files on the remote server.
ACK
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Grant. . . .
On 2024-03-27, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2
>> servers. Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to
>> have it synchronise in both directions.
>
> How synchronized? For
On 2024-03-26, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:21:23PM +, Michael wrote
>> On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:21:32 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
>> > I assume my system is already "merged-usr". Current profile...
>> >
>> > [12] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (exp) *
>> >
On 2024-03-26, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'm AMD64 stable OpenRC. I got tired of dicking around resizing
> partitions years ago, so I have all data and binaries in one honking
> big partition. Also separate partitions for UEFI and swap. I assume
> my system is already "merged-usr". Current
some version number cutoff where it will
refuse to work on a split-usr install (IIRC). After all, the systgemd
motto is "all your computer are belong to us!"
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ome sort zsh hack/addon/module that
added extra mouse functionality, but I don't recall the details (I was
never a zsh user).
--
Grant
On 2024-03-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and
> amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
> with Radeon Vega Graphics.
>
> Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with
>
I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and
amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
with Radeon Vega Graphics.
Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with
same .config via "make oldconfig") boots there's always a kernel
a and re-install.
There are ways to get out of your mess, but if you have to ask...
As they used to say at the billiards tournaments:
"If you could make a shot like that, you wouldn't need to make a
shot like that."
--
Grant
d
exnN, so I've never tried using block lists with anything other than
extN filesystems. Since I am confident extN filesystems won't cause
problems, I've always stuck with that.
--
Grant
On 2024-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux
> distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition.
>
> [...]
>
> Is there an easier way to do this?
After some additional studying of UEFI and boot managers like
On 2024-03-06, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item...
>
>> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
>> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
>
> I tried that...
>
> [i3][root][~] grub-install
I believe you have to run
On 2024-02-26, Wol wrote:
> On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
>> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
>>
> And then, if USB isn't the default boot media, he might as well sort out
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote:
> I agree, using the custom.cfg file would not work if needing to boot
> different kernels of the same OS and those kernels were being updated.
The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
--
Grant
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote:
> On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote:
>> You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date
>> from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting
>> subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in and running the update.
>
> To
On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> The only other idea I had was to install to a different
> disk and then use something like Clonezilla to move it to the partition
> you want it in on your system.
>
> While I suspect you were being sarcastic I do not think any solution
> that involves a
On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different
>> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives.
>>
>
> Given perfo
On 2024-02-23, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 23/02/2024 00:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> In my experience, 's bootloader does not boot other
>> installations by calling other bootloaders. It does so by rummaging
>> through all of the other partitions looking for kernel images,
>
.cfg
file that does nothing but chainload the user-selected partition.
Currently, backing up MBR+gap only happens once when I install/setup
the main grub. Restoring BMR+gap is one command (which is actually in
a shell script) that's run after any new distro is installed.
MBR+Bios-boot-partition would work pretty much the same way.
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Grant
gt; I really think that *should* work!
It would work, but maintaining the grub.cfg files is a lot of
work. The scheme I'm using now doens't require me to mess with any of
the grub.cfg files when distros get updated or installed.
--
Grant
On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote:
> On 22/02/2024 21:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I've been reading up on UEFI, and it doesn't seem to be any
>> better. People complain about distro's stomping on each other's files
>> in the ESP partiton and multiple distro's using the same name
On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote:
> On 22/02/2024 19:17, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> However, the choice to install bootloaders in partitions instead of
>> the MBR has been removed from most (all?) of the common installers.
>> This forces me to jump through hoops when installi
backup from step 1.
It seems like there should be a better way to do this. One might hope
that UEFI offers a solution to this problem. Google has found me
others asking the same question but no real answers.
Is there an easier way to do this?
--
Grant
On 2024-02-17, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Today's routine update says:
>>
>> Re-run grub-install to update installed boot code!
>>
>> Is "sudo grub-install" really all I have to do? [...]
>>
>> Or do I have to run grub-install
l the same options that were
originally used to install grub?
[I use a manually generated grub.cfg file, so I'm ignoring the message
that tells me I to run "grub-mkconfig".]
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Grant
l/share/ca-certificates
# update-ca-certificates
Would that fool portage into thinking that all 147 CA files belonging
to app-misc/ca-certificates had been modified and needed to be
"merged" when app-misc/ca-certificates got updgraded?
--
Grant
On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> If you want to use snapshots, the filesystem will need to support it. (either
> LVM or ZFS). If you only want to create snapshots on the backupserver, I
> actually don't see much benefit over using rsync.
Upthread I've been told that ZFS snapshots
1.
On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:38:11 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-02-05, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wro
On 2024-02-05, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wrote:
>> > If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is.
>> > Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux?
>>
>> The main
On 2024-02-05, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 04/02/2024 15:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> OK I see. That's a bit different than what I'm doing. I'm backing up
>> a specific set of directory trees from a couple different
>> filesystems. There are large portions of the "source&q
On 2024-02-04, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 04/02/2024 06:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I don't understand, are you saying that somehow your backup doesn't
>> contain a copy of every file?
>>
> YES! Let's make it clear though, we're talking about EVERY VERSION of
> ev
On 2024-02-03, Wol wrote:
> On 03/02/2024 16:02, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> rsnapshot is an application that uses rsync to do
>> hourly/daily/weekly/monthly (user-configurable) backups of selected
>> directory trees. It's done using rsync to create snapshots. They are
>
nd unsupported compared rsnapshot. I can install
rsnapshot with a simple "emerge rsnapshot", edit the config file, set
up the crontab entries, and Bob's your uncle: rsnapshot bugfixes and
updates get installed by the usual Gentoo update process, and backups
"just happen".
--
Grant
On 2024-02-02, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 4:39 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I googled for ZFS backup applications, but didn't find anything that
>> seemed to be widespread and "supported" the way that rsnapshot is.
>
> I'm not exa
"supported" the way that rsnapshot is.
--
Grant
On 2024-01-31, Thelma wrote:
> On 1/31/24 08:50, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on
>>> anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits.
>>
>>
reluctant in the past because it wasn't natively supported. I
don't use an initrd (or modules in general). So, using a filesystem
that isn't supported in-tree sounded like too much work.
--
Grant
On 2024-01-31, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-01-30 at 20:38 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> It took me an embarassing number of tries to get the intervals and
>> crontab entries to mesh so it worked the way I wanted. It's not
>> really
>> tha
On 2024-01-30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote:
>>
>> On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals.
>>
>> If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm
>> or btrfs or something.
On 2024-01-30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:15 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I
>> look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when
>> it was running), but
On 2024-01-30, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo
>> machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of
>> them used rsnapshot in the past bu
On 2024-01-30, Thelma wrote:
> I backup, periodically:
> - corontab (user, root)
> - etc
> - hylafax
>
> daily:
> - data
>
> It all depend what you want you backup, how large is your data.
> For backup standard "rsync" over the network does the job OK
rsnapshot is a perl app that
was happy enough with rsnapshot (when
it was running), but perhaps there's something else I should consider?
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Grant
org/printers/
Does anybody have any experience with using IPP everywhere for
driverless printing with a USB attached printer? (e.g. LasterJet
1320)?
Yea, I know, it works as is with the PCL driver, so don't futz with it...
--
Grant
On 2024-01-26, Thelma wrote:
> Is there a way to send a pop-up message to Windows user from Linux?
>
> The below command works but from Windows to Windows:
> msg fd /server:fd-server "Your message here"
>
> but I need it to work from Linux.
>
> I tried:
> smbclient -M fd\%5d2f0of -I 10.0.0.137
>
On 2024-01-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> 240117 Philip Webb wrote:
>> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
>> The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene.
>> I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.
>
> Thanks for the many replies, which
On 2024-01-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
> The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene.
> I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.
MTP can be a bit tempermental if that's what's being used. It's been
On 2023-12-12, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> It was a virtualbox upgrade (not kernel), the notification is on
> Gentoo host system running VM.
Were you trying to run guest additions on the host?
> I might be related to "app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions"
> Unmerging this package
t" options to tell it
where to write the stream and what container/codec to use for output.
--
Grant
On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Do you really need both mpv and mplayer?
>
>
> Given the new one fails to build, that is a good question. Personally,
> I just want to play videos. lol This is what equery shows as needing
> mplayer.
>
&g
On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote:
> I either started a thread on this a while back or it was mentioned
> inside another thread. This has been popping up for months now. Either
> I have something set wrong or there is a problem in a ebuild or
> something. I just don't know what. This is what I get.
On 2023-11-21, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> I have a system here running an Intel N97 processor, which is idling
> at 70-80C on Gentoo with all cores 99% idle. This is 40 degrees
> hotter than it runs on Ubuntu or Windows 10.
>
> Powertop confirms that the CPU is spending nearly all of its time in
On 2023-10-19, Dale wrote:
> That config kinda reminds me of the old grub. A title line, location of
> kernel and then options. Sounds easy enough. The new grub config is
> almost impossible to config by hand. They had to make a tool to do it.
