Re: [gentoo-user] Web browser issues. Firefox and Seamonkey doesn't work, Chrome does.

2024-08-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/8/24 16:11, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/08/2024 18:15, Dale wrote: Well, what I'd like to do, install a email program that fetches the emails and then stores them on my system.  Then I can have Thunderbird or any other email program connect to that and view, create, send or whatever emails.

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant: Wi-Fi works for all points, excluding one in the caffee

2024-07-21 Thread William Kenworthy
In this line it looks like a space after "Lali" ... BillK On 22/7/24 00:19, Vitaly Zdanevich wrote: wlp3s0: 3: a0:8c:f8:78:01:50 ssid='Lali ' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=24 caps=0x1411 level=-59 freq=243

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-23 Thread William Kenworthy
... Now to ponder what comes next. Dale :-)  :-) Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an xorg.conf for nvidia?  Have you followed the gentoo Xorg guide where it says to try first without that file?  I doubt the knoppix etc use a conf file and so must depend on the auto

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/6/24 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > I still don't understand the efi thing.  I'm booted up tho.  I'm happy. > Now to get temp sensors and stuff to work.  I want to keep a eye on > temps for a bit.  I think the boot media was reporting the wrong info. > Even the ambient temp was to high for

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU frequency governors and temperatures

2024-06-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/6/24 20:16, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:49:57PM -0500, Dale wrote The biggest thing, find out what the exact specs are for your CPU. Then go from there.  That's your starting point tho. "grep model /proc/cpuinfo" returns 12 instances of... model

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/6/24 23:57, Dale wrote: Waldo Lemmer wrote: By the way, you should really just use the linux-firmware package if it has the firmware you need. You can plug the name of the firmware into https://portagefilelist.de to check if it does. I agree.  For firmware, this is the way to go.  I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On 10/6/24 18:03, Dale wrote: ... Interesting.  I thought the four port card in the NAS box was newer, at least a little bit anyway.  I may dig around for a card with display port outputs and see what I can find.  Hopefully something not to old. I don't need much.  Biggest thing, drivers that w

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-06 Thread William Kenworthy
See https://www.disctech.com/powerdisable BillK On 7/5/24 09:00, Dale wrote: Howdy, I ordered another hard drive, yup, I keep filling them up.  Anyway, it looks like a shucked drive but may not be.  I tried to find out if there is a way to know if a drive has that pin 3 problem or not but no

Re: [gentoo-user] Successfully upgraded to new profile 23.0

2024-04-08 Thread William Kenworthy
I use a buildhost for each of the 4 architectures I manage - binary emtytree installs are not to bad.  However the initial build for low power arm systems is measured in multiple days (for just the initial toolchain, not hours :(.  Only minor problems so far though which is good.  At least it c

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-26 Thread William KENWORTHY
I have a question about binaries and the new profile: I have a number of almost identical architectures that I build binaries for and share across the similar sytems e.g. arm, aarch64, amd64 etc. Is deleting the bin host storage (rm -rf ) enough on the buildhost so I can share/use the binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Is your efi fat32 formatted? (required) This usually means its another partition mounted to /boot/EFI BillK On 6/3/24 14:02, Dale wrote: 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 e

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, gentoo. I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm . But for some reason, I typed $ find . '*.elc' | xa

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 8/2/24 06:36, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: 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 but the crontab entr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make binary Asterisk package

2024-02-04 Thread William Kenworthy
man quickpkg On 4/2/24 15:47, Thelma wrote: How to make net-misc/asterisk-16.30.1 into binary package so I can install in on future gentoo boxes. I think asterisk ver. 16 (still in portage) is the last one still compatible with sip/iax code all future versions starting with ver.18 are conver

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help [SOLVED]

2024-02-03 Thread William Kenworthy
mmunity support is almost not existent, few folks just bark at you if one mention still running ver. 16 I'll hang on to 16.30.1 as long as I can. On 2/2/24 20:55, William Kenworthy wrote: In v18 sip is still present but deprecated - after this its removed. There is a conversion script (sip

