Re: [gentoo-user] Compile program with older libraries

2012-05-28 Thread Marko Košmerl
I was able to find suitable gentoo stage 3 tarball: http://88.191.254.16/gentoo/releases/x86/2007.0/stages/ Chrooted, compiled the source and tried to run binary it in old system. And it worked! On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/27/2012 05:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You need an existing development house with a reputation to uphold, located in the same city as you. Without getting into the (book-length) details, I'll +1 this.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-28 Thread Grant
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly.  Any other tips regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various small web projects?  Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie manager should follow? You can get away with almost anything except these two things: Do

[gentoo-user] Re: How to access newsgroup?

2012-05-28 Thread walt
On 05/24/2012 08:30 PM, wenpin cui wrote: damn firewall Your English is better than my Chinese :-D

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread pk
On 2012-05-28 05:44, Pandu Poluan wrote: But my newer servers has /run (and its children) from the get go, because I think it kind of makes sense. Even though they're udev-free. Hm... what is using /run instead of /var/run? I thought it was (newish) udev itself and things like systemd that

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Jarry
On 27-May-12 10:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: Q1: Can I somehow reduce the size of /run? That has been answered, either use fstab, which may or not work, or mount -o remount, which should. Thanks. It works after I added following line in /etc/fstab: tmpfs /run tmpfs size=128m,mode=1777 0

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: But I'm still missing answer for my second question: Q2: Can I turn this /run in tmpfs feature off? Up front: I don't know. Not my area of expertise, but I also don't think you've given enough information about your system to

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Jarry
On 28-May-12 20:58, Michael Mol wrote: Q2: Can I turn this /run in tmpfs feature off? Up front: I don't know. Not my area of expertise, but I also don't think you've given enough information about your system to really answer. 1) Are you using openrc or systemd? (which version?) openrc

[gentoo-user] postfix: mails stuck in queue; relay issues?

2012-05-28 Thread Andrey Moshbear
My mail.log is filling up with messages of the format: May 28 15:35:19 localhost postfix/smtpd[32669]: 11 hexadecimal numbers: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] May 28 15:35:19 localhost postfix/smtpd[32664]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] May 28 15:35:19 localhost postfix/smtpd[32669]: lost

[gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ... anyone recompiled system or world with it already? More advantages or disadvantages? Thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 21:24:59 +0200 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I always liked Gentoo because it gives me complete freedom and control over my system. *I* could decide what I want to use or not. And I'd be very dissapointed if Gentoo one day goes to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly.  Any other tips regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various small web projects?  Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie manager should

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-28 Thread Sascha Cunz
On Monday, 28. May 2012 22:04:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ... anyone recompiled system or world with it already? More advantages or disadvantages? I tried an emerge -ev world yesterday (on a box with a total about 1100 emergeed packages), so far

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-05-28 22:54, schrieb Sascha Cunz: On Monday, 28. May 2012 22:04:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ... anyone recompiled system or world with it already? More advantages or disadvantages? I tried an emerge -ev world yesterday (on a box with a total

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 28-May-12 20:58, Michael Mol wrote: Q2: Can I turn this /run in tmpfs feature off? Up front: I don't know. Not my area of expertise, but I also don't think you've given enough information about your system to really

[gentoo-user] Problem with fan control on laptop

2012-05-28 Thread Peiding CHEN
Hello,I've suffered from the problem with cpu fan control on my laptop for a long time. I hope someone could help me get rid of it.Here is the problem:My laptop is "Toshiba Portégé M901". I installed Gentoo with xfce4 as the desktop environment and compiled the kernel manually. After system

[gentoo-user] Automount under mdev; looking for testers

2012-05-28 Thread Walter Dnes
More beta-testing, and some shiney for mdev users... yes, we now have automount. I have no problem with manually mounting usb drives/keys/cameras/etc, but some people insist on automount. I've worked out how to implement automounting under mdev. I've got it working on a machine at home, but

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 May 2012 21:24:59 +0200, Jarry wrote: But why would you want to? I do not see any advantage in having /run on tmpfs. Even though you have had several benefits explained to you? Files in /run have to be available and writeable at all times from early boot onwards, using a hard

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 May 2012 20:31:39 +0200, Jarry wrote: But I'm still missing answer for my second question: Q2: Can I turn this /run in tmpfs feature off? Of course you can, you have the source. However, it appears that no one has implemented that particular feature for you yet. Maybe it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge any gcc

2012-05-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
ram usage just before failure? - do you have enough, and enough disk space? BillK -Original Message- From: Ezequiel Garcia elezegar...@gmail.com Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge any gcc Date: Sun, 27 May

Re: [gentoo-user] Automount under mdev; looking for testers

2012-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 29, 2012 5:23 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: More beta-testing, and some shiney for mdev users... yes, we now have automount. I have no problem with manually mounting usb drives/keys/cameras/etc, but some people insist on automount. I've worked out how to implement

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 29, 2012 4:15 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2012-05-28 22:54, schrieb Sascha Cunz: On Monday, 28. May 2012 22:04:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ... anyone recompiled system or world with it already? More advantages or

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On May 29, 2012 4:15 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2012-05-28 22:54, schrieb Sascha Cunz: On Monday, 28. May 2012 22:04:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ...

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 29, 2012 12:53 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2012-05-28 05:44, Pandu Poluan wrote: But my newer servers has /run (and its children) from the get go, because I think it kind of makes sense. Even though they're udev-free. Hm... what is using /run instead of /var/run? I thought