On 2/4/2019, 8:10:57 PM, Dale wrote:
> Tanstaafl wrote:
>> I've been using a little Firefox Addon called Passwordmaker for many,
>> many years, and despite all of its warts, I've been loathe to give it
>> up, even though it will never be upgraded to work as a WebEx
On 2/4/2019, 12:47:35 AM, Dale wrote:
> Thing is, with today's computing power, it really isn't anymore.
> While no one could just guess it, it could be cracked/hacked I'm
> sure. I need to come up with a new one that meets the requirements I
> just mentioned. Strong, easy to remember, easy to t
On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> I had a large partition with reiserfs.
> Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory.
>
> Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained
> a huge (millions) amount of files, > but having an fsck become
> impossible
On 10/6/2017, 8:53:27 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 171005 christos kotsis wrote:
>> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance
>> over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files.
> I've long relied on ReiserFS for everything except /boot
> & have never had any problems with my files or driv
On 10/7/2017, 12:09:07 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On 6 Oct 2017, at 15:31, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>
>>>> Second, do you have rc_sys defined, or are you using auto-detect (is it
>>>> just commented out)?
>>>
>>> Just commented out.
>>
>
On Thu Oct 05 2017 18:53:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Stroller
wrote:
> I just installed Linode's Gentoo image file in a new VM, and started
> using it, so the below are the defaults.
Thanks Stroller,
I had to somehow use my own Gentoo image when I first installed these as
they didn't of
On Thu Oct 05 2017 18:01:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl
wrote:
> Second, do you have rc_sys defined, or are you using auto-detect (is it
> just commented out)?
Oh - and if I were to change this to auto-detect (comment it out), and
the VM failed to boot, can I specify/change
On Mon Oct 02 2017 13:30:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl
wrote:
> Ok, so just got the notice that Linode is discontinuing their support
> for Xen, and forcing everyone to migrate their VMs to KVM.
Thanks very much to all who replied, two last questions for those who
are
On 10/2/2017, 11:52:21 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
> As long as your kernel has the appropriate drivers (i.e. you didn't
> include only the virtualized Xen drivers and left most of the default
> options intact) it should boot under QEMU/KVM or even on a bare metal
> system.
Hmmm, something else I just reme
On 10/3/2017, 1:27:45 AM, victor romanchuk wrote:
> there are two files to change/check before migration
>
> * /etc/inittab :: console terminal (XEN PV domUs do use hvc console and KVM
> VM employ normal linux
> console)
>
> -c1:12345:/respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 hvc0 linux
> +c1:1
On 10/2/2017, 4:03:37 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 10/2/2017, 2:39:51 PM, Stroller wrote:
>>
>>> On 2 Oct 2017, at 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>>
>>> One thing I do seem to recall is there was somewhere that I had to
>>> define Xen as the virtu
On 10/2/2017, 2:39:51 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On 2 Oct 2017, at 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>
>> One thing I do seem to recall is there was somewhere that I had to
>> define Xen as the virtualization environment being used, but I can't
>> remember where I d
Ok, so just got the notice that Linode is discontinuing their support
for Xen, and forcing everyone to migrate their VMs to KVM.
Of course this comes at the worst possible time for me, when I'm out of
the country, and won't be back before the deadline (the 9th).
I have a week, so am trying to do
On 12/20/2016 9:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> systemd is primarily a political project, not a technical one.
> What political benefit do I gain from using and maintaining systemd?
Interesting that you snipped the rest of his comment - or
On 12/19/2016 1:15 PM, lee wrote:
> "Walter Dnes" writes:
>
>> Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one
>> ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0.
> Since 10 years or so, the default is two ports.
Not sure where you buy your machines, but that is simply
On 8/8/2016 1:16 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> A better solution still would likely be figuring out why 2 MTAs are necessary
> and figure out how to configure a single MTA to handle the role of both, if
> at
> all possible.
