[gentoo-user] Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-30 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page, and the only thing left that I'm unsure/concerned about now is the persistent net rules changes... The very last line on the wiki page says: 4. Known problems Stale 70-persistent-net.rules (or other network rules) in

[gentoo-user] udev-197 vs udev-200??

2013-03-30 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, I don't understand this... Why is it that when I comment out the package.mask entries for udev: #=sys-fs/udev-181 #=virtual/udev-181 emerge -pvuND world shows updates to udev-197, with no mention of udev-200, but... when I uncomment them: =sys-fs/udev-181 =virtual/udev-181 emerge

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-30 11:15 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:53:29 +0100 Rene Rasmussen gen...@paranoidix.dk wrote: There is also the possibility to use opendns.com I've been using them for years, and have not had any trouble. I started using them when my ISP

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 vs udev-200??

2013-03-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-30 12:42 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:24:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Why is it that when I comment out the package.mask entries for udev: #=sys-fs/udev-181 #=virtual/udev-181 emerge -pvuND world shows updates to udev-197, with no mention

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok... So, what is this all about? Does all of this mean that udev is now going *completely* away, *totally* replaced by systemd? If so, has there been any kind of formal announcement about this *anywhere*?? On 2013-03-27 6:32 AM, fantasticfears fantasticfe...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-27 10:33 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/27/2013 10:25 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok... So, what is this all about? Does all of this mean that udev is now going*completely* away, *totally* replaced by systemd? If so, has there been any kind of formal announcement about

[gentoo-user] kmod module-init-tools + udev-171-r10

2013-03-27 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Just a question... Can I replace module-init-tools with kmod and stay with udev-171-r10 for the time being? Asked another way - is kmod fully supported by older releases of udev like 171-r10? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-27 3:43 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The real drive behind systemd is enterprise cloud type computing for Red Hat. I'd be interested in hearing more on this... Link(s) to online articles is fine...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-27 4:41 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/27/2013 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-03-27, Kevin Chadwickma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The real drive behind systemd is enterprise cloud type computing for Red Hat. The rest is snake oil and much of the features

Re: [gentoo-user] I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-18 7:15 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The above reference to 'might need packages like sys-apps/kbd', which is now *required* by udev, suggests that now I again do need an initramsf? That was silly - I saw kbd and read it as kmod... ok, this one is no problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-18 4:18 AM, (Nuno Silva) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-03-17, Tanstaafl wrote: Ah, ok... but as for the rest... I should be able to safely upgrade udev, with a reasonable (I know there are no guarantees) expectation of everything 'just working' (ie, my lvm managed /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-18 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, spent a little time re-reading the old threads about this... Just to confirm, changes I should make in my /etc/fstab... snip normal fs lines # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none /proc procdefaults0 0 I can/should simply delete the above two

[gentoo-user] I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, I sync'd this morning, and now see the warning about udev 171-r10 being masked, so I guess it is time.. I know this was discussed quite a bit a few months ago, but just to refresh my memory... My question is, if I am currently running 171-r10 on my server, and I have a separate lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-17 2:17 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:46:39 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Also, should I manually fix the blockers: [blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools (sys-apps/module-init-tools is blocking sys-apps/kmod-12-r1) [blocks B ] sys-apps

[gentoo-user] rsnapshot - crontab?

2013-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Would anyone who is using rsnapshot be willing to share their crontab entries? I'm especially interested in how best to test for the existence/availability of a remotely mounted filesystem, and run the backup if it exists and abort if it doesn't. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsnapshot - crontab?

2013-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-15 11:40 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-03-15, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I'm especially interested in how best to test for the existence/availability of a remotely mounted filesystem, and run the backup if it exists and abort if it doesn't

[gentoo-user] Why does cyrus-sasl require courier-imap?

2013-02-23 Thread Tanstaafl
I switched to dovecot not too long ago, and I removed the authdaemond keyword from cyrus-sasl, but it still wants to pull in courier-imap. I want to remove courier-imap completely, but I still may need postfix to be able to work as sasl client, which requires cyrus-sasl (since dovecot-sasl is

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does cyrus-sasl require courier-imap?

2013-02-23 Thread Tanstaafl
Nevermind... gotta stop asking questions before my 2nd cup of coffee... On 2013-02-23 9:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I switched to dovecot not too long ago, and I removed the authdaemond keyword from cyrus-sasl, but it still wants to pull in courier-imap. I want to remove

[gentoo-user] traceroute not working

2013-02-22 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Weird, I don't use it much, but needed to run a traceroute today, and it is failing with: # traceroute 192.168.1.4 traceroute to 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets send: Operation not permitted I know the problem is in my firewall, because when I stop it,

Re: [gentoo-user] traceroute not working

2013-02-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-22 12:18 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: Unix traceroute normally operates by sending UDP packets to high-numbered ports with successively larger TTL values. You'll need to make sure you are allowing outbound UDP traffic as well. Thanks guys - I had forgotten about this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-14 3:20 AM, Michael Sondow mson...@iciiu.org wrote: Hi, Tanstaafl. As soon as I get my set of anti-malware rescue disks set up (Kaspersky, Trend Micro, AVG, and Bitdefender), for right now on four separate USB flash drives (thereby wasting most of the space on the flash drives!), I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-14 2:26 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur

Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-13 4:20 AM, Michael Sondow mson...@iciiu.org wrote: Yes, there seem to be a number of programs that will create a bootable USB flash drive from a linux distro ISO, and also from some of the rescue disk ISOs. Some of these utlities create persistence, but I'm not sure what that means:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No server profile anymore???

2013-02-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-12 6:30 PM, (Nuno Silva) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno Silva) wrote: I have no doubts that devs have lots of work to do, but it's a rather serious situation if the difference between unstable and stable land is *not* used as an advantage when it comes to deal with situations like this

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

2013-02-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-10 3:43 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:40:00 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Here's what IUSE says are enabled for the currently installed lvm2: readline +static +static-libs clvm cman +lvm1 selinux IUSE shows the flags that were available

[gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

2013-02-10 Thread Tanstaafl
I'm prepping for updating some things I've been putting off, and I noticed that lvm2 has some new use flags set, and I'm wondering why... [ebuild U ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.97-r1 [2.02.88] USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux) -static* -static-libs* 1,166 kB The two that

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

2013-02-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-10 1:47 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 10.02.2013 19:37, schrieb Tanstaafl: I'm pretty sure that lvm2 was NOT built with either of these, but is there a way to to tell what USE flags were used for the currently installed package? I guess you remember wrongly

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

2013-02-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-10 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:07:38 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: So, the question becomes, why did these change? I do have /user on a separate LVM partition, so, is this something I should worry about? The static use flag builds a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-03 9:08 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: So what we have here is a piece of FOSS software that is too fucking clever for it's own good. It's applying insane validation checks to things that are not in any spec at all: I never liked the auto-config behavior, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-03 12:51 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: The question is not whether to halt the build or not (that cannot and will not be done) but how to do the communication: - news item There is one, from 2013-01-23, ending with 'Apologies if this news came too late for you.'

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-07 12:53 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2013 17:40:39 Tanstaafl wrote: So, since I have: shm/dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I change the type tmpfs to devtmpfs... ok... I think that's a mistake (because I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-07 3:28 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Enter a password, the wizard tries to validate it Don't enter a password, the wizard prompts you for one Get past that (using $MAGIC of course) it still tries to validate that the server is up and something is running there.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-07 4:25 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I think that a lot of people will misread that like I (we) did... I believe he is correct and /dev/shm is irrelevant for this discussion. Ok

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 7:14 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 19:47:11 Tanstaafl wrote: Oh, ok - so, if I don't have any rules that use the 'mangle' command, then I can safely remove mangle support from my kernel and lose the mangle table altogether? Yes, I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Probably the old

[gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, This has been bugging me for a while... I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question... Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains what this table is or does, and when or why I would want/need it. Currently, I have this in

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling onboard hardware may or may not be a net positive. ? That was confusing - unless you actually

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 2:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a look at 'man iptables-extensions' it gives some examples of using -t mangle. I haven't looked in Google recently, but there should be some examples there too. Oh, ok - so, if I don't have any rules that use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-12-14 10:39 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: What Mark wrote you is golden. I might only add that if you put: =sys-fs/udev-181 into /etc/portage/package.mask you will have the present stable udev from*before* those weirdos starting messing it up, forcing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Tanstaafl
Sorry, you're right, I'll go back to sleep now... ;) I spoke without looking, and indeed my mask is set to =181 On 2012-12-14 12:34 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:20:05AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-12-14 10:39 AM, Bruce Hillda

[gentoo-user] OpenRC update to 0.11.5 - safe if using older udev (pinned to udev-181)?

2012-11-20 Thread Tanstaafl
Anyone? I don't see any news blurbs warning about it, but with everything going on with udev, systemd, etc, I'm not risking updating unless/until I know it is safe. Tia... Charles

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC update to 0.11.5 - safe if using older udev (pinned to udev-181)?

2012-11-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-11-20 9:36 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Anyone? I don't see any news blurbs warning about it, but with everything going on with udev, systemd, etc, I'm not risking updating unless/until I know

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC update to 0.11.5 - safe if using older udev (pinned to udev-181)?

