[gentoo-user] pppoe not working

2020-08-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can someone suggest an openrc style network stanza for an iiNet NBN pppoe connection? It has username/password/vlan2 parameters but I can't even get a ppp0 node to appear with the online suggestions. Bill K -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background

2020-08-30 Thread n952162
In all of the imagemagick display installations I have, when I use the image edit draw function, it includes an opaque background, rather than just the lines themselves.  I've never had this with display(1) before, and can find nothing in the internet about it.  That suggests to me that it's - aga

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-30 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 06:00:11PM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > (I've never seen an smtp:/ or imap:/ url, but I guess they could easily > be formulated.) They are sometimes used, usually in addition to a port specifier, in order to express a protocol univocally. For example, here's part of my Mutt c

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - looking for someone to fix PHP code - paid job

2020-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-08-29, Skippy wrote: > At least I'm 99% sure that's what is going on. Since I don't know PHP I > can hardly be certain about it. The beauty of PHP is that even if you _do_ know PHP you can hardly be certain about it. After decades of people trying (and failing) to invent languages tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-30 Thread james
On 8/29/20 7:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 6:47 PM james wrote: On 8/29/20 4:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Perhaps a read only mechanism could publish all of that financial data? Perhaps timely data entry, should be a requirement? As part of the cleanup Robin has published

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-30 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 28, 2020 11:27 PM, antlists wrote: > On 26/08/2020 21:21, Grant Taylor wrote: > > > > so basically total expected number of protocols/layers used in the > > > universe, per second, will be much less if we, on planet earth, use a > > > mail system

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/08/20 14:06, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > you know there is this almost neat concept called > url? > > rumours say that urls can identify various web > applications, ranging from websites, rss, games, > video, and, guess what? mails. all over > http/https/h2 over same tcp 80/443. hard to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/08/20 20:47, William Hubbs wrote: >> > Sound to me like you are an excellent candidate to join the Gentoo >> > Council? If so, contact Mgorny for pointers. > The functions being discussed in this thread belong to the > trustees (the board of directors for the foundation) [1]. Thhey are > d

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for someone to fix PHP code - paid job

2020-08-30 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 August 2020 19:56:39 BST Skippy wrote: > Greetings. > > I am dealing with a WordPress site that has PHP code written into the > theme which needs some fixing. > > At least I'm 99% sure that's what is going on. Since I don't know PHP I > can hardly be certain about it. > > I'm lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can root verify user is secure?

2020-08-30 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 August 2020 22:01:18 BST Grant wrote: > The strange behavior was a critically slow internet connection first > thing in the morning that wasn't fixed by a reboot or modem power > cycle. My net0 monitor didn't show any traffic but I still wonder if > the upstream pipe could have be