[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

nowadays. I'm not worried about the size, I just don't want any of the automagical config stuff happening (and would feel safest if it wasn't even installed). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My haircut is totally a

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

On 2019-01-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 > install? > > I really don't want any of the auto-magical, devs know better than I > do what I want, os-probing, hide all the details from the stupid user, > config fi

[gentoo-user] minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

file generator stuff installed. I just want the bare minimum required to boot using a hand-edited grub.conf file. There doesn't seem to be a USE flag... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Here I am at the flea at market

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

r than your version/installation of rxvt-unicode, then it's pretty likely that your version/installastion of rxvt-unicode is broken. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FUN is never having to at say you're SUSHI!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

On 2019-01-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> > > > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> > > > > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after >>&g

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

ce pop up. But >> > > > > > since some interations of the linux kernel this interface >> > > > > > has become a mess: Line contents is offsetted all over the place. > I am using x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r1 "make menuco

[gentoo-user] Re: Error during boot up.

erial-console does, but it it might be early enough if the NIC driver and netconsole drivers are compiled into the kernel as opposed to being a loadable module. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Everybody is going

[gentoo-user] Re: Program for posting to a Newsgroup

On 2018-12-03, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I see also the suggestion > > $ ssh -Y > > but what would be the syntax for specifying where > is a different computer on the same local network? Does it have an IP address? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

On 2018-12-02, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 12/2/18 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> MythTV's requirement to use a GUI setup program on a "headless" >> server, always seemed like a massively stupid design decision. > > Yes, it was a dumb decision. Howev

[gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

ars since I've run MythTV. I switched to SageTV because of the brilliantly small and silent set-top-boxes. But Google bought SageTV and pulled the plug on that, so a year or two back I switched to Plex (which you configure via a web UI). The Plex plugin for OSMC/Kodi has a clumsy UI, but works prett

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

On 2018-11-18, james wrote: > On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote: >>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >>>> >>>>> Actually and AMD Arm

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >> >> > Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer. >> >> No, Ryzen is not an Arm processor. > Well, ... the PSP spy-in-the-die i

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

On 2018-11-17, james wrote: > On 11/17/18 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >>> On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's time for the old man to get a new p

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

On 2018-11-17, james wrote: > On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, james wrote: >> >>> It's time for the old man to get a new portable. >> >>> Arm processor, >> >> That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever h

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD lappy

On 2018-11-17, james wrote: > It's time for the old man to get a new portable. > Arm processor, That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever heard of are Chromebooks. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: workaround for defective LOGITECH mouse.

; 15ms from previous."? https://www.google.com/search?q=X11+config+double+click+time=X11+config+double+click+time -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! We're going to a at new disco! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

> > Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D > (--deep) when updating world. Which you should. What do you mean "catch this"? I always use -D, and the change broke my system. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

oul-up to me. I had to log in as root so that I could start X, so that I could use google to try to figure out what went wrong. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My LESLIE GORE record at is BROKEN ... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

years ago when it stopped supporting multiple screens. I've been using openbox since then. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Don't hit me!! I'm in at the Twilight Zone!!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

On 2018-09-17, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 9/17/18 5:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> It wants to re-install wxpython-3.0.2.0, wxGTK-3.04 and >> wxGTK-304-r300. I've already done that a few times, but I answered >> 'y' anyway and let it reinstall them again. It didn

[gentoo-user] Re: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

On 2018-09-17, Mick wrote: >> $ python -c "import wx" >> >> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:16629: >> UserWarning: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch >> warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch") > > Have a look at bug #639276 in case it is

[gentoo-user] Re: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

On 2018-09-17, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 9/17/18 3:48 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Does anybody have any idea what the below is trying to tell me? >> >> _WHAT_ two compenents are mismatched? >> >> WTF is the point of printing a "release number mismatch"

[gentoo-user] Re: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

On 2018-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> import wx > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:16629: > UserWarning: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch > warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch") Is this because I

[gentoo-user] When did "emerge --search" start returning packages that don't match?

dev-python/ipython * dev-python/pythong [ Masked ] * dev-python/twython * dev-python/vpython [ Masked ] * dev-python/wxpython [ Applications found : 7 ] Why is it returning packges that don't match what I'm searching for? Shouldn't only the last of the ones shown above be returned? -- Gra

[gentoo-user] wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:16629: UserWarning: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch") >>> -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hmmm ... a CRIPPLE

[gentoo-user] Re: disable Intel Mgr Engine

etails are > of interest to me. It doesn't run Linux. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine It runs Minix 3. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Psychoanalysis?? at

[gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

ng) system must be updated somehow. Doing a reinstall will probably be far less work and less disruption for the machines user's. You don't have to "wipe the disk" to do a re-install. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

ve decided what solution is best for you, please contact us with the details and we will quote you a price. That sounds expensive to me... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! All of life is a blur at of Repub

[gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

seful to you: > > http://www.ucc.asn.au/~dagobah/~dagobah/things/make-static.html Taking a snapshot of a freshly loaded app is an approach I hadn't thought of. It does seem like the last resort... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow!

[gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

On 2018-08-21, james wrote: > On 8/21/18 6:25 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> There are a handful of 3rd party, closed-source apps that I run on my >> Gentoo systems. Often they're available for RedHat or Ubuntu, >> sometimes for "generic" Linux. [...] >> I've b

[gentoo-user] Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

r containers, or is there some other way to do this? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.co

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

On 2018-07-21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > What has happened is that somebody decided to add virtual/mta-1 > surreptitiously to the default software set in Gentoo. This > installs something called nullmailer, which I don't need, didn't ask > for, and fouls up my mail transmission. > > nullmailer

[gentoo-user] Re: How long does "Verifying /usr/portage" take?

On 2018-07-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-07-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Now that the public key stuff is working again (knock on wood), I'm >> curious if it's usual for an emerge --sync to take 10-15 minutes >> longer than it used due to the "Verifying /usr

[gentoo-user] Re: whats going on with python versions?

at my latest update, a lot > of them are going back to 3.5 instead. That's why I set PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" in my make.conf. I figured it would be best to wait until everything worked with 3.6. My guess is that six months or so after 3.6 becomes the default ought to

[gentoo-user] Re: How long does "Verifying /usr/portage" take?

On 2018-07-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > Now that the public key stuff is working again (knock on wood), I'm > curious if it's usual for an emerge --sync to take 10-15 minutes > longer than it used due to the "Verifying /usr/portage" step. > > On some systems (with fewer pa

[gentoo-user] Re: How long does "Verifying /usr/portage" take?

ys on a not-that-old machine. :) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! One FISHWICH coming at up!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] How long does "Verifying /usr/portage" take?

n my "main" desktop system it takes 10-15 minutes every time. During the verify step, the emerge process is only using about 5% of the CPU, and my system is running 80% or more idle. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! TO

[gentoo-user] Re: How to update public keys?

On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> As of today, I seem to be unable to a an "emerge --sync". >>> >>> The process either hangs forever at

[gentoo-user] Re: How to update public keys?

On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: >> As of today, I seem to be unable to a an "emerge --sync". >> >> The process either hangs forever at the "Refreshing keys from keyserver step: > > [...] > >> Or,

[gentoo-user] Re: How to update public keys?

adding the following: AcceptEnv COLORTERM -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The Korean War must at have been fun. gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How to update public keys?

On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > As of today, I seem to be unable to a an "emerge --sync". > > The process either hangs forever at the "Refreshing keys from keyserver step: [...] > Or, it fails because there are no public key to verify a manfest: For now, I've

[gentoo-user] How to update public keys?

As of today, I seem to be unable to a an "emerge --sync". The process either hangs forever at the "Refreshing keys from keyserver step: # emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc *

[gentoo-user] Re: All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

tu.com/; SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/; PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy; VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic $ grep root /etc/passwd roo

[gentoo-user] Re: Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

On 2018-07-02, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: >> kill -s SIGSTOP >> kill -s SIGCONT > > Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/ It should. The pages used by the stopped process will get swapped out if/when the RAM is needed for other

[gentoo-user] Re: Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

On 2018-06-23, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > I see this at the top of gdb-7.12.1.build: > > PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} ) > > For the mean time, you can either accept the breakage, set > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" in

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng stopped showing kernel messages

On 2018-06-18, Grant Edwards wrote: > For some reason, syslog-ng recently stopped showing kernel messages. > I can't figure out why. I don't rememver ever having klogd running, > nor did I ever touch the default syslog-ng config file. This appears to be a problem with the 4.18-r

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng stopped showing kernel messages

c { system(); internal(); file("/proc/kmsg"); }; That doesn't work -- it appears to read /proc/kmsg once on startup, then never again. How does one get syslog-ng to show kernel messages? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYo

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

p none -m INLCRNL /dev/ttyACM0 > > or similiar does the job perfectly. Brilliant! Thanks for following up with the solution. After decades of using serial ports on Linux, I still didn't know about picocom or tio. I'll make a note of them and how to use them with rlwrap! -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

id actually use some genuine IBM green-screen "3270-like" terminals, most of my experience was with 3270 emulators running under X11 -- so some of the fun was probably caused by bugs in the emulators. -- Grant Edwards g

