On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake
> RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a
> year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Stefan Husmann
wrote:
> Well, there are possible workaraonds in the comments of the bug report.
>
> Regards Stefan
Yeah I couldn't get them to work so I was super disappointed because I
don't want to use Debian but I need a PostgreSQL server ASAP and can't
wait fo
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Byron Clark wrote:
> On 09/10/10 at 01:00pm, Carlos Mennens wrote:
>> Anyone know what I am doing wrong? This is a brand new server and
>> fresh install of both Arch & PostgreSQL.
>
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16507
Wow - I just ch
When I installed the latest version of PostgreSQL today, I attempted
to start the daemon so I could login and start creating databases but
received the following error:
[r...@buster ~]# /etc/rc.d/postgresql start
:: Starting PostgreSQL
[BUSY] su: warning: cannot change direct
I have read on Google searches and on all over so many different ways
to properly set a FQDN on Arch Linux and am more confused than I was
before I started looking this up. I don't ever get prompted during the
Arch installer to enter a 'hostname' but rather do so in /etc/rc.conf
which appears to ma
I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake
RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a
year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it
failed and then I tried it again and read between the lines...
mdadm: Note: this array has met
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Phillip Thelen wrote:
> Have you tried adding this to your .bashrc?
>
> alias ls='ls --color=auto'
>
> basically just tells bash to execute "ls --color=auto" instead of just ls.
>
> Hope that helps you ;)
Right now I only have a 'root' user and no normal shell us
It's very frustrating in Arch that my directories[blue], text
files[white], tarballs[red], symbolic links[blue], and scripts[green]
are all the same color. How can I colorize this in bash so my Arch
Linux system is much easier to sort through?
I checked the Wiki and only found something about colo
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 16.06.2010 20:23, schrieb Guilherme M. Nogueira:
>> With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format:
>>
>> fdisk /dev/sdb
>> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1
>>
>> and then to name the partition:
>>
>> mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb
>
> Then (for mlabel)
I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up
as "USBDRIVE" on my system.
I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the
'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as
"ocz_usb"?
I do not appear to have the tools installed on my Ar
I did a update / upgrade today and noticed that there was a new kernel
installed so I rebooted my Arch workstation. Sadly I no longer have
any audio in Gnome via flash plugin. I checked and made sure I am a
member of the 'audio' group if that matters...I am.
I don't know if sound was broken before
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dave Morgan
wrote:
> Wiki? I'm sure there must be something in there.
I just got back from vacation. Don't know why I didn't think about the
Wiki. Duh...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning
How do I create a bootable install disk from an .ISO image I
downloaded from the Arch site? I would like to know how to do this via
CLI only rather than using a front end GUI like Gnome Baker, K3B, or
Brasero. Does anyone know the command to burn the image to disk via
CLI and what packages I must h
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
> I switched
> to gnomebaker/xfburn and everything worked fine.
Ahhh...GnomeBaker is only in AUR...that stinks :(
I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user
'carlos' to the 'optical' group. However when I try and copy a disk on
my machine, I get an immediate error that says it fails. Then when I
save the log, it's blank. It has no details as to why the copy failed.
Anyone know what I
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ionut Biru wrote:
> as for your information, nothing is installed automatically without
> informing you. when you did pacman -S gnome (gnome is a group of packages)
> it listed all packages that it will installed and answering Y will do that.
> If you do answer N
Thanks all! It's working on my system looks amazing!
I just installed a fresh system today with Gnome 2.6.30. It
automatically installed Epiphany & Epiphany Web Bookmarks too. I would
like to know if I remove both of these applications, will I effect
Gnome or any of it's dependancies? I wont ever use Epiphany and I
don't like useless applications lin
I recently installed the nvidia driver from 'Pacman' and rebooted. I
have not since updated / upgraded the kernel. I notice that when I try
and open my 'nVidia X Server Config' window and it tells me:
You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X
configuration file.
I look
Is there any suggestion on Arch Linux running Gnome 2.6.30 to improve
the crisp / clearness of my fonts? I installed the latest available
nVidia drivers & under 'Appearance' > 'Fonts' > 'Details', I show the
following:
* Resolution: 98 dots per square inch.
