From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HtEPD-0002m3-DN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:59:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4U2w9C6014024; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:58:09 GMT Received: from baby.espersunited.com (adsl-70-234-122-248.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net [70.234.122.248]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4U2rno6009290 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:53:50 GMT Received: from adsl-70-234-122-250.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net ([70.234.122.250]) by baby.espersunited.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HtEJl-0005Tz-Pp for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:53:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <64e8d2f20705291920y7eeb1d4cg6444a8c6b90148bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <465CC27A.7030405@westnet.com.au> <64e8d2f20705291920y7eeb1d4cg6444a8c6b90148bf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:53:45 -0500 Message-Id: <1180493625.11392.17.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b8e0c899-553a-44e3-800a-60521c8d9eeb X-Archives-Hash: 83e600f2bf2d8ae2b71a0cf5c77cba5b On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:20 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 5/29/07, Denis wrote: > > On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan wrote: > > > > > Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv > > > -uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :) > > > > I'm sure that makes for particularly sweet dreams ;-) > > > > One thing I've wondered about... When you update X or nvidia drivers, > > do you need to kill X before running emerge? > > I've never done it *before* the emerge, but I usually restart after > the merge, like any other service. Only time I've ever had a problem > with a program running while emerging is with a glibc upgrade a while > back screwing with a running Firefox, restarting Firefox solved > things. > > > I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go through > > kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that takes some time. I > > guess one can reuse the old .config file, but I understand it's not > > always a safe thing to do. Is it reasonably ok to wait for every > > "major" 2.6.x release to update, or is it necessary to update on every > > minor 2.6.x.y release also? > > I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > .config && make oldconfig' > consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel in > grub.conf in case of screwups, and I read the options very carefully > before selecting. One caveat: going from 2.4 to 2.6 I reconfigured > by hand from scratch. Whenever we get to 2.8 (or whatever the next > major release is), I'll do that again. If you wanted to shorten your command, I believe zcat does the exact same thing as gunzip -c -Michael Sullivan- > > -- > Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list