[gentoo-user] Raid web page

Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:36 PM antlists wrote: > > I now want to run lvm snapshot on the first boot of the weekend. Writing > a unit to do the snapshot seems pretty easy, but obviously I don't want > it firing every boot, if I stick the date in the volume name I don't > want it colliding with an e

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 5:24 PM antlists wrote: [...] > Ouch. Dunno if that would work. Bear in mind I'm running this BEFORE > fstab, so / is read-only ... > You can store the timestamp in /run and then have another unit that updates the timestamp in /var after remounting root (/) read/write. Aga

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

Am Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:04:41PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Curious question here.  As you may recall, I backup to a external hard > drive.  Would it make sense to use that software for a external hard > drive? Since you are using LVM for everything IIRC, it would be a very efficient way for you to

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On 01/10/2021 22:54, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:37 PM antlists > wrote: I think it would be much simpler to have a Type=oneshot service at boot, and the Exec= line to call a script. You can store the timestamp of the last time it wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid web page

On 01/10/2021 22:21, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:37 PM antlists wrote: > I'm trying to get a systemd unit to fire on boot once a week. Reading up > on timer units, I can't work out how to get it to work. > > This is tied up with my earlier systemd mount post - I've now got that > sorted - I've got dm-integrity to fire b

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot config FIXED

On 29/09/2021 22:15, antlists wrote: On 29/09/2021 12:06, Nils Freydank wrote: Hi Wol, my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional colons after the password: ':' I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too. For the dovecot setup I can rec

[gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

I'm trying to get a systemd unit to fire on boot once a week. Reading up on timer units, I can't work out how to get it to work. This is tied up with my earlier systemd mount post - I've now got that sorted - I've got dm-integrity to fire before fstab. I now want to run lvm snapshot on the fi

[gentoo-user] Re: setcap fails: (Operation not supported)

On 2021-10-01, Laurence Perkins wrote: > Doesn't it require xattrs? Yes, I had xattrs enabled. That used to be enough to get setcap to work. It now also requires CONFIG_*_FS_SECURITY, which I didn't have enabled. -- Grant

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: setcap fails: (Operation not supported)

Doesn't it require xattrs? I vaguely remember running into that at one point years ago. Not sure if the other flags you're using will force xattr support on or not, but it's worth checking. LMP -Original Message- From: Grant Edwards Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 3:00 PM To: gen

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 01/10/2021 17:08, Mark Knecht wrote: This old machine is now about 10 years old. It's a big Cooler Master case, 6 or 8 removable drive bays, heavy. It collects dust and sometimes the fans are quite noisy. If I was going this direction I think I'd have to tear the whole thing down, redo the cas

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:00 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right ins

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 3:35 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:50 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I've been looking at a few software solutions based on another thread here but so far nothing has excited me so recommendations for what makes sense for high reliability home backup

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right instruction set for > running Tensorflow anymore - so I want to