Re: [gentoo-user] How to install Ruby bindings in an ebuild

2023-04-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Michael Orlitzky: > The eclass sets S=$WORKDIR at first because it creates a separate > source tree for each version of ruby that will be built for. [...] Hm. While that sounds useful for "full Ruby" ebuilds, I don't see how to circumvent the impact for the particular ebuild I am trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install Ruby bindings in an ebuild

2023-04-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
Hello Michael. Long time no read. ;-) > I think the best way to support that in a package is to declare which > ruby versions are supported with USE_RUBY and ruby-ng.eclass. I tried what you suggested. However, inheriting from ruby-ng.eclass introduces an odd problem: For some reason unknown to

[gentoo-user] How to install Ruby bindings in an ebuild

2023-04-18 Thread Ralph Seichter
I need to install Ruby bindings (something.so) during an ebuild, specifically into the /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux directory. I scanned existing ebuilds for an example, but have not yet found one. The developer manual [1] mentions newlib.so, but that function appears to inject

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Raphael Mejias Dias: > I've read this question and now I'm curious about how much it would > cost to compile a Gentoo system into cloud. Anyone know this? The cheapest Gentoo VMs of mine are based on Hetzner's CX11 [1] which cost 3,49 EUR per month (plus VAT, but no setup fees). Gentoo can be

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-16 Thread Ralph Seichter
* tastytea: > Another solution would be to register an inexpensive domain name and > use that.  Quite so. For example, Hetzner (no affiliation) charges 3,36 EUR per year for a .de Domain. An officially registered domain saves a lot of hassle. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted

2021-12-14 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Frank Steinmetzger: > I am looking for an as-simple-as-possible setup for local mail > delivery. See http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html as a starting point. Using Postfix for the purposes you described is an easy-to-setup, robust option which can (but does not have to)

Re: [gentoo-user] foot terminal not in portage?

2021-12-10 Thread Ralph Seichter
* caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人: > why doesn't portage have foot? Probably because nobody has yet created an ebuild for it? Feel free to put in the necessary work and provide one yourself. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] flask up/downgrade problem/question

2021-07-17 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Jack: > I had originally installed with -test, but just re-emerged with "test" > and it emerged with no problems, although I'll have to check the log > to see if it did actually run the tests. I just tried it myself. I created flask-migrate-3.0.1-r2.ebuild in an overlay, using

Re: [gentoo-user] flask up/downgrade problem/question

2021-07-17 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Jack: > It seems that flask-migrate was recently upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, > but it's DEPEND for flask was changed from >=flask-0.9 to https://bugs.gentoo.org/801670 -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread Ralph Seichter
* the...@sys-concept.com: > I've always used postifx but I want to try sendmail this time. > And I have a hard time finding gentoo howto. Well, configuration-wise, you are saying "I've always enjoyed a soothing massage, but I want to try being dragged over cobblestone pavement while

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread Ralph Seichter
* n952...@web.de: > I confess, I never really read the fine print to the end because it > never occurred to me that python would be so gratuitously > authoritarian as that. Now look at you. Hiding behind an anonymous freemail address, not paying attention (for years), whining that the makers of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local mail server

2020-07-30 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Grant Edwards: > Pricing is based on what people are willing to pay. People are willing > to pay extra for a static IPv6 address, therefore static IPv6 > addresses cost extra. Somewhere, and some people. I'd be interested to hear from users who still need to pay extra for IPv6. Here in Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

2020-07-30 Thread Ralph Seichter
* antli...@youngman.org.uk: > An ISP will then be allocated the next 16 bits, giving them a 32-bit > address space to allocate to their customers - each ISP will have an > address space the size of IPv4?! ISPs can ask for several address spaces, each of which had a much, *much* larger address

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Daniel Frey: > You just pointed out the ambiguity. I did no such thing, and there is no ambiguity. There is only the failure to specify a package's identifier ("atom"). > Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before > this change. Perhaps for the packages you used; I

