Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish

2014-12-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 17:54, Tue, Dec 16, 2014 thegeezer wrote: On 15/12/14 20:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/12/2014 18:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this question is not related to a fully fledged, >> big local area network with DMZs and such. >> >> Even the word "firewall" seems to be a little to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

2014-12-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:54 AM, »Q« wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 07:43:21 +0300 > Andrew Savchenko wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:32:08 +0100 Marc Stürmer wrote: >> > Am 29.11.2014 um 11:11 schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> > >> > > What do you thi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 18:00, Sun, Nov 30, 2014 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 30.11.2014 um 11:57 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > No, pv-grub is run inside the context of the host, using a kernel image inside the VM. ... which is not in /boot as far as I see. So if I want to add kernel-boot-time-options I have to instal

[gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

2014-11-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
So, I just found out that some Debian Developers decided to fork Debian, because they can no longer stand this abomination called 'systemd': https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc3a.en.html What do you think, people? Shouldn't we offer them our eudev project to assist? Rgds

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 28, 2014 12:38 AM, "Rich Freeman" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: > > Am 27.10.2014 um 16:36 schrieb Rich Freeman: > >> and a boot > >> partition as I don't think grub supports it - it could be a bit of a > >> PITA for a single-drive system. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 28, 2014 12:31 AM, "Rich Freeman" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > ZoL (ZFS on Linux) nowadays is implemented using DKMS instead of FUSE, thus > > running in kernelspace, and (relatively) easier to put into an i

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 27, 2014 10:40 PM, "Rich Freeman" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mick wrote: > > > > Thanks Rich, I have been reading your posts about btrfs with interest, but > > have not yet used it on my systems. Is btrfs agreeable with SSDs, or should I > > be using f2fs: > > > > Btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero > information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site. > > I see many blockers in the "[TRACKER] Qt5 in portage" bug [0]. I do believe the KDE proje

[gentoo-user] Honeypot distro?

2014-04-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
My company ended up with several 'ancient' HP ProLiant G4 servers. We're thinking of setting up honeypots there. Although I know Gentoo is perfectly capable of becoming a honeypot, we currently prefer something... less involving in deployment :-D Now, since this mailing list unarguably contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as Firewall on HP ProLiant DL360 G5

2014-03-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 14, 2014 2:42 PM, "Edward M" wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:26:27 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Pointers are very welcome! > > May not apply now, but somebody was having kernel panics and > network problems,etc last year. > > http://f

[gentoo-user] Gentoo as Firewall on HP ProLiant DL360 G5

2014-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I want to install Gentoo as headless firewalls on a pair of HP ProLiant DL360 G5 servers we happen to have lying around. Are there special issues I need to be aware of before embarking on this endeavor? Specifically, are there special steps to take w.r.t.: * The RAID controller (AFAI

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP server questions

2014-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2014 1:13 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > On 18 February 2014 06:03:02 CET, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >Hello list! > > > >I'm planning to replace an Active Directory server currently > >functioning > >*only* as an LDAP server, with a

[gentoo-user] LDAP server questions

2014-02-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I'm planning to replace an Active Directory server currently functioning *only* as an LDAP server, with a dedicated Linux-based LDAP server. Now, the function of the LDAP server is at the moment: * Provide the settings database for Axigen email server * Provide group membership for Bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-02-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 3, 2014 9:17 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 03/02/2014 16:04, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Jan 28, 2014 5:57 AM, "Neil Bothwick" > <mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk>> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:54:28 +0100, ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-02-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 28, 2014 5:57 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:54:28 +0100, hasufell wrote: > > > >> If it's about performance (in the sense of speed), then paludis > > >> is worse, because dependency calculation is more complex/complete > > >> there. > > > > > > That makes no sense at

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables question... simple as possible for starters

2013-12-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 30, 2013 7:31 PM, "shawn wilson" wrote: > > Minor additions to what Pandu said... > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > The numbers within [brackets] are statistics/cou

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables question... simple as possible for starters

2013-12-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > [-- LE SNIP --] > Ok, well, maybe I should have posted my entire ruleset... > > I have this above where I define my chains: > > # > *filter > :INPUT DROP [0:0] > :FORWARD DROP [0:0] > :OUTPUT DROP [0:0] > # > > Does it matter where this goes? >

[gentoo-user] Fusion-IO Experience?

