Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.09.2013 19:46, schrieb Bruce Hill: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 07:36:35PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> What is the best way to transfer multi-GB-files in LAN? I don't really >> need encryption here ... > > Did not mention rsync has: > -n, --dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.09.2013 19:07, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am 30.09.2013 11:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 29.09.2013 16:37, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> Am 27.09.2013 17:55, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >>> >>>>> What direction to go? force

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.09.2013 16:37, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 27.09.2013 17:55, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > >>> What direction to go? force or disable HPET? >>> >>> >> neither > > And what to do to avoid those lost interrupts? Is there no good suggestion for this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.09.2013 17:55, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> What direction to go? force or disable HPET? >> >> > neither And what to do to avoid those lost interrupts?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.09.2013 15:18, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > Try avoiding to write on disks. Use devices /dev/null and /dev/zero with > both protocol and command lines not optimizing zeros for network tests. > > You could also use dedicated network performance tools if you have > install rights. Will do nex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.09.2013 15:02, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > You should give details of the tests. It looks like a hard disk write > speed bottleneck. I will get access again on monday. That's a hardware RAID-10 on 6 SAS disks ... that should be fast enough ...

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2+mdraid5+LUKS+systemd (was Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd)

2013-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 25.09.2013 01:38, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > systemd-analyze blame to see what is taking so long. > > systemd-delta to see what changes from upstream do you have. Thanks ... I cleaned up some cruft already and will test some boot-process soon. Still on the road ...

[gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am back from my visit at a customer where I installed a new and shiny gentoo server for running VMs (KVM). Currently I don't have access as my VPN only works from my static IP at home (my router seems to be offline right now ... and I am still away from office for the weekend) so I can't check

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2+mdraid5+LUKS+systemd (was Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd)

2013-09-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.09.2013 16:30, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Did you read my next email? There is no need for the extra swap unit. I was > missing a couple of kernel options and to compile LVM2 and cryptsetup with > some USE flags. Everything works as expected; but you need to put the swap > in fstab. got

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2+mdraid5+LUKS+systemd (was Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd)

2013-09-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.09.2013 13:00, schrieb Tanstaafl: > Man... watching this discussion just makes me want to avoid systemd like > the plague/all the more... I understand that, yes ... it is unnecessary complex from my point of view as well. Swap that is encrypted from scratch everytime you boot up isn't the s

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2+mdraid5+LUKS+systemd (was Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd)

2013-09-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.09.2013 10:00, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Getting that unit-name right is quite annoying ... fiddling with > understanding that strange escaping etc ... :-( I have now: # cat /etc/systemd/system/dev-disk-by\\x2did-dm\\x2dname\\x2dswap.swap [Unit] #After=systemd-cryptsetup.s

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2+mdraid5+LUKS+systemd (was Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd)

2013-09-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.09.2013 09:09, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Yes, I reported this issue back then ... but I don't have the encrypted > swap in /etc/fstab. > > I only have: > > # cat /etc/crypttab > > swap /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M080G2GC_CVPO015404LR080JGN-part5 &

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2+mdraid5+LUKS+systemd (was Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd)

2013-09-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.09.2013 23:49, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > OK, so I conducted another experiment, to see if I was able to make > systemd *not* to work with an exotic combination of underlying > storage. I did the following: > > - 4 drives, all of them in RAID5. > - The resulting /dev/md127 was put in a P

Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd (was Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm)

2013-09-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.09.2013 18:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> OK. I send this message now and test another few reboots. > > Forgot to mention it: I also enabled mdadm.service. That service is enabled here as well and running fine. # systemctl status lvm2-activation-net.service lvm2-activation-net.serv

Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd (was Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm)

2013-09-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I haven't yet worked through all your suggestions/descriptions. Edited USE-flags and dracut-modules, worked around bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485202 and rebuilt kernel and initrd. Didn't activate LVs ... Now I edited fstab: I had the option "systemd.automount" enabled, like

Re: LVM2+mdraid+systemd (was Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm)

2013-09-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.09.2013 10:46, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Sorry I took my time, I was busy. > > Well, yours' a complex setup. This is a similar, although simpler, version: At first: thank your for the extended test setup you did and described ... I will dig through it as soon as I find time ... I am q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.09.2013 09:47, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Especially with SSDs. One must find out the blocksize used by his/her SSDs. > > With spinning disks, setting ashift=12 is enough since no spinning > disks have sectors larger than 2^12 bytes. > > With SSDs, one might have to set ashift=13 or even ashi