> That says a lot there. ;-)
Manually
0 in that partition.
Whatever it is, it seems to be "opaque" in that Grub puts stuff in
that partition, Grub later uses that stuff, and nobody else needs to
know or care what it is or how it's organized. I haven't looked
through the Grub source code to try to see inside the black box...
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Grant
ut how to fix that before I gave up on Ubuntu.
I finally ended up installing Gentoo/openrc, and then it only took a
few minutes to figure out how to keep the serial console working.
--
Grant
On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
>> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
>> remember the exact name.
>
> Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", although
> I've
> seen it
untu install on the
planet...
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Grant
rch for things, and the bit I'm looking for never seems to
be in the section where I think it's going to be.
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Grant
boards. [I could
never get the open-source driver to work.] After being forced to
replace a second perfectly servicable NVidia card, I swore never to by
NVidia again.
--
Grant
On 2023-10-04, John Covici wrote:
> Hi. I just did a world update and found that my openssl-1.1.1v is
> masked. What can I do,
Use one of the stable versions.
> I don't have any version that is not masked
Huh? What architecture are you on? There are three versions of
openssl that are stable
On 2023-09-21, Jack wrote:
>
>> [...] Of course I've discovered for the Nth time in the past 10-15
>> years, that for the root= command line argument, the kernel doesn't
>> grok LABEL or UUID values -- it only understands device names and
>> PARTUUID.
>
> while my Gentoo grub.cfg has
On 2023-09-21, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 23:58, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>>> Just make sure you update /etc/fstab and bootloader config file
>>> with the new filesystem UUID or partition indices.
>>
>> I always forget one or the other
On 2023-09-20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
>> >
On 2023-09-20, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
>> what the appropriate options are.
>
> I've done this a number of times for various reasons o
e partition in question is 200GB, but only 7GB is used, so I think
backup/restore is the way to go...
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Grant
On 2023-09-20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:17 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> For example, I have a 500GB partition containing an ext4 filesystem
>> starting at sector 2048 (1MiB). I want to move that filesystem so that
>> it starts at sector 3
I've got a Gentoo install using a GPT partition table and Legacy boot
using Grub2. There is a single /root parition and a single swap
partition on the drive.
I did not create a bios-boot partition at the start of the disk, so I
had to force grub2 to install using block-lists. I'd like to fix
n't forget to back up
your password database locally too. I always back it up in human
readable format and then encrypt it using openssl command-line
methods. You don't want to have to depend on either Bitwarden's
servers or the Bitwarden app to retreive your passwords.
--
Grant
On 2023-09-20, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-09-18, Dale wrote:
>
>> The built-in Intel video on an oldish Intel i5 at the office is
>> currently driving 3 displays. The built-in video on the AMD at home is
>> driving 2 and, IIRC, could handle 2 more.
ilt-in Intel video on an oldish Intel i5 at the office is
currently driving 3 displays. The built-in video on the AMD at home is
driving 2 and, IIRC, could handle 2 more.
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y gave up building Chromium and switched to
www-client/google-chrome. It got to the point where it sometimes took
longer to build Chromium than it did for the next version to come out.
--
Grant
On 2023-09-12, Todd Goodman wrote:
>
>> I've generally used "sudo bash" for such stuff.
>
> Or sudo -i
Doh! How did I not know that? I've been doing "sudo bash -" for
years. All those wasted bits...
On 2023-09-12, Dale wrote:
> I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is
> sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/
> I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that
> tho. There has to be a way.
$ sudo bash -
It's
On 2023-09-09, Dale wrote:
>> Changing the level in /etc/conf.d/dmesg from 1 to 8 allowed the serial
>> console to continue working as I wanted it to.
>
> Does it say what else changing the log level does?
It's a single, global value in the kernel so it has the same affect on
all linux kernel
On 2023-09-09, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've set up a serial console by adding the following to my kernel
> command line:
>
> console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1
>
> It works fine for the first few seconds as the kernel starts up. All
> of the expected messages are sent out
It's been a few years since I setup a serial console, but
after adding the "console=" argument to the kernel args it used to
"just work".
How do I get openrc to leave the serial console alone?
--
Grant
On 2023-09-06, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Not really. ebuilds tend to be named the same as the project, so
> apache is called apache (project name), not httpd (binary name)
>
> The user package is named after what the system user will be, and
> SVN has run as "svn" since forever. Makes total sense,
nearly as long as it should have.
IMO it's a mistake to have one package called "svn" and another one
called "subversion".
