On 2022-01-12, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:53:06 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Then it must have been ipkg-utils itself that required the older
>> python_exec, but there was no ebuild present for it.
>
> If it was installed through portag
On 2022-01-12, Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 01:44, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Still not sure what command one uses to determine what package is
>> preventing some other package from being upgraded...
>
> It should all be in the emerge output, although it
depclean then removed python2.7, and then emerge -auvND
happily upgraded python-exec to 2.4.8.
Still not sure what command one uses to determine what package is
preventing some other package from being upgraded...
--
Grant
It seems that every time a new Python version is unmasks, it breaks
something on one or another of my machines.
This time it's a python-exec version conflict that prevents emerge
-u. FAICT, Python 3.10 requires python-exec 2.4.8, and some other
package requires 2.4.6.
I've fixed things
VMM (virt-manager).
The 2nd NIC means that you don't end up with a chicken & egg problem
trying to administer a network interface across the network, which is
how I do much of my work. Re-configuring things through the console
also simplifies things in this regard.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
has been running perfectly fine for many years.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
h tells me (Control)-(Alt)-(F#)
which means that any given virtual console should be able to see the new
groups if it logs out and logs back in, even if others stay logged in.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
that you've been added to which hasn't
been loaded (?) instantiated (?) ... in the current session.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
oups.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
is running:
# rc-service libvirtd status
Also:
# rc-update add libvirtd default
You may need to add your user account to -- what I think is -- the "kvm"
group. (Don't forget the usual dance when adding yourself to a new group.)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
you're doing.
I had some problems deleting mail with "net-mail/mailutils" program.
*nod*
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 12/31/21 3:58 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
How do you configure "~/.forward"?
echo "u...@example.net" > ~/.forward
That will cause most MTAs to forward message for your local user to the
u...@example.net email address.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
of need is why I have ~/.forward files on most systems so that
email to my local account is forwarded to (one of) my primary email
accounts that Thunderbird does check.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
the number of variables that you're working with at
one time.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
onfig file
(~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config). Using the config file means
that anything that uses OpenSSH commands benefits from and inherits the
configuration parameters; rsync, git, what have you.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 2021-12-21, Wols Lists wrote:
> Oh - and as for using the command line, it's all very well until you
> try and figure out where to tell the command line to cut the video
> file - I really don't want to have to run the command line hundreds
> of times, checking the output every time, and
I-frames without decoding and reencoding at least the portion
of the stream where the cut is being made. While it might be possible
to copy the rest of the stream, I don't know of any editors that will
do that.
--
Grant
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
> one time, I wanted to remove like 20 or 30
On 2021-12-20, 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?)
I do stuff like that using a shell script to invoke the MLT "melt"
command line video editor.
/ is the body vs envelope? In SMTP it's simple,
it, everything between the DATA and the trailing . is
the body the MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO(s) are envelope. But RFC 822
messages on disk, that's a bit of a horse of a different color. It's
easy to differentiate body from headers, but envelope???
--
Grant
s slightly differently while doing a
different part of the job.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
+LDA receive and deliver the mail (respectively) to the user's
mailbox.
The MUA is what reads / modifies the mailbox.
So ... compare the email client that you're using between the two systems.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
to check it out.
Especially if it's small and intended for local delivery and / or
getting messages off of box all the while without exposing an SMTP port.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
to end up in "/var/spool/mail/${USER}".
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
ier,
and something super simple I don't remember the name of because I've
not used it in so long.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
(and / or nail) relied on a local
MTA+LDA. Even if it's only listening on 127.1. -- I guess I'm wrong.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
the same storage device?
I find it easier to re-install if home and data directories are on a
different filesystem than the system stuff.
--
Grant
-z "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=__jobsprompt
else
PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND ; __jobsprompt"
fi
Is there a reason to not simply do the following, eliminating the if
conditional:
PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND:+${PROMPT_COMMAND} ; __jobsprompt}
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 12/1/21 10:02 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
IIRC, there are situations where using udev rules to rename them
"ethN" based on MAC addresses will fail because that can conflict
with the low-level kernel names. Or something like that.
I don't think I ever ran into a problem re-using th
On 2021-11-30, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I guess I never really gave the renaming much thought because I
> almost always complied drivers into the kernel, which meant that
> they had a consistent ~> predictable enumeration and naming order.
