Re: [gentoo-user] LVM problems -- mounting a foreign drive

Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Rose: > Hi everyone, > > I have an LVM comprising 2 partitions on a drive I wish to read data > from, and I have a 'main' file from somewhere in /etc/lvm from that old > drive: > > > main { > id = "em7z2K-GhvB-mpW4-YNjE-SiZ7-zia2-PIObh2" > > [

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >>> heap. It's a classic example of "second system syndrome" as defined by >>> "the mythical Man month". >> >> Errh, what? > > rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five > chapters > are as relevan

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Martin wrote: > >> drive. All I had to do was vgscan and vgchange -a y and I was up and >> running. Actually, I too had a problem with my VG's named the same >> thing. It wasn't a problem to access different LV's but I changed the >> VG anywa

[gentoo-user] Getting system stats

All, I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following statistics every second: - CPU Usage (as a percentage) - NIC I/O - Hard Drive I/O I later have to correlate these stats as a function of time. I'm not really sure where I should be looking to gather these statistics. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

Dan Farrell wrote: Greetings all. I've just acquired a 4-port network card, and I set it up so that the 4 ports are each assigned an IP address, and gave all the IPs the name 'nfs' in DNS. Now I hope to point all the NFS clients at server 'nfs', and do some basic load balancing, while leavin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote: > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. > My external monitoring service has an API I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote: > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. > My external monitoring service has an API I

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update and time skell

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:25:24 +0900, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Wait 2 or more hours, reboot for good measure, and try again. > > On 11/7/07, Mateus Interciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes on the time, >> which was 2 hours ahead, now when I'm

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sun LDOM?

Hi, anybody tried gentoo on a logical Domain on a Sun Niagara-Machine? Is there an existing boot-image for this or do I have to build this myself? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What "VGA scan"? sorry, speech recognition error. WFM. You must be doing something strange. no, I'm what speech recognition researchers call a goat. I take your bright shiny toys, and just by holding them in my hands, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: heap. It's a classic example of "second system syndrome" as defined by "the mythical Man month". Errh, what? rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five chapters are as relev

[gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

Greetings all. I've just aquired a 4-port network card, and I set it up so that the 4 ports are each assigned an IP address, and gave all the IPs the name 'nfs' in DNS. Now I hope to point all the NFS clients at server 'nfs', and do some basic load balancing, while leaving the original address

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:19:06 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > > I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll > > have a longer wait than you :( > > Heaven forbid we be as flexible on our list as the distribution whose > name it bears ; ) Even Gentoo isn't flexible enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update and time skell

Wait 2 or more hours, reboot for good measure, and try again. On 11/7/07, Mateus Interciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes on the time, which > was 2 hours ahead, now when I'm trying to make some emerge --update, I > always get a LOT of date mis

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

I´m waiting for too. 2007/11/7, 525225097 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There are somebody said the gentoo 2007.1 will release in this man month > it is wrong or right.Is there more detailed information。 > Thinks > > > > > > -- > 网 易 股 吧， 每 天 有 500 万 股 民 在 此 讨 论 >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio/Mpeg

Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/11/07, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firefox is complaining that a plugin is not available for audio/mpeg support. Any recommendations on getting support? Not sure if it helps: emerge mplayerplug-in and recently (by the same author(s)) emerge gnome-mplayer gecko-

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms?  Anybody > > konw how to do a thing like that?   > > First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port card, > bond them into a single interface. That will simpli

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

On Nov 7, 2007 9:24 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. > My external monitoring service has a

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On 11/7/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: > > > > > I´m waiting for too. > > > > I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update and time skell

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:28:31 +, Mateus Interciso wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:25:24 +0900, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > >> Wait 2 or more hours, reboot for good measure, and try again. >> >> On 11/7/07, Mateus Interciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I've recently made a change on

[gentoo-user] emerge update and time skell

Hello, I've recently made a change on my gentoo boxes on the time, which was 2 hours ahead, now when I'm trying to make some emerge --update, I always get a LOT of date mismatches, and some emerges are caught on a loop, how can I fix this? I've already made a new emerge --sync, and it didn't fi

[gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can hook into and http traffic is logged to mysql so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

Most f the questions you have asked are really "LVM 101" type questions (not any particular implementation of LVM, but LVM in general). So yes, to use LVM/EVMS/whatever you sort of have to understand the underlying principle of what/why. There's a basic explanation at Wikipedia: http://en.wikiped

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

I don´t have any problem with 2007.0, but a new release is always welcome. 2007/11/7, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: > > > > > I´m waiting for too. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: > > > I´m waiting for too. > > I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll > have a longer wait than you :( Heaven forbid we be as flex

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: > I´m waiting for too. I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll have a longer wait than you :( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ says nothing about a November release, or any release date for 2007.1, and th

