Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring system resource usage

2013-06-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 15.06.2013 17:04, schrieb Grant: Can anyone recommend a method for monitoring system resource usage in a way that would allow me to correlate a rise in my web server's response time with the usage of a particular system resource if such a correlation exists? I don't need it to be 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-07-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.07.2013 16:08, schrieb Grant: There is no sacrifice, you are running rsync as root on the client either way. Alternatively, you could run rsyncd on the client, which avoids the need for the server to be able to run an SSH session. I think the sacrifice is that with the backuppc method,

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.07.2013 17:02, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: ConsoleKit is for all practical purposes unmaintained, and all of the packages you mentioned it support systemd just fine. Emerge systemd, and purge CK from your system; I did that almost a year ago. Thanks, just purged consolekit from my

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration - caveat

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.07.2013 05:32, schrieb luis jure: on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote: You have to map the drive so grub can find it: no, i don't think that's the problem. the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since they don't have a MBR. is that correct?

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 2013-07-23 08:11, schrieb András Csányi: On 22 July 2013 21:57, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 22.07.2013 17:02, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: ConsoleKit is for all practical purposes unmaintained, and all of the packages you mentioned it support systemd just fine. Emerge systemd

[gentoo-user] Systemd and static network

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Howdy folks, currently I am migrating some servers to systemd, and I am wondering what's the best way to set up static networking. Until now, I always used dhcp + networkmanager (workstations, laptops). Some suggested creating your own network unit and manually start ifconfig/route or ip via

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and static network

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 2013-07-25 14:18, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: What do you use - and what are the benefits of your method? Why not continue to use DHCP and simply set a static assignment based on the MAC inside the DHCP server

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and static network

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.07.2013 17:42, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Howdy folks, currently I am migrating some servers to systemd, and I am wondering what's the best way to set up static networking. Until now, I always used dhcp

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and static network

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 2013-07-26 11:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 25.07.2013 17:42, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: What do you use - and what are the benefits of your method? I use the following unit in one of my servers: #

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to setup uefi boot

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 27.07.2013 16:44, schrieb Wankey Cheng: Hi,Everyone: I am a new user of gentoo,I encounter an error of the efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L Gentoo -l \efi\boot\bootx64.efi command.When I execute it ,I got Failed to write variable:No space left on device Failed to write

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to setup uefi boot

2013-07-28 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 28.07.2013 04:06, schrieb Wankey Cheng: Make sure that you're system is booted in EFI mode i didn't install a bootloader,so it can be booted in EFI mode only. Are you sure about that? What method of installation did you choose? The culprit when installing an EFI system is, that in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Some possibly (?) helpful hints re the big gnome-3.8 update

2013-07-28 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 28.07.2013 10:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 28.07.2013 10:04, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: The only special thing I'm doing is to mask sys-apps/systemd-204, since 205 introduced the new cgroups management code (with systemd as the only writer of the cgroups hierarchy), and it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [Preliminary report] Gnome-3.8 update works with openrc :)

2013-07-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 30.07.2013 03:04, schrieb walt: As I posted in another thread, after successfully updating to gnome-3.8 on a virtual gentoo machine that's been running systemd for months, I tackled my openrc gentoo virtual machine just to see if I could do it. I just did it :) Gnome-3.8 is running on

Re: [gentoo-user] [Preliminary report] Gnome-3.8 update works with openrc :)

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 30.07.2013 07:35, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 30.07.2013 03:04, schrieb walt: As I posted in another thread, after successfully updating to gnome-3.8 on a virtual gentoo machine that's been running systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] SQL Server Advice for Small Business

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 30.07.2013 23:34, schrieb Randy Westlund: How often should a small database like this be backed up? Once a day? Twice a day? I'm thinking that I should backup to another machine on the network, then copy that to at least one off-side machine. Depends on your needs. Can you afford

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-08-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.08.2013 03:02, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:45:48AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote Please provide the content of /proc/cpuinfo on the host. The first one is my shiney almost new desktop (Dell Inspiron 660) and the second one is my hot backup (more like emergency

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.08.2013 17:41, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, After a few solved problems, I am still unable to completely boot using grub:2, and now I just can't find anything else to fiddle with. So I would really appreciate if someone could take a look at my configuration: - system is amd64; -

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working system, with legacy grub:0, from which I have recovered parts of the kernel command

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.09.2013 14:54, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Am 01.09.2013 14:28, schrieb Grant: My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop shorewall clear'. Could my ATT

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.09.2013 14:28, schrieb Grant: My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop shorewall clear'. Could my ATT business ADSL connection on the remote system be

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and LUKS

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.09.2013 13:46, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: Hey list after the many discussions here about systemd I had a flash of objectivity (“Who cares if people rant about Lennart, the concept seems sound and I don’t care about separate /usr”). So I wanted to try systemd on my netbook. I

Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???

2013-09-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 06.09.2013 18:45, schrieb Jarry: On 06-Sep-13 18:29, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 06-Sep-13 18:14, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 06-Sep-13 17:32, Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

2013-09-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.09.2013 20:51, schrieb Benjamin Block: Hej folks, I wonder what is a good way to create an image of a gentoo-system, so that one can apply it later to the same or other computers. In my case it is a rather simple setup: one partition, no encryption or lvm. Its a debug-setup, so its

Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

2013-09-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 09.09.2013 21:05, schrieb Benjamin Block: On 08:30 Mon 09 Sep , Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 08.09.2013 20:51, schrieb Benjamin Block: Hej folks, I wonder what is a good way to create an image of a gentoo-system, so that one can apply it later to the same or other computers. In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 14.09.2013 11:29, schrieb Grant: It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: Dual Xeon E5-2690 32GB RAM 4x SSD RAID10 If I make this 6x SSD RAID10 with redundant power supplies, what is my weakest link as far as hardware? If a CPU craps out, will the system keep running?

