Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread Dale
luis jure wrote: hello list, i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused... i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the ot

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread Davide De Prisco
2013/7/19 luis jure > on 2013-07-18 at 23:40 Davide De Prisco wrote: > > > > I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd > > from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk. > > did you use GPT or plain old MBR? so there's nothing special with grub

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Алексей Мишустин
2013/7/19 Randy Barlow : > I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but > neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently > experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines > like this: > > syslog-ng[32015]: segfault at 44d8 ip 7f4f3fa

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Dan Johansson
On 19.07.2013 02:53, Randy Barlow wrote: > Randy Barlow wrote: >> I'll add in that this seems to be happening to all three of my x86_64 >> hosts. It does not appear to happen on my x86 host. > > I rebooted one of the hosts that was experiencing this issue, and it did > not return afterwards. This

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread luis jure
on 2013-07-18 at 17:23 Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi! hi paul, thanks for your detailed answer! > 1. partition SSD (start sector at a multiple of 1MB to ensure proper > alignment) 2. format new partitions using discard-capable filesystem > like ext4, xfs, btrfs yes and yes (using ext4) > 4. rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: I'll add in that this seems to be happening to all three of my x86_64 hosts. It does not appear to happen on my x86 host. I rebooted one of the hosts that was experiencing this issue, and it did not return afterwards. This surprises me, as restarting the service did not so

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 18:41 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > Has anybody else seen anything like that? I'll add in that this seems to be happening to all three of my x86_64 hosts. It does not appear to happen on my x86 host. -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 17:49 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > Try changing the version at the top of the config file to the present version. It's at 3.4, and I have the gentoo default config. Thanks for the suggestion! -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:41:14PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but > neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently > experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines > like this: > > syslog-ng[3

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:41:14PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but > neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently > experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines > like this: > > syslog-ng[3

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 18:41 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but > neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently > experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines > like this: > > syslog-ng[32015]:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/07/13 06:23, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, luis jure wrote: >> >> >> hello list, > > Hi! > >> i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it >> would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk >> (my first SDD)

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines like this: syslog-ng[32015]: segfault at 44d8 ip 7f4f3fa23c83 sp 7fffb233b940 error 4 in

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, luis jure wrote: > > > hello list, Hi! > i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it > would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk > (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused... > > i intend to have o

[gentoo-user]

2013-07-18 Thread kyd . is . back
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:16:01 -0300 From: pizta...@crow.satelite.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration Message-ID: <20130718221601.gc31...@crow.satelite.com> References: <20130718182232.5c1301ce@acme7.acmenet> <20130718190832.2a85f9f7@ac

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread luis jure
on 2013-07-18 at 23:40 Davide De Prisco wrote: > I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd > from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk. did you use GPT or plain old MBR? so there's nothing special with grub and gpt partitioned disks? than

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread Davide De Prisco
I used ssd from workstation to server. I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk. If you want you can install a new system and then copy the home directory. The only directory that you can put on a no

[gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread luis jure
hello list, i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused... i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the other for /home. i h

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Grant wrote: > My backup user needs a shell on the backup server in order to execute > rsync and needs to be included in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers in > order to SSH in. My authorized_keys file is locked-down. The second > field for the user in /etc/shadow is

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access

2013-07-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/07/2013 18:21, Grant wrote: > My backup user needs a shell on the backup server in order to execute > rsync and needs to be included in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers in > order to SSH in. My authorized_keys file is locked-down. The second > field for the user in /etc/shado

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access

2013-07-18 Thread Grant
My backup user needs a shell on the backup server in order to execute rsync and needs to be included in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers in order to SSH in. My authorized_keys file is locked-down. The second field for the user in /etc/shadow is an exclamation point which I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-07-18 Thread Grant
>> You're welcome. A pull system does rely on the server being secure, which >> is why I don't use it for offsite backups to the cloud :-O > > Wouldn't a push/pull combination be a good compromise? > > The remote servers push their backups to their own location on a staging > server. > The backup-s