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. > My external monitori

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300 "Danilo Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I´m waiting for too. Why? From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo release is if (s)he wants to install it on a new hardware, which is not supported by the latest release. On the other han

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:10 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300 > "Danilo Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I´m waiting for too. > > > Why? > > From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo > release is if (s)he wants to install it on a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote: > All, > > I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following > statistics every second: > > - CPU Usage (as a percentage) > - NIC I/O > - Hard Drive I/O > > I later have to correlate these stats as a function of time. > > I'm not really sur

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get traffic shaping to work properly :(

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:23:36 -0800 Xamindar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried following the howto here: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping > But it doesn't work. First of all it ends up limiting both upload AND > download. I have tried a few different ways with all the same res

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

Thanks for your responses, all. On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:30:22 -0800 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port > card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your > config and perform better. Perhaps I will; that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:10 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > > memory usage, ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms? > > >  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   > > > > First off don't assign separate IPs to e

[gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I thought that on such powerful beast, Gentoo will be a good choice, things will compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

On Donnerstag, 8. November 2007, James wrote: two things: memory. Every mb wasted for X - or even worse gnome, the biggest memory hog out there - is a mb that can't be used by gcc. Thus a graphical environment slows down installation. cd/dvd space. Every mb wasted for a full blown X and a hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 02:24 +, James wrote: [...] > All you have said presupposes one (erroneous) assumption: that is an easy > to use graphical install cannot be used if the distro is source code > based. Nothing could be further from the truth. An easy to use > graphical installation, shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

Em Qui 08 Nov 2007, James escreveu: > Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > > I chose Gentoo to get away from the major distros. There is plenty of > > competition in that market. Let Gentoo be Gentoo and not Yet Another > > Ubuntu [TM]. > [...] > > You, nor any respondent has given one shre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

I'm going to take a lot of liberties both with humorous informality (hopefully you'll agree with that name for it) and argument; please accept it as a cheerfully submitted 'other side of the argument'. On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:32:58 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Iliev gmai

[gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > I chose Gentoo to get away from the major distros. There is plenty of > competition in that market. Let Gentoo be Gentoo and not Yet Another > Ubuntu [TM]. All you have said presupposes one (erroneous) assumption: that is an easy to use graphical in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:22:30 -0600 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > There are lots of distros (Linux and non-Linux) that either don't have a > graphical install and/or don't have a large user base and still survive. > I mean Slackware is probably the oldest living distro, is s

Re: [gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

On (08/11/07 05:23) Miernik wrote: > Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel > machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its > a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I > thought that on such powerful beast, Gento

[gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-) > Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal. I was not using a graphical installer, I went to a terminal (text console), and typed "installer", is that what I am suppose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

> Well, I think that fixing that abortion of an installation CD > is of paramount concern. Like it or not, the first thing prospective > new users see, is the installation process. In my opinion, it > is of quintessential importance for Gentoo to have a normal, > functional, easy installation CD.

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

Shawn Haggett podgeweb.com> writes: > > In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: > > CLOCK="local" > > TIMEZONE="America/New_York" > > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" > Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: > $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime -rw-r--r-- 1 r

[gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

Daniel Iliev gmail.com> writes: > > I´m waiting for too. > Why? > In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs > spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage with > new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD images. Well, I think

[gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

Hello, In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK="local" TIMEZONE="America/New_York" CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" it's a dual boot (XP & gentoo) workstation. I had to set the time manually to adjust for the 1 hour shift. Shouldn't this be automatic? What did I miss? James -

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:23:51 +0200 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following > > statistics every second: > > > > - CPU Usage (as a percentage) > > - NIC I/O > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:10:16 +0200 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs > spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage > with new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD > images. I agree

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms? > > >  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   > > > > First off don't assign separate IPs to e

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:38 -0500, James wrote: > All, > > I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following > statistics every second: > > - CPU Usage (as a percentage) this is an interesting one. I had to do this recently, and the only place I could get the data from is /pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:16:46 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: > CLOCK="local" > TIMEZONE="America/New_York" > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" > > it's a dual boot (XP & gentoo) workstation. > > I had to set the time manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

Dan Farrell wrote: Thanks for your responses, all. On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:30:22 -0800 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your config and perform better. Perhaps I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:32 +, James wrote: > > Yes I've installed dozens of gentoo system, and the resulting > product is wonderful, much akin to a girl with a great personality. > However, she ain't every going to get 'laid' (become popular) > because the (installation) process is *UGLY*.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

Hi, On (08/11/07 07:02) Miernik wrote: > Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-) > > Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal. > > I was not using a graphical installer, I went to a terminal (text > console

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

071108 James wrote: > In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: > CLOCK="local" That sb "utc". > TIMEZONE="America/New_York" > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" > it's a dual boot (XP & gentoo) workstation. However, M$ Windows may insist on changing the time on its own, so you may fin