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Gentoo Linux is a source-based Linux distro that uses the Portage package management system.

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Using gentoo, how does one stick -9999 ebuild to a specific svn revision?

As an example given the django-9999 ebuild, to match a developer's environment I need to checkout R12120 from trunk. Installing Django manually is not an option due to package management reasons. But ...
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Best linux distribution for Java build server &

we are trying to setup a build server for building our Java projects. Following software will be installed: * Subversion * Jira/Confluence/Crucible/Fisheye ... * Bamboo (continuous integration ...
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Set default MySQL connect charset for PHP (in RHEL)?

We're running a hundred or so legacy PHP websites on an older server which runs Gentoo Linux. When these sites were built latin1 was still the common charset, both in PHP and MySQL. To make sure ...
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Has anyone done a Gentoo Xen Dom0/DomU update?

I am running a couple of xen 3.1.1 systems (production, test/dev) with gentoo Dom0 and DomU. With plans to update to 3.3 soon, I am wondering if anyone has any successes or failures they'd like to ...
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segfault with mod_wsgi / mod_python after Python upgrade on Gentoo

I'm having a problem after upgrading from Python 2.5 to 2.6 I'm using Gentoo and running a Django app with Apache 2 and mod_python. After the upgrade I started getting a segfault when I try to access ...
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Monitor dual intel xeon cpu load?

I have a Dell 1950 Poweredge server with two Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.33 GHZ and 16 GB of RAM under Gentoo Linux. I'm running heavy calculation task which I don't know how they were implemented ... Top ...
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Make avahi advertise multiple machine

Is it possible that a single machine running avahi advertises other machines sharing files over afp ? I have different machines running Gentoo but I don't want to run avahi on each server.
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Gentoo Portage, why PostgreSQL 8.4 is named as postgresql-base?

Where does the -base come from? Why the word base, as version 8.1 is simply named postgresql.
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php-cgi dies quietly every few hours in low traffic

php-cgi -v PHP 5.2.11-pl1-gentoo (cgi-fcgi) (built: Dec 21 2009 09:10:29) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies System info ...
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Traceroute failed, how to resolve?

wget works fine with speedtest.net, but traceroute does not. How to resolve this? traceroute to www.speedtest.net (69.17.117.207), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ... 4 tge11-3.fr4.dal....
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easy_install'ing under different Python version

I'm trying to easy_install a Python 2.5 package, but I've also got Python 3.1 installed, so I get a syntax error: except pkg_resources.VersionConflict, e: ...
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can't make distcc work through the network

I'm trying to use distcc to compile C/C++ programs using more than one computer through the network. I'm using only two computers for now, but I intend to use more when it works with those two. I'm ...
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Apache2 quietly breaking, won't make apache2.pid

When I run # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart It happily claims to have started the program, but hasn't actually done so. The output goes a little something like this. www ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 ...
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What is the difference betwen mysql and mysql-community?

In Gentoo, what is the difference between mysql, mysql-community, and mysql compiled with --enable-community-features?
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Where is the apache pid file on Gentoo?

I need it to configure Monit, but the path in the sample config file is /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid and it's not there. It's also not anywhere in /etc (at least not with that name).
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Finding Evidence of a Denial of Service Attack (Linux)

We had a Gentoo Linux server (that was updated weekly or bi weekly) that higher ups claimed did a denial of service attack on the whole local network and brought it down. Are there any log files we ...
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Can't emerge fish - dependency htmlview returns 404 or fails on rmd160 verification

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried running emerge --sync, but that didn't have any effect. When I download the file manually and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles, I get the error "Failed on ...
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Files in /var/qmail/alias/.maildir/new/

I run a Gentoo (LAMP server) with a qmail. I see that the folder /var/qmail/alias/.maildir/new/ contains 100'000s of files. Do you know how I can have them purged automatically? Thanks for your ...
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ip alias lost when dhcp renews lease

I have a server that I have setup to use dhcp for the main connection information and have an alias set up that my router forwards ports to. Everytime (I think this is what is happening) dhcp renews ...
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Source based distros vs Prebuilt package based distros

I wonder what is the general preference and where does it come from. Having used FreeBSD actively for a couple of years I'm leaning towards Gentoo, but I've had an unpleasant experience of wasting ...
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Install coverage-3.0.1 to gentoo

I have installed coverage-2.85 version, but I need coverage-3.0.1 I have last version of portage. [I] dev-python/coverage Available versions: 2.77 2.85 {test} Installed versions: 2.85(12:...
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Python 3.* on Gentoo [closed]

How to install python 3.* on Gentoo without compiling by hand? Are there any ebuild or overlay for this? UPDATE: now it's absolutely possible without any hacks
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Installing an OS from a netbooted Linux image [closed]

Let's say that you're working on a strange machine with these limitations: You don't have physical access at all. You get a serial console, and a network. You get one of six Linux installs to work ...
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How do I run a 32bit programme on amd64 server?

As a followup to this question, I have discovered that this closed source programme is 32bit and I have an amd64 server. The server is gentoo that has recently been upgraded. What do I need to ...
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Gentoo emerge a package gives 404s - Do I need to --sync?

I've got a gentoo server here. It hasn't been upgraded in a good long while. I just tried to emerge a package, and it tries to download things, but all fails with 404. I can get other web access fine. ...
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Preventing specific packages from getting installed in Gentoo?

I want to install some package with not very useful dependencies (for example I want xorg-x11 without any xterm, xclock etc) and when I try to put dependencies in package.mask portage just complains ...
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How to check which group has a specified permission to do sth?

It seems my user's group has no right to bind a port less than 1024. Also I once that my user group can not operate the sound card, I add myselft to the sound group. But I want the general answer, ...
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Performance and Utilization monitoring of Xen Dom0

We run a mixed bag of Citrix XenServer and Gentoo/Xen virtualization platforms in our company. In general, we use XenServer where we have shared storage (SAN, iSCSI or whatever) and Gentoo/Xen where ...
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What is the difference between a DOS and Solaris MBR?

I have been playing around with a VM trying to install Gentoo, and it seems there are two options for my Master Boot Record : DOS and Solaris. What is the difference? Which should I choose, or are ...
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How can I get into a gentoo-linux machine if I hosed PAM?

While updating my gentoo linux box, I managed to mess up PAM. Now I can't login! Here's the message I get login: <I type my name, enter> /bin/login: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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Gentoo and GPT Grub support

Grub seems to support GPT, or so it says, there is a patch for it, however when i try to boot after installing grub into the active boot partition (ext2) it starts to boot and before grub loads any ...

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