w something to people. It's also nice in
that you can just tap on a Zoom invite url in the email app, and it
"just works".
I haven't trie Skype on Fire.
You can add hangounts/duo, but you've got to futz around sideloading
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umé. :) I usually do have TexLive installed, but a while back it
was causing a blockage when trying to do an update. So I uninstalled
it in order to get on the the 'emerge -auvND world' and never got
around to re-installing it until today.
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On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:21:26PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Google has found various references to 'croppdf' which is included
>> in a package of texlive extra utilities on Ubuntu. Gentoo seems
>> have 38 different 'texlive' ebuil
' which is included in
a package of texlive extra utilities on Ubuntu. Gentoo seems have 38
different 'texlive' ebuilds. Is there any way to tell which (if any)
contains croppdf?
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On 2020-05-13, Alan Grimes wrote:
> This is just fantasmagorically wonderful:
IIRC, I had the same error (building a different package). I just did
"emerge -C cmake" then did another 'emerge -auvND world', and it all
worked itself out.
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On 2020-04-24, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:34:39PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2020-04-24, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote:
>> > The core of portage should be in C, imho.
>>
>> Why? I've been running Gentoo on multiple machines (genera
r can be static with install scripts being a bit more
>> malleable.
>
> The core of portage should be in C, imho.
Why? I've been running Gentoo on multiple machines (generally at
least 4 or 5) for 15+ years now. I've never seen any problems that
could be attributed to the fact that portage isn't written in C.
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d writing the entire
unmodified line to a new file based on the munged name. If directories
work, create and populate them without munging names.
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use.
I want to read things on multiple devices, and IMAP based email does
extremely well at that.
I have select few things that I don't run through rss2email that I just
read via Thunderbird's RSS support.
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don't behave correctly as per the
SMTP spec, how can the server degrade gracefully?
I wonder how many Sun Sparc boxen were put between Microsoft mail
infrastructure and the rest of the world in the '90s and '00s.
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. (My bigger clients had
Exchange.)
So, IMHO, complaining that Outlook doesn't support CalDAV is sort of
like complaining that Firefox doesn't support SIP telephony. Could it
if it wanted to, sure. Should it, maybe. Does it, no.
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tely after
getting the response.
Also, we're talking about the late '90s during the introduction of
ESMTP, which was a wild west time for SMTP.
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On 2020-04-10, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I took pause for a moment wondering if this was something I typed or
> not. ;-)
I know what you mean. :)
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On 4/10/20 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Yes, that works!
Good.
Thanks!!
You're welcome.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me to check for a make.conf
variable instead of an environment variable or USE flag. Of course
now that I know that make.conf variable's name, I have found
On 2020-04-10, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> On 4/10/20 10:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Yes, I'm aware I can add "--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but
>> is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make
>> emerge --search do the righ
oth the
installed version and the available version. I never figured out how
to get equery to do that.
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On 4/10/20 10:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Yes, I'm aware I can add "--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but
is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make
emerge --search do the right thing by default?
Does adding it to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in /etc/portage
On 2020-04-10, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, at 12:08, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless,
>> unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of returning
>> a bunch of packages that don
"--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but
is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make
emerge --search do the right thing by default? I have never, even
once, found the current defult behavior to be useful.
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creating my own custom SMTP engine to
do the same types of tests that JEF-PT does / did.
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returned in order do to round-robin DNS. But
things that use MX records know to sort based on MX weight.
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On 2020-04-08, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 4/8/20 7:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> NB: The cheap VPS instances that I work with do have static IP
>> addresses, but they share that static IP with a bunch of other VPS
>> instances. If you want your VPS to have a non-shared
On 4/8/20 7:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
NB: The cheap VPS instances that I work with do have static IP
addresses, but they share that static IP with a bunch of other VPS
instances. If you want your VPS to have a non-shared static IP
address, then make sure that's what you're signing up
On 2020-04-08, Grant Taylor wrote:
> If all you're after is a static IP and aren't worried about sending
> email from it, you can get a cheap VPS and establish a VPN from your
> house to it. Use the static IP of said VPS as your home static IP. }:-)
NB: The cheap VPS instances th
a VPN from your
house to it. Use the static IP of said VPS as your home static IP. }:-)
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cheaper VPS providers.
