Questions tagged [gentoo]

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

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

It is not meant for Beginner Linux users, but rather Intermediate and Advanced ones who are familiar with the command line and kernel compilation (because, during install, the user will have to compile the kernel herself).

Packages (through the Portage system) are also distributed in source form, and compiled to binaries on the user's system upon fetch and installation. The Portage system is smart enough to automatically fetch (and compile) any dependencies a package needs before it gets compiled.

The benefit of Gentoo Linux would be a highly customized -- and thus potentially higher-performing -- system that matches exactly what the user has, without the baggage of unnecessary code that makes the system bigger and/or slower.

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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 the lease. I lose the alias ip. This is on a…
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htdbm and mod_authn_dbm fail when migrating between apache 2.2 servers

I'm migrating an existing website from Apache 2.2.4 on Gentoo 32-bit to Apache 2.2.27 on CentOS 64-bit. This particular site uses DBM for authentication with encrypted passwords. On the old system if I type: htdbm -l access.db I get a list of the…
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Failed to emerge python 2.7

I'm trying to emerge python 2.7 on my gentoo server, somehow it's not installed any more. eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python3.3 * If I try to emerge it like emerge -a python:2.7 it'll fail with the error: * ERROR:…
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Can't find shared lib on an amd64 machine

# /opt/dev/android-sdk/platforms/android-1.5/tools/aapt /opt/dev/android-sdk/platforms/android-1.5/tools/aapt: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory On an i386 box this aapt…
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OpenLDAP client configuration. Can search but cannot login?

I'm trying to set up LDAP on a Gentoo workstation to authenticate against a central server. However, I encountered some issues and I really hope you guys can help me out here :) First off, the LDAP server is running fine because the other machines…
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Gentoo server time issue, can't manually set time, NTPD won't correct, too big of a time difference

So, my server is living in the future, unfortunately I can't get lottery numbers, or stock picks out of it. It thinks this is the time: Thu Nov 7 04:07:18 EST 2013 Not correct, I tried to set the time manually via date in a few ways # date -s "06…
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Xen dom0 bridge interface drops a lot of RX packets?

I'm running Gentoo Hardened as Dom0. It also acts as a router/NAT. There's a bridge interface called br0 which contains a pci-e wlan card, ethernet nic & domU. bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 …
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.bash_profile isn't sourced during logon

I've declared an alias in .bashrc file located in my home directory. Export of PS1 environment variable has been added to this file too. # /etc/skel/.bashrc # # This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup, # including some…
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PostgreSQL 8.1 out of space and stopped, data directory is empty

I used PostgreSQL 8.1 on Gentoo/Linux 2.6.14r5. My db server's disk space looks like below: db postgresql # df -l Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 9775248 2018528 7756720 21% / udev …
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Install specific version of package (postgresql) along with most recent version on gentoo

I upgraded our gentoo server, got lost in the messages and, to make the story short, I ended up removing my postgresql 9.1 BEFORE I run a pg_upgrade to 9.2.. Then I discovered that pg_upgrade requires the binary of the previous version to still be…
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X11 forwarding over ssh applications very slow to start

I have a server that is extremely slow (takes 3-5 minutes) at starting X11 applications over a forwarded X11 link. I have tried connecting to it with 2-3 different machines with different operating systems. After the applications start everything…
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Cron job sends out the same data every time despite changes in the database

This question is related to Gentoo Linux. I have cron job that runs every morning at 10AM. The cron job calls a bash script which in turn calls a groovy script that queries the database for a column of data and emails the result to a recipient…
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Gentoo maintenance [make updating]

I have installed and adjusted Gentoo distro with GNOME-3.1. To achieve this installation I had to add many-many lines to package.accept_keywords. Now (after a couple of months) I've decided to update my system with the following command: emerge…
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Install two MTAs on Gentoo

Im migrating my Qmail/Vpopmail Install to MySQL/Postfix and want to test Postfix on different Ports than the current qmail Installation and bit by bit merge the config and Database - is there any way to Install both MTAs on the same Gentoo System or…
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Make exim deliver deliver msgs immediately

I do this testing process with "telnet localhost 25", I send a message and it is placed to queue... I feel kindda frustrated as I've searched through many, many, many lines of exim specifications... And I simply don't know how you make exim deliver…
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