And with Postfix's muli instance support it would be trivial - if indeed
th
On 2/28/2016 9:09 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> I'm not really sure what the "conservative" recommendation. Ext4 (or
> even ext3) is the obvious one, but both zfs and btrfs have
> checksumming of all data written to disk which is a huge data security
> improvement. That is a compelling feature that
On 2/28/2016 4:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:51:13 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> I recall a list conversation about this, explaining that it would be
>>>> trivial for someone who knows how to do ebuilds, to have their own
>>>> ZFS-in-kernel
On 2/26/2016 1:14 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> I recall a list conversation about this, explaining that it would be
>> trivial for someone who knows how to do ebuilds, to have their own
>> ZFS-in-kernel system available, a
On 2/26/2016 12:04 PM, James wrote:
> Excellent point about the license. Did the license stop zfs folks
> from enjoying zfs? I know the zfs license stops some commercial folks
> from deploy/using zfs. And zfs is not a routine choice in the installation
> docs for gentoo.
I recall a list con
On 2/25/2016 5:03 PM, James wrote:
> Long awaited.
>
> This smoking hot (many HPC scientist agree) distributed file
> system will surely rock the cluster, container and Hi Performance
> Computing worlds. [1] Now if I were only smart enough to get this
> puppy into portage...
U... nothing
:58 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 01/10/2015 13:35, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Thanks Alan (and everyone else),
>>
>> One important follow-up below...
>>
>> On 9/29/2015 8:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> It would be wise to clarify with the devs exactly what it is
Thanks Alan (and everyone else),
One important follow-up below...
On 9/29/2015 8:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It would be wise to clarify with the devs exactly what it is they are
> looking for.
That is the purpose of my upcoming phone call with him.
> And overall, in your shoes I would be fi
On 9/30/2015 3:36 AM, Mick wrote:
> I couldn't agree more with all the warnings that have been posted. However,
> it may simply be that they want to build a new website and they want to
> redirect your DNS from your currently hosted server to theirs.
You mean change the DNS servers at the Doma
On 9/29/2015 8:02 PM, James wrote:
> Another point of concern. When radically changing infrastructure like this,
> why not just do the entire thing under a new DNS and have both online for a
> while, until the new site if vetted and the actual real bugs worked out?
Well... not sure how that would
Hi all,
I am not a web (or SEO) guy, but I manage our DNS and have for a long time.
The boss has contracted with a web development company to do a full
redesign of our website.
Our website has hundreds of thousands of pages, and years of SEO behind
it. The guys who was her until recently was ada
Thanks Rich (& Michael)...
Will use git bundle then.
Apreciated!
On 9/4/2015 6:32 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 09/04/2015 01:09 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> Similar to the recent thread on cloning...
>>>
Similar to the recent thread on cloning...
I don't know and have never even used Git, but I need to get a complete
and total backup of an entire Git repository to a single file that can
then be cloned into a new git repo on another system. This was for a
software project that was being developed b
On 4/17/2015 5:59 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Since you want to search the entire contents f the current directory,
> there is no need to pass grep a list of directories (especially not an
> incomplete list), use "grep -lr ."
Ok, thanks Neil, but this is still not what I'm looking for... here's a
Hi all,
Ok, this is driving me crazy...
I want to be able to quickly search an entire users Maildir for an email
containing a certain string, but output just the filenames WITH THE
DATE/TIMEs...
So, from the target users top level Maildir:
grep -lr * | xargs ls -lt
^^^ appears to work, and do
On 3/2/2015 6:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:14:54 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> You've been on the list long enough to know how well top-posting is
>>> received.
>>
>> Yes, and you've been around the internet long enough to know
Many thanks to all for the responses, will work on cleaning this up next
weekend (don't like doing things like this on a production server during
the week)...
On 3/2/2015 9:53 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:29:15 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>>> Yes, you s
On 3/2/2015 10:11 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:05:16 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> You've been on the list long enough to know how well top-posting is
> received.
Yes, and you've been around the internet long enough to know that there
are always ex
Hi all,
Googling on a minor issue with perl-cleaner after the 5.20 upgrade, I
ran across this post:
On 2/14/2015 7:39 AM, Mick wrote:
> Yes, you shouldn't really have any libs in your world file. Any
> required would be pulled in as dependencies.
Is this in fact true?
I checked mine, and foun
On 3/2/2015 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:14:41 -0500
> Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>> On 2/14/2015 6:37 AM, bitlord wrote:
>>> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:13:25 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>>>> 'perl-cleaner --all' generated the following
On 2/14/2015 6:37 AM, bitlord wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:13:25 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> 'perl-cleaner --all' generated the following output.
>>
>> * Finding left over modules and header
>>
>> * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand
>> * or edited. This script c
On 1/26/2015 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:27:05 -0500, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>>> script: /bin/fgrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
>>>
>>> Anyone know if this is due to something changing in Gentoo?
