Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 07:40:04 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > What does > > xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? It doesn't return anything on the terminal I launch it from, but decrypts the file in an xterm and then closes it (the xterm). So the gpg part work

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

=== On Mon, 03/15, Steve wrote: === > Any hints or tips? === I recommend setting up your server hardware on a decent mini-PC with server grade disks and installing openfiler. The openfiler uses XFS for local storage and exports NFS and CIFS (and iSCSI if you want that). http://www.openfiler.com

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

On 17 March 2010 13:00, Roy Wright wrote: > > I just started with the example at: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Syslog-ng > > HTH, > Roy Thanks Roy, however they have the same syntax which isn't working on my side. filter f_shorewall { not match("regex" value("Shorewall")); } I just tried a

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

On 17 Mar 2010, at 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 22:26:28 Alex Schuster wrote: Yes screen is quite essential. It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. I don't know how I managed in my youth without a washing machine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > usually always look to see if ... Sorry, but I'm having terrible trouble parsing this expression. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 22:26:28 Alex Schuster wrote: > Yes screen is quite essential. It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

> 1. Are there reliability issues surrounding this technology in Gentoo? My only experience is with a Gentoo-based iSCSI target (ie. "server"); my clients are windows-based. The system is a low-end Core 2 duo running the latest stable kernel and Iscsi Enterprise Target; I have been running this se

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone here worked out how to filter out syslog messages using syslog-ng > v3? The old syntax doesn't work (well complains bitterly about performance > and says to use regex), and no matter what I try I cannot get the new synt

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

Hi all, Has anyone here worked out how to filter out syslog messages using syslog-ng v3? The old syntax doesn't work (well complains bitterly about performance and says to use regex), and no matter what I try I cannot get the new syntax to work :-/ I have a syslog-ng server which logs to MySQL for

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

Stroller writes: > On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote: > > ... > > I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value > > in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10. > > If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, which is not that much. > > I do

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10. If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, which is not that much. I don't *think* the default is as low

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

Stroller writes: > I'm going to assume that you're not being facetious, however I'm > amazed you don't know `screen`. Everyone should know `screen`! It's > amazing, and I can't believe that if you had tried it then you > wouldn't have it installed. I sure you'll wonder how you lived without > it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:15:45 -0500, Dale wrote: That isn't just my opinion either. It worked for a lot of people but for some, it just plain failed to do its thing. I know, but you're the only one to make a career out of it :) I didn't bring hal up. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 16:35:09 Leandro Boscariol wrote: > Hi Mick. > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 19:26, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 12 March 2010 19:37:33 Leandro Boscariol wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > > > > > While trying to find a solution for this error: > > > > > > (EE) XKB: No components provide

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:15:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > That isn't just my opinion either. It worked for a lot of people but > for some, it just plain failed to do its thing. I know, but you're the only one to make a career out of it :) -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live signa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:13:29 +, Stroller wrote: > >> How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? > > > > You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its > > own. > > Is this reliable? I don't contest it, I'm just asking. It's just this > was one of my c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On 16/03/2010 19:57, Stroller wrote: > How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? The one > you have grub on? I think you mentioned a flash drive, which I've seen > mentioned before. This seems sound, but just to point out that's > another, different, single point of failure. Well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 21:13:29 Stroller wrote: > On 16 Mar 2010, at 20:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +, Stroller wrote: > >> How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? > > > > You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own.

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:29 -0500, Dale wrote: Funny thing is, I don't bring up hal, everyone else does. ;-) You bring it down :P Actually, it sort of did that itself. It broke my rig. I don't take to much of a liking to something that is broke. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On 16 Mar 2010, at 20:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +, Stroller wrote: How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own. Is this reliable? I don't contest it, I'm just asking. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +, Stroller wrote: > How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own. -- Neil Bothwick Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!! signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:29 -0500, Dale wrote: > Funny thing is, I don't bring up hal, everyone else does. ;-) You bring it down :P -- Neil Bothwick Bang on the LEFT side of your computer to restart Windows signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On 16 Mar 2010, at 16:32, Steve wrote: ... Given the point above I would also stick with software RAID. ... If reliability is your primary concern, I would go for a simple RAID1 setup; Absolutely. Software raid is cheaper and implies less hardware to fail. Similarly, RAID1 minimises the to