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My experience with multiple different installations is that lack of a
filter can pretty much kill the ADSL signal and redner the DSL mode
useless.
> The filter cuts out audible frequencies so you can't hear them
> when you're making a call.
In my experience, it often also prevents the phones and connected
lines from presenting such a screwed up impedance to the DSL signal
that DSL stops working.
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On 4/6/20 3:17 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Hello,
Hi,
[O.T.] Unfortunately, Grant, I cannot reply to your direct e-mail. My
best guess is that you have a protection method in place in the
event that the reverse D.N.S.\ does not match the forward ?
You're close. I do require reverse DNS. I
, but it's a harder
sell than that of foregoing a secondary MX.)
Greylisting, or better, nolisting is a very good thing.
See my other email for why I disagree about foregoing additional MXs.
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pplication is otherwise stateless
and runs for the duration of a single HTTP request.
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al opinion is that if you're serious about
email, then you should have multiple inbound MX servers.
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ke a look at the libinput(4) man page, which is installed by
> x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput.
Nothing there except mouse/trackpad stuff. I don't see anything about
keyboard layout in general or XkbRules in particular.
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consumption. There is no
point trying to connect to the same IP, even by a different name, an
additional time after the previous time failed during the /current/
delivery / queue cycle.
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does exactly what
you're asking to do.
Thanks in advance.
[1] https://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Project_Tar
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many MTAs that check things and realize that the hosts in
multiple MX records resolve to the same IP and treat them as one.
You may get this to work. But I would never let clients to rely on this.
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ing
as your agent.
General call to everybody: If you're an individual and you want a
backup (inbound relay) email server, send me a direct email and we can
chat. I want to do what I can to help encourage people to run their own
servers. I'm happy to help.
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On 2020-04-06, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-04-06, Michael wrote:
>
>> Did you try '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf' ?
>
> My keyboard config is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf
>
> The control/capslock key mapping still works, but the keyboard layout
&
On 2020-04-06, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:37:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I switched from evdev to libinput as recommeded by recent news, and
>> now my keyboard is hosed: a bunch of keys are unrecognized or send the
>> wrong thing. (Arrow keys don't wo
documentation I find talks about evdev, but doesn't
mention libinput:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout_switching
Where/how to I set keyboard layout for libinput?
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On 2020-04-06, Jack wrote:
> On 4/6/20 9:35 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2020-04-06, William Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>>> Use rsync with the bwlimit option to slow down the overall data rate -
>>> monitor the temp with smart and slow it up if needed (I actual
gt; Fstab depends on this...
Then it's broken. For USB attached storage, you have to use UUID or
LABEL for it to be reliable.
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ally
it's for limiting bandwidthon sockets.
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On 2020-04-05, Urs Schütz wrote:
> On 2020-04-02 15:57, 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
s it's for controlling bandwidth usage on "the
socket", so perhaps it's ineffective for local copies.
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not
simply copy the system from one drive / machine to another?
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On 4/3/20 4:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If you want to become an ultra-professional, that's fine. If you
just want to be able to send mail interactively from mutt...
OK, that's a bad example now that mutt has built-in SMTP client
capabilities.
How about ... if you only want to get email
On 2020-04-03, Grant Taylor wrote:
> (20)ProTip: You really do want local outbound queueing /somewhere/ on box.
>
> You don't want your web application to error out when it can't reach
> it's SMTP server. You don't want t loose that receipt for the
> transaction that the cus
syntax can read both files.
This is far from turning something into byte code.
