Re: [DNG] strange mutt pauses
In article <20210414224738.inwlh5i3ho3iu...@topoi.pooq.com>, Hendrik Boom wrote: >On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 05:40:25AM +1000, onefang wrote: >> On 2021-04-14 17:49:45, d...@d404.nl wrote: >> > On 14-04-2021 16:19, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I use fetchmail to gather emails from my various email providers, that >> dumps them into my local IMAP server. >> >> I suspect the difference was the computers, not the version of neomutt. >> Or it could just be if the check of IMAP stumbles across the fetchmail >> process updating the IMAP folders. Or perhaps this later version mostly >> fixed that pause. Maybe some combination of the three. > >I do not use IMAP. postfix just puts everything in to my mbox of incoming >email. > >Anyone know how synchronisation between mutt and postfix works? I presume >it's only needed when exiting mutt and it rewrites the file... or is the >mechanism something different? Usually and with maildir there is not much synchronization: postfix drops the mail into the filesystem, and mutt sooner or later finds out that there is new mail. Everything else is just Unix (or the more modern variations of it), these days I would suppose mutt is using dnotify to find out that the directory has changed instead of just polling. In case of mbox file locking is used so that not two programs write to the mbox file at the same time or read it while it is written - file locking is a bit of black magic under Unix (flock/lockf/dotlock - and the interworkings in case of remote filesystems). If you need to know more an can not just move to Maildir ask me, I might elaborate. cu AW -- [...] If you don't want to be restricted, don't agree to it. If you are coerced, comply as much as you must to protect yourself, just don't support it. Noone can free you but yourself. (crag, on Debian Planet) Arne Wichmann (a...@saar.de) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] connection manager as dns resolver?
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > Looks as if the connection manager is taking over dns. > > Who knew? And whom does it talk to? Does it contain its own recursive > DNS resolver? Or does it just pick up on the DHCP signals it gets from > elsewhere and take over? connman (which I don't use, and have only read about) does _not_ appear to include a recursive nameserver. https://launchpad.net/connman The data you've posted so far that I've read in this thread (but I haven't caught up with the full thread, yet) seem bizarre, in suggesting that connman itself is hogging port 53 on localhost -- which would definitely mean either it's handling any recursive requests or nothing is. I'd have been extremely surprised if any connection management utility had an integral recursive nameserver. The latter are complicated projects, which is why there have been relatively few successful ones. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Which beowulf iso to get a manual partitioner
As per subject, I'm looking for hint on which beowulf iso to boot off to e able to manually fix a paritin take an install grub. I have recently run both the beowulf 3.0 and 3.1 desktop iso to carry out installations of a new system. Both of these isos do not provide a manual partitioner and the 'auto partitioner' randomly fails to mark any disk as a boot disk. You end up with a dummy grub install, which is an error and there no way, that I can find to break out and do this manually. Nor could I do it under the expert(?) installation after rebooting to the install. The partitioner just wants to partition it all, when all I want to do is mark one disk as the master boot record and no be forced to do a complete re-install. My 2c is this auto-partition creates a real dogs breakfast of partitions. The auto-created partition table that was created prior(ascii) had free space ESP ext4 swap free space. This time it was just free space ext4 swap (1gb*) freespace I do not know if this weird partitioning scheme was part of the reason for the update grub screwing up. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Steps to recover from borked grub-update
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:15:16 +0100 Nick Rickard wrote: > Do you still have the old kernel(s) installed on the machine? Yes, but AFAK these only accessible via grub stage 2 under options > > If so, this guide should enable you to select the older one: https://www.calazan.com/how-to-set-an-older-kernel-version-as-the-default-in-grub-during-bootup-ubuntu-12-04/ Same problem as I don't have access to /. Vague memories of having done that/similar in the distand past. then it was just update-grub/grub-update and all worked > > Although maybe I've misunderstood quite how the kernel problem is > causing the grub problem? I do remember having an upper/lower case > problem with grub some time ago. The solution was along the lines of: > > set cmdpath=(hd0,gpt1)/efi/devuan [previously EFI uppercase] > set prefix=(hd0,gpt1)/efi/devuan > normal > > at the grub prompt. > > I suspect that's unlikely to be a complete solution, but maybe a few > hints in there? Yes, basically what I've tried, but there s no /efi/devuan. I've just had no success being able to access any of the file system. i'm begiing to think that if this sort of problems keep recurring, it will be a step back to the future from the time when the first hing you did after installing a system was to created a boot floppy; boot cd/dvd these days. Any way, Thank you. I've decided to risk it and attempt an OS re-install despite the rebuilt mailer requiring three attempts to get a booting sstem. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
