Re: [gentoo-user] LVM problems -- mounting a foreign drive

2007-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Rose: Hi everyone, I have an LVM comprising 2 partitions on a drive I wish to read data from, and I have a 'main' file from somewhere in /etc/lvm from that old drive: main { id = em7z2K-GhvB-mpW4-YNjE-SiZ7-zia2-PIObh2 [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: heap. It's a classic example of second system syndrome as defined by the mythical Man month. Errh, what? rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five chapters are as relevant today as they were

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Martin wrote: drive. All I had to do was vgscan and vgchange -a y and I was up and running. Actually, I too had a problem with my VG's named the same thing. It wasn't a problem to access different LV's but I changed the VG anyway. As a

[gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread James
All, I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following statistics every second: - CPU Usage (as a percentage) - NIC I/O - Hard Drive I/O I later have to correlate these stats as a function of time. I'm not really sure where I should be looking to gather these statistics.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread kashani
Dan Farrell wrote: Greetings all. I've just acquired a 4-port network card, and I set it up so that the 4 ports are each assigned an IP address, and gave all the IPs the name 'nfs' in DNS. Now I hope to point all the NFS clients at server 'nfs', and do some basic load balancing, while

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update and time skell

2007-11-07 Thread Mateus Interciso
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:25:24 +0900, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Wait 2 or more hours, reboot for good measure, and try again. On 11/7/07, Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes on the time, which was 2 hours ahead, now when I'm trying to

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sun LDOM?

2007-11-07 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, anybody tried gentoo on a logical Domain on a Sun Niagara-Machine? Is there an existing boot-image for this or do I have to build this myself? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What VGA scan? sorry, speech recognition error. WFM. You must be doing something strange. no, I'm what speech recognition researchers call a goat. I take your bright shiny toys, and just by holding them in my hands, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: heap. It's a classic example of second system syndrome as defined by the mythical Man month. Errh, what? rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five chapters are as relevant

[gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
Greetings all. I've just aquired a 4-port network card, and I set it up so that the 4 ports are each assigned an IP address, and gave all the IPs the name 'nfs' in DNS. Now I hope to point all the NFS clients at server 'nfs', and do some basic load balancing, while leaving the original

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:19:06 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll have a longer wait than you :( Heaven forbid we be as flexible on our list as the distribution whose name it bears ; ) Even Gentoo isn't flexible enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update and time skell

2007-11-07 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Wait 2 or more hours, reboot for good measure, and try again. On 11/7/07, Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes on the time, which was 2 hours ahead, now when I'm trying to make some emerge --update, I always get a LOT of date

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Danilo Marcelo
I´m waiting for too. 2007/11/7, 525225097 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are somebody said the gentoo 2007.1 will release in this man month it is wrong or right.Is there more detailed information。 Thinks -- 网 易 股 吧, 每 天 有 500 万 股 民 在 此 讨 论

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio/Mpeg

2007-11-07 Thread sean
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/11/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox is complaining that a plugin is not available for audio/mpeg support. Any recommendations on getting support? Not sure if it helps: emerge mplayerplug-in and recently (by the same author(s)) emerge gnome-mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms?  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Nov 7, 2007 9:24 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/7/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: I´m waiting for too. I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll have a

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update and time skell

2007-11-07 Thread Mateus Interciso
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:28:31 +, Mateus Interciso wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:25:24 +0900, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Wait 2 or more hours, reboot for good measure, and try again. On 11/7/07, Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes

[gentoo-user] emerge update and time skell

2007-11-07 Thread Mateus Interciso
Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes on the time, which was 2 hours ahead, now when I'm trying to make some emerge --update, I always get a LOT of date mismatches, and some emerges are caught on a loop, how can I fix this? I've already made a new emerge --sync, and it didn't

[gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Grant
I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can hook into and http traffic is logged to mysql so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
Most f the questions you have asked are really LVM 101 type questions (not any particular implementation of LVM, but LVM in general). So yes, to use LVM/EVMS/whatever you sort of have to understand the underlying principle of what/why. There's a basic explanation at Wikipedia:

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Danilo Marcelo
I don´t have any problem with 2007.0, but a new release is always welcome. 2007/11/7, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: I´m waiting for too. I'm waiting

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: I´m waiting for too. I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll have a longer wait than you :( Heaven forbid we be as flexible on