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help

2024-02-02 Thread William Kenworthy
6 is the end of the line for me. On 2/2/24 16:39, William Kenworthy wrote: Yes, was caught out recently by the replacement of sip with pjsip - currently on v21.0.2 and working (sip only, simple home setup) Also had some weird problems with two versions installed (so asterisk started on old

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help

2024-02-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Yes, was caught out recently by the replacement of sip with pjsip - currently on v21.0.2 and working (sip only, simple home setup) Also had some weird problems with two versions installed (so asterisk started on old working version even though new one was installed - once I ran depclean it fail

[gentoo-user] split-usr

2024-01-11 Thread William Kenworthy
Some years back I did the usr-merge and my laptop has continued on more or less ok. Now, I suddenly have a number of packages failing to build with internal collisions as they try and install (for example) a binary into /bin and /usr/bin and collide.  "emerge --info" is showing the split-usr f

[gentoo-user] OT: tablet mode

2023-11-28 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I have a MS Surface4Pro being used as a gentoo laptop. At various times Ive tried setting up a soft keyboard so I can use it as a tablet - with mostly not really usable results, and Ive just realised my previous choices no longer work due to python moving on. So what soft keyboard, g

Re: [gentoo-user] App windows not staying put!

2023-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/11/23 16:35, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 25 November 2023 05:45:04 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I have an odd problem with a server that's been repurposed as a desktop: 2 monitors, main is DP, secondary is HDMI, intel on board video with sddm and xfce4. The problem i

[gentoo-user] App windows not staying put!

2023-11-24 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I have an odd problem with a server that's been repurposed as a desktop: 2 monitors, main is DP, secondary is HDMI, intel on board video with sddm and xfce4. The problem is the icons and app windows on the second monitor get pushed onto the main monitor when the monitors deep sleep o

Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging NFS mounts

2023-11-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On 18/11/23 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 17 November 2023 16:44:29 GMT I wrote: I'll try that - thanks. Damn fool - it was a firewall problem on the server. For some reason, the NFS destination port has changed. Sorry for the noise. Actually, NFS may have some ports dynamicly a

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-11-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On 11/11/23 05:15, Dale wrote: the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Thelma On 9/17/23 23:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, This is a work in progress and may take some time, financially if nothing else.  With hindsight, I wish I had done this before the price of everything went up but some things are gettin

[gentoo-user] updating glsa's

2023-10-30 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I am using git for portage updates and exporting it over nfs for other systems  - I like to hold portage at a point so all systems are updated to the same level before updating it. However, I would also like to be able to use glsa-check on any newly issued glsa's.  Is it possible to s

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/10/23 11:23, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:20:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Howdy, As most know, I had to restore from backups recently.  I also reworked my NAS box.  I'm doing my first backup given that I have more files that need to be added to the backu

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

2023-10-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/10/23 21:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:26:29 BST I wrote: Perhaps I should switch to getmail... On the other hand, I'd prefer to stick with fetchmail for my Zen POP3 account, since it's working well. Then I could use getmail to fetch my gmail mail. Would th

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-19 Thread William KENWORTHY
2023 5:48:39 pm AWST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >(I assume this was addressed to me, though it was a reply to someone else.) > >On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 10:14:42 BST William Kenworthy wrote: >> That is where you set per package compiler parameters by overriding >> make.

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-19 Thread William Kenworthy
That is where you set per package compiler parameters by overriding make.conf settings. BillK On 19/9/23 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 18 September 2023 23:44:50 BST William Kenworthy wrote: per package env variables? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env Apropos

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread William Kenworthy
per package env variables? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread William Kenworthy
Oh, forgot to mention the "this could be you" photo in that link :) BillK On 7/9/23 11:24, William Kenworthy wrote: On 7/9/23 11:09, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:45:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Oh, creating a vdev was the trick.  Once that is do

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 7/9/23 11:09, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:45:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Oh, creating a vdev was the trick.  Once that is done, expand the pool.  It's one of those, once it is done, it seems easy.  ROFL Note that people used to shoot themselves in the fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/9/23 22:58, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the quick-n-dirty solution like Alan suggested. And I never have a need to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: attic

2023-09-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/9/23 16:04, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-09-04, William Kenworthy wrote: On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote: On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic&q

Re: [gentoo-user] attic

2023-09-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote: On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant find it on google - is it still around? Perhaps have a look h

[gentoo-user] attic

2023-09-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant find it on google - is it still around? * gentoo has moved dev-embedded/reedsolomon to dev-embedded/reedsolo (then removing the old ebuilds) breaking my homeassistant install easiest fix is a local copy until HA catches up.

