Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

2011-08-15 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi all, thanks for all the input ! :) In the meantime I found this: http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_lokalisieren/ip-address where ip-aaddress is for example 192.168.192.168. ;) Further links on that page leads to a satelite-map

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's installing Gnome 3 stuff. Is that what you want? Yes. That is why I am using the gnome overlay Look at your unmasking rules. They were supposed to be the ones that came

[gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
# 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 Any ideas why this fails? Filesystem is mounted, file is

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

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

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
Is the filesystem mounted when it tries to find the firmware? I thought it was, but having another look at dmesg, it looks like that's not the case. proxy linux # dmesg | grep eth0 [0.897559] r8169 :02:00.0: eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xc936, 1c:6f:65:20:3f:c6, XID 083000c0 IRQ

[gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello List, I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being dense, or maybe it was on another list. I want to try another

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags and CFLAGS of stage3?

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Does anyone know what are the USE-flags and CFLAGS used for the current stage3? Unpack your stage3 and then cat /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5/{USE,CFLAGS} amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux mudflap nls nptl openmp userland_GNU -mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags and CFLAGS of stage3?

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:53, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Does anyone know what are the USE-flags and CFLAGS used for the current stage3? Unpack your stage3 and then cat /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5/{USE,CFLAGS} amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux mudflap nls nptl openmp

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:52 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello List, I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being

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

2011-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2011 12:13 PM, 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 Any ideas why

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread James Broadhead
On 15 August 2011 09:27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: emerge --sync layman -S eix-update $ man eix (...) /etc/eix-sync.conf This file stores commands and

[gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 found it wants to install a long list of deps, many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs to see which were part of Java why they seemed to be needed. Not a few proved to

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 found it wants to install a long list of deps, many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs to see which were part of Java

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

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
Is the firmware path set correctly in the kernel config?  In Device Drivers-Generic Driver Options, set Firmware blobs root directory to /lib/firmware and build a new kernel. I have the same kernel config as my laptop which loads intel wifi firmware from /llib/firmware ok; # zgrep -i firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 07:17:55 Philip Webb did opine thusly: I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 found it wants to install a long list of deps, many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs to see which

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
110815 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 found it wants to install a long list of deps, many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 15 Aug 2011 12:21:13 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 found it wants to install a long list of deps, many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. As a result, I checked my

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

2011-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2011 02:59 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Is the firmware path set correctly in the kernel config? In Device Drivers-Generic Driver Options, set Firmware blobs root directory to /lib/firmware and build a new kernel. [...] Firmware blobs root directory is EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR which is only

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 August 2011 11:07:31 J. Roeleveld wrote: There also was a thread called [gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're looking for. That looks like the one. Thanks Joost. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290,

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 15, 2011 3:06 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 11:07:31 J. Roeleveld wrote: There also was a thread called [gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're looking for. That looks like the one.

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
110815 Alan McKinnon wrote: I removed Java from my USE for LO + gnome and gtk too and have not yet seen any ill-effects. The last time I read a definitive statement on Java for OOo was early in the 2.0 series, when it mentioned database connectivity as the prime thing that used it, as in

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

2011-08-15 Thread Andrea Conti
It's not a workaround, but how it's supposed to work. Loading from userspace means using a user-space program to load the firmware. This is not what you're trying to do, since you don't have such a program. ? Udev has been the standard way to service kernel firmware requests for quite some

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Philip Webb: 110815 Alan McKinnon wrote: I removed Java from my USE for LO + gnome and gtk too and have not yet seen any ill-effects. The last time I read a definitive statement on Java for OOo was early in the 2.0 series, when it mentioned database connectivity

[gentoo-user] [science overlay] librecad ebuild troubles?

2011-08-15 Thread Andy Wilkinson
I am trying to emerge librecad-1.0.0_rc1 from the science overlay; however, it appears to be missing some crucial steps (silly things like fetching the source and building the program). The output from emerge borders on trivial: http://pastebin.com/1HN9x299 Since that doesn't look very helpful,

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: If I remove 'java' from  make.conf , which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ? Is there anything else I've overlooked ? wizards/templates in LO, and some export filters in LO use java.

