Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 5, 2012 5:39 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > > So fdisk used to enforce a block 63 start point and now it enforces a > 2048 start point? fdisk is the one doing this? > > - Grant > Yes. Like I posted before (and explained in the article I linked), if you turn off the compatibility mode, you can pus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 5, 2012 5:10 AM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > > Correct. Those drives are all the same style as you've > been using for years. If partitions start at 63, that's just an msdos > convention. For reasons I've never understood, Windows liked to reserve > the first 32k for some purpose or other. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 5, 2012 4:59 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > > All my drives says this from fdisk: > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > So it doesn't matter where the first partition starts? > Olde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 5, 2012 3:15 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > [snip] > >> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, > >> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the > >> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > > > > > > > > From what I recall o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" wrote: > > Grant writes: > > > Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? > > Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so > every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary. > > Now I have a related question: My new

Re: [gentoo-user] Pay for a hardened VM image

2012-03-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
re: the VMXnet subsystem, although at first sounds like it will be a boost to performance (paravirtual device), is not really stable; I've heard lots of grief. Just provide a bog-standard emulated e1000 for the guest VMs. > > On 2012-03-03 10:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 4, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Pay for a hardened VM image

2012-03-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 4, 2012 8:13 AM, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" < klond...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > El 04/03/12 01:26, Michael Orlitzky escribió: > > On 03/03/2012 03:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 2012-03-02 3:51 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> Would anyone here be interested in being paid to creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
Gah. I must be too tired; what I sent earlier was supposed to go another list. Sorry for the mistake, folks. Rgds, On Mar 4, 2012 1:22 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > Oh iya, satu lagi yang perlu dihindari: wifi AP nya HP ProCurve / HP > Networking. Nggak stabil. (Tapi kalau sw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
Oh iya, satu lagi yang perlu dihindari: wifi AP nya HP ProCurve / HP Networking. Nggak stabil. (Tapi kalau switch Layer 2 dan Layer 3 nya, HP ProCurve highly recommended). ((Ini berdasarkan hasil pengalaman saya di kantor yang sekarang.)) Rgds, On Mar 4, 2012 1:15 AM, "Pandu Poluan&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 4, 2012 1:13 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > > > > > I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's > > working now. The install is about done but there w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > >>> I just received the new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and I'm trying to > >>> install Gentoo but I can't get install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso to > >>> boot via a USB key. > >> > >> Have you tested your boot USB keys on another machine? > > > > Gentoo is in

Re: [gentoo-user] rng-tools

2012-03-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 3, 2012 9:05 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:48:59 -0500 > Michael Mol wrote: > > > So I've been making extensive use of rngd on one of my Debian servers, > > and I wanted to make use of it on a couple of my Gentoo boxes. Only to > > find out that two parameters I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 3, 2012 2:44 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > On 2012-03-02, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2012 1:07 AM, "Paul Hartman" > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tanstaafl > > wrote: > >> > Doe

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 3, 2012 1:07 AM, "Paul Hartman" wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to show > > only lines that have a value in the %CPU column higher than x - ie, 1.0, or > > 2.0, or something like that? > > ps

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 3, 2012 12:49 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to show only lines that have a value in the %CPU column higher than x - ie, 1.0, or 2.0, or something like that? > > Thanks > For that, you need awk instead of grep. Rgds,

[gentoo-user] Re: "net-firewall/xtables-addons" issues

2012-03-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 17:38, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Silly me... > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 17:23, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> 1. Should I file a bugreport for xtables-addons-1.39? >> >> 2. Or should I request for xtables-addons-1.41 in the portage tree? >> &g

[gentoo-user] Re: "net-firewall/xtables-addons" issues

2012-03-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
Silly me... On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 17:23, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > 1. Should I file a bugreport for xtables-addons-1.39? > > 2. Or should I request for xtables-addons-1.41 in the portage tree? > > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtables-addons/files/Xtables-addons/

[gentoo-user] "net-firewall/xtables-addons" issues

2012-03-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, after compiling hardened-sources-3.2.2-r1, I follow through with remerging net-firewall/xtables-addons-1.39 ... ... and it failed with an error, about unknown symbol or something. A Google search led me to this solution: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/t

