Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish

2014-12-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 17:54, Tue, Dec 16, 2014 thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 15/12/14 20:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/12/2014 18:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this question is not related to a fully fledged, big local area network with DMZs and such. Even the word firewall seems to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

2014-12-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:54 AM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 07:43:21 +0300 Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:32:08 +0100 Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 29.11.2014 um 11:11 schrieb Pandu Poluan: What do you think, people? Shouldn't we offer them

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 18:00, Sun, Nov 30, 2014 Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 30.11.2014 um 11:57 schrieb J. Roeleveld: No, pv-grub is run inside the context of the host, using a kernel image inside the VM. ... which is not in /boot as far as I see. So if I want to add kernel-boot-time-options I

[gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

2014-11-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
So, I just found out that some Debian Developers decided to fork Debian, because they can no longer stand this abomination called 'systemd': https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc3a.en.html What do you think, people? Shouldn't we offer them our eudev project to assist?

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 27, 2014 10:40 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Rich, I have been reading your posts about btrfs with interest, but have not yet used it on my systems. Is btrfs agreeable with SSDs, or should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 28, 2014 12:31 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: ZoL (ZFS on Linux) nowadays is implemented using DKMS instead of FUSE, thus running in kernelspace, and (relatively) easier to put into an initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 28, 2014 12:38 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 27.10.2014 um 16:36 schrieb Rich Freeman: and a boot partition as I don't think grub supports it - it could be a bit of a PITA for a

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site. I see many blockers in the [TRACKER] Qt5 in portage bug [0]. I do believe

[gentoo-user] Honeypot distro?

2014-04-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
My company ended up with several 'ancient' HP ProLiant G4 servers. We're thinking of setting up honeypots there. Although I know Gentoo is perfectly capable of becoming a honeypot, we currently prefer something... less involving in deployment :-D Now, since this mailing list unarguably contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as Firewall on HP ProLiant DL360 G5

2014-03-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 14, 2014 2:42 PM, Edward M edwardm.gentoo.j...@live.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:26:27 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Pointers are very welcome! May not apply now, but somebody was having kernel panics and network problems,etc last year. http

[gentoo-user] Gentoo as Firewall on HP ProLiant DL360 G5

2014-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I want to install Gentoo as headless firewalls on a pair of HP ProLiant DL360 G5 servers we happen to have lying around. Are there special issues I need to be aware of before embarking on this endeavor? Specifically, are there special steps to take w.r.t.: * The RAID controller

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP server questions

2014-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2014 1:13 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On 18 February 2014 06:03:02 CET, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello list! I'm planning to replace an Active Directory server currently functioning *only* as an LDAP server, with a dedicated Linux-based LDAP server

[gentoo-user] LDAP server questions

2014-02-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I'm planning to replace an Active Directory server currently functioning *only* as an LDAP server, with a dedicated Linux-based LDAP server. Now, the function of the LDAP server is at the moment: * Provide the settings database for Axigen email server * Provide group membership for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-02-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 28, 2014 5:57 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:54:28 +0100, hasufell wrote: If it's about performance (in the sense of speed), then paludis is worse, because dependency calculation is more complex/complete there. That makes no sense at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-02-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 3, 2014 9:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/02/2014 16:04, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jan 28, 2014 5:57 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:54:28 +0100, hasufell wrote: If it's about performance

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables question... simple as possible for starters

2013-12-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 30, 2013 7:31 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: Minor additions to what Pandu said... On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The numbers within [brackets

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables question... simple as possible for starters

2013-12-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: [-- LE SNIP --] Ok, well, maybe I should have posted my entire ruleset... I have this above where I define my chains: # *filter :INPUT DROP [0:0] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT DROP [0:0] # Does it matter where

[gentoo-user] Fusion-IO Experience?

2013-11-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! My company's considering of purchasing a couple of Fusion-IO [1] devices, especially the ioDrive Octal model [2]. However, before we actually commit to purchasing it, I'd like to gather some info first. Have any of you had any experience with a Fusion-IO product? Not necessarily the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:52 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Fri, October 18, 2013 05:33, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was

Re: [gentoo-user] New mobo change

2013-10-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 15, 2013 10:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I ordered the new mobo as much as I needed to wait. The mobo is the same brand but a different chipset and a couple other things are different. I have already built a kernel for those changes. I plan to put everything on

Re: OT - RAM disks - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 14, 2013 6:04 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-10-13 5:49 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Talk about putting some stuff on tmpfs. O_O I have always wanted to copy the tree to tmpfs and run time emerge -uvaDN world. Just to see how fast it will go. lol

Re: [gentoo-user] scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 13, 2013 9:15 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 10/13/2013 06:08 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: 5. You can't script iptables-restore! Well, actually you can script iptables-restore. For those who are interested: net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] scripted iptables-restore (was: Where to put advanced routing configuration?)

