Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Now, the question is, what the heck is thin-provisioning in lvm2, am I using it, and if not, do I need it? I'm pretty sure I'm not using it, but how to be sure? Google for

[gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Just wanted to start a new thread about this... Would appreciate any responses from anyone using this... Why did you choose it? What has your experience been? Any problems? If so, how did you overcome them? If you had to do it all over again, would you still use it? If so, would you do

[gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all... I'm a little confused by something... If I change the MAILURI in make.conf from the default, ie: #PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=root /usr/sbin/sendmail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=recipi...@example.com sender:pas...@smtp.example.com:100587 I'm guessing portage still uses /usr/sbin/sendmail, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-16 9:05 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all... I'm a little confused by something... If I change the MAILURI in make.conf from the default, ie: #PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=root /usr/sbin/sendmail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=recipi...@example.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:05:52 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: #PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=root /usr/sbin/sendmail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=recipi...@example.com sender:pas...@smtp.example.com:100587 I'm guessing portage still uses /usr/sbin/sendmail, but using the above defined credentials? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-16 9:56 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: So it uses SMTP by default, Python has standard libraries that make this simple, and only uses sendmail when you explicitly instruct it to do so. Ok... so... the question remains - can I tell cron to send mail the same way?

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:59:09 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-11-16 9:56 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: So it uses SMTP by default, Python has standard libraries that make this simple, and only uses sendmail when you explicitly instruct it to do so. Ok... so... the

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-16 10:04 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:59:09 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-11-16 9:56 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: So it uses SMTP by default, Python has standard libraries that make this simple, and only uses sendmail when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:17:07 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok... so... the question remains - can I tell cron to send mail the same way? You don't, cron sends mail via sendmail, to the recipient specified by the MAILTO variable in the crontab file. Thanks Neil, but... you said 'You

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-16 12:32 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: sendmail sends mail. And apparently so does portage... So, anyone care to venture a guess as to why the gentoo devs decided to implement their own smtp server just so portage could send emails all by itself, rather than

[gentoo-user] re: a couple of power management questions

2013-11-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've been setting up power management on my HP compaq laptop using this article, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml, as a reference. Just a couple of questions I thought I'd ask. (1). CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO seems to be missing in the 3.10.17-gentoo kernel, but is available in

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Benjamin Lee
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:05:52 -0500, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: [...] I think all I need to do is figure out how to tell cron to send emails the same way as portage using sender:pas...@smtp.example.com:587 (using TLS), but alas, my google-fu is failing on this one... I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-16 2:29 PM, Benjamin Lee b...@b1c1l1.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:05:52 -0500, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: [...] I think all I need to do is figure out how to tell cron to send emails the same way as portage using sender:pas...@smtp.example.com:587 (using TLS),

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Manuel McLure
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.orgwrote: No... I know all about running a local MTA. My real question is, why can portage do this (send emails without a local MTA installed)? Why did the gentoo devs decide to build an smtp client into it capable of

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/11/2013 19:42, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-11-16 12:32 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: sendmail sends mail. And apparently so does portage... So, anyone care to venture a guess as to why the gentoo devs decided to implement their own smtp server just so portage could send

Re: [gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM

2013-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/11/2013 15:20, Tanstaafl wrote: Just wanted to start a new thread about this... Would appreciate any responses from anyone using this... Why did you choose it? What has your experience been? Any problems? If so, how did you overcome them? If you had to do it all over again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:03:57 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: My real question is, why can portage do this (send emails without a local MTA installed)? I already answered that, it uses Python's smtlib (or something equivalent, I haven't checked). That's a core Python library and since portage depends

[gentoo-user] Lenovo X201 waking from sleep crash after 3.8.10 kernel

2013-11-16 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, My computer crash when waking up from sleep. I just see black screen and then the computer boots up. This happens in every kernel after 3.8.10. kernel 3.8.10 works fine and the computer wakes up as expected. Can someone help me debug this issue? I'm using: