Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/crontab - sending notification to a different user

On 27/08/2024 19.09, syscon edm wrote: That is not it. I changed in /etc/crontab MAILTO=sysc...@gmail.com restart cronie but system is still emailing it to r...@gmail.com What job is run? Some jobs has their own configuration to where the ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of issues with wayland

On 06/08/2024 15.56, Arsen Arsenović wrote: "J. Aho" writes: On 05/08/2024 18.30, Daniel Frey wrote: Is it just me or is wayland nowhere near primetime? There are still issues with wayland, not sure how up to date this page is: https://gist.github.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of issues with wayland

On 05/08/2024 18.30, Daniel Frey wrote: Is it just me or is wayland nowhere near primetime? There are still issues with wayland, not sure how up to date this page is: https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277 My SailfishOS based phone uses wayland and on that it's been

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

On 13/07/2024 14.50, Peter Humphrey wrote: Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin server, which makes things out of syn

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

On Friday, 19 April 2024 16:05:47 CEST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm playing around with my NAS box again. I ran into a network issue. > I sorta forgot I unplugged the network cable so obviously, it made it > difficult to ssh into the thing from my main rig. After hooking up a > monitor and keyb

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out all openrc dependencies?

On Sunday, 14 April 2024 10:24:54 CEST Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 14 April 2024 08:28:07 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > > > Our systems are certainly different, but I noticed this dependency on my > > > localmount which is missing on yours: > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out all openrc dependencies?

On Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:10:31 CEST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 10:48:15 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:35:10 CEST Michael wrote: > > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 06:19:57 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > Hi all, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out all openrc dependencies?

On Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:35:10 CEST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 06:19:57 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > For a while I've been seeing the following ERROR-messages when booting 1 > > of > > my systems: > > > > *

Re: [gentoo-user] acct-user/man usermod: user 'man' does not exist in /etc/passwd

On Thursday, 11 April 2024 10:16:52 CEST Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 03:23:22 CEST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> This failed once before but I didn't worry about it. However, since the > >> profile upda

[gentoo-user] How to find out all openrc dependencies?

Hi all, For a while I've been seeing the following ERROR-messages when booting 1 of my systems: * ERROR: cannot start multipathd as localmount would not start * ERROR: cannot start zfs-import as localmount would not start This isn't a big concern as these services will start correctly later:

Re: [gentoo-user] acct-user/man usermod: user 'man' does not exist in /etc/passwd

On Thursday, 11 April 2024 03:23:22 CEST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > This failed once before but I didn't worry about it. However, since the > profile update, it still fails. I'd like to figure out how to fix it. > I tried doing a emerge -C and then emerging it again. No help. This is > the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New profiles 23.0

On Saturday, 30 March 2024 19:34:42 CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > Thanks for the help. I've migrated my 3 operating Gentoo machines; > main desktop, backup desktop, and an old used Lenovo Thinkpad X201. The > poor thing was thrashing away for over 18 hours with 657 packages on the > emerge --emptytr

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 16:11:20 CEST Paul Sopka wrote: > Hello Gentoo, > > my entire system crashes reliably on "Detecting C compiler ABI info" > when compiling some packages, happened on sci-libs/netcdf and > media-libs/svt-av1. > > I am pretty sure it isn't a hardware instability since I can

Re: [gentoo-user] some problems moving to 23.0 profile

On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 10:14:11 CEST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 07:03:42 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Monday, 1 April 2024 23:46:49 CEST John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. Well, I followed the steps in the news item, to move > > > todefault/linux/amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] some problems moving to 23.0 profile

On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:17:25 CEST John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:02:08 -0400, > > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 05:51:08 CEST John Covici wrote: > > > On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:05:47 -0400, > > > > > > Dale wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] some problems moving to 23.0 profile

On Monday, 1 April 2024 23:46:49 CEST John Covici wrote: > Hi. Well, I followed the steps in the news item, to move > todefault/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome/systemd > > and it all worked till it wants me to emerge the whole world file. > Here is what I get: > > emerge --ask --emptytree @worl

Re: [gentoo-user] some problems moving to 23.0 profile

On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 05:51:08 CEST John Covici wrote: > On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:05:47 -0400, > > Dale wrote: > > John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. Well, I followed the steps in the news item, to move > > > todefault/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome/systemd > > > > > > and it all worked till it want

