On 6/22/19 1:52 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
I think (wrongly?) that readline deals with redrawing when typing a
command in the shell.
I believe that readline comes into play with the shell which is
controlling the command line. Any past output, even old command lines,
are historical data that
On 6/21/19 5:03 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
## equery uses x11-terms/xterm
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[: I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for x11-terms/xterm-337:
U I
- - Xaw3d
On 6/21/19 4:20 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
Nope. Just plain xterm (which I use a lot). BTW: it also works
remotely, via ssh. $TERM is "xterm".
What use terms do you have enabled (that impact XTerm)?
Please post the output of equery uses x11-terms/xterm.
XTerm(337)
I think that's the current
On 6/21/19 3:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
No description. It clearly gets the homepage info from the .ebuild
file (it doesn't exist anywhere else) so why it cannot also get the
description is beyond me.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's what I meant by "trivially worked around" :-)
;-)
BTW, does your
On 6/21/19 2:04 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
My xterm wraps & resizes just fine (e.g., a long line wraps;
on maximizing the window, contents are redrawn and use just one
line, if it fits). I don't think I did anything special for this
to work.
That surprises me.
Are you automatically running
On 6/21/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote:
I seem to have this enabled, as far as the GUI shows, along with reverse
wraparound
If it's enabled (checked) in XTerm's menu, then the feature is enabled.
not sure what the reverse wraparound does.
"reverse wraparound" is when you backspace off the left
On 6/21/19 11:27 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE
from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the
framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around?
Does equery meta not show what you want?
% equery
On 6/21/19 6:57 AM, Mick wrote:
Is there some setting I can apply to address this annoying phenomenon?
I'm not aware of such a setting for XTerm.
Note: My ignorance of such a setting does not preclude it from existing.
On 6/20/19 3:07 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
Why don't you simply goto another raw terminal via Ctl-Alt-F2 (F3 etc),
login as 'root' & issue 'shutdown -h now' ?
Traditionally, computer operators / maintenance technicians, who would
need to do a halt might not have root's password. Thus the need
On 6/19/19 9:51 PM, Dale wrote:
It seems you like that way and it works best for your situation and that
is what matters.
Yep. I'm happy enough, for now. We'll see if I change my opinion in
the future.
Sometimes there are many ways to do things but some just work better
in certain
After the good input that I received in the "Preventing new versions of
gentoo-sources…" thread, I figured I'd ask this question:
Is there a way to cause ebuild file to limit the version of other
packages, e.g. net-misc/openvswitch's limiting sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
to a supported kernel
On 6/19/19 8:51 PM, Dale wrote:
Honestly, I'm not sure there is a easy way to do this.
I'm actually happy with what Vadim recommended.
It keeps me within the minor (?) version of the kernel that I want to
stay within, while still allowing updates to new micro (?) versions.
Is Major, Minor,
On 6/19/19 3:29 PM, Jack wrote:
It seems the man page is not complete. It mentions the -k of --keywords
option to the m or meta module, but doesn't actually mention the y
(keywords) module itself (which IS shown by equery -h)
equery y package
is not the same as
equery m -k package
The
On 6/19/19 3:10 PM, Dale wrote:
I'm not sure this will apply. I know this option works in some uses
but not sure about yours. You may want to try it tho and see if it does
what you want.
-o, --overlay-tree
Include package from overlays in the search path.
I use it
On 6/19/19 2:51 PM, Jack wrote:
I suspect I have more ignorance of equery than you do, but have you
tried eix? I don't know all it's possibilities, but I do know it
handles overlays.
No, I have not tried eix yet.
I tend to be reluctant to add additional tools, especially if the
existing
Is there a way to get equery to list keywords from custom overlays
(configured through /etc/portage/repos.conf/.conf)?
If I put an ebuild file in the main Gentoo portage repo, equery keywords
works just fine.
If I move the same ebuild file to my local repo, equery keywords
fails.
(Yes,
On 6/19/19 1:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
These days there are other ways to do the same
You could probably add the Set UID bit to the halt binary and restrict
read & execution to members of the group. Then any user that can read
it, can run it as root via Set UID.
--
Grant. . . .
unix ||
On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels
Perfect!