* Smoothing: Subpixel (LCD)
* Hinting: S
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Lukas Fleischer
wrote:
> How did you install X? All those packages get installed automatically if
> you install X via `pacman -S xorg` as described in the wiki [1].
>
> [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Installing
I didn't install X on the server. It's
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer
wrote:
> You need to install sdl if you want to use the VirtualBox GUI, have a
> look at the optional deps.
I installed that and yes I want to use the GUI but its dependency
after dependency and it doesn't seem to end...
Is there no way just to i
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira
wrote:
> It seems to me that you are not familiar with AUR, are you?
No, I have never used until today. Which is why I am posting back.
> If not, you should read the wiki about it [1] and after that, have a
> look at the virtualbox_bin packa
I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st
time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not
clear on:
Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is
simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can
be any direc
I am really needing to install VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) on my Arch 64-bit
machine. I noticed that there is obviously no official download for
Arch specifically on their site. I then checked Pacman and it appears
there is only a OSE (Open Source Addition) available
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote:
> Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
> gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
> connect to Cisco switches without any problem.
I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My on
Guys,
I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to
connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom
utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial
device is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0 or maybe it already knows & I just
don't know
I just installed Firefox from Pacman repositories and noticed that I
don't have the default add-on spell checker for Mozilla Firefox. I was
afraid to download some crappy 3rd party spell checker add-on for
Firefox and just wanted a plain English spell checker since I am the
worst speller. Can anyon
I noticed today when editing a config file for Postfix in Vim that one
value was listed in white text only and everything else was in color.
This lead me to beleive the value or parameter was wrong or not being
recognized by Postfix configuration but it is. I asked Postfix and the
said:
"Your VIM
I had two questions about using the AUR. I have never done it before
and read of the How-To on the Wiki but could someone please answer the
following two questions I have:
1. If I build a tarball on 'PC1' downloaded from AUR with the 'makepkg
-s' command, can I then transfer the created tarball to
I don't understand this issue so I am posting this here. I noticed
today that I had an issue with restarting MySQL on my server:
1. I verify MySQL is not running:
Code:
[r...@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld"
root 1706 1216 0 16:45 pts/000:00:00 grep --color=auto -i mysqld
2. I sta
I today installed Apache on my Arch Linux server. I did the following:
# pacman -S php apache php-apache mcrypt pcre
Then I edited the /etc/php/php.ini file & un-commented the following:
[...]
extension=mcrypt.so
extension=mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so
;extension=odbc.so
;extension=openssl.so
;ex
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Louis Brazeau wrote:
> You can use the RAID/LVM article on the wiki :
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Software_RAID_or_LVM#Partition_the_Hard_Drives
>
> I used it in the past to setup a few systems with RAID and with or
> without LVM. So its
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Louis Brazeau wrote:
> You are aware that if sda breaks, you loose the /boot partition and
> you can't boot anymore ? I would suggest creating a 100MB /boot
> partition on all 3 disks as a RAID 1 (4GB for boot is over kill IMHO).
> That way you can loose any disk a
I wanted to know if I configure my three identical disks as followed:
- sda1 = /boot @ 4GB
- sda2 = RAID @ 300GB
- sdb1 = Swap @ 4GB
- sdb2 = RAID @ 300GB
- sdc1 = Swap @ 4GB
- sdc2 = RAID @ 300GB
Now when I am done configuring RAID, will Arch Linux show I have 8GB
of Swap space total under a t
Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by
downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should
I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually
installing packages and should always use Pacman.
Thoughts / Suggestions?
-Carlos
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On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Snarkout
wrote:
> There are many options besides amavisd - mimedefang comes immediately to
> mind. If you're using postfix or sendmail, google milter.
Yes. I have only ever used Postfix for MTA. I will check out 'milter'.
I just don't see how you can use ClamAV on a MTA w/o Amavisd-new. I
thought Amavisd-new was the daemon that allows email to be passed from
SMTP to ClamAV and vice versa...that's why I can't believe more people
don't use it.
On 3/5/10, Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5
I know I can download packages from AUR but I really could not believe
that 'amavisd-new' is not in 'Community'. I would think this tool for
email / virus scanning would be popular enough to be voted into
'Community' repo. Does anyone have any idea what is holding this
software back from getting vo
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