Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-19 5:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's no known way to decrypt a mail like that without the single private key needed (this works exactly like https traffic to your bank). I feel very confident saying "no known way" as cracking that puzzle has been the Holy Grail of maths prizes for

[gentoo-user] Problem updating modutils

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, Confused... emerge -pvuDN world shows (among a few others): [ebuild N ] virtual/modutils-0 0 kB No warnings about blockers or anything are evident. However, when I do emerge -pvuDN modutils (instead of 'world), I get the following warning about blockers: myhost : Sun Feb 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem updating modutils

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 11:40 AM, Felix Kuperjans wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1 0 kB Look at this: you are emerging sys-apps/modutils, not virtual/modutils which *is* different (though such name clashes are quite bad). Oh, crud, I guess I'm bli

[gentoo-user] Warning about old init scripts when updating dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-2.0_pre1-r2

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Also have this to deal with... In the emerge post install I get: WARN: postinst Old /etc/init.d/mysql and /etc/conf.d/mysql still present! Update both of those files to the new versions! But it doesn't say anything about *how* to update them... Is this documented anywhere? Or is this j

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning about old init scripts when updating dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-2.0_pre1-r2

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 12:08 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: In the emerge post install I get: WARN: postinst Old /etc/init.d/mysql and /etc/conf.d/mysql still present! Update both of those files to the new versions! But it doesn't say anything about *ho

[gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Can someone please confirm that the commented settings in /etc/rc.conf are the defaults? Ie, when running etc-update after updating openrc, I had specifically the entry: rc_parallel="NO" Now, when updating from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8.4, it wants to completely remove this setting and all related com

[gentoo-user] Another issue/questions updating udev from 164-r2 to 171-r5

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
I just updated these, and am unsure how to deal with the issues... First issue: *** Found sources for kernel version: 3.0.6-gentoo Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... ERROR: setup CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG:is not set when it should be. WARN: setup Pl

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-02 12:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: Pretty much what I've got going for my grandmother. I had her working with Evolution and Firefox on XP Interesting... the last time (admittedly a *long* time ago) I tried Evolution on Windows it was totally unusable... Are you saying that it is now

Re: [gentoo-user] Another issue/questions updating udev from 164-r2 to 171-r5

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 12:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... ERROR: setup CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG: is not set when it should be. WARN: setup Please check to make sure these options are set correctly. Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Another issue/questions updating udev from 164-r2 to 171-r5

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 12:47 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: For the next time you need to find a kernel option: 1. go to /usr/src/linux 2. make menuconfig 3. press "/" (this activates search) 4. enter the config option you are looking 5. p

Re: [gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 1:41 PM, Dale wrote: They removed the setting because it broke a good bit of systems. No one wanted to fix it, so they got rid of it. From my understanding, if you still want the setting, you can leave it there. Yeah, I fugured out that much, but my main question was about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating mysql-init-scripts to 2.0_pre1-r2 now Mysql restart fails!?

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
for mysqld, not mysql?? Also, why is there no entry for mysql in rc-update? It starts up just fine when booting. I'm totally stumped... On 2012-01-15 12:26 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Anyone else having this problem? Yes, I did etc-update, and simply accepted the new conf.d config file and i

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating mysql-init-scripts to 2.0_pre1-r2 now Mysql restart fails!?

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 2:09 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: just updated mysql from 5.1.56 to 5.1.61, and STILL have this problem... after reviewing this problem, I'm thinking that maybe the problem with stopping or restarting mysql is related to the post install elog warning I got back in January w

Re: [gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf

2012-02-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 2:00 PM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-02-05 1:41 PM, Dale wrote: They removed the setting because it broke a good bit of systems. No one wanted to fix it, so they got rid of it. From my understanding, if you still want the setting, you can leave it there. Yeah, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning about old init scripts when updating dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-2.0_pre1-r2

2012-02-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-05 3:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: In your shoes what I would be doing now is backup your entire mysql install (everything listed in "equery files mysql"), delete the package (emerge -C) and remerge mysql. Then check if starting and stopping works correctly. I suspect you'll find it wi

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-07 2:36 AM, Eray Aslan wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:58:33PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: S... I'm still on 2.8.7. Is it safe to upgrade to 2.9.0-r1 ? Yes, it should be OK as long as you run etc-update/dispatch-conf/similar after the upgrade. I was concerned about this at

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-07 2:36 AM, Eray Aslan wrote: Postfix daemons now live under /usr/libexec/postfix (not under /usr/lib{,64)/postfix). I'm curious - is there a good reason for this change?

[gentoo-user] Hardened Gentoo VM template?

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Does anyone know of a freely available VM template for gentoo-hardened that I could download? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-14 6:19 PM, m...@trausch.us wrote: If you're interested, I can detail a history for you, and explain why GRUB 1 was discontinued and why the whole thing was restructured in detail. I can't right now, as I am about to get on a conference call, but I can certainly do so later tonight o

[gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an SSL Client Certificate? I'd like to prevent access to an ancient web based database to only users that have a Client Cert that I c

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 9:37 AM, m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/15/2012 07:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi everyone, I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an SSL Client Certificate? Yes, you

[gentoo-user] Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, We use Thunderbird+Lightning+Provider for Google Calendar+Google Calendar here in our office, and the calendaring really is becoming more and more problematic for us, mostly with respect to interacting with Meeting Invites from external users of Outlook/Exchange. I'm curious if anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 5:16 PM, walt wrote: On 02/15/2012 10:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: We use Thunderbird+Lightning+Provider for Google Calendar+Google Calendar here in our office, and the calendaring really is becoming more and more problematic for us, mostly with respect to interacting with Meeting

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they both worked fine for me. I've since deleted t

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. I've looked and looked and never found one that I could download... and my google-fu is u

[gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited when it bought Sun): https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg0

[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 wrote: On Mar 3, 2012 12:49 AM, "Tanstaafl" 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 than x

Re: [gentoo-user] Python update question

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 9:28 AM, Mark Knecht 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 myhost : Fri Mar 02, 13:

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

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 1:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tanstaafl 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, 1.0, or > 2.0, or something like that

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

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 1:12 PM, Jason wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 01:03:55PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Also - would there be a way to get a running output (kind of like tailing a log)? watch -n1 "ps aux | gawk '{ if ( \$3> 1.0 ) { print } }'" Perfect!!! Thanks so much guys!

Re: [gentoo-user] Python update question

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 2:24 PM, Dale wrote: But if I tell eselect to set it to 3 something then that is what the system will try to use right? Isn't that what eselect does? I'm recalling what was posted after you emerge python here. The einfo/ewarn thingy. Again, this may have changed but what I'm wo

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

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything you like (see the manpage) Even better, thanks Paul... watch -n1 "ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk '{ if ( \$3 > 1.0 ) { print } }'" does exactly what I want... Hmmm... is there an easy

[gentoo-user] Pay for a hardened VM image

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, 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... Thanks Charles

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

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 3:50 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-03-02 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything you like (see the manpage) Even better, thanks Paul... watch -n1 "ps aux -

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

2012-03-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 4:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl 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 aux --sort=-%c

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

2012-03-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 3:51 PM, Tanstaafl 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 a template they can use to

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

2012-03-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-03 7:26 PM, Michael Orlitzky 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 scarin

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

2012-03-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-03 10:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mar 4, 2012 8:13 AM, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" 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 away. Or maybe he should just

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 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, XFCE, or LVM2, mdev

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 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 attitude of "if my complex

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 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 I am using an init

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 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. Ok, time to

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. 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 used genkernel, and have no desire

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 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 wrote: I don't know about 'depreciated' as that has a sort of special meaning, it is deprecATED, not deprecIated

[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 tha

[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 term

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

2012-03-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-21 10:23 AM, Alan McKinnon 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 : ~ # equery list -p clucene

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

2012-03-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-21 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon 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 simple as it turn

[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] 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 /tmp/eix-remote.dhR

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 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-update... * could no

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

2012-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
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) version of eix, currently eix-0.25.3: echo app-portage/eix >>/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords && emerge eix Is this safe to do while remaining on the stable

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

2012-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth 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 a few (probably one) lines before:

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

2012-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
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) version of eix, currently eix-0.25.3: echo app-portage/eix >>/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords && e

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 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) version of eix, currently

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

2012-05-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale 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 non "green" drive, d

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

2012-05-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-09 8:06 AM, 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... http://download.intel.com/support/motherboa

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 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 doesn't trim their quoted text

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 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 you most of the time, pointi

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

2012-05-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-19 8:09 AM, Pandu Poluan 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] udevd boot messages

2012-05-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-21 5:00 PM, Markos Chandras 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 udevd[1389]: can not find

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-23 12:49 PM, Alex Schuster 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 know tha

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-23 5:25 PM, Markos Chandras 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 world' or

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-23 5:54 PM, Markos Chandras 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 face the same issue

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-24 7:24 PM, Michael Mol 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...

[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 hyper

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

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon 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 the rest for regular s

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

2012-06-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 10:28 AM, Michael Mol 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 send them back if

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

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl 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 adapter), then mirror those (in the BIOS), which would

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

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe 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 wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl 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 flash chips inside of them so if your main concern is

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

2012-06-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol 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 LTSP about 10 years

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 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' file or files...

