Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:07:55 AM Grant wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? - Grant Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. Originally for the calendar and addressbook. But gradually been using the other stuff as well

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. +1 Works good with (user

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:35:11 PM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 12:19, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 21.12.2012 12:19, schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, December 21, 2012 21:05, Grant wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? - Grant Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. Originally for the calendar and addressbook. But gradually been using the other stuff as well apart from that website

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:21:48 PM Grant wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? - Grant Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. Originally for the calendar and addressbook. But gradually been using the other stuff as well apart from

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? - Grant Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. Originally for the calendar and addressbook. But gradually been using the other stuff as well apart from that website module. (not logged

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, December 18, 2012 04:44, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: SNIP Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all activities except some torrent downloading for which I want to use my ADSL connection. Once I'm able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
Something _really_ weird happened to your quoting; you quoted my email, but your email client said you wrote it. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:00 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:39 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: ^-- weird --^ Very weird

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks

2012-12-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:59:52 PM Paul Hartman wrote: For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk) it does nothing. No error, just nothing... I have not tried this in well over a year, but it used to work. The /dev/fd0 device works normally, I can access it

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, December 16, 2012 01:52:46 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2012, 20:57:24 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Even on a system with only 2 sockets, it can be useful to have NUMA available. or not, because it costs you performance. When does it cost performance? In all

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:39 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Sunday, December 16, 2012 01:52:46 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2012, 20:57:24 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Even on a system with only 2 sockets, it can be useful to have NUMA available

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:46:36 AM Grant wrote: You have to buy NUMA hardware. If the hardware you buys does not scream NUMA at you, you don't have it. It is really that simple. Multicore, multisocket systems MIGHT be NUMA systems - but that is not a guarantee. Now can this

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 13.12.2012 07:23, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:12:18 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 01:14:39 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi, I have a raid0 (kernel autodetect) array, over which I have put LVM and then there are volumes on the LVM for /var, /tmp, swap and /home. The problem is, raid0 array gets recognized, but localmount fails to mount because

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 04:52 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: SNIP Which metadata version did you use for the software raid setup? Can you add mdadm to the boot-runlevel? I'm using metadata version 1.2 for the raid0 array and the type is kernel based autodetect. Ouch, auto-detect does

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 05:18 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Ouch, auto-detect does not work with metadata 1.2. Please read the man-page section: === --auto-detect Request that the kernel starts any auto-detected arrays. This can only work if md is compiled into the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi, I have a raid0 (kernel autodetect) array, over which I have put LVM and then there are volumes on the LVM for /var, /tmp, swap and /home. The problem is, raid0 array gets recognized, but localmount fails to mount because lvm doesn't seem to start before localmount (due to my root being

Re: [gentoo-user] hard disk name changes within initramfs

2012-12-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, on one of several machines I have a problem with initramfs. The machine has a single SATA drive. When the kernel boots it shows that it is called /dev/sda, Now, within the init script of my initramfs it tries to mount /dev/sda2 as

Re: [gentoo-user] Providing virtual dependency net

2012-11-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:47:54 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I have added rc_net_wlan0_provide=net to /etc/rc.conf, but scripts like sshd still wont start, and when executed report WARNING: sshd is scheduled to start when net.eth0 has

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and udev Woes

2012-11-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 + john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi Gentoo. I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well. After a week of using I have had no issues and then realised I had not set man number of cpus in kernel config. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and udev Woes

2012-11-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:57:49 +0100 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 + john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi Gentoo. I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 Filed to execute default File Manager

2012-11-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running xfce4. When I try to click on Home folder I get: Filed to execute default File Manager gutenprint (Permission denied). Can you open a text console and try to start gutenprint from there? If that works it's possibly something in xfce and someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 06:26:40 PM Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 13 November 2012 15:08, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: snip look at the message code of the mail Crok reacted to and compare it with some others - even by you. List-id and other things are

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:13:56 PM Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11/08/2012 09:45:34 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:18:35 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. DHCP clients can neither

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found. BUMP

2012-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.comwrote: Hi group, after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel recognizes the mouse and it appears in lsusb. I carried over the kernel from

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking

2012-10-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, i have installed Virtualbox, but from the website not over Portage. I have now delete, because it want not really run and the computer has not the power. But now i have problems with the network. I have static IP Adresses in use, but gentoo want

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd)

2012-10-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I face a rather long delay once or possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd)

2012-10-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:38:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where does sudo get the PATH ?

2012-10-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, October 9, 2012 5:03 pm, Nicolas Richard wrote: Joost == J Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: Joost Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr wrote: Here is the output of the relevant (at least I thought they were) commands. Can somebody explain to me why I still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where does sudo get the PATH ?

2012-10-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, October 9, 2012 5:03 pm, Nicolas Richard wrote: Joost == J Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: Joost Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr wrote: Here is the output of the relevant (at least I thought they were) commands. Can somebody explain to me why I still

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does sudo get the PATH ?

