On 8/21/20 5:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
It is what just about every other modern application in existence uses.
VoIP does not.
No RDBMSs that I'm aware of use it as their primary protocol. (Some may
be able to use HTTP(S) as an alternative.)
Outlook to Exchange does (did?) not use it. It
On 8/21/20 10:15 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
just to double check i got you right. due to flushing the buffer to
disk, this would mean that mail's throughput is limited by disk i/o?
Yes.
This speed limitation is viewed as a necessary limitation for the safety
of email passing through
On 8/21/20 11:54 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
thanks. highly appreciate your time. to save space i'll skip parts
where i fully agree with/happily-learned.
You're welcome.
(e.g. loop detection; good reminder, i wasn't thinking about it.
plus didn't know of acronyms DSN, MDNs, etc; nice
On 8/21/20 11:01 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
yes, i do consider re-inventing octagonal wheels.
I think that it's occasionally a good thing to have a thought experiment
about how $THING might be made better.
It's probably good to have discussions around green feel types of
replacements.
On 8/21/20 6:37 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
This stuff can be interesting to discuss, but email is SO entrenched
that I don't see any of this changing because of all the legacy issues.
You would need to offer something that is both easier and better to
use to such a degree that people are willing
On 8/20/20 7:39 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
1. receipt by final mail server (mandatory).
You're missing the point that each and every single server along the
path between the original submission server and the final destination
server is on the hook for delivery of the message -or-
First, well said.
On 8/19/20 2:27 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Apologies for my unintended verbosity. My subconscious _really_
wanted to point out that SMTP is (generally) RELIABLE. ;-)
Second, this is an understatement.
Per protocol specification, SMTP is EXTREMELY robust.
It will retry
to start
with for personal email.
I'd like to build out Grant(Taylor) and Ashley's solution for further
learning and testing, on Rpi4 based gentoo systems. robust security and
reasonable straightforward (gentoo) admin, is my goal.
Sorry to be pedantic, but please list out what you mean
On 8/18/20 4:30 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
but nothing can replace it in terms of interoperability and
convenience.
That is an EXTREMELY important point.
SMTP is a protocol that completely independent implementations can use
to exchange messages with each other.
You can set up gateways to
On 8/18/20 5:59 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
redundant as in containing concepts already done in other protocols,
so smtp has many re-invented wheels that are already invented in
existing protocols.
Please elaborate. Please be careful to provide information about /when/
the protocols
On 8/18/20 1:00 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
not specifically with a mail provider, but with other i.t. services,
yes. and since they're all humans, then the simplest model that
explains this is that this is about humans in general, and same past
experience would extend to mail provider's
On 8/18/20 12:43 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
would i get blacklisted for simply not using spf/dkim/etc? even if
no other user is using the mail service other than me and i'm not
mass mailing?
I don't think it's that you would be black listed per say.
Rather, I think it's that nothing
On 8/17/20 6:10 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
Yup. If you've got mail DNS records pointing at your home server,
incoming mail shouldn't be a problem and your vps admin can't snoop
:-)
True.
But the ISP can still sniff the traffic and you can be subject to DPI.
Can't you tell your server to forward
On 8/17/20 5:33 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
How many concurrent users will be connected to the mail server? How
much traffic will the S.M.T.P. server receive (read: how many
e-mails arrive on a daily basis)?
My main VPS has a single digit number of clients and processes anywhere
between
On 8/16/20 10:50 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
hi.
Hi
context:
1. tinfoil hat is on.
Okay.
2. i feel disrespected when someone does things to my stuff without
getting my approval.
Sure.
3. vps admin is not trusty and their sys admin may read my emails,
and laugh at me!
Do you
On 8/16/20 5:07 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Going OT here, but why do you dislike Docker? I've only recently
started using it, so if there are any major, or otherwise, drawbacks,
I'd like to know before I get too entwined in their ecosystem.
Why do I need one or more (more with older versions)
On 8/13/20 6:03 PM, Alexey Mishustin wrote:
Isn't this classic option suitable?
iptables -A OUTPUT -i -m owner --gid-owner noinet -j DROP
Ugh.
