, I'd suggest using gdisk as an alternative for managing disks using GPT. At least, until such time as the support in fdisk can be considered mature. --Kerin

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 14:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: WARN: pretend You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are not). If you are intending to use this

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