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 2, 2012 11:25 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to load snd-seq since the /dev/snd/seq device comes up with the > wrong permission, if this modules is not loaded. The result is a > defunct qjackctrl. > > I entered > >snd-seq > > into > >/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-3.2 > > and it does

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 2, 2012 3:50 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited when it bought Sun): >

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

2012-02-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 1, 2012 7:02 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On 02/29/2012 02:40 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > So whatever the > > $LUSER was doing that filled up the drive needs to be undone by root, > > probably by shuffling stuff around. > > That's a shocking statement for a wannabe BOFH to make. A *real* BOFH

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with ".O" instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 13:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:36:34 +0700 > >8 snip > > You probably have a typo in /etc/issue (a missing backslash). Default > looks like so: > >  $ cat /etc/issue > > This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t > > == # cat /etc/hosts | egrep -v "^#"

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with ".O" instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 28, 2012 4:11 AM, "Peter Ruskin" wrote: > > On Monday 27 February 2012 18:37:05 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > >> > I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots > > > >> > successfully... but the login screen indicates the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with ".O" instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 28, 2012 1:07 AM, "Daniel Troeder" wrote: > > On 27.02.2012 16:16, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, "Alan McKinnon" > <mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +07

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with ".O" instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it again... > > > > I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots

[gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with ".O" instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it again... I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots successfully... but the login screen indicates the machine's name as "NAME.O" Where does the ".O" part comes from? How to replace that with my actual domain? TIA Rgds, -- FdS Pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > >8 snip > > 3) In the bootloader append line, include "init=/sbin/linuxrc" where >   the file /sbin/linuxrc consists of *AT LEAST*... > > #!/bin/busybox ash > mount -t proc proc /proc > mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys > exec /sbin/init > >   Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 26, 2012 2:05 AM, "Robert David" wrote: > > V Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:32:20 -0800 > Grant napsáno: > > > >> >> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is > > >> >> there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has > > >> >> never worked for me. When does that eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 7:22 PM, "Mick" wrote: > > On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 02:32:49 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2012 9:14 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > > >> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a > > > >> saf

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to > the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot > with an error in dmesg which says invalid option acl whereas I'm able > to mount it using th

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, "John" wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. I've got ADD in the > extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things 'UNIX' (command line and > such) is just too difficult for me. I can do some command

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

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 9:16 AM, "Dale" wrote: > >8snip > > > That is true BUT the docs are for 100% certainty. Well, 99% at least. > They almost always have the safest way to do anything but not > necessarily the most used way. There are lots of things I do > differently from the docs and my syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 9:14 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > >> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a > >> safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for > >> me. When does that ever work? > > > > > > You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 4:54 AM, "William Kenworthy" wrote: > >8 snip > > Work supplied an ipad for me - what a pain. So many sites use flash its > relegated to "toy" status even for web browsing. For my Cisco > Netacademy work Ive installed win7 in qemu and access via rdp so I can > use view flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 11:37 PM, wrote: > > Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system > using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the > board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am > having lots of problems with USB. The boar

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 7:06 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:30:23 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > It would be worth adding glsa-check to that list. Run it every day > > > from cron to get mailed about any security risks. > > > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 4:13 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:34:46 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > The only automation in my case is eix-sync followed by emerge -uND > > --fetchonly @system @world > > It would be worth adding glsa-check to that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 4:08 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:36:00 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides with > > > some update to the tree > > > > What does "co-coincides" mean? > > It's when two coincidences are mutuall

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 7:18 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > First my setup: > > Fairly basic (newish) install (noX) in a Virtual Box vm on windows7 host > > I'd like to hear some of the ways you all keep up with syncing and > update world. > > Of course the basic call with cron is clear enough: > > eix-sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 21, 2012 6:44 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination > servers may or may not be the same, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 21, 2012 7:03 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > On 2012-02-20, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP > > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered > > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destin

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap-2.4.24 fails to compile

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 21, 2012 1:57 AM, "Joseph" wrote: > > I have automake-1.9.6-r3 installed but emerging openldap fails, it seems to me it has something to do with this bug: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403261 > > I have all three versions installed: equery list automake > * Searching for automa

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading gcc

2012-02-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just re-emerge the older version e.g. emerge =...gcc-4.4.5 (... is the category). Then use eselect gcc or gcc-config to select the active gcc version. CMIIW Rgds, On Feb 20, 2012 11:24 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I want to downgrade gcc from 4.5.3-r1 to 4.4.5. > > The Gentoo gcc UPgrade guide tells m

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 19, 2012 1:27 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > And every time that's successful, it's because some idiot admin wasn't filtering their incoming BGP traffic properly. Ditto the network in Florida which acted as a black hole for the entire Internet in the late 90s. > > Proper training and filteri

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 19, 2012 1:15 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > (Sorry for the top-post...I'm mobile atm.) > > My understanding is that core network operators filter ASs for which they don't have a contract for transit. I.e, if I were to get my own PI space, I'd have to pay tier 1 networks (or pay someone to ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 21:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0600 > Dale wrote: > >> > And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. >> > >> >> I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the >> computers.  After all, the internet is supposed to be re

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 23:18, Michael Mol wrote: > >8 snippage > > And it's not so easy to take the Internet down with injected BGP > routes any more, either; most network operators apply some sort of > filtering. > Yes, there *are* filters against injecting BGP from non-trusted sources.

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2012 8:21 PM, "Dale" wrote: > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Indeed. In fact, easier than that. > > > > Just inject false BGP routes into one of the backbone level routers, and > > see how wide the Internet becomes 'impacted'. Do it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2012 7:27 PM, "Volker Armin Hemmann" wrote: > > Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 > > > > > > Dale wrote: > > >> Howdy, > > >> > > >> I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2012 6:46 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > This revision removes a couple of steps in the process, so there's > less stuff involved. If only software developers worked that way . > > * Busybox stable is now past the buggy version that didn't work with > mdev. There is no need to keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 6:10 PM, "Marc Joliet" wrote: > > Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 > schrieb Pandu Poluan : > > > On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 2:58 AM, "James" wrote: > > Hello, > > My download of livedvd-12 is running really slow, > despite trying dozens of mirrors (mirrorselect produced > poor suggestions) currently. > > So, I am trying to find out if gptfdisk is on the latest > livedvd or SystemrescueCD. I cannot f

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way > to get in touch with a good person for the job? > > - Grant > gentoo-dev? :-) Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P > > > > Congratulations! The first correct use of "one of those wh

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 8:41 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:35:50 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > Or use a hardlink instead of a symlink. > > > I tend to stay away from hardlinks; ls IIRC can't differentiate between > > hardlinks

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 7:00 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:39:16 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Oh well, I'll just add an explicit source then. > > Or use a hardlink instead of a symlink. > > I tend to stay away from hardlinks; ls IIRC

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 6:48 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > > On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > >> > >> Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a >> while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. >> I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > > Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > > On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" > <mailto:jo...@antarean.org>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Thu, February

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > > 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 vers

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

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 2:01 PM, "Willie Matthews" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:24:45 +0700 > 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 fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 1:49 PM, "Graham Murray" wrote: > > walt writes: > > > In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another you can > > set/unset the needed flag for just one package in /etc/portage/package.use. > > The real problems come when you find that one package depends on > f

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

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
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 /opt/some/package/path (To be precise, /etc/init.d/gatewall -> /opt/wallmator/i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 15, 2012 9:45 PM, "m...@trausch.us" wrote: > > On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Found this blogpost serendipitously: > > > > http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ > > > > so, are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 8:51 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. > > Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one > > of those for you. > > Since both of you agree that I never said what

[gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
Found this blogpost serendipitously: http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ so, are we brothers? :-) Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

2012-02-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 14, 2012 6:00 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:42:56 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Hehhe... sorry, I'm on the road and don't have Gentoo on my > > smartphone :-P > > Not even via SSH? :P > It's a new phone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

2012-02-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 13, 2012 11:41 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" wrote: > > On 13/02/12 18:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, "Joerg Schilling" >> > <mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de>> wrote: >> > Correct, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

2012-02-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, "Joerg Schilling" < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > Grant Edwards wrote: > > > On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >> > > >> I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 11, 2012 12:42 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > >> > >> On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > > On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" > <mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> > > > >> > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 10, 2012 3:13 PM, "Hinnerk van Bruinehsen" < h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08.02.2012 16:23, James wrote: > > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen fu-berlin.de> writes: > > > > > >> I own a Galaxy Nexus - up to now I encountered a bug in fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" wrote: > > On Friday 10 Feb 2012 04:42:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an > > > internal server in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an internal > server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into my office, ISP > "A" and ISP "B". The primary connection is A, but if A goes