I'm sure that's a viable method to deal with the problem after the fact.
But I prefer to not have the problem in the first place. Thus no need
to
On 8/13/20 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
I'm not sure what "go out of your way" means in this context. I assume
I'd create a network namespace for Plex, and then use either macvlan
or ipvlan to share one of the physical interaces between the root
namespace and the Plex namespace.
I've found
On 8/12/20 5:56 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
Depends on your use case, ... so what you use will depend on
speed/reliability trade off.
There are some specific uses cases where speed is desired at least an
order of magnitude more than reliability.
ext2 is less reliable due to it missing the
On 8/12/20 1:28 PM, Никита Степанов wrote:
livecd gentoo # mount /dev/md1 /mnt/gentoo
mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'
what to do?
What does /proc/mdstat show?
Is it a partitioned software RAID? If so, you need the partition
devices and to mount the desired partition.
On 8/12/20 11:53 AM, Никита Степанов wrote:
which filesystem is best for raid 0?
I'm guessing that you're after speed more than anything else since
you're talking about RAID 0.
As such, I'd suggest avoiding a journaling file system as that's
probably unnecessary overhead.
I'd consider
On 8/11/20 10:37 AM, Gregor A. „schlumpi“ Segner wrote:
it’s total nonsense today to install a 32bit kernel on a 64Bit machine.
I can see some value in having a 32-bit /only/ system if you /must/
support 32-bit software with no need for 64-bit and would like to avoid
the complexity of
On 8/7/20 2:06 PM, james wrote:
Here is an short read on the acceptance and usage of IPv6:
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/2020-the-year-of-ipv6/
So, yes I am working on using IPv6, with my RV/mobile-lab.
I think that IPv6 is a good thing.
But I would be remis to not say that IPv6 is somewhat of
On 8/1/20 1:53 PM, antlists wrote:
That's one of the good things about the UK scene. In theory, and mostly
in practice, the infrastructure (ie copper, fibre) is provided by a
company which is not allowed to provide the service over it, so a
mom-n-pop ISP can supposedly rent the link just as
On 8/1/20 5:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Statically entered in the DHCP server doesn't count as static?
Not to the client computer that's running the DHCP client.
The computer is still configured to use a dynamic method to acquire it's
IP address.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 7/31/20 2:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
There may be half way decent ISPs in the US, but I haven't seen one
in over 20 years since the last one I was aware of stopped dealing
with residential customers. They were a victem of the "race to the
bottom" when not enough residential customers were
On 7/31/20 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address that your OS
(or firewall/router) acquires via DHCPv6 (or v4). [I set up stuff
like that all the time.]
Counter Nit: That's
On 7/31/20 1:54 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If I had a week with nothing to do, I'd love to try to get something
like that working
You don't need a week. You don't even need a day. You can probably
have a test tunnel working (on your computer) in less than an hour.
Then maybe a few more hours
On 7/31/20 12:01 PM, james wrote:
yep, at least (2) static IPs.
You can actually get away with one static IP. It's ill advised. But it
will function.
You can also have external 3rd party secondary DNS servers that pull
from your (private) primary DNS server. You might even be able to
On 7/31/20 1:39 PM, james wrote:
I'd like to start with a basic list/brief description of these, please?
They basically come down to two broad categories:
1) Have the ""static IP bound to an additional network interface on the
destination system and leverage routing to get from clients to
On 7/30/20 3:05 AM, antlists wrote:
From what little I understand, IPv6 *enforces* CIDR.
Are you talking about the lack of defined classes of network; A, B, C,
D, E? Or are you talking about hierarchical routing?
There is no concept of a class of network in IPv6.
Hierarchical routing is a
On 7/29/20 5:23 PM, james wrote:
Free static IPs?
Sure.
Sign up with Hurricane Electric for an IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel and request
that they route a /56 to you. It's free. #hazFun
Note:: here in the US, it may be easier and better, to just purchase
an assignment, that renders them yours.