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 21:01, schrieb Shawn Wilson: > I was saying to chmod 000 it so that you're not picking up (possibly > strange?) options. and it is still readable then? never tried 000.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 20:03, schrieb Shawn Wilson: > Since the downgrade fixed your issue idk... but, what does your > authorized_keys look like? Also, move or chmod 0 your config to make > sure nothing funny is happening there. authorized_keys looks very OK ... only my 2 keys in there ... untouched for y

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 19:47, schrieb Joe Nyland: > Not sure why a downgraded openssh would improve things for you if > this is the issue, however I faced the same issue as yourself and it > was caused by mDNS trying to do a reverse lookup on the host > connecting in to the affected server, ultimately causi

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 09:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > rootfs on ZFS or "everything on ZFS" would have advantages, sure. No > partitioning at all, resizeable zfs-filesystems for everything, > checksums for everything ... you name it. > > In my case I have to decide until

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 11:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Rebuilt openssh already. > > Maybe I should downgrade for testing ... > > The problematic box: net-misc/openssh-6.2_p2-r4 > The working box: net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4 Yep. Downgrading works for me.

[gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am fiddling with accessing a server ... "ssh -v" from my desktop hangs at: # ssh -v $HOSTIP OpenSSH_6.2p2-hpn14v1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 debug1: Reading configuration data /root/.ssh/config debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to *edited* debug1: fd 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Cyrus IMAPd .. sieve extensions

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.09.2013 11:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Does anyone know how I get the "date"-extension into my gentoo-based > cyrus-imapd-server? anyone ... ?

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 06:11, schrieb Grant: >> I have to set up a server w/ 8x 1TB in about 2 weeks and consider ZFS as >> well, at least for data. So root-fs would go onto 2x 1TB hdds with >> conventional partitioning and something like ext4. > > Is a layout like this with the data on ZFS and the root-fs

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.09.2013 19:34, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-09-17 1:07 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 09/17/2013 01:00 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >>> But not 6-drive RAID w/ hot spare... ;) Anyone who can't afford to add a >>> single additional drive for the piece of mind has no business buying the >>> RAI

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling mosh

2013-09-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 19:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 12.09.2013 16:55, schrieb Yohan Pereira: >> On 12/09/13 at 09:21am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> ps: anyone using mosh already? Experiences? opinions? Could someone tell me just from a general point of view if I could

[gentoo-user] Cyrus IMAPd .. sieve extensions

2013-09-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone know how I get the "date"-extension into my gentoo-based cyrus-imapd-server? Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling mosh

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 16:55, schrieb Yohan Pereira: > On 12/09/13 at 09:21am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> ps: anyone using mosh already? Experiences? opinions? > > I've been using mosh for almost a month now for my remote servers and > when I'm away, for my workstation. I

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 19:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > /usr/sbin/lvm > > which does not exist. > > I linked it from /sbin/lvm and this seems to help ... I still don't know > exactly where this comes from ... still digging. > > I also removed lvm2 completely ... check

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 15:33, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 13.09.2013 14:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> new info here (for me): >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066#c19 >> >> gotta test ... right now I don't have the t

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2013 14:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > new info here (for me): > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066#c19 > > gotta test ... right now I don't have the time. first tests with "genkernel --udev ..." : negative. More details maybe later this evening.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
new info here (for me): https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066#c19 gotta test ... right now I don't have the time. S

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 20:23, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Stefan, what initramfs are you using? dracut, run via your kerninst-script. > Could you please explain how is exactly your layout? From drives to > partitions to PVs, VGs and LVs? And throw in there also the LUKS and > RAID (if used) setup. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 18:22, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Really, whomever is recommending to set CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is > probably wrong. I can't find *one* place where it is recommended, and > several where they explicitly say to leave the option in blank. So ... I agree with this. What to do

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 14:43, schrieb Mick: >> I don't have that binary. And some page on my way said the >> contrary: set it to empty and let udev (?) do that. > > Ha! Neither do I! > > # ls -la /sbin/hotplug ls: cannot access /sbin/hotplug: No such > file or directory > > I can honestly say that I c

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 08:50, schrieb Mick: > On Wednesday 11 Sep 2013 12:38:23 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 11.09.2013 13:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> Failed to set a proper state for notification semaphore >>> identified by cookie value >>

[gentoo-user] cross-compiling mosh

2013-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I read about mosh http://mosh.mit.edu/ only yesterday and installed it on some of my systems to get started with it. I have a server at a customer which I access through an IPSEC tunnel ... for some reason the openssh-connection somehow stalls and even playing with the IPSEC-params didn't help mu

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail System with virtuell User

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.09.2013 02:12, schrieb Silvio Siefke: > Hello, > > > has someone run a Mailserver (Postfix) with virtuell User which not > use Mysql/Postgresql Database Backen? I has read the Dovecot / Postfix > Websites which has Howtos for No Database but so really want not run. > > The most Howto i

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.09.2013 21:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I also wonder if > > http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/hp-ethernet-1gb-4/4507-3380_7-35338794.html > > is supported by the tg3-module ? preparing that system within a KVM-based VM now. I pre-compile the kernel as well ..

