[gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?
Dear All, I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting some absolutely atrocious disk performance from it, a lot less than I would expect. Bonnie++ results are here: MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP aurora 2G 150 99 11141 6 6969 2 1482 94 20763 3 137.7 3 Latency 66612us3997ms2408ms 115ms 423ms 739ms Version 1.93c --Sequential Create-- Random Create aurora -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 11022 64 + +++ 14496 86 11836 65 + +++ 15375 96 Latency 34229us 62us 18737us 33868us2540us 21216us 11 MB/s seems a bit rubbish compared to my bog standard Xeon with onboard sata which reports an easy 40MB/s on a single disk! All partitions are Reiser3, mounted with noatime and notail, which I am given to believe should lead to better performance. The driver is the standard Linux aacraid, compiled into kernel rather than as a module. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I might improve performance? I'm hoping somebody replies with 'did you enable the aac turbo option in make menuconfig' or similar, but I suspect it will end up being more complicated than that. Cheers, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
fe...@crowfix.com schrieb: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i sent at 12h15 a mail faking hist email address to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org and it did the trick... Now i think he is spammed with you're not subscribed to this list mlmmj mails... Nice! I toast you with a virtual beer. Wouldn't that mean, that the server hosting the mailing list still is on heavy duty? That still would evect the functionality of the server and in the end of our list, wouldn't it? kh
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:12:02 +0200, Jarry wrote: That's a little harsh. He may not even know his company's auto-responder is so hideously broken. IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. Any kind? Even a well functioning one that send no more than one mail to any address in a day? I use a procmail rule to take care of this, it appears after list filtering rules to list mails are not auto-responded. But even if it did appear before a list's rule, one mail per day is hardly a problem. Hi, is there a how-to for setting up a rule like this? To answer you question: It depends. Sometimes I receive auto response like Hey I won't be at my desk for the next 30 mins because I went to get some launch. No email should be that important that one cannot wait like a day for an replay. If it is that important one should just use the phone. On the other side: If the recipient is that important he should hire a secretary or something like that. Going to a place without internet or on vacation for weeks, ok it is correct to inform the sender, that the email will not be read until whenever. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 11:25:41 KH wrote: fe...@crowfix.com schrieb: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i sent at 12h15 a mail faking hist email address to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org and it did the trick... Now i think he is spammed with you're not subscribed to this list mlmmj mails... Nice! I toast you with a virtual beer. Wouldn't that mean, that the server hosting the mailing list still is on heavy duty? That still would evect the functionality of the server and in the end of our list, wouldn't it? Not at all. Currently, the list receives one mail and sends one you are not subscribed mail back, which may or may not elicit an autoresponse. As it was, the list receives one mail, sends one copy to everyone on the list (including the user with the autorespond), which may or may not elicit an autoresponse. Unsubscribing the user will have reduced the traffic he is causing by a significant margin. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:11 +0200, KH wrote: IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. Any kind? Even a well functioning one that send no more than one mail to any address in a day? I use a procmail rule to take care of this, it appears after list filtering rules to list mails are not auto-responded. But even if it did appear before a list's rule, one mail per day is hardly a problem. is there a how-to for setting up a rule like this? man procmailex To answer you question: It depends. I was responding to a statement that any kind of auto-responder is wrong, so it depends is not allowed :) Sometimes I receive auto response like Hey I won't be at my desk for the next 30 mins because I went to get some launch. The people that do that probably also tell everyone on twitter when they're going for a dump. No email should be that important that one cannot wait like a day for an replay. If it is that important one should just use the phone. Agreed. Going to a place without internet or on vacation for weeks, ok it is correct to inform the sender, that the email will not be read until whenever. Another use it to let people know that their mail has been received. I company I do work for has an auto-responder on their accounts address. Emails are usually replied to quickly, but if I send an invoice there is no need for a human response but the automated mail shows they received it. -- Neil Bothwick Just when you got it all figured out: An UPGRADE! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:42:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Unsubscribing the user will have reduced the traffic he is causing by a significant margin. And give the list admins breathing space in which to add a rule to silently drop messages from that address. I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such mails. -- Neil Bothwick Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