2012-10-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi everybody, I don't understand where sudo finds the value for the PATH env variable. Here is the output of the relevant (at least I thought they were) commands. Can somebody explain to me why I still have

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection-sharing with networkmanager problem

2012-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, October 2, 2012 3:18 am, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I've been trying to get networkmanager working and use it to share my Internet connection with my Android. I have my wireless card working properly, since I can create a network with my phone and connect to it, using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection-sharing with networkmanager problem

2012-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
conection ( 3 PCs icon instead of a usual signal bar). But when connected it still can't surf the net. Any help would be appreciated. :) 2012/10/2 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Tue, October 2, 2012 3:18 am, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I've been trying to get networkmanager working

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:48 pm, Dale wrote: I still have not hooked this thing up yet. We have storms predicted here over the next couple days so I figure I will get a chance to switch whether I want to reboot or not. :/ I live close to the end of the power lines, phone lines and

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, September 18, 2012 9:03 am, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:48 pm, Dale wrote: I still have not hooked this thing up yet. We have storms predicted here over the next couple days so I figure I will get a chance to switch whether I want to reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/18/12 07:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to configure virutalbox serial port, but I'm getting an error: NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to local socket /dev/ttyS0 (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). in inittab I have: c7:2345:respawn

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:51:49 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Plus, aren't you supposed to only unplug/plug a serial cable when it is off? I'm not sure if they are sensitive to that but pretty sure they were a long time ago. Not sure about Serial, I

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd got away with it before. The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to configure virutalbox serial port, but I'm getting an error: NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to local socket /dev/ttyS0 (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). in inittab I have: c7:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 is the above correct? In virtualbox - serial

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Newegg just had a sale on a really nice UPS. I got one. Anyway, it has both serial and USB connections. I have a question about these. I could use either one but not sure if it matters. Does the USB connection offer any additional features over the

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Newegg just had a sale on a really nice UPS. I got one. Anyway, it has both serial and USB connections. I have a question about these. I could use either one but not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mark, On Thu, August 23, 2012 6:05 am, Mark Knecht wrote: From Kindle so short... Paul. Thanks. I'll double check tomorrow but the specs online said the slots were pci express 2.0. The card is a one lane card but the box says it can do 533M/S but boxes do lie sometimes. The 2.0 part is the

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting samsung galaxy S III (android ics)

2012-07-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, July 23, 2012 2:12 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jul 23, 2012 4:36 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:53:20 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: I have found go-mtpfs to work much better with my Galaxy Nexus. https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/ There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting samsung galaxy S III (android ics)

2012-07-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, July 19, 2012 2:04 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just purchased a new smartphone (samsung galaxy S III), which runs android ice cream sandwitch 4.0.4). I would like to copy files to and from the phone. The phone manual describes how to do this for windows (nothing needed) and Mac (a

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, July 17, 2012 8:49 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIPPED == Requested video codec family [wmsdmod] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wms10dmod] (vfm=dmo) not available.

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, July 17, 2012 5:36 am, Bill Kenworthy wrote: SNIPPED Virtualisation ? I am running qemu (windows, gentoo), vbox (windows, gentoo, fedora) and gxemul (ultrix) all 32 bit guests on 32 bit systems on either 32 or 64 bit hardware running gentoo - can you confirm you need 64bit for 64bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 4:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:54:26 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit card ;-) That's implicit in the wedding vows :( That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:06 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit card ;-) That's implicit in the wedding vows :( That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job herself

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 1:37 am, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Felix, did you follow any analogous steps for the 4TB drives? (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my aggregate volumes.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic shaping - downstream data

2012-06-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:27 pm, Datty wrote: Hi all I'm looking for some help setting up traffic shaping on my internet connection. I have a bit of an odd setup in that I run a remote VPN server that all of my traffic is pushed through and out on to the internet. As I understand generally it

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, April 23, 2012 3:21 pm, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather strange error when trying to start postgres. # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start *

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: SNIPPED As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. Be careful here, not all

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: SNIPPED As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is hot-plugin capable, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, March 30, 2012 9:23 am, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 29/03/12, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote: snipped Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do updates. Just wait. Patience is a virtue! I wonder how many threads

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 22, 2012 12:55 am, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote I said this before, but it sounds useful to try to reiterate: * It's probable that service-specific files should not be included in the init system package. * Service-specific

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!]

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, March 19, 2012 3:56 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: William Kenworthy writes: On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just fine, as it does my media center. Genkernel doesnt, bugs and work arounds on

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, March 18, 2012 8:30 am, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: snip initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!]