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Welcome Back to the force :) BillK William Kenworthy On 1/9/23 02:15, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hello Gentoo'ers After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but eventually got fed up with h

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with location of git clone when bisecting with 9999-ebuilds

2023-08-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On 11/8/23 09:06, Morgan Wesström wrote: Thank you, Yixun. On 2023-08-11 02:23, Yixun Lan wrote: understanding git bisect should be enough to keep you going.. Yes, I actually just ended up doing what git bisect does but manually for now. 2) Can I tell emerge not to clean the build director

Re: [gentoo-user] amavis/postfix and port 10025

2023-07-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Inline: On 3/7/23 12:52, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sunday, July 2, 2023 4:16:54 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi all, I have been using a gentoo mail gateway for many years - its currently running under LXC and is upgraded using a generic LXC "golden master" image with the var

[gentoo-user] amavis/postfix and port 10025

2023-07-01 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi all,     I have been  using a gentoo mail gateway for many years - its currently running under LXC and is upgraded using a generic LXC "golden master" image with the various email related packages being installed and config files copied across roughly a month or

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

2023-06-20 Thread William Kenworthy
getmail can facilitate getting googlemail into postfix.  In my case, it fetches an mail then invokes sendemail to forward into postfix.  The docs for the google side of the equation are quite good. BillK On 20/6/23 16:30, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:29:52 BST the...@sys-concep

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

2023-05-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/5/23 23:52, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 16 May 2023 01:03:31 BST Wol wrote: On 15/05/2023 18:25, Michael wrote: Check the attached screenshots, relevant to this laptop. There's pointer speed and scrolling speed for the USB mouse I have attached. I use libinput for years now and as far

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

2023-05-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Checked your menu? XFCE has a "mouse and touchpad" under settings with a number of useful items including acceleration, double click timings etc. BillK On 15/5/23 04:33, Wols Lists wrote: I've been having grief with my mouse for a while, and all the help I can find is "how to adjust mouse spe

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/4/23 19:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On 28/4/23 21:21, Michael wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2023 13:54:37 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2023 10:08:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: 230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/4/23 15:18, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 16 April 2023 02:47:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote: look into mount options for SSD's (discard option) and "fstrim" for maintenance. (read up on trimmimg - doing a manual trim before the drive reaches full allocation (they de

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/4/23 06:47, Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally broke down and bought a SSD.  It's a Samsung V-Nand 870 EVO 500GB.  My current OS sits on a 160GB drive so should be plenty.  I plan to even add a boot image for the Gentoo LiveGUI thingy, maybe Knoppix or something plus my usual OS.  By the way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Logic?

2023-04-07 Thread William Kenworthy
The rubygem / webkit problem has cropped up recently - do something like this 1. Mask webkit (I needed to do yelp as well on one system) 2. emerge any remaining updates so you can depclean 3. emerge --depclean (this removes old ruby versions and fixes the system 4. unmask webkit etc. 4. fini

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

2023-04-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 6/4/23 19:20, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 6 April 2023 11:49:29 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 05:35:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working fine for years. But recently, it's been occ

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

2023-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/4/23 17:24, tastytea wrote: On 2023-04-05 08:54+0800 William KENWORTHY wrote: I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working fine for years. But recently, it's been occaisionally coming out of suspension some time after suspension without any interven

[gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

2023-04-04 Thread William KENWORTHY
I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working fine for years. But recently, it's been occaisionally coming out of suspension some time after suspension without any intervention on my part. I am suspecting the mouse - I would prefer not to disable the mouse ... Is there an