To answer you question: It depends. I was responding to a statement that any kind of auto-responder is wrong, so it depends is not allowed :) so the correct answer is: NO. :-) Another use it to let people know that their mail has been received. I company I do work for has an auto-responder on their accounts address. Emails are usually replied to quickly, but if I send an invoice there is no need for a human response but the automated mail shows they received it. I would use a fax for this. The printout from the fax shows they received it and it is better for court (in Germany) than email. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:08:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover Moshe Kamensky squawked: * William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org [28/04/09 17:06]: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. Well, I use mutt when I am working in linux, do you know of a way to do this with mutt? The action name is toggle-quote, mapped to T by default. To be pedantic, the command that better matches Neil's description is skip-quote, which is mapped to S by default. Thought I agree that toggle-quote may be (really depends on the OP) suited for the intended purpose. Best, W -- Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 873 days, 9:50
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
Neil Bothwick: I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such mails. In theory a good solution. In practice I doubt it helps. Whoever is able to configure an auto-responder in such a completely brain-dead way, as we have seen recently, will very likely screw up adherence to such a standard too. In fact, all that's needed is already there (just the other way round, though): every list I'm subscribed to adds a Precedence header field (with values of bulk or list) to the messages. A sane auto-responder will not send replies to messages containing this header field. No matter how you look at it - there's little that protects you against a dim-wit someone has told you're sysadmin now. Regards mks
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:15:30 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such mails. In theory a good solution. In practice I doubt it helps. Whoever is able to configure an auto-responder in such a completely brain-dead way, as we have seen recently, will very likely screw up adherence to such a standard too. Yes, I thought of that the instant I hit Send! In fact, all that's needed is already there (just the other way round, though): every list I'm subscribed to adds a Precedence header field (with values of bulk or list) to the messages. A sane auto-responder will not send replies to messages containing this header field. Good idea, I'll rewrite the procmail rules I use... not that I'm going on holiday for a while :( -- Neil Bothwick Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:05:22AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: To be pedantic, the command that better matches Neil's description is skip-quote, which is mapped to S by default. Thought I agree that toggle-quote may be (really depends on the OP) suited for the intended purpose. Also... not knowing how screen readers work, just in case when reading a sentence it does not differentiate between isolated upper case and lower case letters: the key for toggle-quote is upper case T; the key for skip-quote is upper case S. W -- `This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.' - Arthur, on what was to be his last Thursday on Earth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 873 days, 12:09
Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb
You do NOT need PPP, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (= 2.6.27 at least, not sure of the details). You need at least CONFIG_USB_RNDIS_WLAN as m or y. With udev and 'm' things work mostly automatically on the linux side. On the phone you enable advanced networking (or else you will see the phone as ttyUSB? and you will need ppp). Then you plug in and run dmesg -c until things quiet down. You should see a new eth? interface. Enable internet sharing on the phone, and you should see in dmesg -c that your new ethernet interface disappears and reappears. If it does not reappear your kernel is too old. On my gentoo box i can now start the interface like a regular ethernet interface. I have a debian box with a kernel from unstable where dhcp fails on the phone 'ehternet' device, so I have to do ip addr add and ip route add manually to get the network going (somehow the ifup command on debian prints the assigned ip and the gateway ip, gut does not configure the device properly). Do some googling to fill in the details, I'm not using this regularly. Wow, thanks for the clear and thorough reply! I've recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.29.1 (i used to have 2.6.24 with several external drivers) so i should be fine. I'll give this a try asap, but since i have a day off tomorrow, i might do some fiesta tonight, in any case, i should reply soon with success or failure! Thanks again! Simon
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
On 29.04.2009 14:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: In fact, all that's needed is already there (just the other way round, though): every list I'm subscribed to adds a Precedence header field (with values of bulk or list) to the messages. A sane auto-responder will not send replies to messages containing this header field. Good idea, I'll rewrite the procmail rules I use... not that I'm going on holiday for a while :( You should check not only Precedence: Bulk headers but List: headers, Auto-Submitted: headers, owner-foo envelopes, foo-request@ envelopes, Precedence: Junk headers ... See RFC 3834 for recommendations: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3834.txt -- Eray
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...
Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 22:45:53 schrieb Dale: I was also hoping you could see the humor in my reply as well. Well, I did :) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]UPS battery dead?
maxim wexler blissfix at yahoo.com writes: group, Only 2.8mins left? The UPS unit, fairly common I suspect, is a Back-UPS ES 350 and less than a year old. It only saw service once last year during an electric storm when the house power failed for a few minutes. Why isn't it charging. Or is it? 13.4 volts looks good on a 12V battery. I'm not sure I'd trust all the numbers. One easy thing to do is to, just swap in another (hopfully 7AH) standard 12V battery), give it a few days, and see what the numbers say. If you have lots of UPS's then getting a low cost 12V batter tester for 'Jell-Cell' batteries is not a bad idea. If you see signs of corrosion, toss the battery to the nearest recycle agency near you. It says BATTDATE 2000-00-00. Huh? Ignore. This looks like a default firmware value if not is correctly entered during manufacture or by the person that does maintenance. Some firewares include it, but the manufacture does not have a software application, where the info can be updated. Gel-Cell batteries are not smart (i.e. no microp) so there is no way for the battery to provide this info, to the UPS firmware. It's gimmickery. I'd like to test it further but the apcupsd manual recommends at least 5mins time left. I'd use manual testing techniques with the battery removed from the ups. You could have leaky or degraded circuitry in the ups. I canabalize old ups for good circuits and batteries and such. If you have several similar models you can do the same. Best to buy UPS in qty 2 or more to cannabalize parts. Never by a ups that does not use the standard 7AH or multiples of that standard battery. The further away from those batteries you get, the more you'll get 'ripped' at replacement time. One more thing. The smaller UPSs are of poor quality. I usually never bay an ups with less than 1KVA rating, although 800VA seem to be OK. The smaller ones just dye as the electronic swithcing circuits (how AC is made from DC) are just crappy and often fry or fatigue. Try not to run a UPS at more than 40% of the duty cycle, if you want it to last very long. Hooking up any arrangement of AC lighting will allow you to see how the battery performs over test intervals of 5,10,20,30 minutes. An amp meter, the kind that clamps around the power cord will give you the current draw of the load. From those numbers and the measured voltage across the battery, you can plot performance curves. After you do a few batteries, you can just watch the lights and pretty much tell if a battery is cooked. Battery testers are also cool, and convenient. If you are in the US, here is a great supplier for replacement batteries. They have an 8AH replacement of the standard 7AH battery (same form factor) that is usually less expensive, better quality and will give you a 1/7 longer life, nominally, Battery Wholesale Dist. 40120 Industrial Park Circle Georgetown, TX 78626 800 365 8444 not sure the website... hth, James
[gentoo-user] how I violate gentoo-netiquette
Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates?
[gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. And what's the gentoo-netiquette in the subject about?
Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200 Morten Holt th...@t-hawk.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine), I can print test pages to either machine. Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is greyed out? Some further information. Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out. Sounds like the same issue I have, do you get log entries like: Request from localhost using invalid Host: field ::1 in /var/log/cups/error_log? If you find a solution to this, please let me know here, I can't seem to find a solution to the issue, and appearantly nobody has any ideas. Sorry I didn't notice your msg earlier. My issue was fixed with a version bump to cups. Do you still have trouble with 1.3.10-r1. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. And what's the gentoo-netiquette in the subject about? About syncing portage more than once a day... -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 20:18:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. And what's the gentoo-netiquette in the subject about? He read Do not sync more than once in 24 hours in the motd and decided that of course only applied to everyone else, and not to him Andrew, exercise some patience and wait a day for your mirror to sync. It can take a day or two or three. Now, if you have a brazillion bucks to throw at the problem we can pay the mirror sites enough dosh so they can buy nearly infinite bandwidth and make it much shorter. You say you don't have a brazillion bucks? Well, me neither but my employer still has to pay the bandwidth for the gentoo mirror I run. So the UK mirror I sync from gets their stuff a day after gentoo.org, and I get mine from the UK a day after that. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
On Mittwoch 29 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2009 20:18:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. And what's the gentoo-netiquette in the subject about? He read Do not sync more than once in 24 hours in the motd and decided that of course only applied to everyone else, and not to him Andrew, exercise some patience and wait a day for your mirror to sync. It can take a day or two or three. Now, if you have a brazillion bucks to throw at the problem we can pay the mirror sites enough dosh so they can buy nearly infinite bandwidth and make it much shorter. waiting a few hours would be enough. Nobody will ban him just because he syncs earlier than 24h after the last one. Only excessive syncing will result in a ban.