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 29, 2012 12:40 pm, wdk@moriah wrote: On 29/03/2012, at 17:35, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Mon, March 19, 2012 3:56 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: William Kenworthy writes: On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: My laptop has used dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote: snipped Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do updates. Just wait. Patience is a virtue! I wonder how many threads we'll get with I haven't updated my Gentoo for over a year, how do I best do the upgrade? from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, March 19, 2012 1:31 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: When I started administering remote servers, Citrix's XenServer is Good Enough™ to deploy in production, so now it's the first thing I install on a virgin box, even if said virgin box will host only one VM. This provides me with a usable

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 6

2012-03-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, March 13, 2012 9:45 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: I've also found one situation where I need to take one extra step to run without udev. I have a laptop with a Radeon GPU that requires a binary blob for the video driver. emerging radeon-ucode downloads a whole slew of binary blobs, to

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 9:10 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-02-29 08:23, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Stefan, I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't wait this long. Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly. *SIGH* ;-) I would suggest you check on the cyrus-imap

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, February 28, 2012 4:34 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo? I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs: # rpm -qa | grep cyrus cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: snipped Also, it is already set up with LVM and ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or something, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 8:10 am, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. It does.

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 23, 2012 12:25 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just don't do what I did earlier: sit in Joburg and configure the firewall on a Xen host in deepest darkest Africa where there's no tarred roads to get to it. How did you get the server there? Flown it in? I've seen the roads in Africa

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was previously) to 0.9.8.4. One of the scripts in /etc/init.d was a symlink to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org mailto:jo...@antarean.org wrote: SNIP Pandu, I

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 2, 2012 2:08 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, I should upgrade even if the funny turns out to be just a config error on my laptop. This is a home system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won $5. I was using Win3.1 - and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote: snipped The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light on this. The light staying on could also be because the floppy-flatcable is plugged in

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, January 26, 2012 8:16 am, Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

2011-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, December 20, 2011 9:02 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 20, 2011 6:04 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: -8 snip Anyway, maybe we can keep each other updated (on list of off, either is fine with me) about our progress. On list, please. Although ATM I have no need to

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, December 17, 2011 2:37 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: SNIPPED 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and Webb suggested /z for extra space. Allan, Just a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well. Actually, you need space in /var/tmp/portage Alan (McKinnon)

Re: [gentoo-user] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 7:23 am, Joseph wrote: Any any body provide me with hint why my virtual host is not working in apache? We'll try :) I've copied server config files from one computer to another. Which config-files? I think apache uses the following: /etc/conf.d/apache /etc/apache/*

Re: [gentoo-user] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 8:03 am, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: in: modules.d/00_default_settings.**conf # We configure the default to be a very restrictive set of features. Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] apache - virtual host not working

2011-12-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, December 12, 2011 8:21 am, Joseph wrote: On 12/12/11 02:03, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: In /etc/hosts I have: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mydomain.ca syscon5 10.0.0.100 www.mydomain.ca If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 8:37 pm, Stroller wrote: On 8 December 2011, at 19:17, Grant wrote: I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! I don't even

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 5:01 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be updated

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, November 18, 2011 1:33 am, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged into single-partition arrays, or do

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the open-source version. Except USB support. Huh? I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a negatives

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 22, 2011 11:47 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: snipped YMMV ... VB is stable and rarely if ever breaks, app and modules just work - performance is as good as vmware I actually found VB to have better performance. When using virtual machines, I tend to run multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 1:59 pm, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 23/11/11, Joseph Davis wrote: I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. Please,

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 2:34 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the open-source version. Except USB support. Huh? I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 15, 2011 3:32 am, Grant wrote: You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, those are flaws. However, you can fix those flaws by applying some magic as a sysadmin. That's why several posts in the thread have mentioned versioning your backups in

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: All this from a raccoon knocking out power. Pesky critter. Raccoons are doing some behaviour studies in your area, didn't you get the memo? :) -- Joost The only report

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, November 10, 2011 8:03 pm, Dale wrote: SNIPPED Any tips or tricks on Kubuntu anyone? Sort of a basic 'this is how you update/install something for idiots' type thing. lol I think Sabayon would be a better option, but if you really want to go with *buntu/debian: - Install X # sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: SNIP I looked for such a option but I can't find it anywhere. It may be there but I can't find it. Since it is working and the AHCI controller sees the drives, I'm going to leave well enough alone. I checked my desktop at home last night and the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules for an iPod Touch?

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, November 6, 2011 6:49 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 05 November 2011, 20:45:15 schrieb Joost Roeleveld: Virtualbox has decent USB-pass-through support. Even quite high performance. Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it virtualbox is also pretty broken at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:13 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi All. This problem is not strictly related to gentoo, however I'm sure someone here will be able to help me in some way: sorry if I bother you! I'm having a really strange problem: for some reason, everytime I reboot my

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
Please do NOT top-post. On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:34 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: You are totally right: I'm not using gentoo, but I'm serching for help and gentoo's mailing list is the most technical one: I'm truly sorry for the OT. If asking questions on how to do things on non-Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

2011-11-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:15 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: What about the documentation? I have noticed that most binary distros require the use of their graphical admin tools to make any changes to the configuration. I read the documentation and tried to carefully follow it. Now I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: Semi-solved. On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, October 17, 2011 12:35 am, Florian Philipp wrote: snipped I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for the first time so I doubt he values his time very high ;-) ), I suggest he either

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:13 am, Adam Carter wrote: # dmesg | grep firm [ 70.453673] r8169 :02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw

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