Re: [gentoo-user] How to restart/fix frozen XFCE4

2023-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/4/23 13:28, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: At time to time my XFCE4 freezes.  The screen is responding to the keyboard, mouse pointer is moving on the screen but nothing is responding. I just lookup some solutions and found this one: - press: CTRL+Alt+T  (to get to terminal) - pidof xf

[gentoo-user] running KSM

2023-03-23 Thread William Kenworthy
I am interested in running KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging) on an lxc server.  Some other distros have a tuning daemon to extend/control ksm but I cant find anything gentoo. I have it in the kernel and can run it with fixed defaults but I hope to do better. Does anyone have recommendations on how

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/3/23 04:27, Morgan Wesström wrote: On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: 1) Where's the appropriate place for these files in Gentoo and why? 2) If the appropriate place is either of those folders with a version number, how do I install the files there without hard coding the version numb

[gentoo-user] Lxc weirdness

2023-01-02 Thread William KENWORTHY
Hi, I am having a problem with lxc where tasks run via lxc-attach seems to hang or run so slow it may as well be hung. No log messages, no signs of anything else wrong. It appears independent of kernel versions, and regular updates have occurred to the external environment. The lxc VM's are mo

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/12/22 14:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 05:53:03AM + schrieb Wols Lists: On 21/12/2022 02:47, Dale wrote: ... In layman’s term, a stripe of mirrors. Raid-1 is the mirror, Raid-0 a (JBOD) pool. So mirror + pool = mirrorpool, hence the 1+0 → 10. ... I tend t

Re: Living in NGL: was: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/12/22 21:30, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 7:51 AM Wols Lists wrote: On 19/12/2022 12:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale wrote: If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd like to have a remote tho. 😉 So, I've don

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
* didn't send to the list the first time :( On 9/12/22 07:30, Dale wrote: I just wonder, could I use that board and just hook it to my USB port and a external power supply and skip the Raspberry Pi part?  I'd bet not tho.  ;-) Dale :-)  :-) Check this one: https://www.hardkernel.com/sh

Solved: GRe: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

2022-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/11/22 21:01, William Kenworthy wrote: On 25/11/22 20:37, Wols Lists wrote: On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system Are you using getmail, or getmail6? https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

2022-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/11/22 20:37, Wols Lists wrote: On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system Are you using getmail, or getmail6? https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/documentation.html#python3 A quick "e

[gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

2022-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system (I want to use getmails per instance IDLE parameter).  The docs say that it can work with postfix, however suitable examples and information is lacking.  Currently fetchmail is delivering multiple accounts vi

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

2022-11-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Install lshw - might give more info. Boot off of an install, ubuntu, sysrescue or other live USB and investigate dmesg. BillK On 16/11/22 00:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, My new laptop shows this from /proc/cpuinfo: --->8 processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu fami

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realloc() failure in motion

2022-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/9/22 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2022-09-18, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am setting up some  cameras (esp32cam) and intended to use motion for them but it crashes on startup with a realloc() error. The system is an up to date arm64 (odroid N2+), mostly stable. Has anyone seen this

[gentoo-user] realloc() failure in motion

2022-09-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I am setting up some  cameras (esp32cam) and intended to use motion for them but it crashes on startup with a realloc() error. The system is an up to date arm64 (odroid N2+), mostly stable. Has anyone seen this before? BillK ha /etc/motion # /usr/bin/motion -c /etc/motion/motion.conf -k

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn experience, anyone?

2022-09-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On 18/9/22 15:26, n952162 wrote: Hello all, I want to ssh over my openvpn connection, and I can't do it, the connection times out. I saw a reference to gentoo in the openvpn scripts in /etc/openvpn and thought maybe somebody here  knows something about this. Earlier my institution recommende

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread William Kenworthy
If your using nut, it has to be setup - and should be regularly tested to make sure it works. BillK ' On 12/9/22 09:56, Dale wrote: Howdy, Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with some power problems.  Ironically they went out a few hours after the storm was gone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/8/22 06:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: [..] Also, if you're using ext2/3/4, there's the preset, i.e. if you're rather sure about what kind of data is going to be on there, you can tune it so that it reserves more or less place for metadata like inodes, which can be another bit. When I for