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

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.09.2013 08:30, schrieb Michael Hampicke: > Tar with permission preservation is fine. Just exlude everything > in dev/sys/proc/tmp as you said. But make sure, that these > directories are in your tar file, it does not matter if they are > empty, but they have to exist in order to boot propler

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.09.2013 13:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Failed to set a proper state for notification semaphore identified by > cookie value Also found this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-965446-view-previous.html?sid=5c1f845f96ca4cf1a9c17d73501e232d I have # zgrep UEV /proc/con

[gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
systemd-204 lvm2-2.0.2.99-r2 (lvm2 patched as mentioned in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066 this should only matter for activation) - See what happens here: # lvcreate -n mlp-tmpl -L 11G VG02 /dev/VG02/mlp-tmpl: not found: device not cleared Aborting. Failed to wipe start

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and LUKS

2013-09-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.09.2013 23:31, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > This link gave me the deciding hint -- I didn't have > cryptsetup-generator in my system, because I didn’t have the > cryptsetup useflags enabled. I rebuilt systemd and udisks and now > I’m prompted for the LUKS password during boot. \o/ Congratu

Re: [gentoo-user] kerninst (was Optional /usr merge in Gentoo)

2013-09-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.09.2013 18:34, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> eclean-kernel cleans *older* versions of kernel.s The part of the >> script you responded to deletes the kernel, initramfs and modules >> which have the same version as the kernel to w

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and LUKS

2013-09-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.09.2013 14:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I use a crypted /home on my thinkpad ... with systemd. > I only have problems with the encrypted swap but /home works fine. > > But I think my /home gets mounted when I login ... pam_mount ... would > have to check if i

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and LUKS

2013-09-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.09.2013 12:28, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Another option would be: > > I once sliced disks into partitions like this: > > sd[abcdefgh]1 -> RAID1 for / > sd[abcdefgh]2 -> swap > sd[abcdefgh]3 -> RAID6 -> PV -> LVs ... for data and VMs > > Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 20:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 26.08.2013 18:35, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> That said, when I was hunting around for information on ZFS before taking >> the plunge, a *lot* of discussion revolves around using ZFS as the storage >> back-end for virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] kerninst (was Optional /usr merge in Gentoo)

2013-09-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.09.2013 20:16, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Some syntax error in line 26 as far as syntax highlighting in vim tells >> me ... everything red from down there ... but it works ... > > Well, a prop

Re: [gentoo-user] kerninst (was Optional /usr merge in Gentoo)

2013-09-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.09.2013 19:30, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > I have been using it in all of my machines for some days now, and it > works for me; but I take no responsibility if it breaks your machine, > or if it kills your dog. So far the cat still lives ... your script worked fine here in the first try.

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:57, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> Canek, how to best tell the gentoo-devs about all these files? >> Filing bugs for every single file? > > Yeah, to the package in question. Probably with a CC to the systemd > team, so they add the unit file if the maintainer takes too much to >

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.08.2013 08:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Had problems configuring the static network inside a gentoo VM. > > The network never came up but when I logged in and started the > network.service manually it worked. Strange. before you ask: yes, the service was enabled co

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Had problems configuring the static network inside a gentoo VM. The network never came up but when I logged in and started the network.service manually it worked. Strange. The mentioned service-file was the one here (my posting with /bin/ip): http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Systemd-and-stat

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 22:52, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Omit the braces. thanks ... doesn't work here anyway ... because $INTFTPD_OPTS also includes ${INTFTPD_PATH} from within /etc/conf.d/in.tftpd (which can't be resolved this way). What works: EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/in.tftpd ExecStart=/usr

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 20:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > No bugs filed yet for these: > > in.tftpd mythbackend nfs server vixie-cron rsync Filed some related bugs now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482712 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482714 https://bugs.gentoo.org/sho

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 20:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > What was/is missing (on my specific server) ? I quickly browsed bugs.gentoo.org ... libvirtd: I was wrong! The ebuild brings service-files. No bugs filed yet for these: in.tftpd mythbackend nfs server vixie-cron rsync mysqld has a rela