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

On 2018-05-22, Grant Taylor <gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 05/22/2018 02:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Just to be pedantic, ckermit isn't a terminal emulator. It's a serial >> comm package that will connect a serial port to whatever terminal/tty >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

mmand. It's also a file transfer protocol, but that's pretty much irrelevant for this thread. I use ckermit every day, but have never tried to wrap it with either of the aforementioned readline utilities (the things I connect to have their own command line history/editing facilities). -- Grant Edwa

[gentoo-user] Re: logging output

On 2018-05-22, <mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> <mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote: > how do i capture the output to a file and see it on the > display? Use "tee" https://linux.die.net/man/1/tee emerge | tee emerge.out -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 recovery ... somehow

carefully inserting timings for the Cathod Ray Tube > it was possible to swicth back with CTRL-ALT-F12 > (or was it ALT-F12). > > But this does not work for me. It depends on the number of virtual consoles your system is configured for. 6 VCs is common, so it would then be ALT-F7. -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....?

1-rlwrap/ https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/rlwrap -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I didn't order any at WOO-WOO ... Maybe a YUBBA gmail.com... But no WOO-WOO!

[gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

nning at 1/4 speed. [That effected all emerges.] I'd start by doing a "grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo" during the build to verify that all the CPUs have open throttles. That said, I've noticed that Chromium in particular is taking a lot longer than it used to... -- Grant Edwards gran

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

e colors for other applications? Or do you use the custom urxvt settings just for emerge et alia? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are we laid back yet? at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

share for terminals with white backgrounds? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Isn't this my STOP?! at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

So, is there any way (without using --nocolor) to use color set that is > more readable? Nope. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I hope I bought the at right relish ... z gmail.com...

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

change was almost 5 years ago, so I think it's safe to assume it's been abandoned. What needs maintaining for the new ebuild is 1) The new java-only upstream version of pdftk that lives at https://gitlab.com/marcvinyals/pdftk/ 2) The ebuild itself -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

On 2018-03-15, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: > >> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based) >> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should. >> >> Thank yo

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

because it depends on gcc-5.4 [gcj], is there any reason it can't be replace by the one which uses a jvm instead? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Thousands of days of at civilians ... have produced

[gentoo-user] Re: pdftk - replacement

; How do you tell portage about this ebuild? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_repository -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having a at tax-deductible experience! gmail.comI need an energy crunch!!

[gentoo-user] Re: pdftk - replacement

On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: > On 03/15/2018 08:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Did you try the non-gcj ebuild for pdftk? > > I would like to try it. > Where did you find it? >From my earler posting: http://repo.or.cz/ma

[gentoo-user] Re: pdftk - replacement

I only do it once a year when I print a tax form/slips. Did you try the non-gcj ebuild for pdftk? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Either CONFESS now or at we go to "PEOPLE'S COURT"!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: pdftk - replacement

On 2018-03-14, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:48:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-03-14, the...@sys-concept.com <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: >> > Is there a suitable replacement package for "pdftk&q

[gentoo-user] Re: pdftk - replacement

://repo.or.cz/marcv-overlay.git/tree/HEAD:/app-text/pdftk -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm not available at for comment.. gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: USB ports reset/restart

On 2018-03-06, the...@sys-concept.com <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: > Is there a way to reinitialize USB ports without restarting the computer? Did none of these approaches work? https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+restart+USB -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Printer

On 2018-03-01, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 01/03/18 15:43, Grant Edwards wrote: >> If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money >> to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document >> or writes it to a ne

[gentoo-user] Re: Printer

On 2018-03-01, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:10:58 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I despise all inkjets, but maybe that's just me. > > It's not. > >> I'd pick mono laser over any inkjet. > > That depends on

[gentoo-user] Re: Printer

r over any inkjet. Many years ago, I worked with a Brother mono laser multifunction printer and the "print" part worked fine with Linux. I don't think I ever tried to set it up the scanning. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edward

[gentoo-user] Re: Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

On 2018-02-28, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > Is there a windows style application layer firewall? Can you describe what that means? (For the benefit of those of us that aren't familiar with Windows.) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Bo Der

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklist one of the pool's rsync server?

On 2018-02-28, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> Is there any way for me to "blacklist" a pool rsync server so that >> emerge --sync won't try to use it? >> >> I'm using the sync-url rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage,

[gentoo-user] Blacklist one of the pool's rsync server?