2012-11-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-11-20 12:05 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:46:59AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Anyone? I don't see any news blurbs warning about it, but with everything going on with udev, systemd, etc, I'm not risking updating unless/until I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-11-12 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: My experience is that all so-called primitive societies have an excellent grasp of this thing called manners - it's the oil that lubricates social interaction. Interestingly enough this is most likely due to the principle of

[gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I thought I'd posted about this way back when I opened the bug at sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3494798group_id=80013atid=558446 but didn't find anything in my local archives, so I guess I didn't... Does anyone use clucene? I'm planning on enabling FTS

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-17 9:35 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I thought I'd posted about this way back when I opened the bug at sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3494798group_id=80013atid=558446 but didn't find anything in my local archives, so I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-17 10:25 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Never mind, just got a reply from the dev that he had fixed it and the next update would contain the fix... I'm still curious if I should not go down that

[gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Tanstaafl
This has never happened to me before... Since when did a simple GCC upgrade *automatically* REMOVE my prior GCC install??? I have *always* kept my prior GCC around for a while, if not until the next upgrade, just as something to fall back on if the current one breaks. I am NOT a happy

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-07 7:44 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: This has never happened to me before... Since when did a simple GCC upgrade *automatically* REMOVE my prior GCC install??? I have *always* kept my

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-07 9:12 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Well, I've been managing this gentoo server since I installed it over 8 years ago, and I don't *ever* recall a GCC upgrade removing my prior version.

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-07 9:22 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Don't be stupid. I see that all the time... if you don't like it just ignore it. And calling someone who is trying to help you stupid is not very

Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots

[gentoo-user] OT: Anybody know of a 'Genius' type service or site for TV shows/Movies/Music that is not owned by Apple?

2012-07-09 Thread Tanstaafl
By 'Genius' type service, I'm referring to Apple's Genius service that helps you find new music that you might like based on your current likes... ie, you tell it the Artists/songs you like, and it tells you things that are similar. It is a very interesting way to find new music/artists that

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-07-06 9:00 PM, Christopher Lemire christopher.lem...@gmail.com wrote: I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom,

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-24 6:11 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I always run emerge as root. me three... elog is owned by portage:root, summary.log within it as portage:root, other log files within /var/log/portage are owned by portage:portage. hmmm... I don't even have a 'summary.anything'

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-25 1:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, It appears that grub2 is coming soon. Has the Handbook/Install docs been updated to provide for installing Grub2 with a fresh install? I'm about to do one, and would like to not have to switch this out later...

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-23 7:11 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before with servers, and my only experience with netbooting at all was with

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF...

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF... Ultimately they both probably have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 10:28 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: CF is really behind the times. Really? Nothing I've read indicates that - can you point me to something that discusses how/why Cf is 'behind the times'? I'm serious, I just ordered the CF adapter/cards, but I'm fully prepared to

[gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal 2.5 dual SATA/SAS drive cage, for running a bootable OS (in my case the ESXi

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone forgot to order the R710 SD internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives So what I did is configured all drives as a RAID 10 and let ESX grab enough for the hypervisor and leave

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-24 7:24 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I just now started going through /var/log/portage/messages, and was reminded of this thread. It is much easier if you set up portage to email you these individually...

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-23 5:25 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/23/2012 05:24 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: *Especially* for servers, there really, REALLY needs to be a way to see this kind of warning BEFORE updating... ie, the warning should be printed to the screen during an 'emerge -pvuDN

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-23 5:54 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/23/2012 10:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Tanstaafl wants to know if a reboot*will* be required*before* he does the update. What you are describing tells him that after the update completes when it is already too late. I

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-21 5:00 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/21/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: I updated udev from 171-r5 to 171-r6 and now i get several udevd boot message as : udevd[1389]: can not find '/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules': No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-23 12:49 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Tanstaafl writes: *Especially* for servers, there really, REALLY needs to be a way to see this kind of warning BEFORE updating... ie, the warning should be printed to the screen during an 'emerge -pvuDN world' or something, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-19 8:09 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: But stay away from OpenDNS like the plague. They are known to perform false resolve, especially if the domain being resolved does not exist. Simple to disable, been using OpenDNS for many years, no problems whatsoever...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-17 12:14 PM, Michael Scherer a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote: If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will of course comply, though with outlook express which I'm forced to use most of the time this is a bit tedious. Interesting... so, you have someone standing next to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-14 11:26 AM, Michael Scherer a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote: in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message immediately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. This is only the case if the person who replies

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing these green drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. When comparing them to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-09 8:06 AM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: AFAIK, the only technical difference between a consumer drive and an enterprise one is that the enterprise one doesn't tell lies. Or at least, it isn't supposed to. There's a bit more to it than that...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-17 12:21 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: So if it is the differing versions problem, the solution is to upgrade to the most recent (~x86) version of eix, currently eix-0.25.3: echo app-portage/eix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-18 7:08 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: On 18.04.2012 12:32, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-04-17 12:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth wrote: So if it is the differing versions problem, the solution is to upgrade to the most recent (~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: So if it is the differing versions problem, the solution is to upgrade to the most recent (~x86) version of eix, currently eix-0.25.3: echo app-portage/eix /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords emerge eix Is this safe to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... Unfortunately, you have not written the actual error which should appear probably

[gentoo-user] Problem with eix-update

2012-04-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... problems arised with cachefile _var_lib_layman_zugaina.eix * Calling eix-update... * could not read all eix cachefiles of

CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update... WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eix-update

2012-04-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-16 2:38 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... problems arised with cachefile _var_lib_layman_zugaina.eix * Calling eix

[gentoo-user] *Simple* guide to implementing digest-auth combined with IP based whitelist?