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 20:38:28 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:33:13 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if > > HAL is mentioned :-) > > It's reasonable to assume that if he hasn't been involved in such a > thr

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:33:13 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned :-) It's reasonable to assume that if he hasn't been involved in such a thread, he soon will be :) Funn

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

On 15 Mar 2010, at 20:46, David W Noon wrote: ... Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult to read as it scrolls past. I much prefer the cron daemon or at daemon to send me the output as email, so I can scroll backwards and forwards through it at my leisure. `ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

James Ausmus wrote: equery b /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules r...@smoker ~ # equery b /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules * Searching for /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules ... sys-power/nut-2.4.1-r1 (/lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules) r...@smoker ~ # I am emerging nut again and

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:33:13 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if > HAL is mentioned :-) It's reasonable to assume that if he hasn't been involved in such a thread, he soon will be :) -- Neil Bothwick The three Rs of Micro

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Dale wrote: > Mar 16 01:55:54 smoker udevd[1275]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future > udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to > match a parent device, in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules:42 Have you checked to see w

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > > > > > > Have you tried Mutt (s

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > > > > Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? > > > > Not if it uses HAL :) > > > Hells to the no. > > I u

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

Hi Mick. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 19:26, Mick wrote: > On Friday 12 March 2010 19:37:33 Leandro Boscariol wrote: > > Hi guys. > > > > While trying to find a solution for this error: > > > > (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard > > > > I came along with a lot of people

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

On 15/03/2010 22:29, Andrea Conti wrote: > This IMHO pretty much rules out any kind of server-class hardware, which > tends to be both costly and power-hungry. If you're thinking about > buying used stuff, be sure to factor in the cost and difficulty of > finding spares in some years' time. > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > > Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? > > Not if it uses HAL :) > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline! Hells to the no. I use m

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? Not if it uses HAL :) -- Neil Bothwick I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Philip Webb wrote: 100316 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: In *nix, no output means no error, so it looks like you've already fixed it :) Actually, I have two problems. The error plus this stinking Seamonkey 2 sending blank messages. Have you tried Mutt (smile) ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

100316 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> In *nix, no output means no error, >> so it looks like you've already fixed it :) > Actually, I have two problems. The error > plus this stinking Seamonkey 2 sending blank messages. Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:30:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Now to go beat up Seamonkey a little bit. Given the amount of trouble is causes, is it really worth the effort? There are plenty of good email programs out there. I think it is a problem from it transferring

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:30:19 -0500, Dale wrote: > Now to go beat up Seamonkey a little bit. Given the amount of trouble is causes, is it really worth the effort? There are plenty of good email programs out there. -- Neil Bothwick Use Colgate toothpaste or end up with teeth like a Ferengi. s

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:15:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Mar 16 01:55:54 smoker udevd[1275]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules:42 There

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:15:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > Mar 16 01:55:54 smoker udevd[1275]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a > future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or > ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, > in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules:42 > > There are more but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:42:57 -0500, Dale wrote: In *nix, no output means no error, so it looks like you've already fixed it :) Actually, I have two problems. The error plus this stinking Seamonkey 2 sending blank messages. I'm headed to the shop to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

Dirk Uys wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Dale > wrote: Guess it's a keyboard error? Regards d Actually this is a Seamonkey error. Seamonkey 1 doesn't work with some sites, banking mostly, and Seamonkey 2 just loves to send blanks emails to mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:42:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > In *nix, no output means no error, so it looks like you've already fixed it :) -- Neil Bothwick "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Dale wrote: > Guess it's a keyboard error? Regards d

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:00:21 +, David W Noon wrote: > >As do the log files in $PORT_LOGDIR, they contain exactly the same > >output you would see in the terminal. > > Not quite. The sequence in which the ebuilds were run is lost when the > discrete logs are your only source of tracing thro

[gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

[gentoo-user] Re: how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

> Hm. I'm not sure what you are asking. It was unclear, but you answered the question indirectly. Thanks, Nico.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? I'm thinking that gpg fails, so oocalc never launches (because you conditioned its execution with '&&', and the script continues to shred the file. My amd64 succeeds executing this (s/gpg/echo-to-tmpfile/). I