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Daniel Frey: > I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and now it says it's an ambiguous > requests with *both* the group and user of the same name. You need to emerge "media-tv/mythtv", not just "mythtv". Nothing ambiguous about it. Further reading: https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
* con...@ftml.net: > Still you have to manually configure things. And I know that Gentoo is > about choice, but configuring kernel is hard. It may be hard for you personally, but it is not hard for everyone, so I object to the generalisation. You can choose between learning more about the Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] aggregate logs into Elasticsearch

2020-04-04 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Stefan G. Weichinger: > Maybe I look into mongodb as well, for example I found this small > howto: https://www.fluentd.org/guides/recipes/maillog-mongodb That looks unnecessarily complicated to me. While you can of course move data from an existing log file into MongoDB, I find configuring

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Petric Frank: > But normal people aren't professional actors. I thought i could be > a technical solution. Making life easier in this corona-days with > increasing video conferences. Normal people just have to adapt to a worldwide pandemic and be damn grateful for existing video conferencing

Re: [gentoo-user] aggregate logs into Elasticsearch

2020-04-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Stefan G. Weichinger: > My goal: > > collect logs of postfix, nginx into the docker-containers running ES, > Kibana .. and learn my way from there. If you are not dead-set on Elasticsearch et al, I propose considering MongoDB as an alternative. There are syslog Modules that allow logging into

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Petric Frank: > Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally looks > at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not looking at > the camera. It may be bothering you, but that's not a problem in any real life sense. People can either live with it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* ai...@aisha.cc: > I'm not too sure that running it as a mail server is impossible. I never wrote that it is impossible, only that "I would not use it as an Internet-facing production Mailserver". That's a huge difference. You are free to do as you wish, but I still consider it an unsuitable

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* james: > I'm thinking about setting up a pair of Rasp-Pi-4 as DNS servers with > 4GB of ram. Is that enough ram for a DNS server? For running the Nameservers, yes. Compiling Gentoo packages will likely put your SD-Card under stress, but that's just how it goes. My Model B Rev 2 of 2015 runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-06 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Peter Humphrey: > My IPv6 address is indeed static. Nice. In that case, you can of course use your router's global scope address in /etc/hosts or DNS. > The only IPv6 details my router shows are the LAN and WAN addresses, > and 'ip -6 route show' on this host, although it lists six addresses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ian Zimmerman: > [OpenWrt] needs one crucial bit of configuration that's kind of hidden > (can't be done via the GUI), to let the router advertisements through. Glad to hear that you got things working. You have probably already filed a GUI enhancement request. ;-) -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* gentoo-u...@c-14.de: > The easiest option is if you're using stateful DHCPv6. In this case > you just need to set up your dhcp server to notify your dns server of > any new leases. That's what you consider "the easiest option"? ;-) I usually ask the following of people starting with IPv6: Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Peter Humphrey: > $ ping6 vdsl > ping: vdsl: No address associated with hostname The outcome of ping depends on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, and even on the OS of the IPv6 nodes involved. Apple devices will be available as somename.local, with "somename" being what the user configured as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Nuno Silva: > Which version of netifrc do you have? Could this be bug 642774[1]? Possibly. Similar issues have been reported for a while, see for example https://bugs.gentoo.org/609682 . Since I only stop network interfaces manually once in a blue moon, I have shrugged it off so far. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-29 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ralph Seichter: > I just randomly picked [1] as a generator service [1] being https://cd34.com/rfc4193/ . I need more sleep, I really do. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-29 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Mick: > I have net-libs/libndp installed, but no ndp command ... where is it > hiding? Oh, I forgot that "ndp" is BSD Unix specific. On Gentoo, you can use sys-apps/iproute2 tools, e.g. "ip -6 neigh" to inspect the kernel's neighbour table. > PS. Thanks for your posts and links, at some point

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-29 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Walter Dnes: > Assume the following [...] Pretty close. If you *really* want to set things up manually, I suggest using ULA as per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193 . I just randomly picked [1] as a generator service, entered a fictuous MAC address (you should use one of your own), and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Walter Dnes: > Look Ma, we have a form of IPV6 NAT (Ducks back into foxhole before > incoming artillery barrage from IPV6 purists). Hehe. ;-) That's both provocative and wrong. An IPv6 router can, at a glance, decide if a packet needs to be handled locally or pushed out. No need for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Walter Dnes: > I prefer man pages to rambling Youtube videos. As you wish: man ndp ;-) > given that SLAAC and DHCPV6 assign random addresses how do I > accomplish the equivalant of "scp i660:." The world according to 'argon', a MacBook Pro I am using right now: argon $ ndp -a Neighbor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ian Zimmerman: > The first reason [...] was that my router does _not_ assign fe80::1 to > itself, but rather some other arbitrary address in the fe80 prefix I found an article[1] that I first read years ago. "One method to make things easier is to manually assign the link-local address to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Walter Dnes: > How would this be accomplished under IPV6? You may find https://youtu.be/A3LFt7CHpgs helpful. It is a video about Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), provided by RIPE NCC. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ian Zimmerman: > What am I missing? I can't really tell, based on what you posted. Is there an IPv6 Router Advertisment service running, either on your router or another machine in your local network? Here is some data from the Gentoo machine I am currently working on. It is hosted in a data

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ian Zimmerman: > But what about connecting to the outside world? For that, the > link-local address doesn't work. It does work, actually. fe80::1 is a perfectly valid way to specify the default gateway. Remember that NICs have several IPv6 addresses with different scopes. > No configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ian Zimmerman: > So, how to configure IPv6 on an end user gentoo box (not a router)? This depends on how clever your existing router is. If it provides Router Advertisement, like the FRITZ!Box 7xxx line does, IPv6 clients should be configured automatically. As an alternative, you can run

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Daniel Frey: > I have exactly one choice for an ISP and I need a static IP. The ISP > disables ipv6 for some reason when you have a static IP. Like I said, the availability of "decent" ISPs varies by location, and there are of course locations where one is basically screwed when it comes to

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Adam Carter: > when i enable v6, all my internal hosts become directly routable from > the Internet via the /56 my ISP assigns me. Even pretty anemic hardware can handle the demands of an IPv6 firewall, for example using iptables/nftables. The demands of IPV6-related processing should actually

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Daniel Frey: > Can't do anything, ipv6 is completely disabled (removed from kernel > config.) A search for "linux kernel enable ipv6" just returned more than 1.7 million results. > Current ISP will not issue any ipv6 if an ipv4 static is required. My current ISP offers native IPv6 and has

[gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-25 Thread Ralph Seichter
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html This does not come as a surprise, of course, but I consider it a good point in time to pause and ask oneself what each individual can do to move further towards IPv6. The end is neigh(ish). -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Michael Orlitzky: > Shh, this is how we trick people into becoming proxy maintainers and > eventually Gentoo developers. And don't I know it. ;-) -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Michael Orlitzky: > You'll have to write the ebuild yourself, there is no g-cpan > equivalent for python packages. Dan wrote "I have a piece of python software [...] that I would like to install/try". Creating an ebuild just to do that sounds like overkill to me. If the software author

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Dan Johansson: > The recommended way to install it is using pip which will then install > everything including dependencies (which could lead to conflicts with > software installed using emerge (I guess)). There will be no conflicts if you use 'pip' with virtual Python environments. The

Re: [gentoo-user] missing patch in latest notmuch (0.29.2)

2019-10-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Caveman Al Toraboran: > any thoughts? Known bug, fixed, see Bugzilla. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client slows down the boot process

2019-07-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
* YUE Daian: > I added [ntp-client] to the default boot level (OpenRC), however it > seriously slows down the boot process (around 10 seconds or so). Launching 'clamd' can hold up a reboot for a minute or longer, so ten seconds do not seem that bad to me. > Is there any way to make it faster?

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?

2019-07-04 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Christian Groessler: > My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge", "man" and other > command line programs. The methods vary between command line tools. You can for example disable the 'manpager' USE flag for sys-apps/man-db. The manual page for emerge mentions different methods

Re: [gentoo-user] "

2019-05-12 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Jack: > The DEPEND line !!