>> Upstream changed egrep and fgrep from binaries to shell
Hello all,
Been on rkhunter 1.4.2 for a while, no changes made to its config file,
been running nightly for years without these warnings...
I recently did some Gentoo updates after almost 2 months of no updates
(was out of town), and now, even after running --propupd, I continue to
get these warn
On 1/21/2015 4:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:58:05 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>> Changed mirror setting in make.conf to:
>>
>> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/
>>
>> and all is well now...
>>
>> Guess there is a prob
On 1/21/2015 11:03 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 1/21/2015 9:01 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>> On 01/21/2015 08:51 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> From the sync output:
>>>
>>>>>> Downloading
>>> 'http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distf
On 1/21/2015 9:01 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 08:51 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> From the sync output:
>>
>>>>> Downloading
>> 'http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/file-5.22.tar.gz'
>> --2015-01-21 08:49:43--
>> ht
ts it tries to use change every time?
On 1/21/2015 7:38 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ok, new one to me...
>
> I'm performing some updates after a hiatus of a couple of months, and
> the second package to be installed was file-5.22.
>
> I have my firewall lock
Hi all,
Ok, new one to me...
I'm performing some updates after a hiatus of a couple of months, and
the second package to be installed was file-5.22.
I have my firewall locked down pretty tight, controlling even outbound
access, and when portage tries to download the source for this file it
is be
On 11/26/2014 9:28 AM, Александр Паутов wrote:
> man eix
Ah, I thought I'd need to do this with the layman command.
Thanks!
> "-J, --installed-overlay
> Only match packages which have been installed from some overlay.
> To get a completely reliable
> result you s
Is this possible?
I have two layman repos I have added at some point in time in the past:
sunrise, and ultrabug.
I'd like to see what, if any packages, I have installed from them, and
see if I can remove them and ultimately remove the layman repo.
Thanks
On 11/23/2014 3:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>> So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar
>>> (along the lines of the
On 11/23/2014 4:21 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> There is no such thing as the "default init system".
>
> There is only the one that portage will happen to install should you not
> specify a preference.
Lol!
That is what I would call a 'default'...
On 11/23/2014 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Also, I'll wager it likely won't be implemented in such a way as to be
> perceived by its user base as being shoved down their throats.
Clarification - this reference was actually to the way Debian is
handling it, not Gentoo - I
On 11/23/2014 2:24 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> The current Gentoo policy is that maintainers cannot block other devs
> from adding support for systemd/openrc/etc to their packages if they
> lack such support. Gentoo policy does NOT require maintainers to
> support any particular init system.
>
> I
On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar
> (along the lines of the second bullet) to systemd in the future
Doesn't matter because:
a) it won't be systemd
(with all of its warts)
b) it won't be written by Lennart an
On 11/23/2014 2:02 PM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> I get the distinct feeling that you two should probably read the LWN article
> again.
No need...
This:
"In the end, it comes down to this: it just is not that important. It is
just a system initialization utility."
simply proves that the author eithe
On 11/23/2014 1:00 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Since OpenRC is the *default* - for now at least - it is *king*, and
>> systemd is the red-headed step-child, and as such OpenRC is and will be
>> 100% fully suppo
On 11/21/2014 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in
> Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make
> sure that this remains to be true, help them.
This is really an incorrect (and even borderline arrogan
On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 14/11/2014 18:18, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> The only unusual message is
>> Systemd is not detected as the running init system;
>>
>> which is true since I still use openrc (but with systemd installed, as
>> well)
>> Could this be the culprit?
> I
On 11/10/2014 1:21 PM, Jarry wrote:
> On 10-Nov-14 18:06, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Wondering if this is supported?
>
> It is supported, but not on ESXi-hypervisor (free) anymore.
> AFAIK only Trilead VM-Explorer works on free-ESXi (and command
> line tools i.e. ghettoVCB).
Cool
Wondering if this is supported?
Thanks
On 11/10/2014 10:48 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev
> ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later,
> with instructions on moving to something else, but that's not
> something we are even planning at the moment, so sys
On 11/10/2014 8:21 AM, Francisco Ares wrote:
> Checking the news (eselect news read), I see that an upgrade to udev-217
> might break firmware loading, so the news tagged
> "2014-11-07-udev-upgrade" says that a kernel >= 3.7 should be configured to:
>
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
>
> Is it t
On 11/10/2014 7:30 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Well, there are no plans to make udev stop working without systemd as
> far as I can tell. HOWEVER, there ARE plans to require using kdbus to
> communicate with udev, and for that to work there needs to be a
> userspace initialization of kdbus/etc.