I think that's generally true on most motherbo
On 2021-11-30, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Besides, it's a LOT easier to /just/ `tcpdump -nni eth0` when logging
> into a machine than it is to have to figure out the interface name first.
Yep. I always add udev rules to rename the boards net0, net1, etc.
based don the MAC addresses.
> T
put it back to the old naming
scheme because with only one device it should always be eth0.
Indeed.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
e than it is to have to figure out the interface name first.
That being said, I was okay with what CentOS 6.x did, where the new name
was matched against the MAC address. I had eth0 based on MAC for
outside and eth1 based on MAC for inside on a number of systems.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
eter which forces the old
way, but can't find it now, as I switched to the new naming with eudev,
so switching to udev didn't break anything for me.
As Neil B. pointed out, "net.ifnames=0" is now on all my kernel boot
lines (for the above reason).
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 2021-11-30, tastytea wrote:
> On 2021-11-29 22:47-0600 Dale wrote:
>
>> Now if I can figure out how to reset the list of /dev/sd* names that
>> are lurking about and inconsistent, that would be like striking gold.
>> Every time I hook up my external drive, it gets a different sd*
>> name.
30 other packages as dependencies.
--
Grant
llow
an order to be entered for my address. After the QWest guy messed
around for a while, he told me that service for my address was handled
by a "special team". I would have to hang up and then call that team
directly at .
I haven't gotten around to making a third attempt...
--
Grant
h has an RJ45 jack
which then needs to be connected to what the ISP usually calls "A
Modem". That "modem" is generally a firewall/router and WAP.
The exact Ethernet protocols used on that RJ45 connection to the
"modem" varie. Some do PPPoE, some just need some sort of
authenticating DHCP client, so do other stuff.
--
Grant
t would even be possible.]
--
Grant
On 2021-11-02, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I'm trying to enable (NFTS) file support in my kernel: 5.4.80
> Disabled:
> - [ ] NTFS write support
>
> Enabled:
><*> FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support
>
> When I try to compile the kernel I get an error message:
> ...
> AS
c and/or binutils
3. Make minor change to kernel .config file
4. Do a "make" of the kernel
If you do a make clean between 3 & 4, it seems to avoid problems
caused by doing a build with "mixed" gcc or binutils versions.
--
Grant
On 2021-11-01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 11/1/21 4:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2021-11-01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>
>>> I format external nvme SSD (M.2) drive as NTFS on Windows (to store
>>> some pictures etc.) But when I insert t
On 2021-11-01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I format external nvme SSD (M.2) drive as NTFS on Windows (to store
> some pictures etc.) But when I insert the drive on Linux box (it
> has support for NTFS enabled) I get an error:
Please define what you mean by "it has support for NTFS
On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:50 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> Is there some reason it should default
>> to doing unlimited depth fetch operations?
>>
>
> If all you want is a repo, no reason to set the depth higher.
Then a
On 2021-10-13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:25:12 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I switched my gentoo repo from rsync to git, and the initial
>> --sync with an empty directory did a git clone successfully.
>>
>> Today, when
On 2021-10-13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> You made the classic mistake of changing two things at once and then
> not knowing which change caused the blow up!
Indeed. You'd think by now I'd have learned not to do that...
--
Grant
OK, a few frames of data go back and forth, then the nothing happens
for 60s and the client end sends a FIN.
After the initial sync which does a git clone, how do you do
subsequent sync operations?
--
Grant
On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:22 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> >
>> > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from
>> > /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your r
On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM Matt Connell
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> > no profile selected
>>
>> I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected.
&
On 2021-10-13, Matt Connell wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> no profile selected
>
> I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected.
I had a profile selected.
> Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprec
On 2021-10-12, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 4:02 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> Despite what multiple blog and wiki pages claim, it seems it's not as
>> simple as editing you gentoo.conf file. Do I need to wipe the contents
>> of /usr/portage and
How do you migrate from rsync to git for 'emerge --sync'?
I changed my /etc/porttage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf file as shown in
various places, but when I try to do a sync, git barfs:
# emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
/usr/bin/git clone --depth 1
On 2021-10-01, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> Doesn't it require xattrs?
Yes, I had xattrs enabled. That used to be enough to get setcap to work.
It now also requires CONFIG_*_FS_SECURITY, which I didn't have enabled.
--
Grant
zone flag.
I don't remember seeing any recommendation to enable it.
