[gentoo-user] FYI NFS file / directory confusion on 4.13.7

I have /usr/portage/distfiles nfs shared, and emerge has broken because of this; >>> Emerging (1 of 3) net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.6-r3::gentoo * Fetching files in the background. * To view fetch progress, run in another terminal: * tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log bash:

Re: [gentoo-user] The uselessness of equery

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:29:19 -0700 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Has anyone a better way? As Alan recently wrote in a different but > related context, surely a hack in bash / awk /perl would do better, and > that's what I'll do if I must, but I can't believe gentoo lacks a

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

P Levine wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Dale >wrote: > > I think I'm going to try renaming .kde4 and see if a fresh start helps > with this problem.  > > > ​AFAIK, plasma5 uses ~/.local and ~/​.config. > I wish I had read

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

Philip Webb wrote: > 171016 Dale wrote: >>> I did a upgrade recently >> and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge amount of memory. >> I noticed it at one point and it was taking about 8 GB . > FYI I don't see this : > > root:527 ~> eix plasma-work > [I] kde-plasma/plasma-workspace >

[gentoo-user] Re: The uselessness of equery

On 10/16/2017 09:42 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 171016 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> ~$ time equery -Cq b /usr/bin/equery >> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 >> real 0m27.594s >> user 0m8.780s >> sys 0m0.456s > > My desktop machine has : > > CPU : AMD X8 FX8370E 8-core 4,3 GHz 16 MB 32 nm 95 W > SSD :

Re: [gentoo-user] The uselessness of equery

171016 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > ~$ time equery -Cq b /usr/bin/equery > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 > real 0m27.594s > user 0m8.780s > sys 0m0.456s My desktop machine has : CPU : AMD X8 FX8370E 8-core 4,3 GHz 16 MB 32 nm 95 W SSD : Kingston SSDNow V300 240 GB SATA RW 450 MB/s And I get :

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

171016 Dale wrote: >> I did a upgrade recently > and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge amount of memory. > I noticed it at one point and it was taking about 8 GB . FYI I don't see this : root:527 ~> eix plasma-work [I] kde-plasma/plasma-workspace Available versions: (5)

[gentoo-user] The uselessness of equery

~$ time equery -Cq b /usr/bin/equery app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 real0m27.594s user0m8.780s sys 0m0.456s Has anyone a better way? As Alan recently wrote in a different but related context, surely a hack in bash / awk /perl would do better, and that's what I'll do if I must, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Dale wrote: > I think I'm going to try renaming .kde4 and see if a fresh start helps > with this problem. > ​AFAIK, plasma5 uses ~/.local and ~/​.config.

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I did a upgrade recently and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge > amount of memory.  I noticed it at one point and it was taking about > 8GBs.  I killed it and restarted but it seems to keep happening after a > few hours.  After I took a nap, I nudged the monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On 10/16/2017 11:50 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > What I need here is a small app that will be a constrained, > single-purpose watchdog. If a daemon fails, the watchdog attempts 3 > restarts to get it going, and records the fact it did it (that goes into > the big monitoring system as a reportable

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

On Monday, 16 October 2017 13:25:56 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/10/2017 14:29, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 10/16/2017 08:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> And it was never Larry the Cow either, gentoo had > >> Larry the Gender-Confused Cow :-) > > > > Short for Loretta? > > Nah, Larry was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On 16/10/2017 18:10, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 16.10.2017 17:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Nagios and I go way back, way way waay back. I now recommend it >> never be used unless there really is no other option. > > Have you tried Icinga 2 (*) yet? It originally started as a Nagios fork >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On 16.10.2017 17:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Nagios and I go way back, way way waay back. I now recommend it > never be used unless there really is no other option. Have you tried Icinga 2 (*) yet? It originally started as a Nagios fork and uses plugins to monitor, but the rule-based

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On 16/10/2017 17:41, Mick wrote: > On Monday, 16 October 2017 16:12:53 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 16/10/2017 17:08, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >>> On 2017-10-16 14:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: My needs here are pretty simple: local watchdog that checks if a program is running and restart it if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On Monday, 16 October 2017 16:12:53 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/10/2017 17:08, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2017-10-16 14:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> My needs here are pretty simple: > >> local watchdog that checks if a program is running and restart it if > >> not. If that fails 3 times or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On 16/10/2017 17:08, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-10-16 14:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> My needs here are pretty simple: >> local watchdog that checks if a program is running and restart it if >> not. If that fails 3 times or so, alert me. >> Maybe a few file/dir/fifo monitors as well. Not

[gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

On 2017-10-16 14:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My needs here are pretty simple: > local watchdog that checks if a program is running and restart it if > not. If that fails 3 times or so, alert me. > Maybe a few file/dir/fifo monitors as well. Not much else. > > I don't need any of monit's graphing

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

On 16/10/2017 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:14:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I don't think the trustees can argue that claim anymore. Larry hasn't >> been around for years on gentoo web sites (znort is still to be found >> hovering at the bottom of wiki pages

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

On 16/10/2017 14:29, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/16/2017 08:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> And it was never Larry the Cow either, gentoo had >> Larry the Gender-Confused Cow :-) >> > > Short for Loretta? > Nah, Larry was always a he -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:14:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I don't think the trustees can argue that claim anymore. Larry hasn't > been around for years on gentoo web sites (znort is still to be found > hovering at the bottom of wiki pages though!). Trademarks go away in law > if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

On 10/16/2017 08:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > And it was never Larry the Cow either, gentoo had > Larry the Gender-Confused Cow :-) > Short for Loretta?

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

On 16/10/2017 07:29, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:26:04 + (UTC) >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> Appropos of nothing, I accidentaly stumbled across larrythecow.org >>> today. It's

[gentoo-user] monit and friends.

I'm about to embark on a biggish rollout of local watchdogs in my monitoring solutions - about 100 hosts or so. First tool I reached for was my trusty monit, been using it for years. Before I start though, I figured I should ask around if anyone has experince n a package that does what monit does