Re: [gentoo-user] Can I use containers?

2019-05-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/18/19 9:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Hi, Can anyone answer this? I can't comment on LXC or containers in general, but I will say that I think that namespaces (which is largely what I think containers are) could do this. I'd suggest a mount, UTS, and possibly user

[gentoo-user] VA-API support on Chrome

2019-04-29 Thread Grant
Does anyone have VA-API working on Chromium or Chrome? I've chased down a few possibilities but ended up at dead ends. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
hich is a non-routable block for use by zero-conf et alia. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! OVER the underpass! at UNDER the overpass! gmail.comAround the FUTURE and BEYOND REPAIR!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
if that's the case, you should be OK. It's _possible_ your modem is a bridge not a router/firewall. If that's the case, then you _really_need_ to get a NAT/router/firewall to put between you modem and everything else on your network. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
usually done. > That way all puters hooked to the router can access it. Exactly. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My life is a patio at of fun! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
I wish I could print color, but for the most part B/W is all I need. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hello. I know at the divorce rate among gm

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-31 Thread Grant Edwards
about was whether it would be appropriate to file a Gentoo bug against the gcc 7.3.0-r3 (stable) ebuild because it won't build with the current stable glibc. I'm sure the library will build with gcc-8 in the near future, but I need to build it now. :) -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-30, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:39:03 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > >> glibc 2.27 has an include file "ustat.h" which declares a library >> function ustat(). glibc 2.28 does not have that include file (nor the >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-30, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:09:06 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-03-29, Philip Webb wrote: >> > 190329 Grant Edwards wrote: >> > >> >> gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have th

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-29, Philip Webb wrote: > 190329 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have the >> current stable version of glibc installed (2.28-r5). > > I've been using Gcc-8.2.0-r6 since 170302 with Glibc-2.27-r6 : no problems

[gentoo-user] Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-29 Thread Grant Edwards
gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have the current stable version of glibc installed (2.28-r5). Is that a bug, or am I doing something wrong? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Th' MIND is the Pizza

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

2019-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
afety or reliabiliyt fix, it should default to "same as the old .config file". -- Grant

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

2019-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
>> They all seem to default to "Y". Is this a bug or a "feature"? > > This has been a 'feature' for a while. I find it very annoying. Extrememly so. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel modules and security

2019-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
le-free except for... $ lsmod Module Size Used by nvidia_drm 40960 1 nvidia_modeset 1007616 2 nvidia_drm nvidia 13877248 117 nvidia_modeset -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious silent remount / ro

2019-03-17 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/17/19 10:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Hi, My little Atom box has a small rescue system which I boot once a week to back up the main system. The backup script is a simple list of bash commands to mount partitions and tar them to a USB disk. Please share a copy of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Reduce granularity of emerge-fetch.log?

2019-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-07, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 20:01:46 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I've noticed that when downloading large files, emerge seems to write >> an excessive number of lines to /var/log/emerge-fetch.log. The last >> time I looked, it

[gentoo-user] Reduce granularity of emerge-fetch.log?

2019-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
of updating the log more than once every few seconds. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Give them RADAR-GUIDED at SKEE-BALL LANES and gmail.comVELVEETA BURRITOS!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge --sync source

2019-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
e PSU is playing up. Perhaps it's already been mentioned, but failing RAM can cause all sorts failures that might appear to be failing disks, failing network cards, failing video cards whatever. I'd run memtest86 for at least 12 hours just to make sure... -- Grant Ed

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs for a symlink - howto

2019-02-24 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/24/19 10:26 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: How can I set up my system (using autofs ?) to automatically mount /Src if such a symlink is accessed like   cd    $HOME/Python Many thanks for a hint, Review some of the automount tutorials. They will be geared towards NFS, but the same

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
ributing desktop applications on Linux Start"... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! NANCY!! Why is at everything RED?! gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/5/19 10:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Yeah, I think you're over-reading into my posts. I'm mostly reacting to your ideas and not trying to be prescriptive. So we have a feedback loop. I'm trying to understand why you're saying what you're saying. I'm still looking for possibilities and

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-04 Thread Grant Taylor
erns and all that. You're going to have to use a separate /etc/runlevels, so why not just a whole separate /etc? Why do I need to use a separate /etc/runlevels? Why can't I have a single /etc/runlevels/myContainer that is never used outside of the container and only used inside the contain

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/4/19 5:10 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: Consider the following commands to start the ""container: ip netns add myContainer ip link add myContainer type veth peer name myHost netns myContainer ip link set myContainer up ip addr add 192.0.2.1/24 dev myContainer ip netns exec myContain