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: I´m waiting for too. I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll have a longer wait than you :( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ says nothing about a November release, or any release date for 2007.1, and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300 Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m waiting for too. Why? From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo release is if (s)he wants to install it on a new hardware, which is not supported by the latest release. On the other hand

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:10 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300 Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m waiting for too. Why? From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo release is if (s)he wants to install it on a new hardware,

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote: All, I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following statistics every second: - CPU Usage (as a percentage) - NIC I/O - Hard Drive I/O I later have to correlate these stats as a function of time. I'm not really sure where I

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get traffic shaping to work properly :(

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:23:36 -0800 Xamindar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried following the howto here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping But it doesn't work. First of all it ends up limiting both upload AND download. I have tried a few different ways with all the same result.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
Thanks for your responses, all. On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:30:22 -0800 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your config and perform better. Perhaps I will; that's not a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:10 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms?  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on

[gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-07 Thread Miernik
Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I thought that on such powerful beast, Gentoo will be a good choice, things will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 8. November 2007, James wrote: two things: memory. Every mb wasted for X - or even worse gnome, the biggest memory hog out there - is a mb that can't be used by gcc. Thus a graphical environment slows down installation. cd/dvd space. Every mb wasted for a full blown X and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 02:24 +, James wrote: [...] All you have said presupposes one (erroneous) assumption: that is an easy to use graphical install cannot be used if the distro is source code based. Nothing could be further from the truth. An easy to use graphical installation, should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Davi
Em Qui 08 Nov 2007, James escreveu: Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: I chose Gentoo to get away from the major distros. There is plenty of competition in that market. Let Gentoo be Gentoo and not Yet Another Ubuntu [TM]. [...] You, nor any respondent has given one shred

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
I'm going to take a lot of liberties both with humorous informality (hopefully you'll agree with that name for it) and argument; please accept it as a cheerfully submitted 'other side of the argument'. On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:32:58 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev

[gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread James
Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: I chose Gentoo to get away from the major distros. There is plenty of competition in that market. Let Gentoo be Gentoo and not Yet Another Ubuntu [TM]. All you have said presupposes one (erroneous) assumption: that is an easy to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Guanqun Lu
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:22:30 -0600 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There are lots of distros (Linux and non-Linux) that either don't have a graphical install and/or don't have a large user base and still survive. I mean Slackware is probably the oldest living distro, is still

Re: [gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-07 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (08/11/07 05:23) Miernik wrote: Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I thought that on such powerful beast, Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-07 Thread Miernik
Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-) Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal. I was not using a graphical installer, I went to a terminal (text console), and typed installer, is that what I am supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
Well, I think that fixing that abortion of an installation CD is of paramount concern. Like it or not, the first thing prospective new users see, is the installation process. In my opinion, it is of quintessential importance for Gentoo to have a normal, functional, easy installation CD. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread James
Shawn Haggett podge at podgeweb.com writes: In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

[gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread James
Daniel Iliev daniel.iliev at gmail.com writes: I´m waiting for too. Why? In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage with new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD images. Well,

[gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread James
Hello, In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes it's a dual boot (XP gentoo) workstation. I had to set the time manually to adjust for the 1 hour shift. Shouldn't this be automatic? What did I miss? James --

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:23:51 +0200 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote: All, I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following statistics every second: - CPU Usage (as a percentage) - NIC I/O - Hard Drive I/O

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:10:16 +0200 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage with new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD images. I agree with

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms?  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:38 -0500, James wrote: All, I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following statistics every second: - CPU Usage (as a percentage) this is an interesting one. I had to do this recently, and the only place I could get the data from is

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:16:46 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes it's a dual boot (XP gentoo) workstation. I had to set the time manually to adjust for

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread kashani
Dan Farrell wrote: Thanks for your responses, all. On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:30:22 -0800 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your config and perform better. Perhaps I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:32 +, James wrote: Yes I've installed dozens of gentoo system, and the resulting product is wonderful, much akin to a girl with a great personality. However, she ain't every going to get 'laid' (become popular) because the (installation) process is *UGLY*. to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-07 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (08/11/07 07:02) Miernik wrote: Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-) Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal. I was not using a graphical installer, I went to a terminal (text console), and

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
071108 James wrote: In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local That sb utc. TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes it's a dual boot (XP gentoo) workstation. However, M$ Windows may insist on changing the time on its own, so you may find it happens