Re: [gentoo-user] how I violate gentoo-netiquette
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Lets say you are interested in the eix package, do it that way: cd /tmp cvs -d :pserver:anonym...@anoncvs.gentoo.org:/var/cvsroot co gentoo-x86/app-portage/eix cp -rvf gentoo-x86/app-portage/eix /usr/portage/app-portage/eix cd /usr/portage/app-portage repoman -fix emerge eix All sources can be found at http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
Xavier Parizet wrote: Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. And what's the gentoo-netiquette in the subject about? About syncing portage more than once a day... Hmm. Most mirrors I sync against don't have such policy, and some even explicitly state in their MOTD that there's no limit to how often you can sync. I'm using rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I guess they all have flatrate bandwidth or bandwidth is cheap in Europe :P
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : Xavier Parizet wrote: Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates? Portage got updated but the mirror you're using is not synced yet. And what's the gentoo-netiquette in the subject about? About syncing portage more than once a day... Hmm. Most mirrors I sync against don't have such policy, and some even explicitly state in their MOTD that there's no limit to how often you can sync. I'm using rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I guess they all have flatrate bandwidth or bandwidth is cheap in Europe :P He is talking about this [1]... Look at green box under Listing 2.3 ;) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:05:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hmm. Most mirrors I sync against don't have such policy, and some even explicitly state in their MOTD that there's no limit to how often you can sync. I'm using rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I guess they all have flatrate bandwidth or bandwidth is cheap in Europe :P Well, as an example: The cheapest and nastiest DSL offering in Germany is better bandwidth and better cap (if any) than the most expensive service I can offer customers (my employer is the biggest in the country and gets better rates on bulk bandwidth). Plus, the Germans pay a tiny fraction of the price we have to charge. So in some places on the planet, bandwidth is a HUGE factor. In other places it isn't :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
2009/4/29 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200 Morten Holt th...@t-hawk.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine), I can print test pages to either machine. Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is greyed out? Some further information. Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out. Sounds like the same issue I have, do you get log entries like: Request from localhost using invalid Host: field ::1 in /var/log/cups/error_log? If you find a solution to this, please let me know here, I can't seem to find a solution to the issue, and appearantly nobody has any ideas. Sorry I didn't notice your msg earlier. My issue was fixed with a version bump to cups. Do you still have trouble with 1.3.10-r1. allan This is because cups start using ipv6 by default. Using your previous cuos config should fix this.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, thomas blomme wrote: Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off? I think Gmail (and alpine) pretty much do the right thing (except for sticking in some blank lines at the beginning). It's best to put the cursor at the top so that you can trim what you're quoting down to the relevant parts and insert responses inline in order. If it put the cursor at the bottom, you'd have to jump to the top, only reply at the end (which nobody likes, since it means there's a ton of quoted text that you're not really responding to sitting in your message), or write your reply backwards moving up. The issue, in my opinion, isn't starting at the top, it's failing to end at the bottom. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, William Hubbs wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. Well, I use mutt when I am working in linux, do you know of a way to do this with mutt? I don't know about mutt, but there's a flag in alpine to color quoted text. It might be possible to get your screen reader to use different voices for different colors and make it sound like the conversation it actually is. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:17:04PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I don't know about mutt, but there's a flag in alpine to color quoted text. It might be possible to get your screen reader to use different voices for different colors and make it sound like the conversation it actually is. This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure that it has ever been done. William -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn4yyAACgkQblQW9DDEZTg/fgCbBsxDpYq67NHICxSDugetE64V yCsAoK/QK6wqdcyFlM+RHEPEPuBf1FZd =9x+5 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] S/MIME errors when importing certificate