2013-11-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! My company's considering of purchasing a couple of Fusion-IO [1] devices, especially the ioDrive Octal model [2]. However, before we actually commit to purchasing it, I'd like to gather some info first. Have any of you had any experience with a Fusion-IO product? Not necessarily the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:52 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Fri, October 18, 2013 05:33, Dale wrote: >> Bruce Hill wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting

Re: OT - RAM disks - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 14, 2013 6:04 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2013-10-13 5:49 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> Talk about putting some stuff on tmpfs. O_O I have always wanted to >> copy the tree to tmpfs and run "time emerge -uvaDN world". Just to see >> how fast it will go. lol > > > I remember once I worked for

Re: [gentoo-user] New mobo change

2013-10-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 15, 2013 10:51 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Howdy, > > I ordered the new mobo as much as I needed to wait. The mobo is the > same brand but a different chipset and a couple other things are > different. I have already built a kernel for those changes. I plan to > put everything on the old mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] scripted iptables-restore (was: Where to put advanced routing configuration?)

2013-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 13, 2013 5:09 PM, "Martin Vaeth" wrote: > > >> 5. You can't script iptables-restore! > > > > Well, actually you can script iptables-restore. > > For those who are interested: > net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay > (available over layman) now provides a separate > firewall-scripted

Re: [gentoo-user] scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 13, 2013 9:15 PM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > > On 10/13/2013 06:08 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >>> 5. You can't script iptables-restore! > >> > >> Well, actually you can script iptables-restore. > > > > For those who are interested: > > net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay > > (avail

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 3, 2013 9:26 PM, "William Hubbs" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:52:36AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:44:35AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > > > > Just stumbled across some very interesting sof

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: >>> In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... >>> >>> >>> What is the significance

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 30, 2013 9:31 AM, "Daniel Campbell" wrote: > --- le snip --- > If the proposed solution is all binaries and libraries in the same > root/prefix directory, then why call it /usr? My question exactly. Why install to /usr at all, leaving /bin and /sbin a practically empty directory contain

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 21, 2013 7:54 PM, "thegeezer" wrote: > > On 09/17/2013 08:20 AM, Grant wrote: > > I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep > > running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in > > RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support > > 6-

[gentoo-user] The meaning of number in brackets in /proc/cpuinfo "power management"?

2013-09-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Does anyone know the meaning of the 'number between brackets' in the "power management" line of /proc/cpuinfo? For instance (I snipped the "flags" line to not clutter the email: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Grant wrote: You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik can only set on filesystem creation and therefore needs a restart from scratch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-09-19 3:44 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen >> You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool >> creation >> (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik >> can only set >> on filesystem creation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:49:40PM -0700, Grant wrote: >> > I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from >> > an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish >> > one of the bright

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Dale wrote: > Grant wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page >>> I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the >>> future? May even be their intention? >> I think the CDDL license is what's keepi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Grant wrote: >> I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from >> an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish >> one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton >> (wiki) information page as such

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep > running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in > RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support > 6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting. > >

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

2013-09-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID >>> install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID >>> controller? >> >> Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity >> of RAID+LVM, sin

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

2013-09-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID >>> install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID >>> controller? >> >> Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity >> of RAID+LVM, sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 3, 2013 10:51 AM, "William Kenworthy" wrote: > > On 03/09/13 11:26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > William Kenworthy [13-09-03 05:08]: --snip-- > >> Have you run out of inodes? - ext 4 has had very mixed success for me on > >> solid state. Running out of inodes is a real problem for gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 2, 2013 11:16 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need some urgent help... > > > > The rootfs and $HOME of my embedded system is stored > on a 16GB SD-card (about 5GB used, rest free). The FS > is ext4. > > Since the system hangs for unknown reasons several times I > removed the sdcard, put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] crond: time disparity detected (on hibernate and wake-up)

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 31, 2013 8:47 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > Whenever I hibernate or do a wake-up from hibernation, I always get > messages about a crond time disparity detected. It's usually 580 or 602 > minutes. But the clock appears to be correct within a few seconds after > wake-up. I'm in Eastern t

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 1, 2013 7:51 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote > > > >> So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel > >> with ZFS inside. > > > > See http://www.gen

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mick wrote: >> On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote: >>> On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> > On 30/08/2013 16:29, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >> Why would there be a problem if someone

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 29, 2013 7:13 PM, "Randy Barlow" wrote: > > Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you ever need to scale. It's also much easier to c

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 29, 2013 7:46 PM, "thegeezer" wrote: > > On 08/29/2013 01:12 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > > Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you e

[gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Here's my scenario: Currently there is a server performing 2 functions; one runs on, let's say, port 2000, and another one runs on port 3000. Due to some necessary changes, especially the need to (1) provide more resource for a function, and (2) delegate management of the functions t

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

2013-08-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 27/08/2013 14:05, Tanstaafl wrote: [-- snippy --] > > Thanks Alan, starting to get excited about playing with ZFS. > > > > How would you rate their docs and support community (for the free version)? > > Support is top-notch, on par wit

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

2013-08-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:34:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? > > There are plenty of links on the zfsforlinux site. > "on" Linux, not "for" Linux ... http://zfsonlinux.org/ :-) Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: > I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate > enough > > to look

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

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > 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 ;-) > &g

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

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > 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

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

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 9:02 PM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > > 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

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

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:45:15 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > emerge zfs works too :) > > > > > > I really like the way ZFS just lets you get on with things. > > > > Does anyone run it on a desktop/laptop as their day to day fs? > > Yes. > > > Any

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

2013-08-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 5:06 AM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 18/08/2013 21:38, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 2013-08-18 5:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> While we're on the topic, what's the obsession with having different > >> bits of the file hierarchy as different*mount points*? That harks back > >> to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Makeing /dev/rtc1 accessible as soon as possible - how?

2013-08-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 8:41 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:54 PM, wrote: > > Hi Mark, hi William, > > > > the script ds3231 in /etc/init.d is -- according to rc-update -- > > set as folows: > > > >ds3231 | boot > > Long and short of it, here's the boot ord

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server problem

2013-08-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 25, 2013 11:38 PM, "Grant" wrote: > > >> >> >> I set up squid on a remote system so I can browse the internet from > >> >> >> that IP address. It works but it stalls frequently. I had similar > >> >> >> results with ziproxy. I went over this with the squid list but we > >> >> >> got nowh

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 16, 2013 12:26 AM, "Kerin Millar" wrote: > > On 14/08/2013 13:15, Bruce Hill wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18:41PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> Hello list! >>> >>> My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
Thanks, Wang Xuerui and Bruce! That's exactly helpful. I'm going to do some testing Real Soon. Rgds, -- On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Wang Xuerui wrote: > 2013/8/14 Helmut Jarausch : > > Why not compute it yourself? > > > > Do cat /proc/cpuinfo on all machines and compute the intersect

[gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors. They currently are acting as XenServer hosts. How do I determine the 'least common denominator' for Gentoo VMs (running as XenServer guests), especially for gcc flags? I know that the (t

[gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... But I digress. On to my question: Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags? And a related subquestion: Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 4, 2013 5:48 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: > > Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter > > so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a guest. > > > > I'm not entirely certain as to where Virtu

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

2013-07-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 22, 2013 6:34 PM, "Samuli Suominen" wrote: > > On 22/07/13 10:03, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> How did you resolve this conflict? >> >> Many thanks for a hint, >> Helmut > > > As a maintainer of sys-auth/consolekit, and xfce-base/xfce4-meta I can assure you sys-auth/consolekit is