2012-04-03 Thread Tanstaafl
I've never had a need to protect a site like this so am totally new to it... I've been reading, and everything says that digest-auth is preferred to basic-http-auth (yes, I know that this isn't a very sophisticated level of protection, but it is all we need for this site), but is there also a

[gentoo-user] Dovecot 2.1.3 fails to compile

2012-03-21 Thread Tanstaafl
With this error: In file included from /usr/include/CLucene/StdHeader.h:20:0, from /usr/include/CLucene.h:11, from lucene-wrapper.cc:23: /usr/include/CLucene/SharedHeader.h:18:36: fatal error: CLucene/clucene-config.h: No such file or directory compilation

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot 2.1.3 fails to compile

2012-03-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-21 10:23 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:38:42 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: Do you have dev-cpp/clucene installed? That missing header come from there. Of course (I have the lucene USE flag set for dovecot): myhst : Wed Mar 21, 08:01:06

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot 2.1.3 fails to compile

2012-03-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-21 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:56:37 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: When I tried updating dovecot, it *successfully* emerged the clucene update first (it was already installed), then the dovecot build failed with the error... It's quite

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-17 8:54 AM, Eliezer Croitoru elie...@ngtech.co.il wrote: genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me. just emerege genkernel Thanks, but... what part of I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to... did you not understand?

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-18 9:29 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know about 'depreciated' as that has a sort of special meaning, pet-peeve it is deprecATED, not deprecIated /pet-peeve

[gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-18 Thread Tanstaafl
Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of the follow-ups... I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me forever as a gentoo user (I'm sure none of you are crying over

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: An initramfs which does this is created by =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. Ok, I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-14 9:03 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: *YOUR WIFE'S LAPTOP* won't boot properly without /usr on /, or an initramfs. OK, put /usr on /, or an initramfs*ON YOUR WIFE'S LAPTOP*. I don't have a problem with that. What gets people really upset is the dog-in-the-manger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-15 5:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: That's why I build the initramfs into the kernel and not as a separate file. If I do something to break the initramfs I just boot the previous kernel knowing it will still work. Ok, time to show my ignorance... How would I know if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-15 9:05 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:41:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: That's why I build the initramfs into the kernel and not as a separate file. If I do something to break the initramfs I just boot the previous kernel knowing it will still work

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-13 8:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: You want it simple? Tha'ts fine, it is possible. It's just that it will not solve the general problem, just a very specific subset of it. Just as mdev is doing; Walt just posted an email explaining that if you use GNOME, KDE,

Re: [gentoo-user] Pay for a hardened VM image

2012-03-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-03 7:26 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 03/03/2012 03:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: No one has a template they can use to simply clone me a ready to go hardened VM? Or interested in earning a little money? It's probably the Microsoft Hyper-V part that's scaring

Re: [gentoo-user] Pay for a hardened VM image

2012-03-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-03 10:55 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mar 4, 2012 8:13 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) klond...@gentoo.org mailto:klond...@gentoo.org wrote: El 04/03/12 01:26, Michael Orlitzky escribió: It's probably the Microsoft Hyper-V part that's scaring people

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 4:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Attempt at incorporating your command into this: watch -n1 ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk 'NR==1; $3 0' it gives me a syntax error: Every 1.0s: ps

Re: [gentoo-user] Pay for a hardened VM image

2012-03-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 3:51 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Would anyone here be interested in being paid to create a hardened VM image for me that will run on a Microsoft Hyper-V host? If so, what would you be willing to do this for? Feel free to email me directly... No one has

[gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to show only lines that have a value in the %CPU column higher than x - ie, 1.0, or 2.0, or something like that? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 12:56 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mar 3, 2012 12:49 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to show only lines that have a value in the %CPU column higher

Re: [gentoo-user] Python update question

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 9:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: eselect python list --python3 and make sure you're set to 3.2 before removing 3.1. Hmmm... mine shows it is set to 3.1... # eselect python list --python3 Available Python 3 interpreters: [1] python3.1 * [2] python3.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 1:02 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to show only lines that have a value in the %CPU column higher than x - ie,

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