[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Marc Joliet
OK, I finally solved this, albeit a bit differently... by switching to nullmailer. The TL/DR summary is: use the right tool for the job. Some more details follow below. Nullmailer was very easy to set up (the deceptively short HOWTO is pretty much all that is needed). The only problem is that

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:21:56PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote This choice came about because I switched from fcron to systemd-cron, which runs its mail_on_failure script as user nobody, which caused my current passwordeval command (cat somefile, somefile having a mode mask of 0600) That is

[gentoo-user] Re: In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

2015-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/07/2015 08:43 μμ, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:47:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The problem I (possibly needless) see is: While I am tinkering and testing the configuration I may setup an open Wifi access point without noticing it in first glance and BANG! get hacked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

2015-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/07/2015 08:43 μμ, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Yes and no. If user enabled network interface and has no network daemons running, kernel still listens to that interface (ARP, icmp and so on) and may be hacked using

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 Jul 2015 15:23:30 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:21:56PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote This choice came about because I switched from fcron to systemd-cron, which runs its mail_on_failure script as user nobody, which caused my current passwordeval command (cat

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I check for haveing an ethernet device

2015-07-20 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: More like your mail client/browser/whatever decided to not show what was successfully delivered brain_fart...scuz me The first one came through here just fine, now I have 2 Yes, I now have (2) cups of coffee in front of me. It is

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I check for haveing an ethernet device

2015-07-20 Thread James
wraeth wraeth at wraeth.id.au writes: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:38:52AM +0200, Meino.Cramer at gmx.de wrote: on an embedded system I want to check, whether I have an eth0 device (ok, I know, it is not an device in the usual way...), when I attach an USB2Ethernet gadget via OTG-cable to

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I check for haveing an ethernet device

2015-07-20 Thread James
Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: on an embedded system I want to check, whether I have an eth0 device (ok, I know, it is not an device in the usual way...), when I attach an USB2Ethernet gadget via OTG-cable to it and whether all needed drivers are already there... Strange Gmane dropped

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I check for haveing an ethernet device

2015-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/07/2015 18:20, James wrote: Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: on an embedded system I want to check, whether I have an eth0 device (ok, I know, it is not an device in the usual way...), when I attach an USB2Ethernet gadget via OTG-cable to it and whether all needed drivers are already

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:49:00PM +0100, Mick wrote This is all good and dandy, but letting user nobody read your mail accoutn passwd may not be the safest approach to sending email messages from your machine. I think you missed the point. The NOPASSWD: option means that this one

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 20/07/2015 21:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, New emerge failure. It seems static-dev does not like udev,devfs or tmpfs for some mount point, not sure which that is tho. This make no sense to me. eudev is a dynamic /dev manager so you don't have to deal with doing it

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/07/2015 22:45, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 20/07/2015 21:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, New emerge failure. It seems static-dev does not like udev,devfs or tmpfs for some mount point, not sure which that is tho. This make no sense to me. eudev is a dynamic /dev manager so you

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As you say, this makes no sense. It's like running in circles or something. Mostly or something. If you need more info, let me know. I'm pretty much clueless here. What do you have in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS? Are you mixing arch

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Dale
Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As you say, this makes no sense. It's like running in circles or something. Mostly or something. If you need more info, let me know. I'm pretty much clueless here. What do you have in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS?

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As you say, this makes no sense. It's like running in circles or something. Mostly or something. If you need more info, let me know. I'm

[gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Dale
Howdy, New emerge failure. It seems static-dev does not like udev,devfs or tmpfs for some mount point, not sure which that is tho. Unpacking source... Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/static-dev-0.1/work Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/static-dev-0.1/work ... Source

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/07/2015 21:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, New emerge failure. It seems static-dev does not like udev,devfs or tmpfs for some mount point, not sure which that is tho. This make no sense to me. eudev is a dynamic /dev manager so you don't have to deal with doing it statically static-dev is a

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo with a systemd profile

2015-07-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jul 18 2015, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am installing gentoo on a new laptop. I am a gnome, hence systemd, user. I also use lvm (I have / and /usr combined on a

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo with a systemd profile

2015-07-20 Thread Jc García
2015-07-20 19:13 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu: I tried via depclean. I wanted to ask here before actually trying --unmerge, which seems rather brutal. I actually had a tiny part in the systemd wiki and remember that you could switch from an openrc system to systemd without unmerging.

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This wouldn't help with some of the things you lost but it will with your passwords at least. For passwords, this will help and you can use it somewhere else as well since it is portable, sort of.

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread Jc García
2015-07-20 17:18 GMT-06:00 walt w41...@gmail.com: Lesson learned: if you need to start firefox with a fresh profile, just move your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way and let firefox create a new one from scratch. Using firefox sync is also an option, and If you don't want Mozilla having

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/07/2015 00:24, Mick wrote: On Monday 20 Jul 2015 22:50:31 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:49:00PM +0100, Mick wrote This is all good and dandy, but letting user nobody read your mail accoutn passwd may not be the safest approach to sending email messages from your

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo with a systemd profile

2015-07-20 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jul 18 2015, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am installing gentoo on a new laptop. I am a gnome, hence systemd, user. I also use lvm (I have / and /usr combined on a non-lvm partition). At the point where you choose a profile

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo with a systemd profile

2015-07-20 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jul 19 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 21:00:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am installing gentoo on a new laptop. I am a gnome, hence systemd, user. I also use lvm (I have / and /usr combined on a non-lvm partition). At the point where you choose a profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This wouldn't help with some of the things you lost but it will with your passwords at least. For passwords, this will help and you can use it somewhere else as well since it is portable, sort of. https://lastpass.com/ ++

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 Jul 2015 22:50:31 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:49:00PM +0100, Mick wrote This is all good and dandy, but letting user nobody read your mail accoutn passwd may not be the safest approach to sending email messages from your machine. I think you missed the

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/mkvtoolnix-7.3.0 fails to configure it seems

2015-07-20 Thread Dale
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On Jul 16, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else running into this? No. checking if linking against libMatroska works and if it requires -DMATROSKA_DLL... yes, without -MATROSKA_DLL checking for ZLIB... yes checking for wx-config...

[gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread walt
I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of bookmarks and saved passwords. For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and created a fresh firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread wabenbau
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of bookmarks and saved passwords. For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager flag (don't do this, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of bookmarks and saved passwords. For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and created

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/07/2015 23:50, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:49:00PM +0100, Mick wrote [snip] You can tell it to run a script that contains that command. Having passwords floating around on disk in clear text is a *BAD* idea. Some user friendly distros, like Ubuntu, let you run

[gentoo-user] Re: Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:18:44 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of bookmarks and saved passwords. For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the