Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
oh my bad! Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that. Thanks for you help and again, may apologies. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I was wondering that is it

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 29 July 2014 12:19:14 behrouz khosravi wrote: oh my bad! Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that. Thanks for you help and again, may apologies. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
oh, I guess I have to let it be! Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 08:44:02 PM Kerin Millar wrote: On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the broken machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello every body. I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. thanks On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. Please do not top-post

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: NFS uses RPC to do some heavy lifting - I don't know how familiar you are with this, so here's the quick version: When you mount something locally, and need to use the mounted filesystem, kernel calls are used to

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the broken machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was updated to 1.3.0 ?) The real problem here is that I have no idea how NFS works, and each new version is more

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the broken machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was updated to 1.3.0 ?) The real problem here is

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.07.2014 18:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Only last week I re-attacked this topic as I start using puppet here to manage my systems ... and one part of this might be sharing /usr/portage via NFSv4. One client host mounts it without a problem, the thinkpads don't do so ... just

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the broken machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was updated

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/07/2014 04:47, walt wrote: In this case, the brain dead sysadmin would be moi :) For years I've been using NFS to share /usr/portage with all of the gentoo machines on my LAN. Problem: occasionally it stops working for no apparent reason. Example: two days ago I updated two

[gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-25 Thread walt
In this case, the brain dead sysadmin would be moi :) For years I've been using NFS to share /usr/portage with all of the gentoo machines on my LAN. Problem: occasionally it stops working for no apparent reason. Example: two days ago I updated two ~amd64 gentoo machines, both of which have