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 20:15, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> While mythtv isn't really mainstream there are other daemons in this >> list that really *should* be supported with USE="systemd", I assume >> (sure, mythtv should get its file as well ...). > > No; the unit files should be installed by default

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 20:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 27.08.2013 19:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> slowly getting there ... > > Ok, I think I got that done. > > Compared my /etc/runlevels/default and checked if I have all relevant > services up and running

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 19:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > slowly getting there ... Ok, I think I got that done. Compared my /etc/runlevels/default and checked if I have all relevant services up and running. Looks good! What was/is missing (on my specific server) ? services and sockets

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:57, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> Canek, how to best tell the gentoo-devs about all these files? >> Filing bugs for every single file? > > Yeah, to the package in question. Probably with a CC to the systemd > team, so they add the unit file if the maintainer takes too much to >

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 19:27, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > For now: > > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /mnt/mypxe And wrong again, it needs "-s" as well. Sorry for the noise! ExecStart=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /mnt/mypxe - For NFS I copied most out of this Wiki: http://gentoo-en.vf

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:46, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 27.08.2013 18:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> Nearly there ... it also needs a socket ... > > For the records: > > # tftpd.service > > [Unit] > Description=hpa's original TFTP daemon >

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Nearly there ... it also needs a socket ... For the records: # tftpd.service [Unit] Description=hpa's original TFTP daemon [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/in.tftpd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd ${INTFTPD_OPTS} StandardInpu

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:35, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 27.08.2013 18:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >>> I don't use mythbackend nor tftp-hpa, but if you have the init scripts >>> for them it should be easy to write the corresponding unit files. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> I don't use mythbackend nor tftp-hpa, but if you have the init scripts >> for them it should be easy to write the corresponding unit files. > > mythtv-Wiki provided a service file ... I will check after mysqld ...

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 18:02, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> While we are at it ... >> >> I am currently migrating one of my basement servers ... it boots and >> runs with systemd already. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
While we are at it ... I am currently migrating one of my basement servers ... it boots and runs with systemd already. I am fiddling with service-files for: mysql mythbackend tftp-hpa (more to come) working my way through ... making arch-linux-files fit etc. If someone already has those for

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 14:34, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-08-26 11:51 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. >> >> Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's. > > Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? > > RAID types, Best

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 18:35, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > I have to admit that my virtualized servers are not running on top of > ZFS-backed storage... because the company already has a quite sizable EMC > VNX storage, and it's a shame to not use that behemoth... ;-) For sure! :-) > At the moment, the ZFS-ba

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 18:14, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Well... with a ZFS-backed storage, when you want to create a new VM, all > you have to do is `zfs clone` ;-) Yes, I see those possibilities ;-) That system will run rather important stuff ... so I have to be rather careful. But the bit-rot-prevention/

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 17:51, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > 2 smallest disks in RAID1 configuration for booting. > > Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. > > Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's. Interesting suggestion. I don't know if I dare ... I wonder how VMs would pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.08.2013 22:40, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 19/08/2013 16:20, Alecks Gates wrote: >> All I do is add one extra line (for >> example - "dracut -H --kver=3.11.0-rc6") to my kernel install >> procedure. > > Precisely. It's not hard, it's actually almost automatable. > > It's vastly simpler than

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 16:38, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:06:11 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Sorry for being shameless: >> >> I once described a ZFS-based gentoo setup with encryption for >> the german linux magazine. They translated it an

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
We now get into choosing hardware for that shiny new gentoo-server ... as mentioned this will be a KVM-host and we look at a HP Proliant DL385p ... 2 AMD Opteron 6344 ... 32 GB RAM, 8 disks (the customer has some bigger contract with hp, so we are a bit biased to hp here). For the server that ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 10:45, schrieb Mick: > Does anyone run it on a desktop/laptop as their day to day fs? Any > drawbacks or gotchas? Other than reliability, how does it perform > compared say to ext4? Sorry for being shameless: I once described a ZFS-based gentoo setup with encryption for the germa

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.08.2013 00:44, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > /etc/grub.d/40_custom > > Add you entries there, and change the number in the filename to > have them appear before the autogenerated entries. Thanks for the pointer. Gotta play with that.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.08.2013 08:54, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and > having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly > recommend using Dracut. It does everything for you. I'd dig a short and working howto "systemd and dracut".