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On 4/2/20 8:23 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
It's very powerful but the configuration file format is almost
impossible to understand, so people developed an m4 application that
accepted a _slightly_ less cryptic language and generated the
sendmail configuration file.
The configuration file is far
have to bother with detecting the error and
reporting it to the end user via the web form. You didn't have to
bother with storing information for later retry. The local queuing MTA
did all of that for you.
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On 4/2/20 8:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the
ultra-professional who already knows how to configure it (not
joking).
I take exception to that for multiple reasons:
1) Bootstrapping - you can't learn something without actually using it.
2) I've
quot; would be done in real time? It
sounds like some pretty sophisticated real-tiem 3D modelling and CGI to me...
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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
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 NVM
years
old) from the likes of Asrock would be able to boot from an NVMe card
using a PCIe adapter like this:
https://www.amazon.com/QNINE-Adapter-Express-Controller-Expansion/dp/B075MDH28Y
I suspect not...
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hings you can do with sendmail that
Exim or Postfix can't handle, but I'm not sure I believe it. I am
sure I'll never need to do any of those things.
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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
nately, it requires Qt, but you've likely already got that if you run a
> G.U.I.-based configuration.
I've got some minimal Qt libraries (e.g. what it takes to run Wireshark and
VLC).
> https://gpo.zugaina.org/media-gfx/flameshot
I'll try one of those ebuilds...
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On 2020-04-01, Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:42:48 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> What application would people recommed to add some simple annotations
>> to image files?
> I would be mentioning LO Draw, which you have considered.
I tried LO Draw — it works
how to do it
in LibreOffice draw, but that seems suboptimal.
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onal difference
between SDD and spinning platters.
> 2.) Is this reasonable?
Using two different label schemes seems overly complex. I'd use GPT
for both, just to keep things consistent.
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On 2020-03-22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> The only other Qt GUI app I have installed (AFAICT) is wireshark. It
> worked fine a few days ago, and now it segfaults too.
>
> ... I installed qterminal as a quick test, and it segfaults also.
I checked another system that was also upgr
ing.
The only other Qt GUI app I have installed (AFAICT) is wireshark. It
worked fine a few days ago, and now it segfaults too.
... I installed qterminal as a quick test, and it segfaults also.
I guess I'll have to start rolling back Qt packages on Monday when I
need Wireshark to work again. :/
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On 2020-03-22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> VLC suddenly stopped working this week. Last week it worked fine, but
> now I get this:
>
> $ vlc
> VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
> [55814c41d3e0] main xml reader error: XM
screens. Does that have something
to do with VLC suddenly blowing a gasket about XML?
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ly
closely-related divisions might as well be on different planets. But
at least there's chance that Samsung products can benefit from the
vertical/horizontal integration.
As it says on the coffee mug my neice gave me for christmas:
Hold on, let me overthink this.
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I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few
years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers
of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice
quality chips in their own drives...
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of NAND flash.
Correct. NOR flash density is far lower than NAND flash. NOR is only
used for small applications (e.g. BIOS, small embedded systems).
Anytime you see sizes quoted in 'Gb' rather than 'Mb', you're
certainly talking about NAND.
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inning drives at all. My
personal experience so far indicates that SSDs are far more reliable
and long-lived than spinning HDs. I would guess that about half of my
spinning HDs fail in under 5 years. But then again, I tend to buy
pretty cheap models.
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On 2020-03-11, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2020, 18:54:43 CET schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> [...]
>> Q: Under what conditions will having a second installation of a Python
>>library under .local cause problems?
>
> IIUC you shouldn't have any proble
lity, so
wrapping it a Bash script that activates the venv should work fine.
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[IIRC, at one point I tried unmasking 2.4.2, but that caused
a cascade of other problems.]
Q: Under what conditions will having a second installation of a Python
library under .local cause problems?
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On 2020-03-09, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Would that be the consensus of the group here?
After decades of buying AMD, over the past 5 years or so all my
machines gradually shifted to Intel.