Re: SSDs, VM SANs & RAID - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 20, 2013 9:27 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data >> across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular >> everyday write activity being a problem. > > > I have a que

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 8, 2013 1:05 AM, "Bruce Hill" wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: > > > NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't > > > missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. > > > > Not to st

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightweight & Simple Proxy that supports upstream authentication

2013-05-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 20, 2013 12:04 PM, "staticsafe" wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:31:31AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for a simple HTTP+FTP proxy that supports upstream > > authentication. > > > > The reason is t

[gentoo-user] Lightweight & Simple Proxy that supports upstream authentication

2013-05-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello, I'm looking for a simple HTTP+FTP proxy that supports upstream authentication. The reason is that we (that is, my employer) have a server that requires Internet access for its setup, but for some reason* my employer does not want to give the contractors a login for the corporate proxy. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote: > > Hello, > > > server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer > > Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual > value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. > > > disable auth > > broadcastclient > > se

Re: [gentoo-user] Using date/time variables in cronjobs?

2013-05-05 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 6, 2013 4:57 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2013-05-05 5:25 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Sun, 5 May 2013 16:06:45 -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: >> >>> mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR/$PGyy/$PGmm/$PGdd >>> /usr/bin/pg_dumpall -U $PGUSER -o | \ >>> gzip >$BACKUP_DIR/$PGyy/$PGmm/$PGdd/pg_all-$

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:05:06 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > > > I think the problem there is a Chromebook needs to be online in order > > > to do much of anything, and the connection needs to be fast in order > > > to make them very functio

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 3:09 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote: > > Hi, > > > EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional > features (240) > > > /dev/sda5 / ext4noatime,discard 0 1 > > When first mounting the root filesystem the kernel has no access to > /etc/fs

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 10:31 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. > > > > I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" wrote: > > Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > >> Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: >> >> System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. >> >> I&#x

[gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same. I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU. I

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 25, 2013 5:54 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2013-04-24 10:23 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> My Gentoo VMs in the cloud (using VMware's vCloud) uses PV-SCSI. It's >> stable... but kind of sensitive: Everytime the cloud provider do >> som

Re: PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 24, 2013 2:29 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2013-04-22 8:56 AM, Andre Lucas Falco wrote: >> >> 2013/4/21 Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >>> Windows VMs see get an 'LSI Logic SAS', and my gentoo VM gets an >>> 'LSI Logic Parallel' controller. > > >> Did you tested using pvscsi? It's improve performa

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 22, 2013 2:05 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2013-04-21 12:38 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: >> >> I should mention one specific advantage to using LVM over file-based >> images: I believe you will find that LVM performs better. This is due to >> avoiding the duplicated filesystem overhead that wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 21, 2013 4:51 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > On Sat, April 20, 2013 18:22, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2013 10:01 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for the responses so far... > >> > >> Another question

Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 20, 2013 10:01 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > Thanks for the responses so far... > > Another question - are there any caveats as to which filesystem to use for a mail server, for virtualized systems? Ir do the same issues/questions apply (ie, does the fact that it is virtualized not change anyt

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 20, 2013 9:31 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > On Fri, April 19, 2013 18:42, Jarry wrote: > > On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > >> Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if > >> I compile the kernel wit

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote:i > > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, "Jarry" wrote: >> > >> > On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: >> > >> >> Previously I had asked for

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, "Jarry" wrote: > > On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but >> decided against that, and have been playing and reading. >> >> I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a >>

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 14, 2013 1:27 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On 04/14/2013 01:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, "Michael Mol" > <mailto:mike...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > > [snip] > > > > > What

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On 04/13/2013 01:45 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Three, AMD has no concept of Hyperthreading. > > Correct. > > > Just match -j to the number of cores your CPU provides, and that'