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc - parallel start - timeouts

On Friday, 29 March 2024 15:16:18 CEST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 29 March 2024 13:30:23 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > To improve the bootup time of my server, I want to enable "parallel", > > however, I run into an issue where some of

[gentoo-user] openrc - parallel start - timeouts

Hi All, To improve the bootup time of my server, I want to enable "parallel", however, I run into an issue where some of the services take longer than 60 seconds to start, causing this to be classed as "not started", which then kills the entire boot sequence. Boot, obviously, goes fine with pa

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

On Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:58:47 CET J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise > in both directions. > > Does anyone have any though

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to synchronise between 2 locations

On Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:51:42 CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-03-27, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 > >> servers. Changes can occur on both

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with new hardened profiles 23.0

On Thursday, 28 March 2024 12:01:54 CET Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 28 March 2024 10:23:29 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote: > > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Do you use the binary packages supplied by Gentoo? > > > Or all local-compiled? > > > > All local-compiled,

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with new hardened profiles 23.0

On Thursday, 28 March 2024 11:23:29 CET Matthias Hanft wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Do you use the binary packages supplied by Gentoo? > > Or all local-compiled? > > All local-compiled, with the exemption of "monster-packages" which > would take hours or even

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with new hardened profiles 23.0

On Thursday, 28 March 2024 08:42:57 CET Matthias Hanft wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > When rebooting, I noticed the "openrc" program was moved from > > "/sbin/openrc" to "/usr/sbin/openrc". I understand this is related to the > > merge-usr

[gentoo-user] Issue with new hardened profiles 23.0

Hi all, After succesfully migrating my desktop to 23.0, I decided to do the same for my server. The only difference is that the server uses a hardened profile. When rebooting, I noticed the "openrc" program was moved from "/sbin/openrc" to "/usr/sbin/openrc". I understand this is related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

On Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:37:27 CET Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:18:14PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > > Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem betwee

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

On Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:54:14 CET Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > > On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to synchr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

On Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:08:00 CET Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > > can occur on both sides which me

[gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Hi all, I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both directions. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, both servers are connected using a slow VPN link, which is why I can't simpl

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please

On Friday, February 16, 2024 6:19:25 AM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 11:35:18 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I've been using postfix for longer than I can remember. > > The config entries I changed from default are: > > > > --- main.cf --

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please

On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 4:52:03 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > For years, I've been using postfix to accept mail from LAN hosts, and from > the Internet via my ISP. This has never worked as I want it - it's just so > complex to set up and understand. Well, it is for a bear of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Thursday, February 8, 2024 6:44:50 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/02/2024 06:38, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > ZFS doesn't have this "max amount of changes", but will happily fill up > > the > > entire pool keeping all versions available. > > But it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Thursday, February 8, 2024 6:36:56 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/02/2024 06:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> After all, there's nothing stopping*you* from combining Linux and ZFS, > >> it's just that somebody else can't do that for you, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 10:50:07 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/02/2024 11:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Because snapshotting uses so much less space? > >> > >> So much so that, for normal usage, I probably have no need to delete any > >> snapsh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 10:59:38 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/02/2024 11:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:27:35 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 06/02/2024 13:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>>> Clearly Oracle likes this state of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 6:22:34 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:38:11 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I presume that boot/root on ext4 and home on ZFS would not require an > >> initrd? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 12:17:03 AM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/02/2024 16:19, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Ah! Got it. That's one of the things I've been trying to figure out > >> this entire thread, do I need to switch home and root to ZFS to take > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:27:35 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/02/2024 13:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Clearly Oracle likes this state of affairs. Either that, or they are > >> encumbered in some way from just GPLing the ZFS code. Since they on > >> paper own

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 6:29:09 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > If you want to use snapshots, the filesystem will need to support it. > > (either LVM or ZFS). If you only want to create snapshots on the > > backupserver, I actually d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:35:34 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-05, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 04/02/2024 15:48, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> OK I see. That's a bit different than what I'm doing. I'm backing up > >> a specific set of directory trees from a couple different > >> filesyste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:38:11 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-05, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wrote: > >> > If zfs file system is superior

