[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, everyone! I decided to activate the portage ELOG system. I can't make portage send mail or write in the syslog. "save" appears to be the only working "PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM" - it saves log files in /var/log/portage for the emerge activities. The settings relevant to ELOG in my make.conf are: PO

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:28:45 +0200 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, everyone! Hi, I have little to offer to you... > I decided to activate the portage ELOG system. I can't make portage > send mail or write in the syslog. "save" appears to be the only > working "PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM" - it saves log files

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 15:06, Daniel Iliev wrote: > 1) About the "real" server: Well, "echo test | sendmail -t > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" works. So why don't you just take advantage of that? PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" -- Bo Andresen pgpYLBhdzhlVG.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > I have little to offer to you... > > I have been having problems with same, but using a "real" mail server > (for your [EMAIL PROTECTED] I assume you're using default postfix install, > am I right?) > Thank you for you response. 1) About the "real" server: Well, "echo

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:06:01 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Now. The things got even more weird and unexplainable for me. I did > "emerge -DuNav world" and there were some font packages to be rebuild > because of a change in the USE flags. After emerge finished I got emails > for the those packages

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 15:06, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> 1) About the "real" server: Well, "echo test | sendmail -t >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" works. >> > > So why don't you just take advantage of that? > > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail"

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-22 Thread Grant
I'm getting this on my laptop: "!!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?" I have this in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant schrieb: I'm getting this on my laptop: "!!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?" I have this in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" PORTA

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-22 Thread Grant
> I'm getting this on my laptop: > > "!!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, > 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI > correctly?" > > I have this in make.conf: > > PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log" > PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" > PO

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant schrieb: If you wish to use ssmtp with ELOG, you've got to use PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and set up your own program in PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND. Read my howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails That looks pretty slick but I try to do

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:17:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO, > they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP > by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :( Portage doesn't do SMTP by itself, it uses the Python sm

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:17:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO, they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :( Portage doesn't do SMTP by itself,

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:01:34 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: > Re-using existing software is very unix like Sending mail with directly speaking SMTP isn't. That's the job of a MTA. What if you don't have an MTA installed, which is how this questi

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:27:22 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Sending mail with directly speaking SMTP isn't. That's the job > >> of a MTA. > > > > What if you don't have an MTA installed, which is how this question > > arose? > > Then you install one. That's not an acceptable answer for a co

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:27:22 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Sending mail with directly speaking SMTP isn't. That's the job >> of a MTA. > > What if you don't have an MTA installed, which is how this question > arose? Then you install one. That's not an acceptable a

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant schrieb: I'm getting this on my laptop: "!!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?" I have this in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" PORTA

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:02:36 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > It's not wasteful, as it provides an easy option for many people and > > it uses existing software. > > It IS wasteful, as it doesn't use existing, standard software and > as it re-implements a functionality, which is very likely to b

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Grant
So, the correct entry for your make.conf is: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" I've tried that and it doesn't seem to be working. I have ssmtp installed with +mailwrapper. Do I need to set up any other kind of configuration? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant wrote: >> So, the correct entry for your make.conf is: >> >> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" > > I've tried that and it doesn't seem to be working. How is it not working? What's in the logs? > I have ssmtp > installed with +mailwrapper. mailwrapper or not shou

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Tro
On Monday July 24 2006 01:51, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Sorry for all the confusion - I should've read the documentation first. So, is that gentoo-wiki article defunct now? Tro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Tro schrieb: On Monday July 24 2006 01:51, Alexander Skwar wrote: Sorry for all the confusion - I should've read the documentation first. So, is that gentoo-wiki article defunct now? I can't tell yet, as I haven't checked if MAILURI="... /usr/sbin/sendmail" works fine. But I'd suppose, that

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 July 2006 19:08, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Tro schrieb: > > On Monday July 24 2006 01:51, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Sorry for all the confusion - I should've read the documentation first. > > > > So, is that gentoo-wiki article defunct now? > > I can't tell yet, as I haven't checked i

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar schrieb: Tro schrieb: On Monday July 24 2006 01:51, Alexander Skwar wrote: Sorry for all the confusion - I should've read the documentation first. So, is that gentoo-wiki article defunct now? I can't tell yet, as I haven't checked if MAILURI="... /usr/sbin/sendmail" works fi

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Grant
>> So, the correct entry for your make.conf is: >> >> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" > > I've tried that and it doesn't seem to be working. How is it not working? What's in the logs? There is nothing in /var/log/mail/ and I can't find anything in /var/log/everything

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:52:04 -0700, Grant wrote: > > You need to configure ssmtp. Did you do so? > > Looking over /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, it seems like I need to configure > the mailhub variable? I want to make sure I'm setting up as simple a > system for getting this elog mail out as possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant schrieb: >> So, the correct entry for your make.conf is: >> >> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" > > I've tried that and it doesn't seem to be working. How is it not working? What's in the logs? There is nothing in /var/log/mail/ and I can't find anything in /va

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Grant
> I thought this > thread was saying using SMTP was optional. You misunderstood. This thread was about, *WHERE* SMTP is used. IMO, it's wrong that portage even CAN use SMTP. But nearly always, you'll need to use some SMTP server to get your mail out. But with the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface, it

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Grant schrieb: > >> > I thought this > >> > thread was saying using SMTP was optional. > >> > >> You misunderstood. This thread was about, *WHERE* SMTP is used. > >> IMO, it's wrong that portage even CAN use SMTP. But nearly always, > >> you'

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick schrieb: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: Grant schrieb: >> > I thought this >> > thread was saying using SMTP was optional. >> >> You misunderstood. This thread was about, *WHERE* SMTP is used. >> IMO, it's wrong that portage even CAN use SMTP. But nearly always, >> y

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought this > >> thread was saying using SMTP was optional. > Can I set my portage elog mail to be sent with UUCP? Is it not oh, someone's still using good-old uucp ? :) cu -- - Enr