Re: [gentoo-user] [science overlay] librecad ebuild troubles?

2011-08-15 Thread justin
On 15/08/11 16:43, Andy Wilkinson wrote: I am trying to emerge librecad-1.0.0_rc1 from the science overlay; however, it appears to be missing some crucial steps (silly things like fetching the source and building the program). The output from emerge borders on trivial:

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

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Torrent with dynamics throttles

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: All the other considerations apply, especially the one about capping the total outgoing bandwidth to something less than the actual available bandwidth so that the modem's tx queue stays empty. In my (limited) experience, even

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Aug 15 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's installing Gnome 3 stuff. Is that what you want? Yes. That is why I am using the gnome overlay Look at your unmasking rules.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands into a bash alias: emerge --sync layman -S eix-update and use that to sync portage. That way I don't leave steps out. Congratulations, you reinvented the

[gentoo-user] set both an ipv4 and ipv6 default gateway

2011-08-15 Thread Jorge Polinotto
Hi all, I'm trying to find out the way to set both IPv4 and IPv6 default gateway in the /etc/conf.d/net file. I've seen this way [1], adding iproute2 module, but when I execute: # insmod iproute2 insmod: can't read 'iproute2': No such file or directory so I guess it's not in my kernel and I

[gentoo-user] Re: Torrent with dynamics throttles

2011-08-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:02:01 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: All the other considerations apply, especially the one about capping the total outgoing bandwidth to something less than the actual available bandwidth so that the

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 15 August 2011, 13:51:42 schrieb Mick: On Monday 15 Aug 2011 12:21:13 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 found it wants to install a long list of deps, many of which seem to be caused

Re: [gentoo-user] set both an ipv4 and ipv6 default gateway

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 13:34:06 Jorge Polinotto did opine thusly: Hi all, I'm trying to find out the way to set both IPv4 and IPv6 default gateway in the /etc/conf.d/net file. I've seen this way [1], adding iproute2 module, but when I execute: # insmod iproute2 insmod: can't read

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 11:33:02 Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands into a bash alias: emerge --sync layman -S eix-update and use that to sync

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 15 August 2011, 19:25:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon 15 August 2011 11:33:02 Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands into a bash alias:

[gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
I just tried emerge -DuN @world @system -va and got: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.20.0 [2.22.06] 0 kB [ebuild U ] www-client/firefox-bin-5.0 [3.6.19] USE=startup-notification [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] set both an ipv4 and ipv6 default gateway

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
emerge -av iproute2 Then in /etc/conf.d/net make sure that the routes_eth0 setting has 2 (*two*) lines like the forum thread you posted, first line is the IPv4 route and second line th IPv6 route. Rgds On 2011-08-15, Jorge Polinotto jo...@ccc.uba.ar wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to find out the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 19:31:37 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: I just tried emerge -DuN @world @system -va and got: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.20.0 [2.22.06] 0 kB [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 19:31:50 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: Am Montag 15 August 2011, 19:25:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon 15 August 2011 11:33:02 Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: That caught me

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, August 15, 2011 3:06 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 11:07:31 J. Roeleveld wrote: There also was a thread called [gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're looking for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.08.2011 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's not a bug, portage is doing what it should. In the first case portage will try upgrade all packages to the latest version. It sees that you asked it to try autounmask stuff, so it wants to override your local mask for ExtUtils-ParseXS. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 20:55:12 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 15.08.2011 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's not a bug, portage is doing what it should. In the first case portage will try upgrade all packages to the latest version. It sees that you asked it to try autounmask

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 15 August 2011, 20:04:21 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon 15 August 2011 19:31:50 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: Am Montag 15 August 2011, 19:25:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon 15 August 2011 11:33:02 Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? That first example you gave strongly indicates you have it enabled. I'm thinking the same thing. It seems to be enabled by default I think. I know it is here and I didn't do it. It just sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 15:12:09 Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? That first example you gave strongly indicates you have it enabled. I'm thinking the same thing. It seems to be enabled by default I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.08.2011 21:34, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? I have it enabled because it is enabled by default. You have to explicit disable it. So, because it is enabled by default, I never asked portage to autounmask anything for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) Mine goes back a year. Gentoo moves so fast, I figure a year should be more than plenty. Maybe I need to rethink that a little. I could be wrong. :/ I've just

Re: [gentoo-user] Rosegarden works???

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Samstag, 13. August 2011, 19:48:55 schrieb luis jure: on 2011-08-14 at 00:29 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: comment#3 talks about jack. Is jack up and running, when you try to start rosegarden? yes, i tried both with and without jack running. i don't use jack normally and don't know much

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Why is autounmask trying to unmask ExtUtils-ParseXS if it's not needed? Should I report this as a bug? I think it's only telling you what you should unmask. Setting --autounmask=n simply makes it stop giving you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 15.08.2011 21:34, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? I have it enabled because it is enabled by default. You have to explicit disable it. So, because it is enabled by default, I never asked portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.08.2011 23:33, schrieb Paul Hartman: Use --tree to get a better idea what package wants the newer ExtUtils-ParseXS I narrowed it down to emerge perl-core/Module-Build -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Assigning an IP in AP mode

2011-08-15 Thread Grant
hostapd doesn't report any error and I don't think it should. Everything works fine as soon as I 'ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1' but I know there's a way to assign that IP automatically, I've just forgotten what it is.  My description above is the trouble I run into when I try to set up that

[gentoo-user] Setting wifi txpower automatically

2011-08-15 Thread Grant
Is this in /etc/conf.d/net the best way to set txpower automatically? postup also executes after net.lo and net.eth0 but I don't think it will actually execute the iwconfig command unless it's net.wlan0. postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} == wlan0 ]] ; then iwconfig wlan0 txpower 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Rosegarden works???

2011-08-15 Thread luis jure
on 2011-08-15 at 22:32 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: What version of jack are you using? i have jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.7 installed. but i think this shouldn't be the problem, because at least in the past jack was needed only if you were going to use audio in rosegarden. the program itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: But why was autounmask=y complaining but not autounmask=n? The dependency of the virtual was missing both times so shouldn't emerge spit some error out both times? Greetings Sebastian Because autounmask=n assumes you don't want to upgrade anything that is

[gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
Linux also offered financial firms the ability to modify the source code to further speed performance, Lameter said. It depends on how daring the exchange is, Lameter said, noting that NASDAQ uses a modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server,

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

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
? Udev has been the standard way to service kernel firmware requests for quite some time. The relevant bit is in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules . Ok so that must be working on my laptop (automatically, i didn't configure anything) but failing on my desktop. However, udevd is only

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carteradamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
That is indeed cool. And a welcome news for me who's trying to champion Gentoo in my company which, as it happens, is a stockbrokerage house. One of my country's largest, even :) Rgds, On 2011-08-16, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Linux also offered financial firms the ability to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
To answer your survey: All my gentoo VMs are in production as servers. Non-glorious but essential ones such as mail servers, DNS servers, proxy servers, and also a couple of firewalls. I'm currently in the process of phasing out Ubuntu servers from my company, leaving just one for running

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread James Wall
I use it for my laptop, desktop/HTPC. firewall/router, distfiles server and NFS boot server. The distfiles and NFS boot servers are actually VMs due to having to downsize PC space on my desk. (my wife had a fit about 6 PCs on my desk running constantly.) James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? 1. Server at friends house on fixed IP ADSL2 annex M for DNS, SMTP+IMAP mail, web+wiki, and a second sshd on port 443, so i can get to it from work :). 2. Home laptop, which runs vmware for Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does

[gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-15 Thread Grant
I'm setting up an automated rdiff-backup system and I'm stuck between pushing the backups to the backup server, and pulling the backups to the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH keys. If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each system to be

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

2011-08-15 Thread victor romanchuk
? Udev has been the standard way to service kernel firmware requests for quite some time. The relevant bit is in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules . Ok so that must be working on my laptop (automatically, i didn't configure anything) but failing on my desktop. However, udevd is only