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-04 Thread Grant Taylor
would mean that I could run rc-service net.xyz123 start inside the container and re-use existing Gentoo methodology. Now I wonder if I could use custom runlevels for each container and rely on standard init system. }:-) But that's a different question. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-04 Thread Grant Taylor
r commands for different namespaces broken out into separate files such that it's easy to (re)start/stop individual namespaces. I might see if there's a way to re-use the same file much like net. is a sym-link to net.lo. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-04 Thread Grant Taylor
insight. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/3/19 6:26 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: You can add commands to your existing network configuration that will be run when an interface comes up. For example, in /etc/conf.d/net,   ifup_wlan0="iwconfig \$int key s:secretkey enc open essid foobar" Ya I find that to be an absolute

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/3/19 1:50 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote: For the VRF part, Gentoo supports it; it’s in the upstream kernel sources. Yep. I've been doing Network Namespaces, and VRF to a lesser degree, for quite a while now. It's just all been manual or ad-hock scripts. I only tried it once, but failed

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/2/19 11:09 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I am unclear on what you are trying to do. See my reply to Rich's message for a description. I find the gentoo scripts good for the simple case but a complex case almost always needs extra help. Yep. I was hoping that there was something that I

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/3/19 5:37 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Nothing wrong with that approach. I use systemd-nspawn to run a bunch of containers, hosted in Gentoo, and many of which run Gentoo. However, these all run systemd and I don't believe you can run nspawn without a systemd host (the guest/container can be

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/2/19 9:39 PM, Michael Jones wrote: systemd-nspawn is also an option, but I don't think that'll work with OpenRC. Ya I moved (back to) Gentoo to get away from systemd. I'm not going to voluntarily opt to use it, or any of it's children. That's /my/ opinion. I know others opinions

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/2/19 7:36 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: LXC containers ?? Maybe. I just feel like that's more heavy weight than I want. I'm functionally running a series of ip commands to configure networking in a special way. Maybe I should look into what it takes to extend netifrc to support what I

[gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-02 Thread Grant Taylor
Does Gentoo have any support for VRFs or (chroot) Jails or Containers without going down the Docker (et al) path? I'm wanting to do some things with a Gentoo router that is trivial to do with network namespaces via manual commands ~> scripts. But that's far from standard Gentoo init script

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
. That assumes that there is a boot loader. There wasn't one with the old Slackware boot & root disks. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
, and those are in the kernel that runs the initramfs. Not if they aren't compiled in. I feel like this (sub)thread has become circular and unproductive. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
dule loading at all, though I'm not sure why not. If it doesn't I could see why the developers wouldn't be bothered to address the use case. Yet another possible reason to dislike dracut. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
MUST have support for the file systems and devices that the initramfs uses. You can't load the module if you can't get to where the module is or have a place to write it to load it. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
a fan of simplicity. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
may be the case. But why even spend time with it if it's not actually /needed/. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
may not be a fair comparison. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
ssue. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
.) I tend to treat the /dev/md to be somewhat fluid, much like I do /dev/sd. I prefer to use UUID for raw file systems or LV names when using LVM for this reason. $WORK uses sym-links from persistent names to the actual disk that is currently the desired disk. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Grant Taylor
thought there was a kernel option / command line parameter that enabled the kernel to automatically assemble arrays as it's initializing. Would something like that work for you? I have no idea where that is in the context of what you're working on. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-25, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:48 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >>[...] >> >> Is it practical to use flatpak apps on Gentoo? > > In my experience is amazing. Gentoo sometimes takes a lot of time to > stabilize some packages; flatpak

[gentoo-user] Re: email client: was: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-25, Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.25 13:48, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm shopping for an IMAP email client that does a decent job of >> handling HTML. After doing a bit of reading I decided the first one >> to try would be Geary. > > I can't help you with f

[gentoo-user] Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
like a lot of work. Is it practical to use flatpak apps on Gentoo? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hmmm ... A hash-singer at and a cross-eyed guy were gmail.comSLEEPING on

[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:41 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >> > This any better? :-) >> > >> > echo '198.088.0.01 >> > 198.088.062.01 >> > 19

[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
ood application for a regex. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I have accepted at Provolone into my life! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > How about this one? > > echo '198.088.0.01 > 198.088.062.01' | sed 's/\.0\([0-9][0-9]*\)/.\1/g' > 198.88.0.1 > 198.88.62.1 Also no. $ echo 198.088.0.001 | sed 's/\.0\([0-9][0-9]*\)/.\1/g' 198.88.0.01 -- Grant Edwards

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-21 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/21/19 5:02 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: You need a parser, not a regular expression. The first thing that came to mind is splitting the values and passing them through printf. (You can do it with a regex, but it's going to be one of those comical twelve-page-long things.) I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-18, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> As someone else mentioned you can mask grub-mkconfig. I didn't bother, >> it isn't run automatically. > > I should have known that on Gentoo it wouldn't be. I ought to think > about