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/8/22 13:34, Grant Taylor wrote: On 8/20/22 10:22 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: ... If that is an Odroid XU4, then I strongly suspect that /dev/sda is passing through a USB interface.  So ... I'd take those numbers with a grain of salt.  --  If the system is working for you, then b

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread William Kenworthy
What are you measuring the speed with - hdparm or rsync or ? hdparm is best for profiling just the harddisk (tallks to the interface and can bypass the cache depending on settings, rsync/cp/?? usually have the whole OS storage chain including encryption affecting throughput.  Encryption itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/8/22 06:44, Dale wrote: Howdy, With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and also filling up.  First casualty, my backup disk.  I have one directory that is . . . well . . . huge.  It's about 7TBs or so.  This is where it is right now and it's still trying to pack

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-08-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 6/8/22 20:42, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 6 August 2022 12:08:30 BST Dale wrote: ... The more you try to escape the 14 eyes Big Brother, the closer you may fall into the hands of various authoritarian regimes. LOL! Even VPNs like NordVPN which operates within the jurisdiction of Panama

Re: [gentoo-user] python mess - random winge!

2022-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/7/22 14:24, w...@op.pl wrote: > Dnia 2022-07-05, o godz. 13:04:07 > William Kenworthy napisał(a): > >> I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are >> rebuilding python modules for 3.10 without any input from me (prior >> to this 3.10 was on the

[gentoo-user] python mess - random winge!

2022-07-04 Thread William Kenworthy
I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are rebuilding python modules for 3.10 without any input from me (prior to this 3.10 was on the system but wasn't picked up by applications.)  This is breaking non portage apps like homeassistant which are still not fully 3.10 safe - ok that'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

2022-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
and don't forget to run "uname -a" to get your currently running kernel version and make sure you don't delete that! "IF" "uname -a" isn't the latest version you have in /boot, some more investigation as to why will be needed. BillK On 1/7/22 04:29, Lee wrote: > The OP should read the section o

Re: [gentoo-user] verify-sig

2022-04-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks. BillK On 9/4/22 15:32, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 02:50:30PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: A new use has shown up named "verify-sig".  It seems simple enough from its euse description but its causing a large number of packages to be rebuilt unneces

[gentoo-user] verify-sig

2022-04-08 Thread William Kenworthy
A new use has shown up named "verify-sig".  It seems simple enough from its euse description but its causing a large number of packages to be rebuilt unnecessarily (it defaults to off on my sytems).  Should I enable it? - I can find much info on it and it looks like it will cause major user has

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/4/22 16:05, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:46:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/4/22 23:12, Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular access point to an interface or fail? I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two wifi interfaces - unfortunately they ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular access point to an interface or fail? I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect

[gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular access point to an interface or fail? I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two wifi interfaces - unfortunately they are not equal so I want wlan0 to connect to only one particular AP, and wlan1 to the ot

Re: [gentoo-user] Two wifi client interfaces and routing

2022-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks for the detailed reply - my response is inline: On 1/4/22 00:17, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 3/31/22 7:21 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> I am trying to use a raspberry pi ...  to create a routed link >> between two access points ...  so I

[gentoo-user] Two wifi client interfaces and routing

2022-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I am trying to use a raspberry pi (3B running gentoo 32bit, openrc) to create a routed link between two access points (the rpi acting as a client to both AP's) so I can access the monitoring port (6607, modbus) from homeassistant.  One AP is an Huawei inverter with a built in "island" acce

Re: [gentoo-user] how to restart the network, no net.enp1s0

2022-01-21 Thread William Kenworthy
There was a news item on network naming - it might be that.  A couple of people got caught by it. BillK On 21/1/22 20:48, n952162 wrote: The point is, something has changed in openrc, and I was hoping somebody knew about it. It used to be that you could restart the network with:   rc-servic

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/1/22 22:06, Marco Rebhan wrote: On Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:22:02 CET Dale wrote: What do others do with spam to minimize it? Hi Dale, I'm not sure if you're talking about self-hosted mail because you mention dovecot, if you do: Google Gentoo mail gateway - there are a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/1/22 00:06, Dale wrote: tastytea wrote: On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know w