Thank you. :-)
I did name the file /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources as I like
to name the file after the package that it's meant to effect.
Is there a way that I can prevent emerge from wanting to update
(download / install) gentoo-sources for kernel versions beyond a
specified value?
I want to stick within a specific version of the kernel / gentoo-sources
because of dependencies on Open vSwitch.
I'm okay receiving updates to
On 6/18/19 9:43 AM, John Covici wrote:
It would seem impossible for me to switch to profile 17.1.
"Impossible" seems a bit extreme to me. Maybe really difficult / annoying.
I say this because I can never run emerge --depclean . I have a
few packages which will not compile and one not in
TL;DR: It does seem that the kernel was holding things back to the
point that things weren't working. :-(
On 6/8/19 12:01 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I'm having problems with newly compiled modules (zfs (et al.) and vbox
(et al.)) and kernel after doing two "emerge -DuNe @world"s.
I'
On 6/17/19 3:02 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
Did you run VANILLA 2.4? (None of the distro kernels carried those
particular changes, for obvious reasons :-)
Yes.
I would download source form kernel.org and compile it manually.
You're making the classic logical mistake of "it's not true for me
On 6/16/19 8:37 PM, Manuel McLure wrote:
For example, per IBM for AIX
(https://developer.ibm.com/articles/au-aix7memoryoptimize3/):
"A more sensible rule is to configure the paging space to be half the
size of RAM plus 4GB with an upper limit of 32GB. In systems with more
than 32GB of RAM,
On 6/16/19 7:02 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the course :-(
I did. I still hear people say it today. It's not old as in past tense.
The basic Unix mechanism needs twice ram.
I disagree.
It's inherent in the design of the thing. Whether linux no
On 6/16/19 1:14 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
I'd have a single /home partition
I was thinking of the other OS as more of a live distro copied to the
system than anything else. I wasn't thinking that the OP wanted to
actively use the alternate distro frequently. As such, I figure that
most
On 6/15/19 7:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Hi,
The main system on this box is ~amd64 plasma, but I also have a
small rescue system which is amd64, no desktop. I use bootctl from
systemd-boot to manage the UEFI images.
I don't have much experience with UEFI. But I do have some
On 6/13/19 3:47 AM, John Covici wrote:
Hi. I use inn to fetch/post usenet news. I know its no longer in the
tree, but I would like to keep it going.
I am also interested in maintaining INN.
I mentioned it before INN was removed from portage, but didn't have an
opportunity to do anything
On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote:
3. Rebuild libtools, binutils, glibc.
Well, I've had some progress.
I'm now booted and running the kernel I just compiled. (Same config,
same genkernel command.)
I unmasked, downgraded, and selected (binutils-config) binutils to
2.30-r4 before re-running
On 6/9/19 2:23 PM, Mick wrote:
I think Dale meant a later tree will contain updated packages, which
may fix previous breakages and incompatibilities.
Please clarify which tree: Kernel and / or Portage
Hypothetically, a later VBox version requires some later version libs,
which your current
On 6/9/19 1:38 PM, Dale wrote:
While I see that point and quite often it is a good idea, it could
also be that a fix is in the newer tree. It could even be that you
caught the tree in the middle of some sort of change and you missed
part of it.
If it were me, I'd try everything you can but
On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote:
If you haven't done it already, perhaps have a look in the path
/lib/modules/ 4.9.76-gentoo-r1/misc/ to check the VBox modules are
present and owned by root:root with 0644 access rights.
They are there. I would have expected the error message to be different
On 6/9/19 2:56 AM, Mick wrote:
This sounds as if it may be related to a move from an older gcc to
a newer version.
I'm not sure it's related to a gcc version:
# gcc-config -l
[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 *
[2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-8.3.0
I think that gcc 8.3 might have been selected and I
On 6/8/19 1:17 PM, Dale wrote:
I'm not sure I completely understand this one but a thought occurred
to me.
Thoughts are good. That's why I asked.
This may be way off base here so feel free to ignore it if it is.
Did you make sure the kernel symlink is pointing to the right kernel
when you
On 6/8/19 12:26 PM, Mick wrote:
Were these contents not there, or is it that the new version of
modules do not work?