[gentoo-user] mythtv, upnp, music

2013-08-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone of you host music on a mythtv/gentoo-server? I'd like to be able to stream music/mp3s via upnp (for example to listen to stuff via android apps) but I only see the videos and recordings when I browse the server. No music. Didn't get much help from the mythtv wiki or their ml so I tho

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.08.2013 18:24, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > I lost conf.d/net too, but there is still a sample file, but it is > owned by netifrc, which is now a dependency of openrc. > > Note to those using USE="-* I_WANT_TO_BREAK_MY_SYSTEM", you will > break it when installing the new openrc because you won'

Re: [gentoo-user] Au revoir, gnome-3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.08.2013 11:13, schrieb András Csányi: > Kde is not a possible solution for you? I'm just asking, I do not want > to start a flamewar about which is the better/worst. :) > > That's the reason why I have kde and xfce on my machine. I always have > a fallback plan. I spend I few weeks for Unit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Au revoir, gnome-3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.08.2013 07:19, schrieb Samuli Suominen: > 2.02.99-r1 has it's own upstream systemd files in ~arch now (they are > different from what the "systemd-love" overlay has, AFAIK) > > $ qlist lvm2 |grep systemd > /usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket > /usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.service >

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.08.2013 23:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 05/08/2013 23:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> ! Pls don't flame me :-) ! >> >> Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers >> servers. >> >> A customer

[gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
! Pls don't flame me :-) ! Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers servers. A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server installation (1.0.x back then) because they had some big company-license-pool available. That server is to be replaced and

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

2013-07-28 Thread 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 to cause some > minor problems with logind. Oth

[gentoo-user] new architectures for gentoo

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone seen that ... http://www.gentoogroup.com/for-customers/ ;-) Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot create executables ...

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.07.2013 00:08, schrieb Mick: > On Friday 26 Jul 2013 21:13:53 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> anyway, I will try to rebuild ccache maybe ... > > Or not use ccache at all? Some emerges break with ccache set up. Sure. I disabled it first, re-emerged it later and for n

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot create executables ...

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.07.2013 22:08, schrieb Yohan Pereira: > Try compiling a simple hello world program in C and see if the compiler output > gives you any more information. thanks for the suggestion ... I may have found the problem already ... something around "ccache" ... if I remove it from $FEATURES the bui

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot create executables ...

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.07.2013 21:49, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Should I quickpkg a gcc from my thinkpad and transfer? hmm, not really. Found that I had created a binary package on my machine anyway and re-installed that. Doesn't help. S

[gentoo-user] cannot create executables ...

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Something broke my setup today ... right now I can't emerge anything as I always get configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables in a way or another ... both my choices of # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.4 * [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 bring the same issues. Should

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Anyone survive the big gnome update from this morning (July 25)?

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.07.2013 03:10, schrieb walt: > I'm very happy that I did the gnome update on a virtual gentoo > machine instead of my real machine :) The virtual gentoo is > unusable at the moment because gnome is very sick indeed. > > I avoided the big update on my real machine when I saw that > gnome-she

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and static network

2013-07-26 Thread 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: > > # > --- > [Unit] My current version,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.07.2013 00:22, schrieb Paul Hartman: > I personally use "discard" with ext4 and btrfs, but I have not done > tests or have evidence that it is the best choice for me. It's simply > what I chose and never changed it. :) Thanks, Paul! More of a "I do it MY way" than a generic "best practice

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.07.2013 21:02, schrieb Paul Hartman: > Old SSDs that did not support TRIM would suffer write amplification > after a certain amount of data had been written to them, but any > modern SSD and modern OS will keep it nice and tidy. What's the "best practice" now for TRIM? I changed to manual

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.07.2013 01:45, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a > copy f the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making > sure a USB stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot. Yep, I got that set up as well when I did my GRUB2-learn

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.07.2013 15:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 12.07.2013 01:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 12.07.2013 00:38, schrieb Paul Hartman: >> >>> Hmmm, even the data on HP's website says H222 uses LSI SAS2x08 chipset >>> and mpt2sas driver. I

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.07.2013 01:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 12.07.2013 00:38, schrieb Paul Hartman: > >> Hmmm, even the data on HP's website says H222 uses LSI SAS2x08 chipset >> and mpt2sas driver. I think maybe those Marvell entries are >> SATA/eSATA ports on your mot

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.07.2013 00:38, schrieb Paul Hartman: > Hmmm, even the data on HP's website says H222 uses LSI SAS2x08 chipset > and mpt2sas driver. I think maybe those Marvell entries are > SATA/eSATA ports on your motherboard. Yes, you might be right ... and I see the IDs in /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ahci S

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.07.2013 00:38, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 03.07.2013 00:42, schrieb Paul Hartman: >>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>>> >>>> Does anyone use that contr

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.07.2013 00:42, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> Does anyone use that controller with gentoo? >> >> If yes, which driver/module does support it? >> >> I ordered one for a server and did not really

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