So
On 9/26/2014 1:04 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 25/09/14 22:03, James wrote:
>> I'd be better of with a fresh install of lilblue + musl + eudev
>> is what you are really saying here?
> that's the only usecase for eudev currently, yes, otherwise you have no
> reason to switch
Hi Samuli,
So, i
On 10/31/2014 3:11 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> Systemd is, in my opinion, suffering from the same feature-creep as Grub2
> does.
> Grub1 was faster, because it was smaller. But it isn't working propery
> anymore
> and Grub2 does its job
Eh?? Grub1 doesn't work properly any more?
News to me, and
On 10/29/2014 7:37 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY
> completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough:
> With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository,
> you are not even forced to have a *single* major repository
> (A
On 10/25/2014 12:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>>> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting
>>
On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting
>> from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to
>> configure it.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-par
On 10/7/2014 5:56 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting
> from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to
> configure it.
Ok, did I miss a news item on this?
Is this discussed in detail somewhere?
On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've
> experienced/heard in the past though.
Bloat, buggy/unstable ever since the move from KDE3 to KDE4 (and never
really gotten any better over time), etc...
But of course there are always haters to
On 10/4/2014 1:37 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> The KDE release structure has evolved[1], decoupling the release cycle
> of the Platform, Workspace, and Applications. This means that there is
> no longer a single Software Compilation in the same way there was with
> KDE 4.
Interesting.
Has this
On 8/23/2014 8:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 23/08/2014 12:34, Tanstaafl wrote:
Is it possible to do this?
Not directly. I'm assuming you mean packages you built yourself and
quick-pkg'ed them, not something available as a -bin
Correct... I have buildpkg feature enabled in mak
Is it possible to do this?
Thanks...
Hi everyone,
I haven't updated in a little while, and am seeing a lot of big updates...
The main ones that concern me are:
perl (5.16 > 5.18)
&
mariadb (5.5.37 > 10.0.12)
and of course, I always worry about:
glib (2.38.2-r1 > 2.40.0-r1)
&
glibc (2.17 > 2.19-r1)
Anyone have any warnings/cavea
On 8/10/2014 11:45 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
I haven't updated in a little while, and am seeing a lot of big updates...
The main ones that concern me are:
perl (5.16 > 5.18)
Ok, a little experimenting to see if I can stage these updates and just
update perl first, I get:
# emerg
On 8/2/2014 5:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I have an unusual boss. He's a business owner and quite naturally
profit-driven. He also employs smart people and expects us to maintain
systems in-house.
He's also a zealous FLOSS fan.
So when I present him a price tag for software his first question
On 8/1/2014 8:42 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
But I don't drive myself when using my mobile.
This is on a bus...
Lol... sorry, I never ride a bus so didn't consider that possibility... ;)
On 8/1/2014 7:53 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Snipping emails using a mobile phone on a bumpy road doesn't work...
So, you're replying to emails while driving?
Are you insane?
On 6/14/2014 7:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The answer is *always" in the ebuild and Changelog.
I agree that, now that I know what and why, that it didn't rate a news
item, but - especially with respect to anything related to the touchy
subject of systemd/openrc - some kind of informational t
On 6/14/2014 2:15 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 6/14/2014 1:02 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl
wrote:
*Why* was it removed/no longer needed? And why was it needed previously?
Read the ChangeLog for sys-fs/udev
On 6/14/2014 1:02 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
*Why* was it removed/no longer needed? And why was it needed previously?
Read the ChangeLog for sys-fs/udev, specifically the entry on 03 Apr 2014.
Thanks - a half hour of googling didn't
Thanks Alan, but...
On 6/14/2014 10:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 14/06/2014 15:30, Tanstaafl wrote:
This clearly shows the -openrc USE flag being applied.
You read it wrong. The USE flag is not being applied it's being removed
(the minus "-"),
Well, I did include the
Is this right?
> # eix udev
> ...
