Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Jim Burwell
Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> This question "Is LVM a good idea?" keeps cropping up on mailing lists. >>> I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits >>> and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. >>> >> >> If you haven't used it, i

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-10 Thread Jim Burwell
On 5/10/2011 18:25, Indi wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:20:02AM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have >>> done theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" o

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?

2006-12-06 Thread Jim Burwell
kashani wrote: > Grant wrote: >>> > Is there a decent webmail package in portage (or a layman overlay) >>> > that doesn't depend on PHP? >>> > >>> >>> what is the problem with php? Every webmail is going to need to >>> depend on >>> some kind of server side scripting. >>> >>> Nangus >> >> I am usin

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so

2006-01-06 Thread Jim Burwell
Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I installed "vnc" with the "server" USE flag enabled. I've been working on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working. My question is, is this module a part of RealVNC or some other program? (I tried to locate a description of the use flags fo

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Jim Burwell
banged my head against it for a while getting this set up to boot up (the final key was the lvmraid= flags which cause the linxrc to start up the md devices.  I had to read through the linuxrc scripts to figure this one out). Good luck. -- +---------

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Burwell
glad it's not a requirement, as it would be seem a bit daft to have to do this.  :-) -- +-----------+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +--

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Burwell
ewhat sparse documentation for dmaid seems to indicate that it's not quite ready for prime time yet. Looks interesting though. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I n

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Burwell
nel flags.  Make sure you include "dovlm2" and lvmraid=/dev/mdX lines for each of of your RAID devices on the boot line, which tells the linuxrc scripts to start up your RAID devices in the initramfs so it can mount your LVM2 root partition. - Jim -- +-----

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-16 Thread Jim Burwell
ieve the performance hit on swap writes (reads should actually be faster) should wind up being only a bit slower than if you were swapping to a single drive. - Jim -- +-----------+ |

Re: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd?

2006-06-23 Thread Jim Burwell
yself when Genkernel already does it for me. Also, you can do all the kernel customization you wish (within reason) even if you use Genkernel by using one of the --menu|x|g|config flags, and/or --oldconfig. -- +-----------+

[gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run

2006-07-08 Thread Jim Burwell
Hi, I'm having an issue with text console of one of my gentoo boxes not coming back after the X server exits.  The console is there and works fine up to the point when the X server starts (for instance, when gdm comes up).  After this, using the key sequences to call up the text vtys, shutting

[gentoo-user] net-fs/samba 4.5.16 compile fail

2018-07-16 Thread Jim Burwell
Hi, Discovered an issue when trying to compile net-fs/samba-4.5.16.  Looks like it involves the WAF package configuration process and/or rpcgen.  Problem is with the source files trying to "#include " (sm_notify.c is the first the fail), the location of the glibc SunRPC headers when it doesn't ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-03 Thread Jim Burwell
On 6/3/2014 16:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Alan McKinnon >>> wrote: >>> [...] Incidentally, what exactly is wrong with systemd wri