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 1/17/19 2:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Apparently they're going to try to pry grub-0.97 from my cold dead >> fingers... >> >> Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 >> install? >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-17, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:15 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Do all the Gentoo package maintainers promise they'll never run >> grub-mkconfig as part of a any package (even grub:2) install, remove, >> or update? > > I d

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
r distros, and the grub "magic" > has so far been kind to me and not screwed anything up yet.) Same here. For the most part I've beaten it into submission so that it doesn't screw things up too often on Suse, RedHat, Ubuntu, Mint etc. It's just not something I wanted to doing on my Gento

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
nowadays. I'm not worried about the size, I just don't want any of the automagical config stuff happening (and would feel safest if it wasn't even installed). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My haircut is totally a

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 > install? > > I really don't want any of the auto-magical, devs know better than I > do what I want, os-probing, hide all the details from the stupid user, > config fi

[gentoo-user] minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
file generator stuff installed. I just want the bare minimum required to boot using a hand-edited grub.conf file. There doesn't seem to be a USE flag... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Here I am at the flea at market

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
r than your version/installation of rxvt-unicode, then it's pretty likely that your version/installastion of rxvt-unicode is broken. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FUN is never having to at say you're SUSHI!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> > > > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> > > > > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after >>&g

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
ce pop up. But >> > > > > > since some interations of the linux kernel this interface >> > > > > > has become a mess: Line contents is offsetted all over the place. > I am using x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r1 "make menuco

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up postfix and dovecot

2019-01-10 Thread Grant Taylor
some of the pain, great! Or at the very least streamline some things so it's less painful. Many thanks for all the time and trouble you put into your reply, Grant. I am grateful, and you can be sure I'll act on it. You're quite welcome. Feel free to reply or email me directly if you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up postfix and dovecot

2018-12-25 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/25/18 5:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Hi, Is there a guide anywhere to setting up dovecot to work with postfix and serve IMAP mail to a client on the same LAN segment? I've only found fragmentary, outdated guides to certain aspects of the whole setup and I'm left

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

2018-12-24 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/24/18 8:48 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: Was a little hasty posting... That happens. Yes the new server emails voice messages as attachments. It also does things like tracking staff status (in office, away, etc) and so it has other notifications relating to that and some other features.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

2018-12-23 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/23/18 7:03 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: This is correct. A is the voice vlan, the black box is the phone server (which I am unable to add custom routes or new software packages to), B is another vlan that has access through site-to-site vpn to C. That makes perfect sense. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

2018-12-23 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/23/18 3:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, Hi, I'm trying to solve a very specific problem where a server on a VLAN needs to send mail through a VPN it has no direct route to. Okay. I feel like that's two distinct things that we don't yet know how they connect to each other. Just

[gentoo-user] Re: Error during boot up.

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Edwards
erial-console does, but it it might be early enough if the NIC driver and netconsole drivers are compiled into the kernel as opposed to being a loadable module. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Everybody is going

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-19 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/19/2018 03:16 PM, Mick wrote: Grant, you're spot on! /me looks around wondering what he did and if he needs to run and hide. Symbol: EFI_PARTITION [=n] Oops. That will certainly mess with you. I was under the impression I had it enabled, but clearly I hadn't on this PC; which has

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-19 Thread Grant Taylor
That really sounds like your kernel doesn't have GPT support (loaded). In any case, losetup with offset/size succeeded in mounting it and I was able to access the fs on it. Good. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor
ost modern file systems have addressing within the partition and not subject to physical location on the disk. As such, you should be able to mount it fairly cleanly. I would expect that files are no more corrupted than they were before the move. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor
, it doesn't hurt to try. :-) I mostly agree. You need to be mindful of physical damage and thermals. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor
as the weakest link. If I have a drive problem, I like to connect the drive to a SATA (PATA) connector and access the drive directly. I usually have better results saving data that way. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-17 Thread Grant Taylor
(or what ever name they go by). Even they have a no-guarantee of recovery policy. If you're trying to rescue your bittorrent collection I'd suggest moving on. I misread "bittorrent" as "bitcoin". That /might/ be another story. Depending on how many BTC you have. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-17 Thread Grant Taylor
that there is an imminent or past tense catastrophic failure. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/15/18 4:33 PM, Jack wrote: Is there any way to fix this other than completely repeating the copy? I'm sure there are other ways, but the first things that comes to mind is touch. Or rather a script that uses touch, and possibly find or a recursive glob. The idea being to have the

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving drive to another sata port.

