Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-22 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Dr Rainer, Dr Rainer Woitok writes: > So instead of pressing the "1" key umpteen times (plus one time > too oft- > en, ARGH :-) it's probably really easier to boot from a live CD. I certainly agree with you on this, I was really just

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-18 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi Jack, I just looked at the comments in my /etc/rc.conf. `less /etc/rc.conf` Jack writes: > I'm not the OP, but I recently had a similar situation - total > freeze > early during the boot process. What I wanted was a way to get >

Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
Hi Dale, On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 11:47:35PM -0600 , Dale wrote: > How do you, especially those who admin systems that are always being > hacked at, generate strong passwords that meet the above? I have a script for generating passwords the way I like (basically diceware on bash). Something

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistence of ZFS /dev/zvol/rpool/swap

2018-11-25 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
Hi, I followed fearedbliss's guide a couple years back. Here are my 2 cents. On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 04:36:35PM -0500 , Pariksheet Nanda wrote: > I'm actually surprised my system boots at all, because /etc/fstab looks for > that partition to be the swap: I don't think swap is required for

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of ebuild status

2018-07-25 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:26:36PM +0800 , Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Yonks ago, literally four years ago, 14/7/14, I posted something here > about the whole emerge process being able to make a noise when the > emerge process either succeeded or failed. Success, play some decent >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dhclient and buggy ISP

2018-07-21 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:41:22PM +0100 , Mick wrote: > On Friday, 20 July 2018 08:58:53 BST Matti Nykyri wrote: > > Hey > > > > I have a following with Telia ISP and their dhcp-server... I'm using > > dhclient to get dynamic IP from ISP and also to update DDNS. When > I am not familiar with

Re: [gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

2018-07-18 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
> emerge --pretend --newuse ... @world > shows 15 rebuilds while --changed-use shows none. --changed-use prevents your system from remerging packages due to USE flag changes upstream (not made by you). >eselect python show > indicates python3.4, which I realize has end of life next year.

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

2018-01-30 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:17:45AM +0100 , Floyd Anderson wrote: > I would not do that. The topic itself is complex enough and sourcing of 14 ! > long and cryptic command lines doesn’t make it better. Also note that gpg.rc > defines the deprecated ‘pgp_clearsign_command’ variable. Right. > BTW.

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

2018-01-30 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
Hi Lucas, > Here is my muttrc on github: > https://github.com/lramage94/dotfiles/blob/master/.mutt/muttrc It looks like you are using gpgme, I personally have not set this up for my neomutt, instead I use a gpg.rc file from the samples provided. For example; bzcat