Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/01/14 02:50, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > Last year Timo (the dovecot author) remoted into our server and migrated > us from courier-imap to dovecot. One of the things we ran into > afterwards was this warning in the logs: > >> Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 200 (UID vmail) excee

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need a sshd?

2014-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:50:02 +0200, Gevisz wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:16:20 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK is a make.conf setting, read that man page. It > > means your config files are overwritten at install time, way be for > > you run dispatch-conf or one of its frien

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/01/2014 23:04, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2014-01-06 2:32 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I think overall this is better than hacking around in dovecot's start-up >> script (a rather unsuitable place for it imho > > Actually, a follow-up from Timo said he was planning on making this a > configuratio

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need a sshd?

2014-01-06 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:04:54 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 05 Jan 2014 11:36:20 Gevisz wrote: > > > From man "dispatch-conf": > > > > dispatch-conf will check all directories in the CONFIG_PROTECT > > variable. All config files found in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will > > automatically be

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need a sshd?

2014-01-06 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 14:51:21 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 05.01.2014 11:04, schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > On Sunday 05 Jan 2014 11:36:20 Gevisz wrote: > > > >> From man "dispatch-conf": > >> > >> dispatch-conf will check all directories in the CONFIG_PROTECT > >> variable. All config fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need a sshd?

2014-01-06 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:16:20 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:36:20 +0200, Gevisz wrote: > > > > > I was afraid to run etc-update as man says it will replace > > > > everything automatically. However, I run dispatch-conf and it > > > > does not see any problems at /etc/ssh, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-06 2:32 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think overall this is better than hacking around in dovecot's start-up script (a rather unsuitable place for it imho Actually, a follow-up from Timo said he was planning on making this a configuration setting (default blank), and the init script w

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working

2014-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/01/2014 14:28, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2014-01-05 4:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Head spinning yet? Just be done with all that nonsense and do this: >> >> Put this line as the only non-comment line in .bash_profile >> >> [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc >> >> and put all your shell start-up

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working

2014-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/01/2014 00:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/05/2014 04:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> >> This way everything is still unbelievably complex but at least the >> visible problems mostly just go away >> > > There is an apparently empty directory, /etc/skel, that upon closer > inspection co

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/01/2014 21:53, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> Instead, add that echo statement to a file in /etc/local.d/ and add the >> > local service to your default runlevel. It will tweak the >> > max_user_instances knob for you when it runs, same with all such local >> > knob fiddling you do to optimi

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...

2014-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:03:42 -0800, Khumba wrote: > Sometimes I think it'd be nice to be able to enable all manuals / user > guides but not necessarily API documentation That's how USE="-doc" is supposed to work. Man pages etc, should be installed by default unless FEATURES="nodoc noman noinfo" is

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/01/2014 20:50, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Last year Timo (the dovecot author) remoted into our server and migrated > > us from courier-imap to dovecot. One of the things we ran into > > afterwards was this warning in the logs: > > > >> Warning: Inotify inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Confusion about slot conflict

2014-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/01/2014 19:58, »Q« wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:57:10 + > 张东亚 wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> When I do a world upgrade, I have encountered the following slot >> conflict: >> >> >> media-libs/libpng:0 >> >> (media-libs/libpng-1.5.17-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >> media-libs/l

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/01/2014 20:50, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > Last year Timo (the dovecot author) remoted into our server and migrated > us from courier-imap to dovecot. One of the things we ran into > afterwards was this warning in the logs: > >> Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 200 (UID vmail) exc

[gentoo-user] dovecot + inotify max_user instances

2014-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Last year Timo (the dovecot author) remoted into our server and migrated us from courier-imap to dovecot. One of the things we ran into afterwards was this warning in the logs: Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 200 (UID vmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify

[gentoo-user] GSOC discussion

2014-01-06 Thread James
Google, Summer of Code, is a very wonderful idea for the Open Source Community: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 No doubt many are scheming as to what would be good project ideas. Many really good ideas come from the rank and file of users. (Gmane.org is back online)..

[gentoo-user] Re: Confusion about slot conflict

2014-01-06 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:57:10 + 张东亚 wrote: > Hi list, > > When I do a world upgrade, I have encountered the following slot > conflict: > > > media-libs/libpng:0 > > (media-libs/libpng-1.5.17-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by > (dev-python/wxpytho

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.01.2014 17:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 06.01.2014 16:40, schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:31:55 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >>> How to migrate? dd isn't recommended, right? >>> >>> rsync the partitions one by one? But one of them is encrypted >>> ... >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.01.2014 16:40, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:31:55 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> How to migrate? dd isn't recommended, right? >> >> rsync the partitions one by one? But one of them is encrypted >> ... > > Set up a new encrypted partition and rsync the contents.

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...

2014-01-06 Thread Khumba
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:57:22 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:36:40 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > thank you for the inofrmation! :)) > > I am currently on the way of installing texlive completly > > and I cannot get enough documentation about it... > > So I thought, t

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:31:55 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > How to migrate? dd isn't recommended, right? > > rsync the partitions one by one? But one of them is encrypted ... Set up a new encrypted partition and rsync the contents. -- Neil Bothwick Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I consider swapping SSDs ... the Vertex3 from my desktop (replaced by the new Samsung 840 EVO) could replace the even older Intel SSD. I assume that the Vertex3 would be faster than the Intel ... (at least one generation younger). How to migrate? dd isn't recommended, right? rsync the partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working

2014-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-05 4:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Head spinning yet? Just be done with all that nonsense and do this: Put this line as the only non-comment line in .bash_profile [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc and put all your shell start-up stuff in .bashrc (moving them out of .bash_profile if n

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion about slot conflict

2014-01-06 Thread 张东亚
I have just checked the ebuild file of libpng-1.6.8, actually it's is stable for X86. So I am confused why emerge can not upgrade it automatically... 2014/1/5 Alan McKinnon > On 05/01/2014 17:57, 张东亚 wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > When I do a world upgrade, I have encountered the following slot >

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...

2014-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:36:40 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > thank you for the inofrmation! :)) > I am currently on the way of installing texlive completly > and I cannot get enough documentation about it... > So I thought, that "doc" was a good idea...but iw seems not > to be... It may be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...

2014-01-06 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick [14-01-06 09:28]: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:18:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > I added this to /etc/portage/package.use: > > > > =dev-ruby/racc-1.49 -doc > > > > and have set "doc" in the USE flags in make.conf. > > > > I am still getting the above output... > > USE=doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...

2014-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:18:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I added this to /etc/portage/package.use: > > =dev-ruby/racc-1.49 -doc > > and have set "doc" in the USE flags in make.conf. > > I am still getting the above output... USE=doc is a classic way of getting circular dependencies, usu

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...

2014-01-06 Thread meino . cramer
Khumba [14-01-06 08:32]: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:18:20 +0100 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I got this: > > > > #> emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world -vp > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done!