> I disabled the ozone flag and now I have KDE title bars.
Doing that is what fixed it for me.
--
Grant
On 2021-09-30, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On 30/09/2021 13:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Still can't figure out how to get setcap to work
> Not sure if this is it, but do you have CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY enabled?
No, I don't.
Google has found me information that indicates that SEL
On 2021-09-30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-09-30, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to add NET_ADMIN capability to an executable that needs to
>> create a tun inteface. AFACIT, this is the command to do that:
>>
>>$ sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep e
On 2021-09-30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm trying to add NET_ADMIN capability to an executable that needs to
> create a tun inteface. AFACIT, this is the command to do that:
>
>$ sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep example_app
>Failed to set capabilities on file `example_
The only occurances of the string CAPAB in 5.10 Kconfig files
is CPU_THUMB_CAPABLE
What do I need to do to get setap to work?
--
Grant
should only buy an iOS device if you're never, ever, going to
want it to interact with anything non-Apple.
--
Grant
On 2021-09-27, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> If it is still working, that is great news for users of Chromium-based
> browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think it is safe to
> expect the behavior to continue.
It's Google. It's not safe to expect _any_ behavior to continue. :)
On 2021-09-27, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 7:25 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> But now the "Use system title bars and borders" option doesn't work.
>
> Strangely the dragging a tab problem has never occured for me on
> Kubuntu.
I think the
ver to the chrome://flags page and find the
> “use-ozone-platform” setting.
>
> Make sure to change it from default to disabled, restart your Chrome
> browser and you will be good to go."
>
>
>
> I can confirm that this worked for me here.
Fixed it for me (openbox).
--
Grant
s' but it does nothing.
Same here
> Chrome version 94.0.4606.54.
Version 94.0.4606.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)
The 'Use system title bar and border' options still works fine in
Chromium Version 94.0.4606.54 (Developer Build) (64-bit)
--
Grant
On 2021-03-12, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Yesterday afternoon, both Chrome and Chromium started behaving oddly.
>
> When I drag a tab out of it's parent window to create a new window
> (this is something I do a lot, every day), it works normally until I
> release the mouse button
eeding an NNTP
client to use inews instead of NNTP for posting, is even more obscure
and obsolete. I think EXTRA_ECONF is plenty good enough unless
somebody is aware of any other gentoo packages that could take
advantage of an "inews" USE flag...
--
Grant
On 2021-09-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'd like to build slrn with --enable-inews, but that doesn't seem to
> be suppored by the ebuild. Is there some way to control autotools
> 'configure' options other than USE flags?
found it: EXTRA_ECONF
# EXTRA_CONF=--enable-inews emerge slrn
I'd like to build slrn with --enable-inews, but that doesn't seem to
be suppored by the ebuild. Is there some way to control autotools
'configure' options other than USE flags?
--
Grant
than kernel size / lines of code / attack surface) for having NUMA
support enabled on a non-NUMA system?
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
you don't
> already run KDE. I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader
> (evince?) can also do it.
none of evince, atril or pdfstudio support dynamic XFA.
--
Grant
hing like that for use by the general public
needs to have thier career terminated before they cause any more
damage.
--
Grant
r
> system after a back up of configuration and data files would be a
> smarter approach.
In my experience, it will almost definitely be less work to
reinstall --- usually a _lot_ less work.
--
Grant
On 2021-09-13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 03:57:55 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> >> I've tried changing all the various settings in Gwenview config
>> >> separately, but nothing changes.
>> >
>> > Have you tried logging is as a new user with default Gwenview
>> > config?
>>
>>
over.
I've found that a viable work-around for anything at all long or
complex is to edit the message using markdown-mode in emacs, preview
the message in a browser, and then cut/paste it into hiri's editor
window. But, the OWA web UI works just as well for that...
--
Grant Edwards grant
On 2021-08-25, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2021-08-25, Andrew Udvare wrote:
>>
>>> You can try to re-encode or maybe remux with ffmpeg.
>> That's what I'd do. Try remuxing first (it can be done losslessly).
>> To remux losslessly, use the &q
On 2021-08-25, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> You can try to re-encode or maybe remux with ffmpeg.
That's what I'd do. Try remuxing first (it can be done losslessly).
To remux losslessly, use the "copy" codecs for both audio and video.
--
Grant
Would anybody care to recommend a tool for browsing around (and
editing) a tree of somebody-else's C code?
