[gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

I feel like I should be able to solve this one, but it started after my last world update so maybe someone else has had a similar problem. We have a ruby script called 'mailshears' on our mail server that cleans up orphaned users and domains every night. The main script, /root/src/mailshear

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

On 08/11/2010 03:16 PM, Bill Longman wrote: What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking? No direct answer, sorry, Michael. You might want to use: /bin/bash -l -x -c /root/src/mailshears/bin/m

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphite causing trouble

On 01/05/12 11:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2012 15:56:41 I wrote: > >> On Thursday 05 January 2012 15:14:17 I wrote: >> > I still get the same errors. What can I try next? >> > >> What I did try was revdep-rebuild. The only package it wanted to rebuild >> was krita, so I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphite causing trouble

On 01/06/12 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > To get things compiling I removed all signs of graphite. I'm not sure > whether it's worth the trouble of putting it back in again. Thoughts, > anyone? > On the one hand, it's kind of fun and educational to have something break in a novel way so that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is it possible to move from hardened profile?

On 01/14/2012 04:56 PM, walt wrote: On 01/14/2012 01:05 PM, czernitko wrote: Hello, I wonder whether it is possible to convert hardened desktop box into box with non-hardened profile? I guess I would have to recompile world with vanilla compiler (no hardening) and compile gentoo-sources kernel (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is it possible to move from hardened profile?

On 01/15/2012 08:36 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Virtualization is iffy if you're not careful which options you enable in the kernel. I've been meaning to as a similar (but reverse) question - which I'll do in a separate thread later, but... Your reference to 'virtualizationis iffy' above... do you

Re: [gentoo-user] RUBYOPT="-rauto_gem"

On 01/15/2012 05:24 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, The dev-ruby/rubygems ebuild adds "-rauto_gem" to the global RUBYOPT. This breaks my own scripts so I have removed it from /etc/env.d. So far, so good. I just tried upgrading dev-ruby/json and it failed because I did not have RUBYOPT set. Ob

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

On 01/20/12 18:58, Grant wrote: >> OK, so the install is old and portage has dependencies, right? >> >> emerge -pvDuN portage >> >> will get you closer. However this is probably best covered using >> Neil's suggestion of >> >> emerge -pvDuN @system > > I can't even get started: > Do you have som

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

On 01/20/2012 07:12 PM, Grant wrote: If the machine is running linux, then 'watch "lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680"' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user and (possibly) PID of the connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

On 01/20/2012 09:42 PM, Grant wrote: # emerge -avDuN system [snip] !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20081028" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r1 (masked by: EAPI 4) - sys-auth/pambas

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

On 01/20/2012 11:48 PM, Grant wrote: You don't have to do the entire stage3 at once, http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ has precompiled packages for the major arches and profiles. You could try to replace just pambase, pam, python, etc. -- whatever's giving you trouble. This was not my first

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

On 01/22/2012 12:54 PM, Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993 '>> mystery.log;

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

On 01/22/2012 02:29 PM, Grant wrote: Since my local firewall is rejecting the outbound requests, the time elapsed between the request and the block should be very short. Is it possible the 'sleep 1' portion of the script is causing the failure to log the connection request? The outbound connec

Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] distcc - amd64 and x86

On 02/05/2012 01:46 PM, Dale wrote: It does the same for portages work space too. I have portages work directory on tmpfs and I always have to mount with the size=12g option so that LOo will even start. Thing is, it rarely uses more than 4Gbs or so. Is there a way to disable this mess? I got

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

On 02/05/2012 03:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You cannot trust the commented examples in rc.conf to be the defaults. I reckon they are just that - typical examples. If you search through rc.conf for the word "default" you find quite a few cases where the text says what the default is and the exa

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for set files

On 02/07/12 15:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:46:04 -0600 > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >>> Anyone know a link to documentation on what the syntax is in >>> portage's set files? I once had a skimpy doc (since lost) that >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" > wrote: >> >> > > >> > > The need: a VPN client that: >> > > + can selectively send packets fulfilling a criteria (in this > case, dest= >> > > IP address of internal server)* >> >> As f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

On 02/10/12 13:05, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > No, no, no. What I meant was running TCP and UDP *on top of* OpenVPN > (which uses UDP). > > HAproxy seems to be able to perform its magic with TCP connections. > I was about to say that we use it over UDP, but... we don't. We have a small number of cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

On 02/10/12 13:36, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > UDP is recommended, references[1] are easy to google. Why we're running > it over TCP I don't know. I must have had a good reason =) Oh my school blocks outgoing UDP. Running on TCP/443 allows me to connect from their network.