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

by now. > On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 7:55 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote: > > > The main barrier is that its license isn't GPL-compatible. It is > > > FOSS, but the license was basically designed to k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wrote: > > If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is. > > Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux? > > The main barrier is that its license isn't GPL-compatible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:01:32 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici wrote: > > I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced > > my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few > > minutes because taking a sna

Re: [gentoo-user] 'make install' hijacked by installkernel ?

lkernel ? I had to change the use flags sys-kernel/installkernel-dracut -systemd With "dracut", it now ran dracut automatically, duplicating my install script. With "systemd", it installed the new kernel in a subdirectory of

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

seamlessly interact with MTP device files." -- Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. Security is inversely proportional to convenience

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

m/Cyp/simple-mtpfs.git> but the Gentoo version is currently the same as that on github last time I pulled. [as root] simple-mtpfs --device 1 -o allow_other,ro /mnt/phone [as normal user, copy] rsync ... [again, as root] fusermount -u /mnt/phone -- Alan J. Wylie

Re: [gentoo-user] amavis/postfix and port 10025

On Monday, July 3, 2023 7:23:12 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: > Inline: > > On 3/7/23 12:52, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Sunday, July 2, 2023 4:16:54 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have been using a gentoo mail gatewa

Re: [gentoo-user] amavis/postfix and port 10025

On Sunday, July 2, 2023 4:16:54 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using a gentoo mail gateway for many years - its currently > running under LXC and is upgraded using a generic LXC "golden master" image > with the various email related packages being installed and con

[gentoo-user] InfluxDB python library?

Hi all, I've been using a python script for the past 4 years to read out my solar panels and write the data into InfluxDB to get nice graphs in Grafana. Unfortunately, the library I use to write to InfluxDB has a dead upstream and doesn't work with Python 3.11 anymore. Does anyone know of a dif

Re: [gentoo-user] Solution for Remote Desktop

On Sunday, May 7, 2023 8:49:46 PM CEST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > This setting is turn ON but still log user out. Not sure if this is related, but if you have the "Home" version on the windows side, you might be limited to only 1 login. > I found another solution, Chrome Remote Desktop" wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Nextcloud-24.0.7 and proxy settings

On Sunday, February 19, 2023 1:17:41 PM CET Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to setup a nextcloud instance inside a DMZ that has no direct > connection to the outside world, only via proxy. The proxy itself is working > fine, but I fail to configure nextcloud to actually use th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

e time: 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz, 4GiB, not systemd Wed Sep 28 08:32:50 2022 >>> net-dns/bind-9.16.33 merge time: 15 minutes and 28 seconds. Fri Jan 20 07:50:41 2023 >>> net-dns/bind-9.16.36 merge time: 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

suggest better > values to suit my 24 threads and 64GB RAM? One other item I missed in the replies: "--load-average" is also a valid option for make. If you want to keep the load down, I would suggest adding this to MAKEOPTS as well: MAKEOPTS="--jobs=16 --load-average=32" I

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using refind?

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 1:15:51 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > On 02.02.23 12:33, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Please only send mails to the list. > > There is no need to add me to the TO or CC lists. > > > > On Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:22:49 PM CET Klaus Dittrich

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using refind?

Please only send mails to the list. There is no need to add me to the TO or CC lists. On Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:22:49 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > On 02.02.23 10:51, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:42:40 AM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > >> Is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using refind?

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:42:40 AM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > Is there andbody using refind? Especially in Germany? > I have some questions about. If you have questions, feel free to ask on this list. I am sure I am not the only one using it. -- Joost

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.15.59 un-keyworded?

Hi, Is there a specific reason why the keywords (apart from hppa) have been removed from gentoo-sources-5.15.59? I am seeing some issues with systems running this version, but not all. And as this is recent, I don't have an older kernel to quickly fall back to. Currently working on testing dif

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 9:07:41 PM CEST Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Monday, August 15, 2022 12:44:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and > >> also filling up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 8:56:30 PM CEST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 2:34 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Actually, there still is a piece of software that does this: > > " app-backup/dar " > > You can tell it to split the backups into slices of a spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 9:52:26 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Julien Roy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 8/14/22 18:44, Dale wrote: > >> Thoughts? Ideas? > > > > You might be interested in borgbackup [1] > > It takes delta backups and has de-duplication and compression to save > > some space. It support