[gentoo-user] "

2019-05-12 Thread Ralph Seichter
Hi folks, I have come across blocked packages [1] before, but this time I am having a hard time solving things. Accordings to the attached log, there is a hard block of dev-python/setuptools_scm somewhere, preventing the update of that package. Could somebody point me in the way of resolving

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New network cards default to "Y" with "make oldconfig"

2019-03-24 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Grant Edwards: > If the old config file didn't have drivers for that vendor enabled, > why should I have to see all the options now? Indeed. There must have been some working network device driver included in the old kernel to get the system running. If one feels the need for additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 4.19.8 kernel panics with netfilter/iptables

2018-12-17 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Hasan Ç.: > I can share my results. Have you been able to run some tests yet? -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 4.19.8 kernel panics with netfilter/iptables

2018-12-12 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Hasan Ç.: > Can you share your iptables rules i am on 4.19.8 too with exact > version of kernel c headers & updated glibc. Here you go: https://pastebin.com/f8V8DfFU As you can see, I obfuscated some IP addresses, but other than that, this is the original ruleset. -Ralph

[gentoo-user] Linux 4.19.8 kernel panics with netfilter/iptables

2018-12-12 Thread Ralph Seichter
With kernel versions 4.19.0 to 4.19.8, I see kernel panics whenever I activate some iptables rules. The same ruleset works fine with all earlier kernel versions. I found https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel=154211825506348=2 and was wondering if there is any workaround/patch availabe in Gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

2018-11-18 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Neil Bothwick: > That's because ~ doesn't mean unstable, it means testing. Stable in > this context means less likely to change, not less likely to fall > over. Plus the differentiation is for the ebuilds, not the software > itself. It is also worth mentioning that ebuilds cannot be added to

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 does not have Gentoo signing keys, which is unacceptable!

2018-09-25 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 25.09.18 08:15, gevisz wrote: > Gentoo handbook contains instructions that lead to downloading and > using unverified portage tree that is unacceptable [...] See https://bugs.gentoo.org/597918 (filed almost two years ago). -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting PYTHON_TARGETS in make.conf is not supported?

2018-07-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 26.07.2018 16:57, Grand Duet wrote: > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" > [...] > The ebuild selected to satisfy "app-text/asciidoc" has unmet requirements. > The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: > exactly-one-of (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-23 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 23.07.2018 08:56, Kai Peter wrote: > package.provided have to be configured at each host by hand wich is a > big effort if you have a lot of boxes. I call that nonsense. How is that an effort, especially if the proposed alternative is installing a do-nothing ebuild on "a lot of boxes"? "He

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 22.07.2018 09:27, Kai Peter wrote: > A bit more easier is to create an 'empty' virtual ebuild which at > least does nothing but tells portage the dependency is fulfilled. Not a good choice, IMO. Portage has its own mechanism for that:

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 21.07.2018 23:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > But what's the proper method to tell my gentoo system that I don't > want crud like nullmailer installed? Install an MTA using emerge, or let Gentoo know that you have installed qmail manually. When you work around portage, you are responsible to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] how to set python version for one user

2018-07-10 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 10.07.2018 10:23, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > I need to set specific python version to a user and I don't want to > set it up for whole system. Is it possible? I can't tell if by "set it up" to have Python binaries available for only one user, or if you want one user to use a different Python

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Github Organization hacked.

2018-07-04 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 04.07.18 16:53, Alec Warner wrote: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Github/2018-06-28 My thanks to all the people involved for resolving this and also taking the time to document events. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6

2018-06-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 28.06.18 00:16, John Covici wrote: > after doing a world update, there are still packages which apparently > need both 3.4 and 3.5, so I cannot remove them. That sounds like you might still have some packages where the use flags python_targets_python3_4 and/or python_targets_python3_5 are

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6

2018-06-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 27.06.18 22:43, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > After installing python 3.6, I now have multiple systems wanting to > depclean it! Have I missed something? Should I be uninstalling 3.4 > and 3.5 which are also present? After you have recompiled all packages that were built with Python 3.4 and 3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 19.01.18 19:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > I need to setup an SMTP relay server. > > It needs to accept messages as an SMTP server (using SSL and AUTH on a > non-standard port) from a single user and single source and then relay > them by passing them to a command-line MTA (e.g. /usr/bin/sendmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config

