Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 23:50 -0400, james wrote: > I have a proton mail account, the free one, very basic. Proton mail doesn't allow standard IMAP/SMTP, which is relevant given the below. If you want to use a mail client, protonmail is probably a non-starter for you > Will this guide allow thund

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-07 Thread Grant Taylor
On 7/7/20 10:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks, I missed that. I'll try again and see how it goes. If you continue to have problems, I would very much like to know the particulars. My experience has been that changing the TERM environment variable has had very little success in fixing thing

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:06:56AM +0200, tastytea wrote > On 2020-07-07 22:02-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > > It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done > > some "simple" edits over ssh. This seems to be a terminfo problem, so > > it may apply to more than just nano.

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-07 Thread tastytea
On 2020-07-07 22:02-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > […] > > It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done > some "simple" edits over ssh. This seems to be a terminfo problem, so > it may apply to more than just nano. But see... > https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 10:54 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 18:18 -0400, james wrote: So who do folks recommend for mail server services? If you want to pay someone to host mail for you, I can vouch for Mailfence. I have a proton mail account, the free one, very basic. Inquiring ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 9:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your solution-request. Please let me know what your try and what is wrong with what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 9:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your solution-request. Please let me know what your try and what is wrong with what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 18:18 -0400, james wrote: > So who do folks recommend for mail server services? If you want to pay someone to host mail for you, I can vouch for Mailfence. > Time to set up my own mail server (what I prefer to do). Or if you want to go this route, here's the Gentoo-centric

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login some websites using www-client/firefox-68.9.0

2020-07-07 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:36 -0500, Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: > However at some other websites that require > > username/password, I am not able to log in. I have cleared the > cache, > > deleted all cookies, etc. Still problematic. I don't get any errors > upon > > login. Just get straight

Re: [gentoo-user] logcheck fallback detection message

2020-07-07 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 08:48:33AM -0400, elu6-u...@spamex.com wrote: > Noticed the line "Using fallback detection... please install python-magic for > better gzip detection." I installed python-magic, but that makes no > difference. > > Anybody have any idea how to get rid of it? With which PYT

[gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
I normally install Gentoo by manually typing in stuff, on the target machine, as per the docs. This is painfull. Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into an ssh xterm into the install. This went flying along really fast until I went to emerge after having updated mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote > > Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will > post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your solution-request. > Please let me know what your try and what is wrong with what I suggest. > (it helps me). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 6:18 PM, james wrote: OK, sorry for hijacking my own (walter's) post, but this Verizon dying mail server, causes lots of bloated messages and misdirection. I just now figured out that's the bouncing messages source/problem. If those (VERIZON) idiots would just send out a message to

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 3:33 PM, james wrote: On 7/6/20 6:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: �� I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk.� Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc.� I'll settle for a tex

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/6/20 6:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/6/20 6:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/6/20 6:02 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram > and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want > 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a > textconsole-only install

[gentoo-user] logcheck fallback detection message

2020-07-07 Thread elu6-u259
I've setup logcheck on my gentoo system, mostly following: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Logcheck It is working fairly well. A typical logcheck email I receive looks like: Security Events for su =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Using fallback detection... please install python-magic for better

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Michele Alzetta
On an old laptop I tried all the various quick graphical options of installing a Gentoo derivative distro, with the idea that it would then be simple to gentooize it. I tried various distros derived from Gentoo, even quite obscure ones. This didn't work so well. I ended up doing a manual install f