The old (original for the sake of this thread) versions (restored from
backups) work just fine.
The version produced during the first emerge -DuNe @world worked. At
least
I'm having problems with newly compiled modules (zfs (et al.) and vbox
(et al.)) and kernel after doing two "emerge -DuNe @world"s.
Everything worked fine after rebooting after the first "emerge -DuNe
@world". So, I did another "emerge -DuNe @world". (This harks back to
the old stage 1 ->
On 6/6/19 10:50 AM, Jack wrote:
I've been going through this lately also (mainly due to forgetting -1 on
updates) and put together a script, which I can post later if anyone
wants. However, the bottom line for me is to do "emerge -pc package"
for each package in world to see what (if
On 6/6/19 9:57 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
It seems as if the regenworld script adds things that it finds from
/var/log/emerge.log that aren't themselves dependencies of something
else. Thus it the world file is cleaner than if all installed packages
were in the world file.
To put some numbers
On 6/5/19 10:56 PM, Dale wrote:
It's a plain text file and I've edited it in the past with no problems.
ACK
I /thought/ that was the case. But I wanted to double check that there
wasn't something else filed away that needed to match before I edited
the file.
I've done that cleanup before
On 6/5/19 9:18 PM, Dale wrote:
I would start by removing anything that has libs in it. Generally,
those should be pulled in as deps. After that, I'd go through the
list and remove anything that you don't directly use.
ACK
Can I just edit /var/lib/portage/world? Or do I need to do
What is the best way to clean up the world file?
I have inherited a system where someone did individual emerges to update
packages when there was a single package that had a problem. So, now
all the packages that emerge wanted to update have been added to the
world file.
I'd like to clean
On 5/23/19 9:49 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
I suspect most lawyers would agree that email is just a bad idea
if confidentiality matters, or the web in general frankly and it's
getting worse fast.
I find that S/MIME works quite well for me. It's also largely
transparent
On 5/23/19 1:11 PM, Dale wrote:
I have to deal with a State entity for some communications and they
do that send a link thing to go to a Cisco site to get/send emails.
I guess it is somewhat better than just plain open email but as you
point out, if they have the email with the link, they do
Re-sending because this didn't show up in the mailing list.
On 5/23/19 9:40 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Hi,
I'm trying to get some legal work done. I'm trying to do this over email
with a lawyer. For obvious reasons, I want to do this encrypted but
suspect they are not set up for this. They
On 5/18/19 7:04 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
Not that I do it (it would be a bit of a learning experience :-)
but this is where using ldap for user management would score ...
Centralized ID administration is nice. I've dabbled with the following:
· Manual UID & GID management
· Copying
On 5/18/19 5:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
I'd be interested if there are other scripts people have put out
there, but I agree that most of the container solutions on Linux
are overly-complex.
Here's what I use for some networking, which probably qualifies as
extremely light weight
On 5/18/19 9:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Hi,
Can anyone answer this?
I can't comment on LXC or containers in general, but I will say that I
think that namespaces (which is largely what I think containers are)
could do this.
I'd suggest a mount, UTS, and possibly user
On 3/17/19 10:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Hi,
My little Atom box has a small rescue system which I boot once a week
to back up the main system. The backup script is a simple list of bash
commands to mount partitions and tar them to a USB disk.
Please share a copy of the
On 2/24/19 10:26 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
How can I set up my system (using autofs ?) to automatically mount /Src
if such a symlink is accessed
like cd $HOME/Python
Many thanks for a hint,
Review some of the automount tutorials. They will be geared towards
NFS, but the same
On 2/5/19 10:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Yeah, I think you're over-reading into my posts. I'm mostly reacting
to your ideas and not trying to be prescriptive.
So we have a feedback loop. I'm trying to understand why you're saying
what you're saying.
I'm still looking for possibilities and
On 02/04/2019 02:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
So, I think we're miscommunicating a bit here...
It happens.
I'm saying that an init.d script shouldn't try to do anything other
than initialize a service, which should be implemented outside the
init.d script.
