Questions tagged [gentoo]
Gentoo Linux is a source-based Linux distro that uses the Portage package management system.
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How do I move a Linux software RAID to a new machine?
I have a newly built machine with a fresh Gentoo Linux install and a software RAID 5 array from another machine (4 IDE disks connected to off-board PCI controllers). I've successfully moved the ...
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Linux's best filesystem to work with 10000's of files without overloading the system I/O
It is known that certain AMD64 Linuxes are subject of being unresponsive under heavy disk I/O (see Gentoo forums: AMD64 system slow/unresponsive during disk access (Part 2)), unfortunately have such ...
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Failed installing APC?
I am trying to install APC on a gentoo with php 5.2
Here teh full command i Lanched:
mkdir /home/APC-php
cd /home/APC-php
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC
tar -xzvf APC
cd APC-3.1.9
/usr/local/php5/...
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rsync 'cannot delete non-empty directory' errors, even with --force option
When running this command:
$ sudo rsync -r --delete --force --checksum --exclude=uploads /data/prep/* /data/app/
I'm getting the following output:
cannot delete non-empty directory: html/js/...
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"SSL error parse tlsext" on large commit to SVN via Apache, Gentoo
This happens only on large commit (resulting in a failed commit):
Revelant section from virtual host config in Apache
<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
&...
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Have new files inherit their folder's extended ACLs
We are moving our web files from AFS to a local volume with the acl flag set. We use extended ACLs for our permissions so users can edit different parts of our websites. In AFS, when you create a new ...
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Exim TLS and Secure SMTP
I'm in the process of converting an existing mail server to support encrypted SMTP for our clients, but I've run into this brick wall with very little useful log data to help me forward. Everything ...
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Restrict postqueue access to admin user
I'm running postfix on Gentoo as mailer daemon. During investigation of some queue pileup I found that /usr/sbin/postqueue is executable by all users on the system, it happily outputs the current mail ...
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Bash can't start a programme that's there and has all the right permissions
This is a gentoo server. There's a programme prog that can't execute. (Yes the execute permission is set)
About the file
$ ls
prog
$ ./prog
bash: ./prog: No such file or directory
$ file prog
prog: ...
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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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IPsec/L2TP VPN with OSX client: xl2tpd reports "maximum retries exceeded"
I'm following this guide for getting an IPsec/L2TP VPN server set up on a Gentoo machine, and I'm having trouble getting an OS X client to connect. From the logs, I believe I'm making an IPsec ...
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IPv6 public routing of virtual machines from host
So I have a dedicated server from OVH. With that I got a /64 range of IPv6 addresses and 1 public IPv4 address. I purchased a second IPv4 address as a fallback.
The host is running the Xen hypervisor ...
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Fail2ban does not ban any ip-adresses with vsftpd
Fail2ban starts okey. It work with my sshd filter and bans IP-adresses as it should. But with vsftpd it does not register failed logins when I run:
fail2ban-client status vsftpd
I have tried both ...
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docker containers give out blank ipv6 address
I am trying to develop simple swarm service with docker, I am using below docker compose file
version: '3.2'
services:
sessions:
image: redis:4
ports:
- 6379:6379
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Symfony2 app in subdirectory nginx
I'm trying to setup a symfony2 app in a subdirectory of our Server
Webserver: nginx 1.1.6 + php fpm
OS: gentoo
my target is to get the app working from a subdirectory
subdomain.xy.domain.tld/tool
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PPTP-Gateway routes icmp but no http
got a very strange behaviour with a Gentoo-based PPTP-Gateway here. I configured the VPN and the default routes - from the Gateway itself, the connections out to the VPN work great. But from the ...
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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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umask is being ignored on Gentoo while creating new files
I have a server running Gentoo and hosting a drupal installation.
Whenever a Drupal update is executed, the directory permissions of the updated module turn from 755 to 744 preventing the application ...
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Postfix, SASL, MySQL Issues
Ok, a recent Gentoo upgrade for Postfix/Cyrus SASL/MySQL packages broke something. I'm at my wits end, no idea what the problem is.
main.cf
# local settings. Remember any domain you want treated as ...
