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Migration to Kernel 2.6.22
I already blogged about this a while ago – but today, I finally migrated my client to 2.6.22 (2.6.22-gentoo-r5, that is, to be exact). And what shall I say – everything worked flawlessly! atl1 is now integrated in the kernel, as well as Intel’s coretemp module and the Winbond sensor chip. One reboot in verbose [...]
Hello Larry
I am now listed on Planet Larry – the Gentoo users’ meta blog. Hello out there! Now that the whole world is reading me, I’ll try to put only meaningful stuff on here… Share and Enjoy:
mldonkey stopped working
I updated my mldonkey yesterday to 2.9.0-r2. Today I noticed that it did not start up again. In the Gentoo forums, I found the solution: The mldonkey files have to be owned by the user “p2p” – ALL of them. So, in the /home/p2p/mldonkey dir, a simple “sudo chown -R p2p:users *” did the job. [...]
Forget Skype
After the massive disruption over the weekend, I read several resources about Skype – and decided that this closed-source crap has nothing to do on my box. I therefore switched back to plain old IM – using my almost forgotten ICQ account (8624280) and Yahoo ID (tkhobbes, what else…) Within Gentoo Linux, I use kopete [...]
Backup on the server
As already discussed yesterday, I am going for some serious backup stuff now. Here’s the server’s rsnapshot.conf: config_version 1.2 snapshot_root /mnt/usbhd/ cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger cmd_du /bin/du cmd_rsnapshot_diff /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff interval fullbackup 6 verbose 2 loglevel 3 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot.log exclude_file /etc/rsnapshot.exclude link_dest 1 # LOCALHOST backup /home/ localhost/ backup /etc/ localhost/ backup_script [...]
