On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:09:26AM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote:
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> I was just wondering, while watching an emerge --sync, is it possible (or
> advisable) to limit what portage syncs? For example, I have a server here
> that doesn't use X, kde, gnome
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:51:47PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Understood - I have seen that article too. I must say, I've mainly had
> experience with 'dump' on Freebsd and 'xfsdump' on Linux, and never had
> restore issues with *either* of these. Now I'm not sure whether these are
> supposed
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:51:06PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I wrote:
>>
>>
>> If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /),
>> then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image
>> that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dump
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:39:48PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:31:29 +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
>
> > How do I reestablish python
> > and/or portage with the least pain? I have both in my PKGDIR, can I
> > 'just' untar them on top of t
Hello,
It seems that my portage or python installation or the combination
thereof has become borked. Whenever I run a portage-related program
(emerge, eclean, portageq, etc) I get segfaults. Due to these being
scripts, gdb is not of much help... I am able to start python normally
and get it to add
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:50:57AM -0500, Simon Turner wrote:
> Hi Rasmus,
> you will first need to resize your md device. Using mdadm, that
> would be done with --grow (check the man, `mdadm /dev/md123 --grow
> --size=500G` should do the trick).
Ah yes, thanks for that. For some reason I had n
Hello,
I had a raid1/mirror array of two 200G disks. Then one failed and I
thought 'lets get two 500G disks and just ease them in, they are cheap'.
So I added the full 500G partition from the first disk to the degraded
array, watched the resync, removed the remaining 200G disk and added the
last 5
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:23:40PM +, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a quick way to access the help page of a singular module in the
> kernel .config list, without having to fire up make menuconfig?
>
> Something on the CLI to access just one particular help page.
I dont think there is
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:30:54PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=thunar
>
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166573
>
> How in hell are you supposed to find bugs for thunar when the
> don't show up when you search on "thunar"?
If you include
Hi list,
I have a slightly offtopic question that I hope I can get help with
here. I have a home server, running an MTA for my domain. As of the last
month or so, I have experienced a huge increase in spam and spam
bounces. To combat this, I have upped my MTA's pickyness quite a bit but
would like
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> Is formail the right tool for me to use here? Is there a tool to
> deliver an mbox of messages to a maildir that I can use in place of '>>
> gentoo_user/' above?
To googling for mbox2maildir or mb2md(?). With a bit of work I think
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:21:12AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I want to reconfigure my SMTP server from mbox to maildir. The problem
> is that I have hundreds of messages saved in imap folders in the mbox
> style. Is there a way to convert those folders to maildir style?
This one worked fi
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:11:44AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Uwe Thiem schrieb:
> >On 17 August 2006 20:04, Stefan Wimmer wrote:
> >
> >How do you always avoid my filter that stores emails coming from this list
> >into my folder "gentoo-user". You are the only one.
>
> On my system, he's "a
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are
> SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has
> not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it.
Use a livecd/knopp
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:22:11AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >if revdep-rebuild complains that some of the stuff is no longer in portage,
> >how to find out which one?
emaint, I think.
Rasmus
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Nothing to do with the original topic, BUT...
>
> I'd be very interested to know how a flag called GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE
> gets into one's USE ;) I'm assuming you didn't put it there yourself!
Thats only used by netcat, iirc, and enab
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:58:30PM -0400, Christopher E wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command
> and the very beggining of the out put:
> Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world
> [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090)
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
> has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and
> then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the
> security risk? if so i would be very interested in looking at that
> script. Keeping 5 gentoo mac
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:18:22PM +0800, fei huang wrote:
> anybody who has some ideas about this prefix of numerous macros within linux
> source code?
> NR_TASKS for instance, I just could not find any explanation.
number
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:19:19PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> While on this topic, when I cut & paste in Vim it automatically inserts
> indents on the front of each pasted line which messes up my config
> files. I had it fixed some time ago and now I noticed it's back - would
> you know how
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Or use dvdisaster (free, get it from http://www.dvdisaster.com/). It
> is especially useful for bad disks, and doesn't stop when encountering
> an error.
I havent followed this thread closely but have the 'conv=noerror' option
t
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:24:38PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the
> disks for better performance?
There is a hdparm for SCSI, sdparm. Never tried it though.
Cheers,
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:37:53AM -0500, Robin wrote:
> bash: lsof: command not found.
>
> I must be missing something
Have you emerged sys-process/lsof? The binary is in /usr/sbin/, so it
might not be in your path.
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:06:44PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Does the group have the
> > right to execute hddtemp?
>
> Yep:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la `which hddtemp`
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27712 21. Jan 08:02 /usr/sbin/hddtemp
>
> BTW: sudo is also not what I'm after :) I'm aft
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:16:54PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing
> > > the most disk reads/writes?
> >
> > run 'vmstat 1'
>
> that doesn't seem to tell me what processes are running, only what the
> system totals are. I wa
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:01:35PM +0930, Shawn Haggett wrote:
> >'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool
> >oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >
> 'od | diff'
'cmp'
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