It sounds like you are saying that
On 2/4/19 5:10 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
Consider the following commands to start the ""container:
ip netns add myContainer
ip link add myContainer type veth peer name myHost netns myContainer
ip link set myContainer up
ip addr add 192.0.2.1/24 dev myContainer
ip netns exec myContain
On 02/04/2019 11:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
IMO I would separate your container logic from your service manager logic.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "container logic" vs "service
manager logic" and how they differ. I'm assuming that the former
creates / destroys the container and
On 02/03/2019 11:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Ultimately netifrc is just a shell script that parses another shell
script to construct a third shell script. I don't think doing it with
only two shell scripts is that much less elegant =)
The elegance, or lack there of, is not in the number of
On 02/04/2019 09:23 AM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
Have you tried firejail? It gives you convenient ways to set up the
container parameters consistently and is in the repo.
No, I have not. Thank you for the pointer.
Its invocation is also simple enough to not clutter up your startup
scripts.
On 2/3/19 6:26 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
You can add commands to your existing network configuration that will be
run when an interface comes up. For example, in /etc/conf.d/net,
ifup_wlan0="iwconfig \$int key s:secretkey enc open essid foobar"
Ya I find that to be an absolute
On 2/3/19 1:50 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
For the VRF part, Gentoo supports it; it’s in the upstream kernel
sources.
Yep. I've been doing Network Namespaces, and VRF to a lesser degree,
for quite a while now. It's just all been manual or ad-hock scripts.
I only tried it once, but failed
On 2/2/19 11:09 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
I am unclear on what you are trying to do.
See my reply to Rich's message for a description.
I find the gentoo scripts good for the simple case but a complex case
almost always needs extra help.
Yep.
I was hoping that there was something that I
On 2/3/19 5:37 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Nothing wrong with that approach. I use systemd-nspawn to run a bunch
of containers, hosted in Gentoo, and many of which run Gentoo. However,
these all run systemd and I don't believe you can run nspawn without a
systemd host (the guest/container can be
On 2/2/19 9:39 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
systemd-nspawn is also an option, but I don't think that'll work with
OpenRC.
Ya I moved (back to) Gentoo to get away from systemd. I'm not
going to voluntarily opt to use it, or any of it's children. That's
/my/ opinion. I know others opinions
On 2/2/19 7:36 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
LXC containers ??
Maybe.
I just feel like that's more heavy weight than I want.
I'm functionally running a series of ip commands to configure networking
in a special way.
Maybe I should look into what it takes to extend netifrc to support what
I
Does Gentoo have any support for VRFs or (chroot) Jails or Containers
without going down the Docker (et al) path?
I'm wanting to do some things with a Gentoo router that is trivial to do
with network namespaces via manual commands ~> scripts. But that's far
from standard Gentoo init script
On 01/29/2019 02:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
AFAIR the initramfs code is built into the kernel, not as an option. The
reason given for using a cpio archive is that it is simple and available
in the kernel. The kernel itself has an initramfs built into it which is
executed automatically, it's
On 01/29/2019 01:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Uh, an initramfs typically does not exec a second kernel. I guess it
could, in which case that kernel would need its own initramfs to get
around to mounting its root filesystem. Presumably at some point you'd
want to have your system stop kexecing
On 01/29/2019 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Obviously. Hence the reason I said that it shouldn't matter if the
module is built in-kernel.
I'm saying it does matter.
I'm not sure why it seems like we're talking past each other here...
You seem to be focusing on the second kernel that the
On 01/29/2019 12:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
It couldn't. Hence the reason I said, "obviously it needs whatever
drivers it needs, but I don't see why it would care if they are built
-in-kernel vs in-module."
You are missing what I'm saying.
Even the kernel the initramfs uses MUST have
On 01/29/2019 12:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
If all my boxes could function reliably without an initramfs I probably
would do it that way.
;-)
However, as soon as you throw so much as a second hard drive in a system
that becomes unreliable.
I disagree.
I've been reliably booting and
On 01/29/2019 12:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Not sure why you would think this. It is just a cpio archive of a root
filesystem that the kernel runs as a generic bootstrap.
IMHO the simple fact that such is used when it is not needed is ugly part.
This means that your bootstrap for
On 01/29/2019 12:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
I don't see the value in using a different configuration on a box simply
because it happens to work on that particular box. Dracut is a more
generic solution that allows me to keep hosts the same.