2013-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 13, 2013 5:09 PM, Martin Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: 5. You can't script iptables-restore! Well, actually you can script iptables-restore. For those who are interested: net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay (available over layman) now provides a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 3, 2013 9:26 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:52:36AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:44:35AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just stumbled across some very

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 30, 2013 9:31 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: --- le snip --- If the proposed solution is all binaries and libraries in the same root/prefix directory, then why call it /usr? My question exactly. Why install to /usr at all, leaving /bin and /sbin a practically empty

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 21, 2013 7:54 PM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 09/17/2013 08:20 AM, Grant wrote: I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not

[gentoo-user] The meaning of number in brackets in /proc/cpuinfo power management?

2013-09-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Does anyone know the meaning of the 'number between brackets' in the power management line of /proc/cpuinfo? For instance (I snipped the flags line to not clutter the email: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton (wiki) information

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:49:40PM -0700, Grant wrote: I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-09-19 3:44 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen@fu- You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik can only set on filesystem creation and therefore needs a restart from

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID controller? Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity of

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support 6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID controller? Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity of

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 2, 2013 11:16 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I need some urgent help... The rootfs and $HOME of my embedded system is stored on a 16GB SD-card (about 5GB used, rest free). The FS is ext4. Since the system hangs for unknown reasons several times I removed the sdcard, put

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 3, 2013 10:51 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 03/09/13 11:26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au [13-09-03 05:08]: --snip-- Have you run out of inodes? - ext 4 has had very mixed success for me on solid state. Running out of inodes

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/08/2013 16:29,

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 1, 2013 7:51 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel with ZFS inside.

Re: [gentoo-user] crond: time disparity detected (on hibernate and wake-up)

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 31, 2013 8:47 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Whenever I hibernate or do a wake-up from hibernation, I always get messages about a crond time disparity detected. It's usually 580 or 602 minutes. But the clock appears to be correct within a few seconds after wake-up.

[gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Here's my scenario: Currently there is a server performing 2 functions; one runs on, let's say, port 2000, and another one runs on port 3000. Due to some necessary changes, especially the need to (1) provide more resource for a function, and (2) delegate management of the functions

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 29, 2013 7:46 PM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 08/29/2013 01:12 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 29, 2013 7:13 PM, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you ever need to scale.

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/08/2013 14:05, Tanstaafl wrote: [-- snippy --] Thanks Alan, starting to get excited about playing with ZFS. How would you rate their docs and support community (for the free version)? Support is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:34:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? There are plenty of links on the zfsforlinux site. on Linux, not for Linux ... http://zfsonlinux.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Makeing /dev/rtc1 accessible as soon as possible - how?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 8:41 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Mark, hi William, the script ds3231 in /etc/init.d is -- according to rc-update -- set as folows: ds3231 | boot Long and short of it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 5:06 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/08/2013 21:38, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-18 5:16 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: While we're on the topic, what's the obsession with having different bits of the file hierarchy as different*mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:45:15 +0100, Mick wrote: emerge zfs works too :) I really like the way ZFS just lets you get on with things. Does anyone run it on a desktop/laptop as their day to day fs? Yes. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 9:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: We now get into choosing hardware for that shiny new gentoo-server ... as mentioned this will be a KVM-host and we look at a HP Proliant DL385p ... 2 AMD Opteron 6344 ... 32 GB RAM, 8 disks (the customer has some bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 26.08.2013 17:51, schrieb Pandu Poluan: 2 smallest disks in RAID1 configuration for booting. Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 26.08.2013 18:14, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well... with a ZFS-backed storage, when you want to create a new VM, all you have to do is `zfs clone` ;-) Yes, I see those possibilities ;-) That system will run

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server problem

2013-08-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 25, 2013 11:38 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I set up squid on a remote system so I can browse the internet from that IP address. It works but it stalls frequently. I had similar results with ziproxy. I went over this with the squid list but we got nowhere as it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 16, 2013 12:26 AM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 14/08/2013 13:15, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18:41PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
Thanks, Wang Xuerui and Bruce! That's exactly helpful. I'm going to do some testing Real Soon. Rgds, -- On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Wang Xuerui idontknw.w...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/8/14 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Why not compute it yourself? Do cat

[gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors. They currently are acting as XenServer hosts. How do I determine the 'least common denominator' for Gentoo VMs (running as XenServer guests), especially for gcc flags? I know that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 4, 2013 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a guest. I'm not entirely certain as to

[gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... But I digress. On to my question: Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags? And a related subquestion: Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date?

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 22, 2013 6:34 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22/07/13 10:03, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, How did you resolve this conflict? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut As a maintainer of sys-auth/consolekit, and xfce-base/xfce4-meta I can assure you sys-auth/consolekit is

Re: SSDs, VM SANs RAID - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 20, 2013 9:27 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular everyday write

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 8, 2013 1:05 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightweight Simple Proxy that supports upstream authentication

2013-05-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 20, 2013 12:04 PM, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:31:31AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a simple HTTP+FTP proxy that supports upstream authentication. The reason is that we (that is, my employer) have a server that requires

[gentoo-user] Lightweight Simple Proxy that supports upstream authentication

2013-05-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello, I'm looking for a simple HTTP+FTP proxy that supports upstream authentication. The reason is that we (that is, my employer) have a server that requires Internet access for its setup, but for some reason* my employer does not want to give the contractors a login for the corporate proxy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. disable auth broadcastclient

Re: [gentoo-user] Using date/time variables in cronjobs?