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in > i-node order. If this is fed into tar or cpio nearly no seeks are > required during copying. What makes you think the inodes are sequential on-disk? > But it's correctness for ba

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

On 02/16/12 22:47, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, "Grant" > wrote: >> >> I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way >> to get in touch with a good person for the job? >> >> - Grant >> Diego seems to be mad about the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

On 02/19/12 11:02, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-02-18, Grant wrote: > >> I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm >> loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from >> thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. > > mutt > I loved mutt,

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it > could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just clicking on > "Accept" on every site is about the stupidest thing you can do. > > I'm unsure how the warning looks when y

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

On 02/27/12 13:43, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Just a small follow-up: A neat server-sided trick I didn't know until > now is HTTP Strict Transport Security [1]. It prevents users from > clicking away SSL warnings and prevents mixed content. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transpo

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

On 03/03/2012 03:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: 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... N

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

On 03/06/12 13:32, Grant wrote: > I've been checking this daily for a while: > > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml > > but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have > installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world > daily, do I need to check o

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Re: PATCH: "postfix start" master initialization status

On 03/07/12 10:24, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > when this patch is going to get into the portage?? > thanks > Eliezer It looks like Eray applied it to postfix-2.10_pre20120305-r1, in the tree right now.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic?

On 03/14/12 14:23, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > my question might seem silly, but I have reason for it: > I have heard there is way to auto-reboot linux after kernel > panic using "kernel.panic=" in /etc/sysctl.conf. > > This might come handy as my server is far from me and I do > not have any remote c

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache upgrade to 2.4 error AH00027: Buggy authn provider failed to set user

On 04/03/12 02:40, Adam Carter wrote: > I've just upgraded to 2.4 and am using mod_access_compat, so I can use > the existing auth config in the short term. I've fixed a few things > and now the daemon loads cleanly, however, when i try to get the > anonymously available front page, it returns a 50

Re: [gentoo-user] *Simple* guide to implementing digest-auth combined with IP based whitelist?

On 04/03/12 15:06, Tanstaafl wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with RAID1

On 04/19/12 14:20, Mike Diehl wrote: > > My question is, "which one?" Usually I get a [UU] on a good RAID, and an _ > for the failed drive. That would indicate that sda3 has failed. However, > sdb3 is marked with an (F), which I've never seen before. > > Which drive should I replace? You

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used > to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. > > I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings > back the old beh

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

On 04/19/12 16:40, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Thanks, that's a nice one. But can I expect this command to be available > per default on typical Linux distributions? Some other systems I have > access to have it, but here on Gentoo it belongs to sys-apps/iproute2, > which depends on nothing I have in

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

On 04/23/12 09:21, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > strange error when trying to start postgres. > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start > * Caching ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

On 04/23/12 11:44, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: >> >> You can `su postgres` and then try to read the files yourself. That >> should reveal the problem. >> > > Interestingly I can't `su postgres` even though I have set it a shell, > thanks for the tip though, I'm getting closer! You can also try `

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

On 04/24/12 05:31, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:27:22AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: >> nap...@squareownz.org writes: >> >>> Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it >>> postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss her

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch restriction bypass

On 04/30/12 14:20, james wrote: > Hello, > > OK so I have java that I must use, but it is > "fetch restricted" becasue of Oracle being > an a_hole. > > However, I do not have time to manually bypass the fetch restrction > every time the file needs to be updated, as I manage > too many different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fetch restriction bypass

On 04/30/12 14:50, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:42 PM, James wrote: >> Michael Mol gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> Use a network-mounted distfiles directory on a common file server? >>> That way, once you've downloaded it once, for any system, the package >>> is right there for the

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch restriction bypass

On 04/30/12 14:44, Michael Mol wrote: > > Does the ebuild for portage support user-supplied patches? > It doesn't look like it, but you can always hack it with, post_src_unpack() { cd "${S}" epatch_user } in your ~/.bashrc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fetch restriction bypass