And if all the boxes in the fleet can function
On 01/29/2019 10:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Can't say I've tried it recently, but I'd be shocked if it changed much.
The linux kernel guys generally consider this somewhat deprecated
behavior, and prefer that users use an initramfs for this sort of thing.
It is exactly the sort of problem an
On 01/29/2019 09:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
However, there's another quirk which bit me: something in the Gentoo
installation disk took it upon itself to renumber my /dev/md2 to
/dev/md127. I raised bug #539162 for this, but it was decided not to
fix it. (This was back in February 2015.)
On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it
be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm --assemble
command into, say, /etc/local.d/raid.start? The machine doesn't boot
from /dev/md0.
Drive by comment.
I
On 1/21/19 5:02 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
You need a parser, not a regular expression.
The first thing that came to mind is splitting the values and passing
them through printf.
(You can do it with a regex, but it's going to be one of those comical
twelve-page-long things.)
I don't
On 01/10/2019 09:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
That's been my difficulty all along: understanding what I need to do,
before trying to set it up. Your recommendations are a great help in that,
together with the considerable detail you offered.
Been there. Done that. If I can help others avoid
On 12/25/18 5:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Hi,
Is there a guide anywhere to setting up dovecot to work with postfix
and serve IMAP mail to a client on the same LAN segment? I've only found
fragmentary, outdated guides to certain aspects of the whole setup and
I'm left
On 12/24/18 8:48 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
Was a little hasty posting...
That happens.
Yes the new server emails voice messages as attachments. It also does
things like tracking staff status (in office, away, etc) and so it has
other notifications relating to that and some other features.
On 12/23/18 7:03 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
This is correct. A is the voice vlan, the black box is the phone server
(which I am unable to add custom routes or new software packages to), B
is another vlan that has access through site-to-site vpn to C.
That makes perfect sense. There is
On 12/23/18 3:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
Hi all,
Hi,
I'm trying to solve a very specific problem where a server on a VLAN
needs to send mail through a VPN it has no direct route to.
Okay.
I feel like that's two distinct things that we don't yet know how they
connect to each other. Just
On 12/19/2018 03:16 PM, Mick wrote:
Grant, you're spot on!
/me looks around wondering what he did and if he needs to run and hide.
Symbol: EFI_PARTITION [=n]
Oops. That will certainly mess with you.
I was under the impression I had it enabled, but clearly I hadn't on
this PC; which has
On 12/19/2018 04:43 AM, Mick wrote:
I ran ddrescue while the drive was still on the laptop. The clone was on the
USB caddy.
ACK
The disk block device is there and so is the first partition (only):
ls -la /dev/sdb*
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 Dec 19 11:20 /dev/sdb
brw-rw 1 root disk 8,
On 12/18/2018 10:49 AM, Jack wrote:
I should be in good shape there. The partition's new location should
have the first half intact, and since the overwriting was of the first
part of the old location, it's second half should be intact. The files
should all be there - but I imagine I might
On 12/18/2018 10:42 AM, Mick wrote:
I know others have commented on the reliability of recovering data from drives
connected via USB caddy, but I have had satisfactory results on a number of
cases.
I think it completely depends on the type of problem. In my experience,
SATA-to-USB adapters
On 12/18/2018 05:21 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
I really don't trust USB and hard drives
IMHO external USB drive enclosures (physical enclosure, USB to SATA /
PATA / ??? adapter, (no)fan) are suboptimal at best and are most likely
to work when all the components are happy.
I view them as the
On 12/17/2018 12:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
There is of course no guarantee that it will EVER successfully read all
your data. You might be able to tell it to skip blocks and move on.
Obviously all it can do is keep asking the drive to try again. If you
want better than that then you're
On 12/17/2018 12:32 PM, Jack wrote:
The other drive failed over a shorter period of time, even though SMART
testing said all was OK.
IMHO, by the time that S.M.A.R.T. complains, most chances of data
retrieval are gone.
I treat S.M.A.R.T. errors as a confirmation that the drive realizes that
On 12/15/18 4:33 PM, Jack wrote:
Is there any way to fix this other than completely repeating the copy?