I prefer emacs for day-to-day editing of my code (when I know what's
where), but I'm looking for something to browse around a tree of
unfamiliar source code and make minor changes. I briefly
oved by emerge --depclean.
Is this documented somewhere in the handbook?
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Mary Tyler Moore's
at SEVENTH HUSBAND is wearing
gmail.com
On 2021-07-13, antlists wrote:
> On 13/07/2021 15:07, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2021-07-12, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> On 7/12/21 2:21 PM, antlists wrote:
>>>> Two problems - I would like to run without X, but it seems that the
>>>> greeters need X to ru
s
>> script uses the config file of current system.
>
> It ships its own .config. The easiest way here is to simply install
> gentoo-kernel-bin. After you get a system running that kernel, build
> your own, basing your new config on the existing one.
But remember: real Gentooers
On 2021-07-12, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/12/21 2:21 PM, antlists wrote:
>> Two problems - I would like to run without X, but it seems that the
>> greeters need X to run ...
Yes, they do. Why do you need a "greeter"?
> I'm not familiar with the term "g
very common ...
Ya. I find that man pages and O'Reilly books are good /reference/
material but not good /introduction/ material.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
quot;make install" requiers /sbin/installkernel -- an executable
that's provided by one of installkernel-gentoo-3, debianutils, or
installkernel-systemd-boot. Back in the day, a base installation
didn't have /sbin/installkernel, and you needed to install it
manually. Has that changed?
--
Grant
he volume is always whereever I left it last.
--
Grant
On 2021-06-14, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> All my grub.cfg files looks like this:
>>
>>
>> timeout=10
>> root=hd0,1
>> defa
On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 05:38:53PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> > I'd be tempted to do a manual gub.cfg if I had documentation.
>>
>> I gave up on the grub2 auto-magical config s
On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'd be tempted to do a manual gub.cfg if I had documentation.
I gave up on the grub2 auto-magical config system many years ago. My
grub.cfg is typically 10-20 lines long. The documentation is at
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html
On 2021-06-07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 7:11 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> On 2021-06-07, Alan Grimes wrote:
>>
>> > Chromium is still broken here, all tabs blank after MORE THAN A MONTH...
>>
>> I wasn't aware there was a problem: ther
According to the pycxx README and to the pysvn devloper PyCXX 7.12 is
not compatible with Python 3.9 because the tp_print field has been
removed from one of the structures. My attempts to use PyCXX with
Python 3.9 seem to confirm this.
Is it a bug that the PyCXX ebuild allows it to be installed
tab out of the window
to form a new window. That's been broken for ages and is
apparently a permenent "feature" now (both Chromium and Chrom).
--
Grant
On 6/2/21 1:48 AM, Fannys wrote:
Tech should be based on tech. Not faith and trust on the other party.
That's where detection of breach of trust comes into play. Thus DNSSEC
and things related.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 6/2/21 1:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Do you know which extensions add this?
I don't remember exactly (they weren't compatible with Firefox 78) but
from memory, they were from the CZ NIC operator. They have many things
related to this.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
down the list.
Why is that?
--
Grant
st records published
via DANE in DNS, which is protected by DNSSEC. So it's effectively
impossible for a rogue CA and malicious actor to violate that chain of
trust in a way that can't be detected and acted on.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
ypted communications.
As long as things were done properly in that the keys were generated
locally.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
it depends on where you are in the world.
Let's keep things apolitical and purely technical.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
her.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! HELLO KITTY gang
at terrorizes town, family
gmail.comSTICKERED to death!
o import OVA into virtualbox without any errors.
--
Grant
(wear and tear)?
Don't know.
> * can I simply disable them if I run into problems?
Sure: you can disable support in the kernel if you want to, but I
can't think why you would. They "just work."
--
Grant
spare machine with
> 16 ***MEGA***bytes of ram approx year 1999 or 2000, and the ram was
> perfectly sufficient.
I remember running Linux in 1993 on a '486 with 4MB of RAM. I felt
like I had the world on a string when I upgraded to 8MB.
--
Grant
as he's
now probably going to end up trying things.
Aside: I wonder if I can get around the SSL/TLS issue by leveraging
IPsec to protect credentials between the external IPs and configure
Netscape Communicator for stock IMAP & SMTP.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
301 - 400 of 5189 matches
Mail list logo