On 04/30/12 14:45, James wrote: > Michael Orlitzky orlitzky.com> writes: > > >> You'll have to script something. > > OK? Any examples or pseudo code > that outlines how to do this? > > Surely, it's been done before? > > maybe something in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fetch restriction bypass

On 04/30/2012 02:45 PM, James wrote: > Michael Orlitzky orlitzky.com> writes: > > >> You'll have to script something. > I gave this a serious shot, but it's not easy. First, you can override the ebuild environment: $ cat /etc/portage/bashrc if [ "${EB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fetch restriction bypass

On 04/30/2012 09:40 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > And, the cookies don't get set in a normal HTTP request. For this to make sense, you probably want to read, "HTML request."

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So > far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it > doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of > comment people give is that this shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote: > So /etc/profile contains the following message: > > # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user > # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/. > export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano} > export PAGE

Re: [gentoo-user] gem install linecache19 fails

On 05/16/12 08:57, 1126 wrote: > Hello, > > I do need the ruby-gem linecache19-0.5.12. Usually, there are two ways to > install a gem, right? Via emerge and via gem install. But here, only one way > works. dev-ruby/linecache only builds the > ruby18-version > of > this gem, so I'm stuck with

Re: [gentoo-user] Outgoing emails don't seem to be encrypted with TLS through

On 05/18/12 13:32, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > postfix Reply-To: > > All of my incoming emails are coming through postfix, eg that last > email left this beauty in the log: postfix/smtpd[13698]: Anonymous > TLS connection established from pigeon.gentoo.org[208.92.234.80]: > TLSv1 with cipher AE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Understanding new ruby dependencies

On 05/22/2012 09:10 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > How was I supposed to learn the "proper" way of dealing with this > RUBY-related system change? The way I learned was by watching the emerge output: $ emerge -pv dev-ruby/rails These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calc

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

On 05/27/2012 05:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You need an existing development house with a reputation to uphold, > located in the same city as you. Without getting into the (book-length) details, I'll +1 this.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

On 05/29/12 09:58, Michael Mol wrote: > > I'd probably suggest reading The Mythical Man-Month. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month > > As long as we're suggesting books, this is one of my favorites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

On 05/29/12 06:26, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > - hardened-sources: the neccessary gcc-plugins don't work because they > can't find the right symbols because gcc-4.7 is normally compiled with > g++ which mangles the symbols. Don't know how to work around that, > though it seems to be possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?

On 06/01/12 10:19, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > If after all this you are still getting the .pulse directory in /, > then I have no idea how is getting in there. > > Regards. Maybe it isn't the reboot that's triggering it. In my crontab, I have, HOME=/ Maybe a cron job (running as root) is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} online documents, create/manage/display

On 06/06/12 11:32, Grant wrote: > What would you guys recommend for something in portage or an overlay > which will allow me to create and manage documents in a browser, and > display those documents to authenticated users in a browser? apache2 > could handle the authentication and display. Hopef

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screenshot but as video ?

On 06/06/12 13:26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an application with which I can grab videos > from what I am doing on my desktop (will be used for a kind > of tutorial). The video should be playable under windows also. > > > What is a recommended application for that pur

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

On 06/09/2012 05:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2012 22:01:08 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >>> $ cat .htaccess >>> RewriteEngine on >>> >>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tideswellmvc.co.uk/.*$ >>> [NC] RewriteCond %{H

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

On 06/10/2012 09:58 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > If you want to allow overrides in an htaccess, you'll need at least, > > > Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > AllowOverride FileInfo Options > > > in the main config or your vhost config. > Ugh.