[U] sys-fs/udev
Available versions: 208-r1^t 212-r1^t ~213^t **^t {acl doc +firmware-loader gudev
introspection +kmod selinux static-libs ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_X86="32 64
x32"}
Installed versions: 208^t{tbz2}(03:30:13 PM 12/08/2013)(acl f
Ok, Getting ready to do this update, but the wiki text is confusing...
It states:
"udev 208 to 212
The following special attention is required:
File /lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules was replaced with
/lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
On 6/4/2014 9:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
You seem to think the Upower devs simply decided to use systemd instead
of doing it themselves. In fact, they were always using code, from either
systemd or pm-utils. The fact that development stopped on pm-utils is
neither the fault of the Upower or sys
On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 6/3/2014 11:10 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more
infrastructure migrates towards systemd. Perhaps a news item everytime
it
On 6/3/2014 11:10 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more
infrastructure migrates towards systemd. Perhaps a news item everytime
it happens is unrealistic?
Weren't you the one saying that those of us who were voicing concerns
that
On 6/3/2014 3:17 AM, Marc Stürmer wrote:
So no loss at all if TrueCrypt would really cease to exist.
Which totally misses the point of *how* it happened.
But never mind... it was definitely off-topic for gentoo.
On 6/1/2014 1:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl:
Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when
playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all
time favorite apps, is no more.
Some links of interest:
Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when
playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all time
favorite apps, is no more.
Some links of interest:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
On 5/16/2014 6:04 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Whatever gets rid of LVM is good on my book. I've never understood why
people uses it, and in my experience it only brings headaches.
One very big reason to have been using it on linux - since it is only
relatively recently that zfs has been an
On 4/16/2014 7:14 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote:
On Apr 16, 2014, at 13:52, Tanstaafl wrote:
Or will simply replacing my self-signed certs with the new real ones be good
enough?
No it will not. Keys are te ones that have been compromised. You need
to create new keys. With those keys you need to
Hi all,
I've taken this opportunity to prod the boss to let me buy some real
certs for our few self-hosted mail services. Until now, we've used
self-signed certs.
My question is, what exactly is the correct procedure for doing this?
Also, do I still need to do the step I've been seeing:
Ste
On 4/11/2014 4:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:30:43 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
One of the things I do to minimize getting bit by newly released buggy
ebuilds is to wait a few days after a new update is available before
updating...
Isn't that what the stable tree i
Hi all,
I'm wondering if this is even feasible before I go open a
bug/enhancement request for portage for this...
One of the things I do to minimize getting bit by newly released buggy
ebuilds is to wait a few days after a new update is available before
updating...
This works well, and has
On 4/10/2014 7:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Everything else in that list is routine except maybe pciutils and gpm.
Add them to world manually if you use those apps
Thanks Alan/Tom...
Hmmm... what is pciutils used for? From a little googling, it seems like
it is a tool that I would manually ha
Hi all,
I rarely do this (I know, I should do it periodically at least), so I'd
like someone to check these...
>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
dev-python/python-exec
selected: 1.1 1.2
protected: none
omitted: none
perl-core/ExtUtils-Command
select
On 3/31/2014 10:43 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
You need to use the full path to commands in your script or set an
environment variable. In my case using full paths to executables was enough.
Bingo... thanks Daniel!
Now to figure out why one of my remote systems is sending the cron email
results a
On 3/31/2014 7:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:01:48 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are
like this:
# perform tar.tgz backup of /etc
tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc
When I run this script
Hi all,
Ok, this is really irritating me...
I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are like
this:
# perform tar.tgz backup of /etc
tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc
When I run this script manually, it does what it is supposed to, and the
On 3/23/2014 12:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 23/03/2014 12:11, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500
Bruce Hill wrote:
It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common
sense and email etiquette into his attitude.
Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll
On 3/22/2014 5:06 AM, Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Please don't use this list for personal quarrels of any kind!
If someone says something you don't like - just ignore it/him.
If someone insults you, reply by personal mail only.
If someone says something which is*technically* wrong,
j
On 3/21/2014 5:57 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
How does one send email to*THIS* list, without being subscribed in
the first place? A bugzilla mailing list is a different matter.
I think that is the main and primary point.
I loathe lists that allow posts from non subscribers (libreoffice
users),
On 3/21/2014 7:13 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:25:18 -0400
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 3/20/2014 4:14 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
Tom - please STOP CC'ing me on these emails.
I am on the list and don't need two copies.
Use 'Reply-To-List' function (or equiva
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