Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive. I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now. This is what I got from the little frag script: r...@smoker / # /root/fragck.pl /backup/ 0.953336175120985% non

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:16:38 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?[0-9], SYSFS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE, NAME=%k, SYMLINK+=BackUpDrive NAME=%k pointless, since that's the default. -- Neil Bothwick Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning I can't configure Slackware.

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-16 Thread Justin
Eric Martin schrieb: Justin wrote: It is in sunrise now. Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't find it and I don't see it in the dir structure...Am I missing something? It is, see here:

[gentoo-user] Which one...blender goes nuts...

2008-12-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, This is slightly off topic, but I hope there is someone here, who know the trick... I use to compile blender myself from the freshest svn checkout I could get ... :) This morning my sync with the outer world presents an update of openal from openal-0* to openal-1*. I did this, fires up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive. I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now. This is what I got from the little frag script:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Daniel Troeder wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use to tar up everything, transfer it over and untar it all on one line if

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Any Linux defrag tool you encounter will have been written by a third party separate from the developers. It will move blocks around and update superblocks, the drive will have to be unmounted for that to work and a slight

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 03:15 -0600 schrieb Dale: Daniel Troeder wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use to tar up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Miguel Ramos
Another argument in favour of cp in Linux: holes in sparse files are kept correctly, whereas using tar they are not. It is curious that this is very OS dependent. In FreeBSD, with cp, holes always go away, using tar, or better dump/restore is a way to keep all file attributes. In Linux, cp -a

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-16 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote: I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset the server. This

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?[0-9], SYSFS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE, NAME=% k, SYMLINK+=BackUpDrive [...] ATTRS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE You see the difference? HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help [resolved]

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:16:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) squawked: Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: BUS==usb,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote: While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of resources. The compression (-z) makes locally no sense, and there is no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). You will get the exact same result

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:37:56AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:16:38 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?[0-9], SYSFS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE, NAME=%k, SYMLINK+=BackUpDrive NAME=%k pointless, since that's the default. Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Daniel Troeder wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 03:15 -0600 schrieb Dale: Daniel Troeder wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the other drive anyway. I would like to know what

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?[0-9], SYSFS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE, NAME=% k, SYMLINK+=BackUpDrive [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] cpufreqd - Couldn't set profile

2008-12-16 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: sys-power/cpufreqd-2.1.1 You should try sys-power/cpufreqd-2.2.1. I had similar problems resolved by a cpufreqd upgrade. Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help

[gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. The two most expansive ones I found were here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both directions;

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on any of my machines. However, when I did, I didn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote: While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of resources. The compression (-z) makes locally no sense, and there is no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). You will

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on any of my machines.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-16 Thread Eric Martin
Justin wrote: Eric Martin schrieb: Justin wrote: It is in sunrise now. Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't find it and I don't see it in the dir structure...Am I missing something? It is, see here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
(Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:34:28 -0600, Dale wrote: rsync -ax /source/ /dest/ I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc. That's what the -x is for. -- Neil Bothwick Be nice to moderators. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP In my case I have a winprinter, doesn't do anything without drivers, doesn't have native understanding of postscript or PCL or anything like that, isn't a network printer so it doesn't have its own IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. Why SAMBA? Also, a small

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Willie, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around for up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: http://192.168.1.59:631/printers It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried: lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh You may want to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Willie, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: http://192.168.1.59:631/printers It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:34:28 -0600, Dale wrote: rsync -ax /source/ /dest/ I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc. That's what the -x is for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: http://192.168.1.59:631/printers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:11 -0600, Dale wrote: I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc. That's what the -x is for. Thanks for the info. As you may can tell, I have never used rsync

[gentoo-user] Keyboard layout switching with Alt+Shift

2008-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
In KDE 3.5.10, I can't switch keyboard layouts with Alt+Shift even though that option is enabled in the control center: Regional Accessibility-Keyboard Layout -Xkb Option-Layout Switching-[x] Alt+Shift change layout. The generated Command is: setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:11 -0600, Dale wrote: I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc. That's what the -x is for. Thanks for the info.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800,

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this up. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me. There were two lines to be uncommented in the

[gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-16 Thread Grant
I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 does? They even protect in the event of theft or

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-16 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 does? They even protect in the event

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this up. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me. There were two lines to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-16 Thread smallnow
Get the best of both worlds with raid 5. Personally, I do raid 0 and I agree with you on raid redundancy not being very useful. Backup ftw. I cycle out my hard drives every year or two and make the old ones be backups, I've only ever had the backups die. - Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:11PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: Basically you just need 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf a) You need the line Port 631 to allow remote access b)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, smallnow small...@gmail.com wrote: Get the best of both worlds with raid 5. Personally, I do raid 0 and I agree with you on raid redundancy not being very useful. Backup ftw. I cycle out my hard drives every year or two and make the old ones be backups, I've

[gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-16 Thread Man Shankar
Hello, I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you guys. The hurdles you encountered and the gains you got thereof. Currently i am a happy