Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-30 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > 2013/6/29 Zind >> >>> Can you search with dmesg and find if it's nead a firmware. >> >> Yes. >> At the bottom of the dmesg message, I can see these lines: >> request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode' failed. >> request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-5.uco

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Joseph
On 06/29/13 16:42, Grant wrote: Remote, automated, secure backups is the most difficult and time-consuming Gentoo project I've undertaken. Right now I'm pushing data from each of my systems to a backup server via rdiff-backup. The main problem with this is if a system is compromised its backup

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 08:10:53PM +0300, Timur Aydin wrote > I know that a sm-notify program is used on both NFS clients/servers to > notify reboots, but this embedded system does not have the sm-notify > capability. And I would rather not try to port it to uClinux. > > So, my question is, can I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:36:14 -0700, Grant wrote: > >> Isn't that a gaping security hole? I think this amounts to granting > >> the backup server root read access (and write access if you want to > >> restore) on each client? > > > > How can you backup system files without root read access? You

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
I used reiserfs3 (very good) and now btrfs (so-so, but getting better) - stay away from anything ext* - they fall apart under the load eventually losing the lot ... the filesystem gets hammered when its creating tons of hardlinks. From personal experiance I have a very poor view on ext2 and ext3 .

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Grant
>> > You have to grant root rsync access to the backuppc user on the >> > server. >> >> Isn't that a gaping security hole? I think this amounts to granting >> the backup server root read access (and write access if you want to >> restore) on each client? > > How can you backup system files without

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:12:29 -0700, Grant wrote: > > You have to grant root rsync access to the backuppc user on the > > server. > > Isn't that a gaping security hole? I think this amounts to granting > the backup server root read access (and write access if you want to > restore) on each clie

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Grant
>> How far would I have to open my systems in order for backuppc to >> function? > > You have to grant root rsync access to the backuppc user on the server. Isn't that a gaping security hole? I think this amounts to granting the backup server root read access (and write access if you want to rest

[gentoo-user] Re: SMplayer: Update notification

2013-06-30 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 30/06/2013 09:19, Mick wrote: On Saturday 29 Jun 2013 17:45:31 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am using smplayer to play DVB-T, since Kaffeine stucks with some channels. This evening, smplayer notifies me, that a new version will be available. SMplayer is only able to know this by automon

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 Jun 2013 12:05:05 William Kenworthy wrote: > On 30/06/13 17:58, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 30.06.2013 01:42, schrieb Grant: > >> Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely > >> backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and > >> owne

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Timur Aydin
The server configuration is as follows: === bonsai ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/nfs # /etc/conf.d/nfs # If you wish to set the port numbers for lockd, # please see /etc/sysctl.conf # Optional services to include in default `

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Timur Aydin
On 06/30/13 20:10, Timur Aydin wrote: > Here is the mount command: > > mount -o nolock,tcp 10.2.2.254:/romfs_2011R1 /mnt > BTW, when I use UDP instead of TCP, then the mount works after repeated reboots. But I would rather use TCP, because based on past experiments I did, TCP mounted NFS shares

[gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I am using Gentoo Linux as an NFS server while doing development on an Blackfin embedded system. The Blackfin is running uClinux and the development host is Gentoo testing version (~amd64). The NFS server version is 1.2.7. Here is the problem that I am observing: I start from a known state, r

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:11:35 -0700 Grant wrote: > >> Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely > >> backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and > >> ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system > >> is compromised? > > > > app-

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/06/13 17:58, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 30.06.2013 01:42, schrieb Grant: > >> Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely >> backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and >> ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.06.2013 01:42, schrieb Grant: > Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely > backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and > ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is > compromised? > > I did delve into bacula but dec

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:11:35 -0700, Grant wrote: > > app-backup/backuppc > > > > It uses hard links, but to save space, so all versions of all files > > are kept for your entire history, but unchanged files are kept only > > once, even if present on multiple targets. > > Thank you for the recom

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Grant
>> Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely >> backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and >> ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is >> compromised? > > app-backup/backuppc > > It uses hard links, but to save space, so

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:42:33 -0700, Grant wrote: > Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely > backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and > ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is > compromised? app-backup/backuppc I