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 12:11:34 PM CEST Rich Freeman wrote: > The main issue I think you're going to have is having support for > multi-volume backups if you need to be able to split a backup across > drives. The only thing I've found on Linux that does this is bacula, > and it is a royal p

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 9:05:24 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:44 PM Dale wrote: > >> Right now, I'm using rsync which doesn't compress files but does just > >> update things that have changed. I'd like to find some way, software > >> but maybe there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 12:44:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and > also filling up. First casualty, my backup disk. I have one directory > that is . . . well . . . huge. It's about 7TBs or so. This is where it > is right

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate... /bin/echo: write error: No such device

On Wednesday, 27 July 2022 23:53:08 CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > One of the last few items on the laptop setup. I emerged hibernate > and copied over the /etc/hibernate/ directory from my desktop. When I > try to hibernate the laptop, I get... > > [thimk][root][~] hibernate > /bin/echo: write err

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox woes

On Monday, 1 August 2022 02:46:32 CEST Matthew Sacks wrote: > The vbox log and screenshot are all I have to go off. Next time I?ll provide > that upfront. New to these parts (gentoo lists). > > It crashes on boot actually to answer your question. Please stop top-posting. It makes these emails dif

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Monday, 18 July 2022 08:03:44 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/17/22 11:48 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > It could, but that would open up an unsecured key to interception if > > an intermediate host is compromised. > > What are you thinking? -- I've got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Friday, 15 July 2022 18:39:25 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/14/22 3:22 PM, Steve Wilson wrote: > > Have you looked at dev-tcltk/expect? > > Expect has it's place. > > Just be EXTREMELY careful when using it for anything security related. I agree > Always check for what is expected before s

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:15:05 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/15/22 11:46 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hmm... interesting. I will look into this. > : > :-) > : > > But, it needs the agent to be running, which will make it tricky for > > automation. > > Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:10:52 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/15/22 11:42 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > True, properly done automation is necessary to make our lives easier. > > #truth > > > I tried this approach in the past and some levels of automation still > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Friday, 15 July 2022 14:44:10 CEST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:53:44 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > There's no reason you cannot change SSH keys as regularly, and good > > > reasons why you should. It's just that people don't bother to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Friday, 15 July 2022 18:32:52 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/15/22 1:53 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I agree, but that is a tedious process. > > Yes, it can be. That's where some automation comes into play. True, properly done automation is necessary to make our lives

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Friday, 15 July 2022 18:15:04 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/15/22 1:15 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Yes. > > Okay. > > That simply means that SSH keys won't be used to authenticate to the > remote system. > > > How would it not prompt for

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

Hey, NordVPN and Surfshark aren't really considered good VPNs. I'd instead suggest you take a look at Mullvad and IVPN (maybe ProtonVPN too if your threat model doesn't include governments or any kind of law enforcement). A VPN tunnel basically routes all traffic directed at it to the VPN server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Friday, 15 July 2022 10:13:12 CEST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, 14 July 2022 23:22:46 CEST Steve Wilson wrote: > > On 14/07/2022 07:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to login to a host and automatically change

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Thursday, 14 July 2022 23:22:46 CEST Steve Wilson wrote: > On 14/07/2022 07:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am looking for a way to login to a host and automatically change to root > > using a password provided by an external program. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Friday, 15 July 2022 09:29:14 CEST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:15:02 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I prefer not to use SSH keys for this as they tend to exist for years > > in my experience. And one unnoticed leak can open up a lot of systems. > > This i

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Thursday, 14 July 2022 17:30:28 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/14/22 12:35 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi All, > > Hi, > > > I am looking for a way to login to a host and automatically change > > to root using a password provided by an external program. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Thursday, 14 July 2022 17:32:07 CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/14/22 3:54 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > For security reasons, I do not want direct login to root under any > > circumstances. This is disabled on all systems and will stay this way. > > +10 for security >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to automate login to host and su to root?

On Thursday, 14 July 2022 10:04:21 CEST Mickaël Bucas wrote: > Le jeu. 14 juil. 2022 à 08:35, J. Roeleveld a écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > I am looking for a way to login to a host and automatically change to root > > using a password provided by an external program.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to run multiple commands from single script in parallel?

