Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > ... The data on a SSD is not > necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using > the same memory cells as the old one. > … > For a HDD I'd advise to create a copy > using dd but from my understanding of SSD technolog

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Dale
Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: >> Randolph Maaßen wrote: >>> I'm so damn lucky >>> >>> I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the >>> image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the >>> system back to live on the image. I tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: > Randolph Maaßen wrote: >> >> I'm so damn lucky >> >> I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the >> image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the >> system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real machine >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Dale
Randolph Maaßen wrote: > > > I'm so damn lucky > > I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the > image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the > system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real machine > and Gentoo works again. > > > -- > Mit

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] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/5/5 Randolph Maaßen > 2013/5/5 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen > >> On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:44:11PM +, Randolph Maaßen wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. >> for >> > some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was l

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

2013-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.05.2013 01:21, schrieb Tanstaafl: > Last question... > > In order to keep only a certain number of backups, what would be the > easiest and SAFEST way to delete the older ones? > > For example, I want to keep 17 hourlies, and 30 nightlies, so I have > two cron jobs set up, the hourly, and the

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

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Last question... In order to keep only a certain number of backups, what would be the easiest and SAFEST way to delete the older ones? For example, I want to keep 17 hourlies, and 30 nightlies, so I have two cron jobs set up, the hourly, and the nightly. Each backs up to a separate dir. I'

[gentoo-user] conky crashes with JSON output.

2013-05-05 Thread Kevin Thompson
Hello, everyone. I'm experiencing some problems with conky that seems to be Gentoo-specific. All of my friends running other distributions are able to run my configuration file just fine. Here's the output from conky: 7f2af50f5000-7f2af52f4000 ---p 0012 08:02 1469347 /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.

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

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
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/$PGdd/pg_all-$PGtt.gz You could have it check first and only do the mkdir if t

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

2013-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
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/$PGdd/pg_all-$PGtt.gz > > You could have it check first and only do the mkdir if the directory > didn't already exist: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-05 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Florian. On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:12:51PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 02.05.2013 18:27, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my > > 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. > > Watching t

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-05 Thread walt
On 05/02/2013 09:27 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my > 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. > > Watching the build, it became evident that the first 50 minutes or so > was taken up by severa

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

2013-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/05/2013 20:31, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-05-05 2:18 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:> On > Sun, 05 May 2013 14:07:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> /home/user/mypg_backups/2013/May/Sun/pg_all-13:54.gz: No such file or >>> directory >>> >>> So, it is expanding the variables properly, but apparently won

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

2013-05-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Tanstaafl [130505 14:32]: > On 2013-05-05 2:18 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:> On > Sun, 05 May 2013 14:07:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> /home/user/mypg_backups/2013/May/Sun/pg_all-13:54.gz: No such file or > >> directory > >> > >> So, it is expanding the variables properly, but apparently won

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/5/5 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:44:11PM +, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. > for > > some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying on > > sda10, on an LVM-PV. Tod

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

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-05 2:18 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:> On Sun, 05 May 2013 14:07:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> /home/user/mypg_backups/2013/May/Sun/pg_all-13:54.gz: No such file or >> directory >> >> So, it is expanding the variables properly, but apparently won't >> automatically create the directories?

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

2013-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 05 May 2013 14:07:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > /home/user/mypg_backups/2013/May/Sun/pg_all-13:54.gz: No such file or > directory > > So, it is expanding the variables properly, but apparently won't > automatically create the directories? Is there some kind of flag I can > add to the co

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

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, some of those variables were wrong (copy pasted from my first brain-dead attempt)... I now have a rudimentary bash script with contents: #!/bin/bash BACKUP_DIR="/home/user/mypg_backups" PGUSER="superuser" PGtt=`date '+%H:%M'` PGhr=`date '+%H'` PGdd=`date '+%a'` PGmm=`date '+%b'` PGyy=`date

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

2013-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/05/2013 18:56, Tanstaafl wrote: > Ok, another little thing... > > Is there a simple way to use date/time variables in cronjobs? Or do I > need to use a bash script for this? I prefer simple, and just using the > variables directly in the cron command would be easier if it works, so > figured

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

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-05 1:07 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 05 May 2013 17:56:33 Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, another little thing... Is there a simple way to use date/time variables in cronjobs? Or do I need to use a bash script for this? I prefer simple, and just using the variables directly in the cron command wo

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

2013-05-05 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 May 2013 17:56:33 Tanstaafl wrote: > Ok, another little thing... > > Is there a simple way to use date/time variables in cronjobs? Or do I > need to use a bash script for this? I prefer simple, and just using the > variables directly in the cron command would be easier if it works, so

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

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, another little thing... Is there a simple way to use date/time variables in cronjobs? Or do I need to use a bash script for this? I prefer simple, and just using the variables directly in the cron command would be easier if it works, so figured I'd ask first... I'm trying to schedule a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:44:11PM +, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. for > some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying on > sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during recov

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.05.2013 16:44, schrieb Randolph Maaßen: > Hi, > > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in > Parralel. for some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base > system was lying on sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to > start and during recovery its diskpart m

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/05/2013 16:44, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. > for some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying > on sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during > recovery its diskpart mu

Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

2013-05-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Tanstaafl [130504 16:18]: > On 2013-05-04 3:27 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 04/05/2013 18:52, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Ok, I have msmpt installed and working just fine. > >> > >> Now, all of a sudden, emerge -pvuDN world wants to install mailx. > >> > >> equery depends mailx says rkhunter is pu

[gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Randolph Maaßen
Hi, I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. for some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying on sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during recovery its diskpart must have deleted the information about the 10th partition

Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-05 5:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: All you seem to be dealing with is what looks like a incomplete list of providers for virtual/mailx. Portage won't consider msmtp as satisfying that need as the ebuild for virtual/mailx does not list msmtp. Your options: - install mail-client/mailx,

SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

2013-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-04 7:46 PM, Thanasis wrote: on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following: Oh... ok, well, now I'm just wondering why it decided to install it all of a sudden... mail-client/mailx : The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail via shell scripts mail-mta/ssmtp: Extrem

Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

2013-05-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sat, 04 May 2013 18:15:20 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl : > On 2013-05-04 6:01 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: > > I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of mailx is > > mail-client and not mail-mta (or "net-mail", as you wrote). > > mail-client/mailx is > > simply a command line ema

Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

2013-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/05/2013 22:17, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-05-04 3:27 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 04/05/2013 18:52, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Ok, I have msmpt installed and working just fine. >>> >>> Now, all of a sudden, emerge -pvuDN world wants to install mailx. >>> >>> equery depends mailx says rkhunter is