2018-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/14/18 7:57 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Yes. At least by default LVM is going to scan all your drives looking for LVM PVs and will identify them regardless of what device they are on, as long as the device gets scanned. I wouldn't be surprised if LVM didn't scan all block devices. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Root on NFS Suspend/Resume support

2018-12-11 Thread Grant Taylor
bout to just use a livedvd unable to really install anything lol $ReadingList++ Thank you for the link and kindling something that's been a latent interest of mine. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] Root on NFS Suspend/Resume support

2018-12-11 Thread Grant Taylor
things that I can't think of at the moment. Thank you again. Very interesting stuff. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] Root on NFS Suspend/Resume support

2018-12-10 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/10/18 8:03 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: Has anyone managed to get suspend/resume to work on diskless machines using NFS as the root? ~blink~ I haven't tried to suspend / resume diskless machines. (I've not done much with diskless machines, but it's on my to do list.) But I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-10 Thread Grant Taylor
the contents of /home/user/.precious will be encrypted. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 10:15 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I don't really think I need to encrypt the entire /home mount point. To me, that would be overkill. Of course, that may be easier. I would like to have certain directories that I can store things in that is encrypted. For example, I have some financial

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 7:38 PM, Dale wrote: Just making sense of it. Trying to get it firmly in my mind. It just seems to simple and easy to move that much data around and swap drives even while in use. o-O Welcome to the wonders of LVM. You turn a drive / partition into something that LVM can use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
epends on what your goal is and what you're trying to protect from / against. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 3:45 PM, Dale wrote: Grant, Hi Dale, I'm not ignoring this email. I didn't presume you were. ;-) I just keep rereading it. ;-) Okay. Is there an aspect of it that doesn't make sense? Or that you're uncomfortable with? Can I help alleviate the worry? I'm uncertain

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-06 Thread Grant Taylor
with a partition table. I've seen others be in a very uncomfortable situation when they /didn't/ use a partition table. Simple easy thing to avoid painting yourself into a corner. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

[gentoo-user] Re: Program for posting to a Newsgroup

2018-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-12-03, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I see also the suggestion > > $ ssh -Y > > but what would be the syntax for specifying where > is a different computer on the same local network? Does it have an IP address? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

2018-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-12-02, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 12/2/18 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> MythTV's requirement to use a GUI setup program on a "headless" >> server, always seemed like a massively stupid design decision. > > Yes, it was a dumb decision. Howev

[gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

2018-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
ars since I've run MythTV. I switched to SageTV because of the brilliantly small and silent set-top-boxes. But Google bought SageTV and pulled the plug on that, so a year or two back I switched to Plex (which you configure via a web UI). The Plex plugin for OSMC/Kodi has a clumsy UI, but works prett

[gentoo-user] net-nntp/inn - This package is masked and could be removed soon!

2018-11-25 Thread Grant Taylor
. — Thunderbird upgrade took out the Correct-Identity add-on. :-( -- Grant. . . . unix || die

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

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Taylor
f the time these are packages that have no dependencies. ACK Thank you for sharing your experience, your opinion, and your help. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

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

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Taylor
can install what you need for Firefox/Thunderbird beforehand: emerge -1 virtual/cargo dev-lang/rust emerge -aDuN @world is now happy (or at least not blocking / erroring out) and compiling things as I type this email. Thank you again, everybody, for your help. :-) -- Grant. . . . unix || die

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

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Taylor
6 a k 0 h c d s d | i d t | o --+-+---+--- 1.29.1 | o + o ~ o o o + o o o o o o o o | 7 o 0 | gentoo 1.29.2 | o ~ o ~ o o o ~ o o o o o o o o | 7 # | gentoo [I]1.30.1 | o ~ o ~ o o o ~ o o o o o o o o | 7 o | gentoo -- Grant. . . . unix || die

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-18, james wrote: > On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote: >>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >>>> >>>>> Actually and AMD Arm

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

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Taylor
Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages -- Grant. . . . unix || die

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

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Taylor
t blockage so that I can finish my @world emerge? Thank you in advance. Grant. . . . unix || die

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >> >> > Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer. >> >> No, Ryzen is not an Arm processor. > Well, ... the PSP spy-in-the-die i

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-17, james wrote: > On 11/17/18 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >>> On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's time for the old man to get a new p

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-17, james wrote: > On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >> >>> It's time for the old man to get a new portable. >> >>> Arm processor, >> >> That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever h

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

2018-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-17, james wrote: > It's time for the old man to get a new portable. > Arm processor, That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever heard of are Chromebooks. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: workaround for defective LOGITECH mouse.

2018-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
; 15ms from previous."? https://www.google.com/search?q=X11+config+double+click+time=X11+config+double+click+time -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! We're going to a at new disco! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-05 Thread Grant Edwards
> > Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D > (--deep) when updating world. Which you should. What do you mean "catch this"? I always use -D, and the change broke my system. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

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