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

On 06/11/12 12:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: > OK, I've added that to 00_default_settings.conf. I'm not sure whether I > need rewrites though. > Your htaccess had some rewrite rules, that's why I suggested it. > The fog is beginning to clear. Thanks. > > I still can't get server-side includes to

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

On 06/11/2012 07:30 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate >> this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. > > Alex, > > Yes this is correct. I see now I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

On 06/12/2012 12:29 AM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Michael, > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: >> Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and >> lets you decide. Either, > > Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding a use flag: hwdb

On 06/12/12 05:45, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > you really shouldn't complain about being given choices... > > > I apologize, it was no my intention to complain. In the future I will > make a decision and not complain. Thank you to everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] iftop and 'ipv6' USE-flag

On 06/13/12 05:11, v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello! > During a recent upgrade, I noticed that 'net-analyzer/iftop' now > needs 'net-libs/libpcap' with the 'ipv6' USE flag. It seemed strange to > me and I decided to ask here. Does 'iftop' really needs IPv6? Can't it > be optional? It's an upstream

Re: [gentoo-user] iftop and 'ipv6' USE-flag

On 06/13/12 12:02, v...@ukr.net wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:11:45 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> It's an upstream bug, if they consider it one. From the Gentoo >> ChangeLog: >> ... >> > Hm... That's bad. > Agreed. I reported it u

Re: [gentoo-user] the xen-source on gentoo

On 06/16/12 21:35, 赵佳晖 wrote: > I want to install the xen on gentoo . But i find the xen-source > version is 2.6.38 . So i don't want to use it. Can i use my > gentoo-source 3.2.12 with a patch? > "Linux 3.0 (and later) can run as guest (domU) and as host (dom0). All necessary backends (and fron

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: > I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For > reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers > that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, > libbonobo and libbonoboui. > > I edited the autoconf.in to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: >> >> Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. > > Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) > > git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin > Well, I basically recreated this: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

On 06/19/12 21:03, walt wrote: > > Thanks. Is your bug report with gentoo or xfce.org? > > I notice that the git repo has commits as recently as last month. > Maybe some heroic xfce dev will update the package to gnome3 for > me :) > I didn't open one; I searched for closed 'xfapplet' bugs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

On 06/24/2012 01:47 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > # Added by PRH: > AddType text/html .shtml > AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml > > Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Includes +IncludesNoExec > > > ... > > That is indeed my working guide. Many thanks for your help so far. No problem. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

On 06/25/2012 07:36 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Good guess, but no cigar :-) > > I think (hope) I've found it: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apache2/Virtual_Hosts > makes it clear that a subdomain's definition must /precede/ the domain's > definition. I was doing it the other way around, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

On 06/26/12 10:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > One decision that will have consequences is where in /var/www to put > mysite. Should it be in /var/www/mysite/htdocs, in > /var/www/localhost/mysite or in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mysite? What > I've read so far suggests that it doesn't matter, but

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

On 06/29/12 10:57, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> No, handbook only discusses grub (not grub2) and lilo. >> >> Which is sad; I'd love to use stuff like grub2 and {ext,sys}linux. >> It'd be sweet to make things more easily convertible to netboot or >> cdrom-boot scenarios. > > We will add some instructi

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert > a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =)

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

On 02/13/2011 11:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm curious about setting up my compute server to monitor RAID > array status and have it email me information at my GMail account. > Does anyone have info on setting this up on Gentoo? In general I'm > following: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

On 02/13/2011 01:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'll read through the links you posted to look at creating a test > case. From the page you posted above I'm trying this at the command > line: > > mdadm --monitor --mail=markkne...@gmail.com --delay=1800 /dev/md126 > > but I assume you think it won

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

On 02/13/2011 01:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I think I'm there except maybe for kicking off some sort of regular > tests of the arrays vs waiting for things to fail. Any mdadm test is going to pass up until the point that it doesn't, which is when you'd get the alert email anyway =) If you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

On 02/25/2011 08:13 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > Is the link below the best "howto" guide as to using > an existing ebuild to hack a new ebuild? JFFNMS has > been languishing despite repeated requests for a version > bump; so I'm taking the plunge and going to update it > on one of my systems

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

On 03/01/11 13:56, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > is there any way to move running (already started) process > to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal > so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? > > Sometimes I start updating my server, but it keeps running > for long time, an

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

On 03/01/11 16:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:12:31 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> (I'll do an ebuild for reptyr in the next week or so if nobody beats me >> to it.) > > It looks like somebody already has :) > > % eix reptyr >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

On 03/15/2011 02:05 PM, Grant wrote: > A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a > fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my > laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in > real trouble. Will I be able to switch back

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

On 03/15/2011 03:20 PM, Grant wrote: >>> A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a >>> fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my >>> laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in >>> real trouble. Will I be able to swit