On Monday, March 14, 2022 11:51:44 AM CET Björn Fischer wrote: > Hello Joost, > > > Is there a tool/method to execute multiple lines/commands > > simultaneously? Like having 3 or 4 run together and when 1 is > > finished, it will grab the next one in the list? > > probably, GNU Parallel is what y

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

Pardon me, but how would using --nodeps be a wise choice to rebuild your @world? > 21/2/22 v 0:06, Michael Orlitzky : > > On Sun, 2022-02-20 at 19:51 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> Shouldn't --keep-going have kicked in there and restarted the update? >> > > You'd think, but --keep-going

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 5.15+ (thru 5.16.5)

bf4ded29c...@synopsys.com/ Try setting "CONFIG_FB=y" I had problems building nvidia-drivers, turning on "CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU" worked around the problem https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871r3cr08w@wylie.me.uk/ -- Alan J. Wylie

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 11:31:57 AM CET Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:12:41 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I've never been happy with genkernel and roll my own using a > > config-file that's configured directly into the kernel. > > All it needs

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:15:30 AM CET Wol wrote: > Just filed bug 824282. > > In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make > install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...". > > This worked fine, and I then ran grub-mkconfig, sorted out grub.cfg, and > al

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DisplayPort KVM switch advice please

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021 4:53:12 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Can anyone recommend a reliable KVM switch for DisplayPort with USB keyboard > and mouse? I've tried a couple of devices over the past few years, but they > both failed - or at least they appeared to fail, in subt

Re: [gentoo-user] deactivate (bluetooth) hardware based on irq/mac address

On Saturday, July 3, 2021 1:59:24 PM CEST Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi > > The problem is that the bluetooth circuit seems to be damaged, as I have > recently the same result on Windows (not only on linux. > > At Windows, I can deactivate the hardware at the "device manager", I > want this the same t

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

On Saturday, July 3, 2021 1:54:13 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> The subject line pretty much describes this. How does one manage the > >> system.map file in /boot? Is it needed? Should it be updated with each > >> kernel? I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:47:08 PM CEST Robert David wrote: > In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the > MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not > very flexible. Only think you gain is the extra space in constrained > array spaces. Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:29:03 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: > On 1/7/21 7:31 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >>> I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] is "scp" reliable?

On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 6:21:52 PM CEST n952162 wrote: > On 6/1/21 6:42 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > If there are differences, I would definitely suspect memory and CPU. > > > > -- > > Joost > > CPU? USB was mentioned which set off alarm bells for me. In gene

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

On Thursday, June 3, 2021 10:53:45 AM CEST Adam Carter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 6:19 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > All, > > > > I've got several packages complaining about "PYTHON_TARGETS" missing > > "python3_8" > > You s

[gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

All, I've got several packages complaining about "PYTHON_TARGETS" missing "python3_8": The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: python_targets_python3_8 The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: any-of ( python_targets_python3_8 )

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 12:28:49 AM CEST Fannys wrote: > On June 1, 2021 4:45:45 AM UTC, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > >On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 3:51:06 AM CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/1/21 3:38 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > All browsers will treat their fake certificate corresponding to the > > fake key on their fake web server as completely legitimate. The "real" > > original key that you generated has no s

Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:44:47 PM CEST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > BillK: > ... > > > And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed > > certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to certify who you > > are, but at the expense of probably allowing access to your >

Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo

On Thursday, May 27, 2021 11:35:33 PM CEST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > On Thu 27 May 2021 17:05:07 GMT, Walter Dnes wrote: > > * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)? > > I have a NVMe drive on my corporate laptop (a lenovo) and I don’t have > any issue with it. > > PS: I agr

Re: [gentoo-user] is "scp" reliable?

On Saturday, May 29, 2021 11:04:44 PM CEST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 1:33 PM wrote: > > > > Another mystery. > > I copied the file to USB 1TB sandisk. > > md5sum check OK same as my computer > > > > > Different revisions of md5sum possibly? I have never had issues with dif

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote > > > 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update. > > > > For certificates I would expect the old and invalid ones to be replaced > > by newer ones without user int

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

On Thursday, May 6, 2021 9:40:21 AM CEST n952162 wrote: > On 5/6/21 7:42 AM, n952162 wrote: > > On 5/6/21 7:30 AM, n952162 wrote: > >> On 5/5/21 8:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote: > Hello. > > I update several machines every mont

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