On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:17:14PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote:
On 13:41 Sat 29 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2007-09-29, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I
can get a converter, or afford to buy a better card.
Hi,
I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
Did anyone else get 20+ copies of Grant's last mail, about backing up
dot files in ~ ?
alan
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Pessimists say the glass
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
- Grant
/var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
/usr/local too, otherwise you get to re-install
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
Not here. I've never seen duplicates from any gentoo list. I /have/ seen
several other folks on gentoo-user report
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Steve Dommett wrote:
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
Not here. I've never seen duplicates from any gentoo list. I
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Hello pat,
I have cetrino processor and I want to update system, but it's not
possible, because of gcc 3.3.6.
What does this mean? What is GCC 3.3.6 doing that prevents your
upgrading? Or do you mean that something wants to install gcc-3.3.6?
If the latter, adding
Ok, I'll try with IsInNet and patience..!
Thanks !
Ben
2007/9/27, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:26:44PM +0200, Penguin Lover Benjamin Graf
squawked:
Thanks for the answer !
How can I see what myIpAddress() returns ? I tried it in a simple html
page
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb:
Grant skrev:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid,
Arnau Bria schrieb:
Hi,
My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data
from old disk to new disk,
Florian Philipp wrote:
Arnau Bria schrieb:
Hi,
My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data
Dale schrieb:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Arnau Bria schrieb:
Hi,
My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
Which shell do you use? Bash's default behavior (I don't know whether
you can change that) is that it doesn't expand * to all files and
directories but only the nonhidden.
Just try the following:
ls -l --directory --all ~/*
On my system
Sorry, I hit send too early; my answer is missing the last part.
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Is it possible that you mean regular expressions and not Bash's
expansion feature?
This is possible (well, sort of) enabling the extglob option in
bash. But still, this is not
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains the most
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
- Grant
/var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
- Grant
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A lot of
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains
Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains
Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb:
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
Which shell do you use? Bash's default behavior (I don't know whether
you can change that) is that it doesn't expand * to all files and
directories but only the nonhidden.
Just try the following:
ls -l --directory
Grant schrieb:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains the
On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Grant wrote:
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
- Grant
Offsite backups are a good idea if your data
Trying to get DRI working on a Radeon X850 on AMD64.
In my Xorg log, Im seeing:
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so failed
(/usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
And sure enough,
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Grant wrote:
I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings
like a CD-RW).
But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns
to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.
I can't believe you actually
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
- Grant
Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I
have
I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings
like a CD-RW).
But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns
to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.
I can't believe you actually asked that. Think, man, think.
But
Hello Grant,
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
I use rsync.net, offsite backups using duplicity for GPG encryption.
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Neil
Hello Grant,
For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
/usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
/usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var?
Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql.
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Neil Bothwick
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
snip...
Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of
an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this
script
Hi,
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400
Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
I changed the file extension to '.html' Epiphany now has no problem.
Does anyone
Hi group,
This one is still giving me grief:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv xine-ui
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330
[0.4.9_p20060302] USE=X%* encode ieee1394 mmx ogg oss
sdl truetype
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql.
Rather than backup MySQL's or Postgres' binary storage I prefer to use the
relevant tool (mysqldump, pgdump[all]) to backup the database
to /root/backups/ just prior to
Hello Jerry McBride,
Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a
duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build
process I run this script via cron...
#!/bin/sh
rm /portage.list/*.*
emerge -pe --color=n system /portage.list/system.list
emerge
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote:
Hello Jerry McBride,
Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a
duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build
process I run this script via cron...
#!/bin/sh
rm /portage.list/*.*
Hello Jerry McBride,
Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world?
Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their
dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file.
It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc
Florian Philipp wrote:
That's exactly what I wanted to explain to Dale ;)
Sorry if I puzzled you.
I just know that -a means all files including hidden ones. I like to
keep it simple, so I can understand it. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:55:40 -0230
Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the configs were the same as the diskless install docs on the
Gentoo alt-install page, with suitable modifications of the ip and MAC
addresses in the dhcpd.conf. I _was using pxegrub but, on a whim, I
tried
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:31:58 -0500
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes
(during the boot phase)?
I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because,
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400
Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does something like
'--exclude /home/user/.*' work with tar?
- Grant
Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the tar man page:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:04 +0100
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Grant,
For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
/usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
/usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var?
Other data in
On 10:26 Sun 30 Sep, Alan McKinnon wrote
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Steve Dommett wrote:
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
Not here. I've
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
- Grant
Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system
quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just the kernel and
modules you
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200
Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and
'/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.)
def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ;
end
pw = users /etc/passwd
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
- Grant
Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system
quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:43 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
# rc-upate del xdm
# echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' /etc/conf.d/local.start
I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may
wanna verify that.
--
Albert W. Hopkins
You might want to stop XDM gracefully
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:38:31PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
eContext' is deprecated (declared at
/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/libavcod
ec/avcodec.h:2447)
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:41:52 +0300
Thanasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes
(during the boot phase)?
Just an idea for a possible direction to point your investigation to...
/etc/config-archive/etc/conf.d/xdm:
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# Tell X to always
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