Category: Gentoo

  • Syslog-ng and connections exceeded error

    Couple of days ago I updated my home Gentoo box and after that syslog-ng was too full of connections. As always the remedy was near. If you have app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.4 and get errors like syslog-ng[8827]: Number of allowed concurrent connections exceeded; num=’10’, max=’10’ to the syslog then read this helpfull topic from Gentoo forums.… Jatka lukemista…

  • GWN: Do it all, minus one.

    Earlier this year there was some problems updating packages and I used package.mask to get over it. There is also a better way to handle this so that the package is not updated until it’s really needed. Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 7 May 2007 writes about user’s problem with keeping a specific version of MythTV.… Jatka…