Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-06-25, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't want to add to my system unless I have to. It's sort of like the init thingy. I don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote: It was more Murphy's law I was worried about. ;-) Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law? -- Neil Bothwick I thought the 10 commandments were multiple choice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote: It was more Murphy's law I was worried about. ;-) Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law? If it hasn't, maybe it should. It's strange tho, I have good luck with a lot of things, even computer hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote: It was more Murphy's law I was worried about. ;-) Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law? If it hasn't, maybe it should. It's strange tho, I have good luck with a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: On this old drive. I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out of the new drive and then tested it a few more times. Looks good for the new drive. I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it at least get to where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: On this old drive. I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out of the new drive and then tested it a few more times. Looks good for the new drive. I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 28 June 2014 09:15:47 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: ---8 But that's not your main problem. You got those filenames because the source disk somehow has a problem and the names couldn't be read properly. So junk was used instead. I thought it was more like: the file lister

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jun 2014 15:50:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2014 09:15:47 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: ---8 But that's not your main problem. You got those filenames because the source disk somehow has a problem and the names couldn't be read properly. So junk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 28 Jun 2014 15:50:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: It may not be true that it couldn't read the files; it just couldn't translate their names into text characters. The names are not held in the files whose names they are but somewhere in the inode structure. Someone with

[gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-06-27, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote: You tell cron where to mail reports by setting MAILTO=you@wherever at the top of /etc/crontab. It will then mail you every time a cronjob produces output. Or complete the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: They _might_ block port 25 and require you to use SMTP/SSL on port 465. More likely, they would still allow an initial plaintext connection to port 25 and require use of the starttls command. Check with your ISP.

[gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mick writes: echo My first test message | mail -v -s Test for sSMTP 1 d...@gmail.com What about trying echo My first test message | mail -v -s Test for sSMTP 1 root directly? Therefore you can see if your aliases are correct. -- Alberto

[gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-06-25, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't want to add to my system unless I have to. It's sort of like the init thingy. I don't want to add something else