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

On 03/15/2011 04:28 PM, Grant wrote: > A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a > fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my > laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in > real trouble. Will I be able

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

On 04/06/2011 07:45 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > When I run qemu -no-kvm things work as expected under hardened kernel. > Using regular kernel (none hardened) qemu works ok. > So, the problem is running qemu under hardened kernel. > > If someone have some input, I'll be happy to hear it. > I am a l

[gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD

Has anyone successfully set up a Gentoo/FBSD system in the somewhat-recent past? I'd like to do some testing, but all of the install docs are out of date. I'd appreciate a thirty-second overview of how you did it.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] PHP memory problem

On 04/13/2011 02:42 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > I know this is Off-topic but I also know there are a lot of smart people > "lurking" on this list. > > I have a PHP-script that does not run from a web-server but directly in a > shell. When I run it I get the following error: > > # ./dj.php > PHP

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD

On 04/14/2011 10:38 AM, Fredrik Andersson wrote: > Is the Handbook outdated? I dont know if I have ever seen it be out of > date.. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/ > The handbook is fine, but doesn't cover the FreeBSD install. I was almost able to do it by finding a FreeBSD 8.x live CD

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] PHP memory problem

On 04/15/2011 11:26 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2011 03.12:34 Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 04/13/2011 02:42 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: >>> I know this is Off-topic but I also know there are a lot of smart people >>> "lurking" on this list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-Rebuild md RAID Arrays?

On 04/19/11 17:05, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: > Hello All, > > I am in the research phase of building a Gentoo-based backup/NAS target > using md software RAID or (maybe) btrfs or zfs. One thing that I am not > finding much info about is any facility for automatically rebuilding an > array when a ne

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update > (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new > packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv > to check for dangling

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

On 04/20/2011 12:15 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mailto:mich...@orlitzky.com>> wrote: > > On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I've been having a strange issue ever

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

On 04/26/11 10:31, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Why I love this list in one thread. > > Anyway, just an update on the situation. As far as I can tell, this > 'you have no world file' error only shows up when i'm doing a > --depclean. Also, it is intermittent. Right now, -pcv works just fine > and re

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Script to crack gpg passphrase

On 04/28/2011 10:04 AM, Mick wrote: > This finds the passphrase and prints it out on the terminal. However, its > success depends on the dictionary file I use. Also, it's not particularly > fast ... > > Any idea how I can create a dictionary file? I've used apg but it's > too random. :-) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] rdate stopped working, and I just upgraded to baselayout 2

On 05/11/2011 08:09 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Mick wrote > >> I recall that not all ntp servers respond to rdate - perhaps the >> server(s) you tried have changed their configuration? > > Finally found one... nist1-ny.ustiming.org > > I'm in Toronto C

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle > plan. > > Among the 8 attempts, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 09:25 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source > /etc/profile && env-update`. > > > AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years > on two different systems. > > The OP's probably appears to b

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle > plan. > > Among the 8 attempts, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 09:43 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs >> from >> my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/han

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow

On 05/20/2011 08:49 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine. For a few > seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as > expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the point of seeing the > image being rendered in slow motion, a row at a time

Re: [gentoo-user] Where be the hardened Stage3?

On 06/03/11 09:28, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Anyone knows why current-stage3/ no longer has the hardened stage3 tarballs? > > Rgds, Try this for now? http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

Nobody wants portage to delete modified config files. Some people might think they do, but they don't: they just don't know it yet. See also: condoms, seatbelts.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where be the hardened Stage3?

On 06/03/2011 01:01 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where be the hardened > Stage3? From: Michael Orlitzky Date: > 2011-06-03 23:05 > >> On 06/03/11 09:28, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> Anyone knows why current-stage3/ no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion

On 06/14/11 11:46, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > What is the difference of > USE=loop-aes > and > USE=crypt? > > Why are the versions oscillate that way? > > HELP ! :) > > Thank you very much for any hint in advance!:) Maybe helpful: http://dev.c1pher.net/index.php/2011/06/loop-aes-should-i

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

On 07/03/2011 09:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I'm just wondering... > > I'm implementing an email gateway using postfix. The gateway lives as > a VM in my ISP, and it will deliver 'accepted' emails to the company's > email server which lives in the DMZ. The email server's port is > shifted to a no

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