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few years ago insisted on a two-compone

Re: [gentoo-user] "EZ mode" vs "AP mode"

2022-01-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/1/22 21:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:38:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Z mode is  the smart dev acting as an accesspoint for the controlling phone app to connect - so it cant in that mode connect to anything else.  To reflash the firmware with something

Re: [gentoo-user] "EZ mode" vs "AP mode"

2022-01-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/1/22 19:45, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Thelma: What kind of routers work with "EZ mode" Recently I was plying with a wifi light switch and couldn't get "EZ mode" to work with my Asus router. AP mode, worked but for this to work phone's Bluetooth and Personal Hotspot need to be turn ON (du

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: whats a good laptop for gentoo these days?

2022-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
On 10/1/22 00:26, Jack wrote: On 1/9/22 07:49, William Kenworthy wrote: My MS surface pro4 has died (swelling battery has popped the screen - known problem) so I am looking for a better replacement. I bought it new years ago but it only got good Linux support (touchscreen etc.) in the last

[gentoo-user] OT: whats a good laptop for gentoo these days?

2022-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
My MS surface pro4 has died (swelling battery has popped the screen - known problem) so I am looking for a better replacement. I bought it new years ago but it only got good Linux support (touchscreen etc.) in the last couple of years so its been a bit frustrating. So the question is - whats a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel's new configs not used?

2022-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/1/22 13:44, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:44:51 +, Wols Lists wrote: Compiling the kernel and modules? Replace 1 with make all modules_install install There's also the matter of the initramfs, one of the main reasons people use genkernel, alth

Re: [gentoo-user] SD memory card not erasing, even with dd.

2021-12-29 Thread William Kenworthy
... This thread has been interesting tho.  At least I know that a Sandisk card at least tries to fail in a way that I can get the data off that did get written to the card.  Hey, that's a lot better than some I guess.  :-D  I've had some other brands that when they die, they dead. You get nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] SD memory card not erasing, even with dd.

2021-12-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/12/21 20:26, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 20:21:32 GMT Dale wrote: Howdy, As some may recall, I have quite a few deer trail cameras that use SD memory cards. On occasion some of the cards start acting weird. I've got one that is really weird. Usually I just replace the

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

2021-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
A point to keep in mind - if you can feel the drive moving it may be generating errors!  Depending on the drive, the errors may just be handled internally and I can see it slowing things down though probably would be barely noticeable.  I have seen it myself with random errors from a WD green d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

2021-12-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/12/21 04:59, Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-12-21, Dale wrote: As someone who has experimented with video editing software, I can understand Wols on this.  What some of us needs is something similar to 'video editing for dummys' except we need the software not the book.  At

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/12/21 13:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 20/12/21 11:17 am, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) BillK How easy should it be? Won't ffmpeg allow you

[gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-19 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) BillK

[gentoo-user] OT: what keyboard is suitable for a touchscreen?

2021-12-17 Thread William Kenworthy
I have been using the onboard keyboard from an overlay for the touchscreen on my surface laptop, but it currently only supports python 3.8.  What else is in portage or overlay that is worth trying? BillK

[gentoo-user] log4j

2021-12-15 Thread William Kenworthy
I was reading up on log4j and its recent problems and discovered it can "hide" layers deep inside java jar files depending on how its used. I can see that dev-embedded/arduino includes log4j directly (and does it embed log4j in code produced for IoT?): rattus ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted

2021-12-13 Thread William Kenworthy
True - missed that! BillK On 13/12/21 17:36, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:36:33 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: I thought the gentoo default mail program is nullmailer? Changed from smtpd(? or something named similar) some time back. Simple, reasonably versatile and has

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted

2021-12-12 Thread William Kenworthy
I thought the gentoo default mail program is nullmailer? Changed from smtpd(? or something named similar) some time back.  Simple, reasonably versatile and has easy configuration. BillK On 12/12/21 21:25, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hey list, I am looking for an as-simple-as-possible setup fo

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