So you can probably bet _that's_ not what you want...
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aven't changed my behavior regarding updating my system
> in fifteen years. =|
Perhaps that's the problem? ;)
This appears to be a KDE/Qt problem. All of the terminals I use work
fine, but I don't run KDE.
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t privledges, so there
would need to be a pre-existing privledge-elevation vulnerability.
I think. :)
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temperature and supply voltage is
usually far more significant.
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y and I'll share the information off-list.
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st of what I'm doing in short order. But when doing
so takes 5+ minutes, I think we're beyond the realm of "simple".
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pare time (especially after significant updates).
Otherwise, something will demand/cause a reboot in the middle of
something urgent and then you know what happens...
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at
the files that trigger the reinstall appear to be
under the masked directory.
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gmail.compurpose, but nev
. Once that finishes, there is no active remnants of the drive in
kernel. 5–15 seconds after that and you should be quite safe to power
the drive off.
echo 1 > /sys/class/block/$DEVICENAME/device/delete
That will cause the kernel to gracefully disconnect the drive.
Thanks.
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they are in.
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I didn't once battle my way through an upgrade like
that just to see if I could do it...
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On most systems, it was probably
handled by the "desktop" enviroment — which you don't mention.
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systems.
qemu-nbd is a — perhaps questionably named — utility that allows QEMU
disk images / files to be accessed as if they were NBDs. Not the other
way around. qemu-nbd does not allow QEMU to use NBDs.
As I understand it, nothing about /QEMU/ is dependent on any NBD support.
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think a warning for missing NBD support is absolutely the correct way
to go.
I think blocking / failing the ebuild is the wrong thing to do.
IMHO warning ≠ failure
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on a fast
machine that is running a different kernel and then copying the
utilities to another system that does have the kernel support.
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utside of QEMU.
QEMU proper will not use NBD devices (directly) itself.
qemu-nbd is a utility to act as a NBD server to allow the Linux kernel
to be an NBD client to access qcow(2) image files.
qemu-nbd is not /needed/ for normal QEMU operation.
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On 2019-11-28, Dale wrote:
> One more question Grant, if you know. Do you know about the range of
> the wireless on this router? You ever tested to see how far say a cell
> phone or something will hold a signal and work? I had to move my
> printer to the kitchen, a far bedroom was
On 2019-11-27, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> The TP-Link Archer C7 runs openwrt flawlessly:
>>
>>
>> https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tp-link-archer-ac1750-dual-band-wi-fi-5-router-black/5889900.p?skuId=5889900
>>
>> A couple months ago when I
On 2019-11-27, Dale wrote:
> I went to your link for Openwrt. I found Linksys E2500 in the list.
> When I go search for one, ebay etc, I then find E2500-NP with N600 also
> mentioned. Some even say E2500 and E2500-NP in the same description. I
> think the N600 has something to do with the
sfully (re)compiled (emerge -DuNe @world)
this past weekend on a current system without any problems.
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attached devices), the
discovery order isn't always repeatable. The new scheme was
implemented to make sure than every time you reboot you get interface
names that corresponded to the same physical RJ45 jacks they did the
last time.
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nctionality come to Linux.
But I gave up hoping for it a long time ago.
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of other examples off hand.
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) are sending messages in a way that violates contemporary spam
filtering; e.g. SPF, DKIM, DMARC.
I don't think there is anything that we subscribers can do. I think
it's up to the mailing list administrators to update / reconfigure
things to match contemporary spam filtering.
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On 2019-10-19, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>
>>> It is waiting for entropy to build.
>>
>> Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for?
>>
>>> Moving mous
On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote:
> It is waiting for entropy to build.
Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for?
> Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have
> machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful.
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I use the exact same configuration on all my machines, but only on
this one does syslog-ng spend 10s "checking" it. Unfortunately, it's
the one machine (a laptop) that gets booted frequently.
Why would syslog-ng need 10 seconds to check a virtually empty config
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