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-28 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 28.09.2013 13:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: No really,*why exactly*? Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first set this system up many years ago. Where did you read that? According to the 2004

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-28 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 28.09.2013 17:06, schrieb Dale: Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 28.09.2013 13:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: No really,*why exactly*? Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first set this system up many

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.10.2013 11:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 11:49, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 11:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Are you running stp. I was having a problem that when I did anything to libvirt it would disconnect the bridge and stp reconfigured.

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.10.2013 13:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 13:42, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Did you restart libvirt after the change? virt-manager over ssh here works fine. Restarted, rebuilt ... which release do you use? Which USE-flags? Client side: [ebuild R] app

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.10.2013 11:29, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 15:39, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Server side: [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/libvirt-1.1.2-r3 USE=caps libvirtd lvm macvtap nls numa python qemu udev vepa virt-network -audit -avahi -firewalld -fuse -iscsi -lxc -nfs -openvz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.10.2013 11:54, schrieb Mick: Any ideas why the Ubuntu installation won't boot? My guess would be, you cannot boot, because if you install grub in /dev/md0. Upon boot the bios cannot find stage1 of the bootloader, which normally lies in the MBR (which also houses the partition table).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.10.2013 15:13, schrieb Mick: On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 13:57:34 Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 20.10.2013 11:54, schrieb Mick: Any ideas why the Ubuntu installation won't boot? My guess would be, you cannot boot, because if you install grub in /dev/md0. Upon boot the bios cannot find stage1

Re: [gentoo-user] GPT-UEFI-fstab questions

2013-11-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 14.11.2013 18:18, schrieb James: Hello, I've made another run and this, using this document guide: http://code.google.com/p/pentoo/wiki/UEFI#UEFI_pentoo-installer_guide_for_UEFI_and_GPT it all seem to be fine; except grub 2 cannot find the kernel. The GPT is read fine by grub2. But,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT-UEFI-fstab questions

2013-11-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 14.11.2013 19:17, schrieb James: Michael Hampicke mh at hadt.biz writes: On 4. Install Bootloader choose UEFI-GRUB. The UEFI boot partition will be /dev/sda1. The GRUB device path will be (hd0,2) - the default, /dev/sda2 where the kernel resides. Please show us

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?

2013-12-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 06.12.2013 07:32, schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Fri, December 6, 2013 00:17, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Róbert Čerňanský ope...@tightmail.com wrote: I will try openrc-force as temporal solution until I'll find a new display manager and give heart breaking

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?

2013-12-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Just remove init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd from your kernel command line, and you can boot your old openrc installation (if you did un unmerge it) That should mean: ..if you did not unmerge it. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.01.2014 10:01, schrieb Chris Stankevitz: Hello, My / (root) lives on /dev/sdb1. My /dev/sda has no partitions and no data except for what I presume is the mbr written by lilo. [history: sdb is an SSD and I never wanted to use the slow sda] I have been playing with ZFS on a USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-23 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 23.01.2014 01:23, schrieb William Kenworthy: On 23/01/14 07:58, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Being someone who is always fiddling with a machines innards ... I usually embed grub in multiple disks with the menu sometimes pointing to a rescue partition as well as the main system - saved me a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards

2014-02-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.02.2014 13:36, schrieb Stephen Reynolds: Hi all I am doing a new Gentoo installation and I cannot get my network cards to work. I have two cards 1) eth0 = Realtek RLTl8111e 2) wlan0 = RaLink RT2561/RT61 Gen Kernel has support for both. Please advise me as to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers (?)

2014-02-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.02.2014 16:56, schrieb Poison BL.: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Last I did much research on it, the only semi-working implementation of OSX in a VM required VMware Workstation as the host, involved booting a hacked together boot cd image, and

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.02.2014 15:47, schrieb Peter Humphrey: I find though that fstrim can't operate on /boot, which is a separate ext2 file system. It reports: fstrim: /boot: FITRIM ioctl failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Is this because it's an ext2 partition, not ext4 like the rest of them?

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.03.2014 10:40, schrieb Facundo Curti: Yes. I press F8 (boot menu) and I choice UEFI:Sandisk :/ Also, make sure, that you modprobe efivarfs before you enter the chroot. Then it sould work, you can verify that it works by using efibootmgr -v signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 12.04.2014 12:45, schrieb Facu Curti: Hi all. First at all i apologize if my english is not enough. When I installed gentoo, I do that with UEFI, and gpt partitions. But right now, I tried to install XEN, and this not works with EFI. I cant wait until somebody fix this problem, So i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd how can I get a service to start after network is up

2014-05-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.05.2014 12:29, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Hi. I have a simple, static, ethernet network. However when booting using systemd, a number of services which should start only after the network is up, insist on starting in parallell and so fail for various reasons. Here is my network

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and amixer

2014-05-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.05.2014 04:27, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:36:28PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Yep, its the same, but when I tried to restore as a regular user (which I normally don't do) it complained about the .lock file and restored

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.06.2014 10:22, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all time favorite apps, is no more. Some links of

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.06.2014 11:20, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:51 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days. Given the things that have come out in recent months, back doors and such, what is a good program/software/tool to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
I might add, on a older rig I tried that command once. I ran rm -rfv /* and it didn't erase everything like I thought it would. I figured the command would be loaded in ram and would run until the end of the / structure. It didn't. I can't recall how far it got now but I think it was in

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