2017-12-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 28.12.17 20:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing > one, I am sure, but I can't find it. If your previous kernel has IKCONFIG support(*) enabled, I recommend these steps for a kernel update to keep as many configuration options as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 27.11.17 18:48, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Do you really need lmtp for that, though? As far as I remember simply > piping the messages to the /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver program, as the > deilivery mechanism, will ensure the same thing. Both Dovecot and Postfix speak LMTP, so why not use it for

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 27.11.17 14:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Do I really need to do that on this small, low-volume network? What do > I lose by letting postfix and fetchmail write files for dovecot to read? It is very easy to configure Postfix to use an LMTP socket provided by Dovecot (paths match typical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 26.11.2017 18:46, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > those are Exim's local IDs, assigned by the list server host. Those > are distinct from RFc 5322 Message-IDs, which are the closest thing > to uniquely identify a message. I am well aware of this, and this is exactly what I wanted to point out. > So

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 26.11.2017 03:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I get duplicate messages, which are a known problem and easily worked > around, but the latest version of KMail whinges about more than one > candidate for display and just gives up. For debugging purposes it might help you to know that you actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-24 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 24.11.17 18:30, Rich Freeman wrote: > While Postfix certainly won't serve up email via IMAP it definitely > does store email. As an MTA should, Postfix transports email. It can also handle local mail transport (say, in maildirs) and I guess one could call that "storing" mail, but to me that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-24 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 24.11.17 17:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > That's because I don't yet know enough to know what questions to ask; > that's why I hoped I'd be pointed to a general guide or explanation. http://www.fetchmail.info/ is the most obvious starting point, and I assume you have found that one. Fetchmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-24 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails > from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them > via IMAP. Postfix is an MTA and does neither store email nor lets you access email via IMAP. There must be an IMAP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

2017-10-16 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 16.10.2017 17:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Nagios and I go way back, way way waay back. I now recommend it > never be used unless there really is no other option. Have you tried Icinga 2 (*) yet? It originally started as a Nagios fork and uses plugins to monitor, but the rule-based

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 07.09.17 22:04, Dale wrote: > If he's using or planning to use Firefox on Gentoo, that is on topic. If you read the OP again, you'll find that it had no relation to Gentoo whatsoever. Danny himself agreed this is not the right mailing list, so please let's leave it at that. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 07.09.2017 15:20, Danny YUE wrote: > Well, I know it is not the perfect place but I don't want to spam my > inbox with Firefox topics, so that's why I don't subscribe that mail > list and am asking here. ;-) And you believe that spamming the inbox people interested in Gentoo (that's why we

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 07.09.2017 14:26, Danny YUE wrote: > I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until > today I found its new version really sucks. If you're curious about Mozilla's move to the WebExtensions API, see https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/ . You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

2017-08-29 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 29.08.2017 14:52, Stroller wrote: > Any recommendations for a simple NTP client? Anything you dislike about net-misc/ntp, which you apparently use on that other system of yours? It comes with both ntpd and ntp-client, and the performance impact is minimal. > I *think* this is because

Re: [gentoo-user] certbot confusion

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 26.08.2017 08:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > The cop-out solution is to have a single pre-hook and a single > post-hook, which stop (resp. start) both daemons, but that is > ugly. How do people handle this? I have not used certbot hooks myself, but a glance at the docs shows: --pre-hook and

Re: [gentoo-user] install under centos606

2017-08-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 21.08.2017 13:49, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > I'm excited about using gentoo, though the online instructions could > really use more structuring, i.e. it's hard to avoid reading the parts > you don't need to and the "flow" is rather lost. It's an extremely > verbose document

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 21.08.2017 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Ah, so silentoldconfig is effectively the same as old config. Silentoldconfig is quite a useful make target, since it only asks about newly introduced kernel options. > Does your old kernel still work ad before? Just wondering if another > update

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 20.08.2017 08:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'd try again with a clean kernel tree but using make oldconfig. It's > possible the automagic stuff answered n somewhere where you need a y. As https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade/en#make_silentoldconfig describes, "make silentoldconfig"

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 20.08.17 00:15, Craig MacKinder wrote: > It sounds like this vmxnet3 bug causing intermittent interface problems > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191201 > Try adding this to the VMware guest advanced settings. > vmxnet3.rev.30 = FALSE > And restart the guests. Interesting idea.

[gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
It seems strange to me as I write it, but since I updated one of my virtual servers from Kernel version 4.9.34 to 4.12.5, the server (Gentoo Linux running as a KVM guest) is experiencing timeouts when trying to connect to DNS resolvers. For the Kernel update, I followed the same steps I used for

Re: [gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission

2013-01-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 27.01.13 17:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: You config certainly looks right to me, and I don't know of any config that makes it work differently. I suspected as much. The trouble is that the Pingulux is unable to write data to the directories it creates. Thus, your idea of using chmod from a cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission

2013-01-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 27.01.13 19:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: so essentially you have an nfs client that by design can't do nfs? You could put it that way. I purchased this satellite receiver a few days ago and upgraded to the latest firmware available (version 1.2.61 released 2013-01-07). Unfortunately, the

[gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission

2013-01-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
Hi list members, I set up Gentoo as an NFS server, and I am experiencing problems with one of my NFS clients. When this specific client creates new directories within the NFS-exported directory, the permissions are 0644 instead of 0755 ('executable' is missing). The client does not allow passing

Re: [gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission

2013-01-26 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 27.01.13 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: What sort of client is this, and what umask is it using? The client is an Edision Argus Pingulux Plus satellite receiver. [root@stlinux]#uname -a Linux stlinux 2.6.32.42_stm24_V4.1-SAT7111_7111-STSDK #56 PREEMPT Tue Oct 16 16:17:14 CST 2012 sh4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netatalk 2.2 for Gentoo?

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 30.07.11 02:11, Manuel McLure wrote: FYI, netatalk 2.1.5 for AFP (I don't use anything else) is working for me here with OS X Lion. That's interesting, I can't seem to connect to Netatalk 2.1.5 with Lion. Would you perhaps share the contents of your /etc/netatalk folder? -Ralph

[gentoo-user] Netatalk 2.2 for Gentoo?

2011-07-29 Thread Ralph Seichter
Hi list, as a Mac user who recently began migrating machines to OS X Lion, I am wondering if some kind soul is already working on net-fs/netatalk 2.2.0 for Gentoo? The existing version 2.1.5 does not support AFP 3.3, which is required by Lion's modified Time Machine implementation. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
Aggelos wrote: I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it here. If you don't care about the other subscribers here, I suggest you to host your own mailing list, i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge dazuko 2.3.x with kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
Peter Ruskin wrote: CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK is not set Thanks, I thought so. The compile error occurs in a sections encapsuled in #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM, and your kernel configuration does not include XFRM Networking Security Hooks. I'll probably disable this, because the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge dazuko 2.3.x with kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
Peter Ruskin wrote: No, it doesn't look familiar - I had no problems at all I wonder... Could you please check your kernel configuration? /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo # grep CONFIG_SECURITY .config CONFIG_SECURITY=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge dazuko 2.3.x with kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
Has anybody successfully emerged sys-fs/dazuko on a machine using kernel version 2.6.20? I tried dazuko-2.3.2-r3 and dazuko-2.3.3_pre1, but emerge fails with errors like in the attached build log. I haven't yet found anything about this on bugs.gentoo.org or MARC. -R * Determining the location

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge dazuko 2.3.x with kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
Peter Ruskin wrote: 2.3.3_pre1 works OK here. So it is possible and there's hope left. ;-) I don't suppose that [...]/dazuko-2.3.3-pre1/dazuko_linux26_lsm.c:1486: error: too many arguments to function 'dazuko_security_ops.xfrm_policy_alloc_security' looks familiar to you? Did you modify

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al

2006-08-04 Thread Ralph Seichter
Ralph Seichter wrote: I'll try to figure out exactly which modules can be used to access the network controller (sk98lin, skge or sky2). emerge --update --deep world finished over night, and this is what I see after booting with an empty /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: # lsmod Module

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al

2006-08-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
it is finished, I'll try to figure out exactly which modules can be used to access the network controller (sk98lin, skge or sky2). -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al

2006-08-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
probably use a different network controller in a server setup, but as this is a workstation and already quite crammed with PCI cards, I'd rather not add more hardware. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list