For some reason I am getting these errors when I am trying to import a SSL Certificate into Kleopatra: 6 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpg-agent[7117.14] DBG: - [Confidential data not shown] 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: 1224 bytes of 3DES encrypted text 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-1' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-15' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-2' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-3' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-4' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-5' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-6' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-7' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-8' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `ISO-8859-9' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `KOI8-R' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `IBM437' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `IBM850' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `EUC-JP' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: decryption failed; trying charset `BIG5' 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: password too long 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: data error at decrypted-text, offset 2935372947 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: error at bag-sequence, offset 15 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: error parsing or decrypting the PKCS-12 file 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: error running `/usr/libexec/gpg-protect-tool': exit status 2 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: total number processed: 0 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505.0] DBG: - S IMPORT_RES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505.0] DBG: - ERR 50331800 Decryption failed 6 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpg-agent[7117.14] DBG: - [EOF] 6 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpg-agent[7117]: handler 0x886c7c0 for fd 14 terminated 6 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpg-agent[7117.12] DBG: - [EOF] 6 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpg-agent[7117]: handler 0x882b148 for fd 12 terminated 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505.0] DBG: - BYE 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505.0] DBG: - OK closing connection I had no problem importing the previous certificate which has now expired. PS. I tried many times to make sure that I typed in the correct passphrase. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Mysql and utf8: Can't initialize character set utf-8
Hi, I have a problem with mysql 5.0.71-r1 and utf8 charset. I have a lighttpd v1.4.20 web server using php v5.2.9-r2 that provides several websites. I set up the DB server default charset to utf-8 into file /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] character-set-server= utf8 default-character-set = utf8 since I want a utf8 box: ~$ locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ALL= but I changed the previous en_GB language to fr_FR.UTF-8 a few days ago, and now my web sites can't connect to the DBs and I face the following error: Can't initialize character set utf-8 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/) I have 'unicode' in my USE flags, try to emerge -uDN my whole world but I cannot get any /usr/share/mysql/charsets/utf-8.xml file ! What can I do ? Any support is welcome.. Hereafter my box settings: ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.24.5-grsec--grs-ipv4-32 i686) = System uname: linux-2.6.24.5-grsec--grs-ipv4-32-i686-intel-r-_pentium-r-_dual_cpu_e21...@_2.00ghz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:00:01 + distcc 3.0 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/; LANG=fr_fr.u...@euro LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 LINGUAS=fr en MAKEOPTS=-j3 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage/local/layman/ovh-overlay SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=acl berkdb bzip2 cgi cli cracklib crypt cups dri fastcgi fortran gd gdbm gif gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg midi mmx mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xml xorg zlib ALSA_CARDS=ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=fr en USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Galevsky
[gentoo-user] [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards
Hi, This is sort of off-topic except it isn't if recent xorg-server updates hadn't totally killed video operation on one of my Intel GPU-based machines. I've not been able to fix it after two weeks and cannot spend more time so I'm investigating spending $40 to buy some cheap video card to just move on. Anyway, one feature I'd like to investigate with this card is MythTV over s-Video. I already use this on another old machine which is ATI-based but that ATI driver requires an old kernel so the machine hasn't been completely updated in a couple of years now. If I can get Myth out on the S-video port of this new card then possibly I can use that machine for something else which would be cool. Anyway, in the $40 range NewEgg has some GForce 6200 cards that look reasonable to me but I don't know how to determine if S-video output is supported on these cards under Linux. Any problems? If it matters there are some FX 5200 cards but they seem slower, older specs, so I'm hoping the 6200 series is a reasonable solution. Here's a link to the sort fo card I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130465 Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions
Hello, It seems that tar/gzip/bzip2 are almost universal solutions for unix-like system backups and we're using tar/gz combo to create backups from the dawn of times. But as the time goes by I stumble upon two misfits of such a combination more and more: 1. It's quite inpractical to keep tens of tarballs for one backup. 2. Seeking within single tens-hundreds-of-gigs tarball is suboptimal, at least. 3. Single thread operation. At home, being a gentoo-only user (w/ gentoo-patched kernels), I've solved the problem with squashfs - it keeps all the necessary attributes, hardlinks, boasts multi-threaded creation and instant access to any file within. Alas, I can't use it on a production servers due to compatibility issues - not a single linux here have support for it and changing / patching kernels is a bit of nuisance. Even worse, many systems that need to be backed-up are FreeBSD. So I thought there's gotta be something that fits these criterias, but so far I've found only dar and it seems quite slow and a bit unsuited for these needs. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