[gentoo-user] Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an internal server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into my office, ISP "A" and ISP "B". The primary connection is A, but if A goes down, we can use B. The app running on the cloud server has no automatic failover abilit

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >> But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform > >> hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters & > >> layout, etc. > > > > Some days a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, PROBLEM SOLVED. (Read below) On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 19:51, Alex Schuster wrote: > Pandu Poluan writes: > >> Have anyone been having problems emerging sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1 >> on a chroot-ed environment? >> >> In my case, it always fail during the follo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 19:32, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 18:49, William Kenworthy wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 18:00 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> Have anyone been having problems emerging sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1 >>> on a chroot-ed en

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 18:49, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 18:00 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Have anyone been having problems emerging sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1 >> on a chroot-ed environment? >> >> In my case, it always fail during the fo

[gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
Have anyone been having problems emerging sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1 on a chroot-ed environment? In my case, it always fail during the following stage: chmod g+s /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1/image//usr/bin/write Strangely, if I exit chroot, I can do the following with no problem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 9, 2012 2:29 PM, "Andrew Tchernoivanov" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> Ah, thank you! >> >> I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than having to edit grub in 10+ boxes.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 9, 2012 1:50 PM, "Andrew Tchernoivanov" wrote: > > I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It shows hardware information in more "friendly" > way by using ncurses. And also there is no need to boot LiveCD itself - it stars form grub. > Ah, thank you! I'll still burn a CD, though. Muc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 9, 2012 12:58 PM, "Joshua Murphy" wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, > > > > But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform > > hardware audit? i.e

[gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters & layout, etc. It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running either VMware or XenSer

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 9, 2012 1:35 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > >> On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" > >> wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" wrote: > >8 snippage > > BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... > Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its spi

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 8, 2012 2:38 AM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:11:26 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM, "Eray Aslan" wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:58:33PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:59 -0500, Jeff Horelick wrote: > > On 6 February 2012 21:42, walt wrote: > > > > I tried and liked google chrome for a few months until I got tired > > > of the multi-hour compile every week or so. The chrome-binary ebuild > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM, "Eray Aslan" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:58:33PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > S... I'm still on 2.8.7. Is it safe to upgrade to 2.9.0-r1 ? > > Yes, it should be OK as long as you run etc-update/dispatch-conf/similar > aft

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 01:05, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:47:45 schrieb Michael Mol: >>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger >> wrote: >>> > Am 06.02.2012 18:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemm

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 7, 2012 9:46 AM, "walt" wrote: > > I tried and liked google chrome for a few months until I got tired > of the multi-hour compile every week or so. The chrome-binary ebuild > was removed a while ago, I'm guessing because of library version > conflicts, but I dunno for sure. > > Anyway, I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Convincing portage...

2012-02-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 3, 2012 11:15 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 2012 10:03 AM, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I treid the jack-audio-connection as supported by portage and had no > > success at all with my hardware. I didn't find the reaso

Re: [gentoo-user] Convincing portage...

2012-02-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 3, 2012 10:03 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > I treid the jack-audio-connection as supported by portage and had no > success at all with my hardware. I didn't find the reason, why it > alwasys killed itself after a short time. > > With JACK 1.9.8 (jack2) installed from source it works. > > I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Python+readline?

2012-01-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 31, 2012 10:43 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 01:38:53AM -0800, Keith Dart wrote > > > ok, how about the output of: > > > > emerge -pv dev-lang/python:2.7 > > > > Did you do something with the readline library? > > I hate multi-slot. I added readline to dev-lang/pyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?

2012-01-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 31, 2012 3:04 AM, "Jorge Martínez López" wrote: > > El lun, 30-01-2012 a las 08:54 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: > > > > > My personal preference is to use less, I find it to support my > > Vi/ViM habits > > more appropriately. > > > > Then you would love vimpager. > And vimmanpager :-)

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

2012-01-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 4:39 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:47 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop > > horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 4:52 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On 01/29/2012 11:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Do packages fail to build? We just had a 'Graphite > > causing trouble' thread here, > > I've read in this group that an occasional package fails when using > -j2 or higher (which you will certainly be doin

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honk

Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that

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