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 11:57 PM, "Tamer Higazi" wrote: > > Am 13.04.2013 18:24, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > > On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, "Tamer Higazi" > <mailto:th9...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Dale! > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, "Tamer Higazi" wrote: > > Hi Dale! > > > Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > >> > >> I myself prefer AMD CPUs to Intel ones. > >> > >> Intel has this habit of

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 12:18 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" wrote: > > On Saturday 13 April 2013 10:39:08 AM IST, Kvothe Tech wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Tamer Higazi wrote: >> >>> Hi people! >>> My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at this lever >>> a

Re: [gentoo-user] Rant/Warning: fun with awesome and lightdm

2013-04-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 11:18 PM, "Marc Joliet" wrote: > > Update: > > I opened a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465288. There is a > reference to the Awesome upstream bug which resulted in the change to the > desktop file, along with a link to a LightDM upstream bug that sounds like what > w

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=? for this cpu

2013-04-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 1:16 PM, "Michael Hampicke" wrote: > > Am 09.04.2013 05:50, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: > > I have two Gentoo VMs at Hetzner and the CPU supports 64 bit (grep lm > > /proc/cpuinfo = true). > > > > But something funny, gcc -march=native -mtune=native -v -E - 2>&1 > > > > > Using bui

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 8, 2013 11:17 PM, "Bruce Hill" wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:42:23PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: > > > > Mike is right, if it's not a dep of another ebuild, you don't need > > wpa_supplicant. I just upgraded udev to 200 on the last remote box > > (which is always a bit of a thril

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 12:32 AM, "Jarry" wrote: > > On 08-Apr-13 19:19, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> On 04/08/2013 12:28 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:58:38PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:35:22 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > > As for /sbin/ip.

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 8:13 AM, "William Kenworthy" wrote: > > On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 'Evening, Alan. > > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 3:56 PM, "Stroller" wrote: > > > On 7 April 2013, at 07:00, Joseph wrote: > > ... > > Are these new udev rules going across all Linux distros or this is something specific to Gentoo? > > I would assume across all distros. > > Gentoo generally makes a policy of just packaging whateve

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

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 5:59 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 00:34:03 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Now I only had to figure out how to rename eth[0-9]+ to the custom > > > naming scheme when using mdev. > > > > ***UDEV*** has broken using "eth[0-9]". mdev works just fine, thank >

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

2013-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 6, 2013 7:32 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:11:46 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Apr 6, 2013 3:44 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:14:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > > > &

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

2013-04-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 6, 2013 3:44 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:14:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > * on a machine with multiple network cards *ALL USING DIFFERENT DRIVERS* > > * drivers are built as modules, not built-in into the kernel > > * is it possible to set things up so that the

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

2013-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 1, 2013 1:54 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they > > > plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device > > > name changes. > > > > Fair point bu

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

2013-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 1, 2013 2:10 AM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 31/03/2013 20:26, Dale wrote: > > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > >> On 2013-03-31, Dale wrote: > >>> Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Since

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

2013-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 31, 2013 7:13 PM, "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" wrote: > > On 2013-03-31, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > > On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page > >> > >> You should probab

Re: eudev - is it a viable *long-term* option? - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

2013-03-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 30, 2013 9:48 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > I should have added that this is for a server (not hardened), so I don't care about hot plug this or that, I just care about stability and reliability with respect to updates not breaking booting capability... > > > On 2013-03-30 10:39 AM, Tanstaafl

Re: [gentoo-user] Change in iptables syntax fails to load rule

2013-03-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 30, 2013 2:54 AM, "Mick" wrote: > > Hi All, > > A few months ago I got some errors about the match option in some iptables > rules that I was running at the time. I modified these to remove match and > add conntrack and all went well. > > > Now I am trying to run this: > > /sbin/iptables -

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inline data

2013-03-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 29, 2013 8:49 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > > Hi list! > > I noticed that beginning with kernel 3.8, ext4 can store small files > entirely inside the inode. But I couldn't find much additional information: > > - Is the improvement automatically enabled? > > - Is the change backwards compat

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