2013-05-05 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 6, 2013 4:57 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-05-05 5:25 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 5 May 2013 16:06:45 -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR/$PGyy/$PGmm/$PGdd /usr/bin/pg_dumpall -U $PGUSER -o | \ gzip

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:05:06 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I think the problem there is a Chromebook needs to be online in order to do much of anything, and the connection needs to be fast in order to make them very

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 10:31 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. I can create an ext4 fs

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 3:09 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hi, EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) /dev/sda5 / ext4noatime,discard 0 1 When first mounting the root filesystem the kernel has no access to

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 25, 2013 5:54 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-24 10:23 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My Gentoo VMs in the cloud (using VMware's vCloud) uses PV-SCSI. It's stable... but kind of sensitive: Everytime the cloud provider do something

[gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same. I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU.

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is actually a RAID array

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 24, 2013 2:29 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-22 8:56 AM, Andre Lucas Falco alfa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/4/21 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Windows VMs see get an 'LSI Logic SAS', and my gentoo VM gets an 'LSI Logic Parallel' controller. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 21, 2013 4:51 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Sat, April 20, 2013 18:22, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 20, 2013 10:01 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Thanks for the responses so far... Another question - are there any caveats as to which filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 22, 2013 2:05 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-21 12:38 PM, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: I should mention one specific advantage to using LVM over file-based images: I believe you will find that LVM performs better. This is due to avoiding

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:i Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 20, 2013 9:31 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Fri, April 19, 2013 18:42, Jarry wrote: On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds

Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 20, 2013 10:01 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Thanks for the responses so far... Another question - are there any caveats as to which filesystem to use for a mail server, for virtualized systems? Ir do the same issues/questions apply (ie, does the fact that it is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 14, 2013 1:27 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/14/2013 01:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] What I meant was: given 4 physical AMD cores (but only 2 FPUs, courtesy

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 12:18 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Saturday 13 April 2013 10:39:08 AM IST, Kvothe Tech wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi people! My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dale! Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: I myself prefer AMD CPUs to Intel ones. Intel has this habit of 'segmenting' their processor features. E.g., Intel VT-x (Intel's buggy

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 11:57 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 13.04.2013 18:24, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com mailto:th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dale! Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/13/2013 01:45 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] Three, AMD has no concept of Hyperthreading. Correct. Just match -j to the number of cores your CPU provides, and that's it. Well, YMMV. You can spend a lot of time

Re: [gentoo-user] Rant/Warning: fun with awesome and lightdm

2013-04-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 11:18 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Update: I opened a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465288. There is a reference to the Awesome upstream bug which resulted in the change to the desktop file, along with a link to a LightDM upstream bug that sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=? for this cpu

2013-04-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 1:16 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 09.04.2013 05:50, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: I have two Gentoo VMs at Hetzner and the CPU supports 64 bit (grep lm /proc/cpuinfo = true). But something funny, gcc -march=native -mtune=native -v -E - 21 /dev/null

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 12:32 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 08-Apr-13 19:19, Michael Mol wrote: On 04/08/2013 12:28 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:58:38PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:35:22 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: As for /sbin/ip.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 8, 2013 11:17 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:42:23PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Mike is right, if it's not a dep of another ebuild, you don't need wpa_supplicant. I just upgraded udev to 200 on the last remote box (which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 5:59 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 00:34:03 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Now I only had to figure out how to rename eth[0-9]+ to the custom naming scheme when using mdev. ***UDEV*** has broken using eth[0-9]. mdev works just fine, thank

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 3:56 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 7 April 2013, at 07:00, Joseph wrote: ... Are these new udev rules going across all Linux distros or this is something specific to Gentoo? I would assume across all distros. Gentoo generally makes a policy of just

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 8:13 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Evening, Alan. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 6, 2013 3:44 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:14:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: * on a machine with multiple network cards *ALL USING DIFFERENT DRIVERS* * drivers are built as modules, not built-in into the kernel * is it possible to set things up so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 6, 2013 7:32 PM, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:11:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 6, 2013 3:44 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:14:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: * on a machine with multiple network cards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 1, 2013 2:10 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/03/2013 20:26, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Since it's obvious that upsteam has this my way or the highway mentality, I'm

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 1, 2013 1:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device name changes. Fair point

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 31, 2013 7:13 PM, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-03-31, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, just read the new news item and the linked

Re: eudev - is it a viable *long-term* option? - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 30, 2013 9:48 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I should have added that this is for a server (not hardened), so I don't care about hot plug this or that, I just care about stability and reliability with respect to updates not breaking booting capability... On 2013-03-30

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables (not) started?

2013-03-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 30, 2013 1:27 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I noticed one thing on my server: during boot-up no message about firewall being started is printed on console. I always have to check manually if iptables-rules have been loaded. Strange thing, when doing shutdown, I

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inline data

2013-03-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 29, 2013 8:49 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hi list! I noticed that beginning with kernel 3.8, ext4 can store small files entirely inside the inode. But I couldn't find much additional information: - Is the improvement automatically enabled? - Is the change

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