Is there any way for me to "blacklist" a pool rsync server so that emerge --sync won't try to use it? I'm using the sync-url rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage, but one of the pool's servers is barely usable for me. I don't know if it's a server problem or if traffic between my and that

[gentoo-user] Re: grub2: hidden menu unless shift pressed?

On 2018-02-17, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to configure grub 2.02 so that no menu is > displayed and it will boot immediately to the default unless shift is > held down during boot -- in which case it displays the menu and waits

[gentoo-user] grub2: hidden menu unless shift pressed?

the menu to be displayed, and it always boots directly to the default no matter what you do. Any grub2 experts care to lend a clue? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! MERYL STREEP is my at obstetrician

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't restart or stop openvpn: it is "already started, but inactive"

On 2018-02-16, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:41:43 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> There must be something short of a reboot that will allow me to >> restart a failed openvpn client? >> >> # rc-service openvpn

[gentoo-user] Can't restart or stop openvpn: it is "already started, but inactive"

] * ERROR: openvpn.wr7 failed to stop # rc-service openvpn.wr7 start * WARNING: openvpn.wr7 has already started, but is inactive # ls /var/run/openvpn* ls: cannot access '/var/run/openvpn*': No such file or directory # ps ax | grep openvpn 10127 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto openvpn #

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

mes >> "eg", which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example". > > A non-native speaker of English, or a non-native speaker of Latin? Are there any native speakers of Latin? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it 1974? What's

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

mebody could suffer, and there are many other unstated > misfortunes. "Some people in life suffer misfortunes, e.g. fire, flood, earthquake or a meteor strike." -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm young ... I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 57.0.4 fails to build due to Rust 1.23

On 2018-01-28, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Sat, 2018-01-27 at 18:17 +, Richard Bradfield wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Forgive me if this has been spotted elsewhere, it's not in this list >> yet >> as far as I can see. >> >> The excellent work to bring the version of Rust in

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

and compiling a SOC design into an FPGA, but the FPGAs and all the tools used to compile the VHDL are closed source. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My NOSE is NUMB! at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. > > So, that is a downside with Plex. I don't think

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with >> Plex than with the others. >> > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The main backend options seem to be MythTV, Plex, and TVHeadend. > > You seem to understand the pros/cons fairly well

[gentoo-user] Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

pen-source Android frontend (I think) Cons: Weak recording management Poor integration of existing media There are minimal subscription costs for all three ($40/year for Plex, $25/year for the others), so that's a push. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-20, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 01/19/2018 04:58 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> That would require seperate outbound transports that are selected based >> on how the mail was read: smtp vs. /usr/bin/sendmail (the real one).

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 01/19/2018 04:04 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> One of the hassles with those is that portage won't allow me to install >> any of them because they conflict with msmtp, which is what I use for >> sending

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-19 20:19, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >>>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an >> >>>> SMTP server? >> >>> >> >>&

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 01/19/2018 12:48 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Yep, and it looks like the Postfix equivalent is a custom pipe transport. >> Once you know what phrases to google for, it's a lot easier. > > *nod* &

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2018 22:03, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>> Can exim tran

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

but I'm not going to go into details on how the ssh-protocol-based delivery works. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL gmail.comRECOVERY!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: >>> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>>> Just like the

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2018 21:43, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >>>> need 2 pi

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >> > need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for &

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 01/19/2018 11:38 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I have a /usr/bin/sendmail emulator that transfers mail to an MTA >> that will then worry about delivery. I need an SMTP server that >> wil

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

use said custom mailer as the method > to communicate with the smart host. Thanks. I was sort of afraid that sendmail was going to be the answer. :) The last time I ran sendmail was on a Sun-3/60 machine, and I never did quite understand how to configure it... -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-19 18:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> It needs to accept messages as an SMTP server (using SSL and AUTH on a >> non-standard port) from a single user and single source and then relay >> them by

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

acceptance of mail other than via SMTP. I would very much prefer that there is no queueing: the smtp server should not acknowlege acceptance of the message until the smtp server has invoked /usr/bin/sendmail and it has returned success. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

On 2018-01-19, Ralph Seichter <m16+gen...@monksofcool.net> wrote: > On 19.01.18 19:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I need to setup an SMTP relay server. >> >> It needs to accept messages as an SMTP server (using SSL and AUTH on a >> non-standard port)

[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

of initiating a network connection to an SMTP server. I'm currently using something I wrote in Python, but the SSL support in the 3rd party SMTP module is broken and I don't relish trying to fix it. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! S!! I hear SIX

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