I'm sure there are other ways, but the first things that comes to mind
is touch. Or rather a script that uses touch, and possibly find or a
recursive glob. The idea being to have the
On 12/14/18 7:57 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Yes. At least by default LVM is going to scan all your drives looking
for LVM PVs and will identify them regardless of what device they are on,
as long as the device gets scanned.
I wouldn't be surprised if LVM didn't scan all block devices.
I think
On 12/11/2018 03:53 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
Actually I haven't found the need for a menu at all, dnsmasq serves
whatever kernel I have symbolically linked to the clients from their
boot folder
Nice.
Aside: I played with a PXELINUX (?) menu to boot a few different
things. It's been
On 12/11/2018 04:23 AM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
You're totally correct, more information would be beneficial, here goes.
:-)
All machines are Wired 1Gbps connections.
ACK
That means that you don't have the complications (and performance
issues) of wireless.
Uefi IP4 network stack
On 12/10/18 8:03 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
Has anyone managed to get suspend/resume to work on diskless machines
using NFS as the root?
~blink~
I haven't tried to suspend / resume diskless machines. (I've not done
much with diskless machines, but it's on my to do list.)
But I don't
On 12/10/2018 02:25 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
It sounds like ecryptfs would suit your needs best. As it works on
directories, you don't need separate mount points for each encrypted
directory.
The last time I looked at eCryptFS it /did/ need mount points for
accessing the unencrypted
On 12/9/18 10:15 PM, Dale wrote:
Well, I don't really think I need to encrypt the entire /home mount
point. To me, that would be overkill. Of course, that may be easier.
I would like to have certain directories that I can store things in that
is encrypted. For example, I have some financial
On 12/9/18 7:38 PM, Dale wrote:
Just making sense of it. Trying to get it firmly in my mind. It just
seems to simple and easy to move that much data around and swap drives
even while in use. o-O
Welcome to the wonders of LVM.
You turn a drive / partition into something that LVM can use.
On 12/9/18 4:46 PM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Hi,
As some may know, I'm making some changes and upgrades to my puter.
One thing I'm considering, encryption of a select directory/mount
point/file system.
Please elaborate on a hypothetical setup that you would like.
It might be worth starting
On 12/9/18 3:45 PM, Dale wrote:
Grant,
Hi Dale,
I'm not ignoring this email.
I didn't presume you were. ;-)
I just keep rereading it. ;-)
Okay.
Is there an aspect of it that doesn't make sense? Or that you're
uncomfortable with? Can I help alleviate the worry?
I'm uncertain
On 12/06/2018 02:27 AM, Dale wrote:
From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to replace that drive.
Just tell pv to move the data and when done, remove the old drive. After
that, the new 6TB drive will be used in that PV and the 3TB drive can
be used for something else. Is it really
Hi,
I happily use net-nntp/inn on my server and was surprised to find that
it is now masked and apparently up for removal. It looks like
maintenance has dropped off on the package.
I've never maintained a portage overlay or otherwise contributed to
Gentoo (save for mailing lists). As such
On 11/17/2018 10:33 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
I switched fully to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" (make.conf) after running
mixed for a while. These kinds of issues come up too often and I don't
have a lot of time to solve them, plus for my dev machine I just don't
notice stable vs unstable most of
On 11/17/2018 10:13 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
It looks like you need to unmask virtual/cargo because you need to have
virtual/cargo 1.30.1. These version numbers have to match.
That seems to have done it.
I added virtual/cargo to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/cargo
which did have
On 11/17/2018 07:58 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
Do you have virtual/cargo installed?
Not presently.
I removed the following packages as part of troubleshooting.
dev-util/cargo virtual/cargo dev-lang/rust virtual/rust
I then (re)installed dev-lang/rust per Andrew U.'s recommendation.
Sorry
On 11/17/2018 06:11 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
Uninstall dev-util/cargo and emerge -1 dev-lang/rust. dev-lang/rust
comes with Cargo.
Hum. That didn't solve the problem.
#[5828:root@alpha:~]# eselect rust list
Available Rust versions:
[1] rust-1.30.1 *
#[5829:root@alpha:~]# emerge -aDuN
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