--
Grant
On 2023-09-06, Grant Edwards wrote:
> sudo emerge --sync
> sudo emerage -auvND world
> [...]
>
> $ svn status
> svn: E200029: Couldn't perform atomic initialization
> svn: E200030: SQLite compiled for 3.43.0, but running with 3.42.0
>
> [...]
> Manu
I just did my usual update
sudo emerge --sync
sudo emerage -auvND world
I noticed that it was downgrading sqlite from 3.43 to 3.42. OK, we'll
assume that portage and the devs know what they're doing...
Now this happens:
$ svn status
svn: E200029: Couldn't perform atomic
On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote:
>
> Jul 31, 2023 13:52:25 Grant Edwards :
>
>> On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't get me wrong, I'm "team plaintext" all day every day but I'm not
>>>> going to make my life more
?
Most of us don't like reading HTML.
> Mutt doesn't need a web engine.
You must get e-mail from a different sort of sender than I do.
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Grant
On 2023-07-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Thanks and well done to the Gentoo Kernel Project for promptly pushing
> out 5.15.122, 6.1.41, et alia. Those latest kernels add mitigation for
> the "Zenbleed" vulnerability found in AMD Ryzen and Epyc processors.
FWIW, Zenbleed affects
Thanks and well done to the Gentoo Kernel Project for promptly pushing
out 5.15.122, 6.1.41, et alia. Those latest kernels add mitigation for
the "Zenbleed" vulnerability found in AMD Ryzen and Epyc processors.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/24/amd_zenbleed_bug/
h in one case I remember, it was due to a failing SCSI disc
controller card -- back when that was a thing.]
It might also be due to a failing disk, but there are usually good
indications of that in dmesg output and in SMART logs before it starts
to affect other things.
--
Grant
On 2023-06-18, Matt Connell wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 00:02 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> Thanks Matt for pointing me in this direction. As it is, this might
>> be a better player for me than QMPlay2 is. This works as good as
>> QMPlay2 and it closes at the end. I miss gnome-player tho. Silly
>>
On 2023-06-12, Wol wrote:
> On 09/06/2023 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>>
>>> If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag
>>> which pulls it in.
>>>
>>> # USE="-rsync-
ll worked fine also. It only seemed to affect
Chrome/Chromium or it's derivitives.
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Grant
On 2023-06-12, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I did an update this morning which installed the following:
>
> aleph ~ # fgrep '>>> emerge ' emerge.log
>
> 1686579407: >>> emerge (1 of 11) dev-util/strace-6.3 to /
> 1686579455: >>> emerge (2 of 11
I did an update this morning which installed the following:
aleph ~ # fgrep '>>> emerge ' emerge.log
1686579407: >>> emerge (1 of 11) dev-util/strace-6.3 to /
1686579455: >>> emerge (2 of 11) dev-libs/nspr-4.35-r2 to /
1686579470: >>> emerge (3 of 11)
p going just to see if I could make it all the way
through the process. I did. Then I promised myself never to try that
again.
You do learn alot about how portage/emerge works...
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Grant
the easiest/fastest thing to do (usually) is back up /etc,
/home, /root and /usr/src/linux/.config and re-install from scratch.
If you've got /home in a separate partition, that makes the reinstall
particularly easy.
--
Grant
On 2023-06-09, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I agree that having the router/firewall do it is the right way to do it.
>
> I've currently got the app provided by Dynu working.
Interestingly, what the Dynu-provided client does is equivalent to this:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
On 2023-06-09, Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 03:11:57 - (UTC)
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support HTTPS,
>> so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon.
>
> Doesn't your router have a
On 2023-06-06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>> ...
>> This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from
>> TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mono:
>>
>> https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ttf-console-fonts/about/
>
> This URL mentions three requirements:
>
> - bdf2psf
>
On 2023-06-05, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much
> easier to Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font
> like it.
This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from
TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu
On 2023-06-04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've found that my DNS provider offers their own client, and I'm going
> to try that.
That app seems work nicely except for one thing: it sends the password
in cleartext using HTTP. The application doesn't support SSL
connections to the server that'
On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote:
> On 2023.06.04 16:36, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> You're right, I was not running it as user ddclient.
>>
>> It's not checking to see if the file is owned by the user ddclient,
>> it's checking to see if it's owned by the user _running
On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote:
> I may have an explanation. How did you run ddclient when you got that
> error? I think its check for ownership is very specific, and if you
> just run ddclient from command line as either yourself or root, you are
> not the owner (ddclient) of the file. When
thinking that the next update might fix things, and sometimes
it does, but then something else is usually broken.
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