Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 3, 2020 6:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran toraboracave...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your > > time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? > > Yes. I meant the program provided by the "sendmail"

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your > time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? Yes. I meant the program provided by the "sendmail" ebuild. That is the MTA named "sendmail" that's been around since the universe cooled enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional > who already knows how to configure it (not joking). > > If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or > wherever), then Sendmail is definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] static-libs for sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2

2020-04-02 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 23:38:20 +0200 Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi, > > All in a sudden, sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2 are required to have > static-libs to upgrade: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r11:0/1::gentoo USE="(split-usr) > static-libs*

[gentoo-user] static-libs for sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2

2020-04-02 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, All in a sudden, sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2 are required to have static-libs to upgrade: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r11:0/1::gentoo USE="(split-usr) static-libs* -static" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:28 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > >> > >> I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years > >> old) from the likes of Asrock

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: >> >> I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years >> old) from the likes of Asrock would be able to boot from an NVMe card >> using a PCIe adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > > > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > > Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > > from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O > > I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:57:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > mfsmaster ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1 > > /dev/nvme0n1: > Timing cached reads: 8524 MB in 1.99 seconds = 4283.31 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 4252 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1416.93 MB/sec > mfsmaster ~ # > > > Samsung

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:19:45 BST antlists wrote: > On 02/04/2020 12:29, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > [question 1] i wonder how do you monitor your pc? > > While it doesn't look for problems, I always have xosview running on my > desktop. It tells me when the system is struggling, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > >> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. >> Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go >> from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O > I've been wondering if older fairly generic

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years old)

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman > wrote: > >> Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the >> hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real" >> sendmail - any MTA program you install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-02 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 01:57:29PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > I installed flameshot (required no additional packages be installed). > > It can not be used to annotate existing image files. There's a long > list of requests for that feature on the GitHub site, but apparently > no progress on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-02 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 01:31:38PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-02, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > > If your original images are screenshots, I'd recommend 'flameshot'. > > They're not. They're jpeg files produced by running photos though > some Imagemagick 'convert' operations. Does

[gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-02, Ashley Dixon wrote: > >> If your original images are screenshots, I'd recommend 'flameshot'. > > They're not. They're jpeg files produced by running photos though > some Imagemagick 'convert' operations. Does that mean flameshot can't > be

[gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Ashley Dixon wrote: > If your original images are screenshots, I'd recommend 'flameshot'. They're not. They're jpeg files produced by running photos though some Imagemagick 'convert' operations. Does that mean flameshot can't be used to annotate them? > Unfortunately, it

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread antlists
On 02/04/2020 12:29, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: [question 1] i wonder how do you monitor your pc? While it doesn't look for problems, I always have xosview running on my desktop. It tells me when the system is struggling, and it supposedly monitors things like raid. Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread antlists
On 02/04/2020 13:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: Same here, the colour cartridges have been saying they're "critically low" for the past couple of months. As they don't expire, I did order a new set when they got low. Those are still sealed in storage. Yup. I ordered a set when they hit critically

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:49:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: >> antlists wrote: >>> On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: I still haven't bought it yet. I ordered some toner cartridges a while back for my printer. The site said that the ones I ordered fits my printer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 3:31:48 AM CEST Adam Carter wrote: > > A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: > > 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in 3.00 > > seconds = 531.46 MB/sec > > 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in 3.00 > > seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:49:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: > antlists wrote: > > On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: > >> I still haven't bought it yet. I ordered some toner cartridges a while > >> back for my printer. The site said that the ones I ordered fits my > >> printer. Well, it appears they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:13:38 AM CEST antlists wrote: > On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: > > BTW, next time I'll find a printer that allows refilling and such too. > > I don't like that chip thing. It counts against my page count on color > > even if I print a black and white page. Still,

[gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
currently i have two i3 tiles open on one of my monitors: * one shows `journalctl -f`, which shows things from smartd, sudo attempts, and maybe soon also arpwatch. (btw, any other monitoring apps that you recommend?) * another shows `watch 'dmesg -T` for kernely things not showing up in

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:29:06 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > currently i have two i3 tiles open on one of > my monitors: > > * one shows `journalctl -f`, which shows things > from smartd, sudo attempts, and maybe soon > also arpwatch. (btw, any other monitoring apps > that you

[gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. Using /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox seems to parse the path correctly (when

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: how to inhibit binary distribution

2020-04-02 Thread n952162
(I see that /var/db/pkg/app-crypt/gnugp*/CONTENTS has ...) On 2020-04-02 13:30, n952162 wrote: I see that /var/db/pkg/app-crypt/gnugp* has /usr/bin/gpg I re-emerged that, thinking maybe packages on the stage3 CD are binaries, but I still have /usr/bin/gpg in that file, with the same md5 as is

[gentoo-user] portage: how to inhibit binary distribution

2020-04-02 Thread n952162
I see that /var/db/pkg/app-crypt/gnugp* has /usr/bin/gpg I re-emerged that, thinking maybe packages on the stage3 CD are binaries, but I still have /usr/bin/gpg in that file, with the same md5 as is really in /usr/bin/gpg.  I thought gentoo distributed sources ... well, it does - the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 02 Apr 2020 07:03:01 -0400, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman > wrote: > > > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. > > > > Normally the mail program works by execing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. > > Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the > hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Adam Carter
> > 3900X@2133 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 11904 2858 > 3900X@3200 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 15213 3032 > > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. Do > you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go from > BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared