* Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?
@ 2007-05-30 2:53 99% ` Michael Sullivan
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From: Michael Sullivan @ 2007-05-30 2:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:20 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Denis <denis.che@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan <deserted@westnet.com.au> 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-
>
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> Ryan W Sims
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