Re: [gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Dec 2016 21:28:06 John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500, > > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > > > > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate > > yourself? You are a masochist? > > > > I found

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate > yourself? You are a masochist? > > I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to deal with. > Windows XP

Re: [gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate yourself? You are a masochist? I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to deal with. Windows XP user management in a mixed environment with shares is delightful,

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
"J. Roeleveld" writes: [...] > I stopped using sendmail when easier to configure alternatives came along. > Currently using Postfix. > > As such, I can't help in checking your config. But I do remember you > had to compile the config files into a format sendmail actually

Re: [gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 14:09:39 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > After setting up the files for sendmail on my first attempt at > sending a msg I get this error as reported in the smtp conversation: > >Temporary system failure > > That is a new one to me, and doesn't give much to start on. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script: make a convenient /mnt/gentoo tree for a new install or development

2016-12-04 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 13:17:10 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > The Gentoo Handbook provides detailed instructions for preparing a > > /mnt/gentoo > > file system tree for new installations. After having to dig through

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script: make a convenient /mnt/gentoo tree for a new install or development

2016-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 13:17:10 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > IMO it would be a lot easier if we just had an install CD that > included nspawn. :) For whatever reason there seems to be a lack of > systemd-based rescue CDs out there. While I'm placing orders I'd like > ZFS on Linux support on it as

Re: [gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On December 4, 2016 8:09:39 PM GMT+01:00, Harry Putnam wrote: >After setting up the files for sendmail on my first attempt at >sending a msg I get this error as reported in the smtp conversation: > > Temporary system failure > >That is a new one to me, and doesn't give much

[gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
After setting up the files for sendmail on my first attempt at sending a msg I get this error as reported in the smtp conversation: Temporary system failure That is a new one to me, and doesn't give much to start on. It appears not to even get past the submit agent. (Running a little script

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script: make a convenient /mnt/gentoo tree for a new install or development

2016-12-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > The Gentoo Handbook provides detailed instructions for preparing a > /mnt/gentoo > file system tree for new installations. After having to dig through the > Handbook a > few times of doing new or re-installs of Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Bash script: make a convenient /mnt/gentoo tree for a new install or development

2016-12-04 Thread Gregory Woodbury
The Gentoo Handbook provides detailed instructions for preparing a /mnt/gentoo file system tree for new installations. After having to dig through the Handbook a few times of doing new or re-installs of Gentoo using an existing Gentoo install as the base system, I wrote this script as a shortcut