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

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-25 1:05 AM, Dale 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 wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol 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 exper

[gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-12 Thread Tanstaafl
Probably a dumb one, but... I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions... If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, since /etc is located there? In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touch

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-12 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, >> Tanstaafl did opine thusly: >>> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' >>> something goes south, am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-13 4:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > KDE3 was fine as it was. I think that pretty much sums it up... No one forced anyone to upgrade to 4.0 when it was released. Anyone (you) could have continued using 3.x until *you* were satisfied with 4.x...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-15 10:05 AM, pk wrote: > (I'm not happy with my current mail client either [Thunderbird]). Why not? It isn't perfect, but is by far the best GUI+IMAP client I've found... Maybe you didn't know you could highlight the test you want to include in your reply, and it will include *only* th

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it > didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it > could be there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from > a previous use of the sectors there

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-16 7:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I >> could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted, >> emerging updates (skip

[gentoo-user] Baselayout2/OpenRC migration question - dispatch-conf vs etc-update

2011-05-28 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Ok, I'm about to do the deed, but was concerned about one thing... The migration guide only mentions using dispatch-conf after performing the update... I have only/always used etc-update for all the years I've been using gentoo, and would really, REALLY prefer not to use a new/unfamiliar

[gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-28 Thread Tanstaafl
After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my own question... I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become one)... Specifically, I want to have one VLAN that my wireless acc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice > good switch where you can tag the vlans? Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking for something that will work that I can do myself, that is afford

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-28 8:42 PM, Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote: >> * Tanstaafl [110528 12:43]: >>> Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers >>> support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, To

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: > The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there > have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS > more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on > vbox. My understanding is it is a general rule

[gentoo-user] sntp error in rc.log post OpenRC migration

2011-06-04 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, finally took the plunge, and as everyone else said it was pretty much anti-climactic... However, I'm getting the following error when starting sntp that I wasn't before in rc.log: * Setting clock via the NTP client 'sntp' ... 4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626]: Started sntp 4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626

Re: [gentoo-user] sntp error in rc.log post OpenRC migration

2011-06-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-04 10:02 AM, Indi wrote: > Using ntp-client here, works just fine. Hmmm... what runlevel do you have ntdp set to? Mine is 'default'...

Re: [gentoo-user] sntp error in rc.log post OpenRC migration

2011-06-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Sat Jun 04, 15:18:57 : ~ # grep stratum /var/log/messages myhost : Sun Jun 05, 11:04:24 : ~ # On 2011-06-04 9:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Ok, finally took the plunge, and as everyone else said it was pretty > much anti-climactic... > > However, I'm getting the following error wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-04 5:10 PM, Indi wrote: > Every single GUI MUA I ever tried would lock up and become unresponsive > at times when dealing with IMAP. It happens in mutt as well, but pretty > rarely and mutt can be killed and started fresh in an instant, unlike > many others. > > My experiences with evol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 06/04/2011 02:59 PM, Indi wrote: > Maybe I'll put the next person who complains about evolution on > thunderbird and see how they do with it... I absolutely love Thunderbird, but with one caveat... I love it because of its stability, how well it does IMAP, but most importantly, how configurab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-06 6:34 AM, Indi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:27:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Believe it or not you are supposed to "make invisible" all the junk the app >> created. Dunno what that means... you have to tell it where to store Drafts, Trash, Sent messages, etc - what is so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-06 7:19 AM, Indi wrote: > Anyone can point to a google search, smartass. :) I've been called worse... ;) > Of course, the search turns up nothing that works for tbird3. It doesn't state specifically, but the very first hit works fine for 3.1.10 for me... > Do you *really* imagine I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-06 7:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's a minor gripe, to be sure, but a well-rounded release could have > shown a dialog to the user and asking them to select the various > folders to use. Or even if it finds "Trash" and expected to find > "Junk" or "Deleted Items" it could use what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-06 8:26 AM, Indi wrote: > It forces one to log into the IMAP server manually and restore order, > as the configuration dialog gives no way of doing that. Then, making > sure tbird is not running, one must go into ~/.thunderbird/, find the > files that specify IMAp and local folders, fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-06 8:44 AM, Indi wrote: > You need to realize you're giving advice about the windows version of > thunderbird. IOW you can stop now! As I said, there is nothing indicating that userChrome.css hacks are not cross-platform. I really did think they were. Also, I *did* state in my initial p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-06 10:48 AM, Indi wrote: > At one point it was far more specific with a number of individual > fonts listed, not one of them worked. Did you make the change while Thunderbird was running? As I said, changes to userChromes.css MUST be done while it is NOT running, otherwise they WILL N

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