On 7/30/20 5:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
I'd be interested to hear from users who still need to pay extra
for IPv6.
I'd be willing, if not happy, to pay a reasonable monthly fee to be able
to get native IPv6 from my ISP.
But it's 2020 and my ISP doesn't support IPv6 at all. :-(
As such,
On 7/29/20 1:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
I don't know what most ISPs are doing. I couldn't get IPv6 via
Comcast (or whatever they're called this week) working with OpenWRT
(probably my fault, and I didn't really need it). So I never figured
out if the IPv6 address I was getting was static or
On 7/29/20 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Aren't all IPv6 addresses static?
No.
SLAAC and DHCPv6 are as dynamic as can be.
Static is certainly an option. But I see SLAAC and DHCPv6 used frequently.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 7/28/20 5:18 PM, james wrote:
If you know a way around this, with full privileges one gets with static
IP addresses, I'm all ears.?
A hack that I see used is to pick up a small VPS for a nominal monthly
fee and establish a VPN to it. Have it's IP (and ports) directed
through the VPN
On 7/19/20 8:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Afternoon all,
Hi,
I'd like to set up a little box to be a local mail server. It would
receive mails from other machines on the LAN, and it would fetch
POP3 mail from my ISP and IMAP mail from google mail. KMail on my
workstation would then read
On 7/10/20 11:12 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Would the following activity trigger creation of .ssh/config ??
If I'm reading your sequence of events properly, no, they should not
alter your desktop's SSH config to cause it to try to log into the
notebook as the root user.
--
Grant. . . .
On 7/10/20 6:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
The question is how did .ssh/config ever get there in the first place?
Seeing as how there is a Host entry with your notebook's name, I can
only speculate that you, or something you ran, put it there.
I find the KeyAlgorithms line to be atypical as
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
On 4/20/20 7:13 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Hi gentoo-user,
Hi,
Following the recent conversation started by Meino, I have decided to
convert my package.* files to directory structures. For all but
one, this has proven tedious, but relatively painless. My
package.use file is another
On 4/19/20 3:15 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
hi - could everyone share his rss reading setup?
Hi,
1. what rss feed reader do you use?
Primary: rss2email
Secondary: Thunderbird
2. what are your theoretical principles that
guided you to choose the rss feed that you
On 4/11/20 4:13 PM, antlists wrote:
Which was also a pain in the neck because it was single-threaded - if
the ISP tried to send an incoming email at the same time the gateway
tried to send, the gateway hung.
Ew. I can't say as I'm surprised about that, given the nature of SMTP
servers in
On 4/11/20 2:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Exchange used to do all manner of stupid things, but now that Microsoft
is running it themselves and making money from O365, they seem to have
figured out how to make it send mail correctly.
I've found that Exchange / IIS SMTP is fairly standards
On 4/11/20 2:08 PM, antlists wrote:
Okay, it was a long time ago, and it was MS-Mail (Exchange's
predecessor, for those who can remember back that far), but I had an
argument with my boss. He was well annoyed with our ISP for complying
with RFC's because they switched to ESMTP and MS-Mail
On 4/10/20 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Yes, that works!
Good.
Thanks!!
You're welcome.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me to check for a make.conf
variable instead of an environment variable or USE flag. Of course
now that I know that make.conf variable's name, I have found it
On 4/10/20 10:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Yes, I'm aware I can add "--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but
is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make
emerge --search do the right thing by default?
Does adding it to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in /etc/portage/make.conf
On 4/8/20 4:06 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
The driving force behind junkemailfilter.com passed away almost two
years ago:
Hum.
That doesn't call the technology behind it into question. Though it
does call into question the longevity of it.
Maybe prematurely (?), I removed their lists from
On 4/8/20 3:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
So does that mean you have four MX records?
Yes.
Nolist server
Primary MX
Backup MX
Project Tar server
in order of decreasing priority?
Exactly. (1)
$ dig +short +noshort mx tnetconsulting.net | sort
tnetconsulting.net. 604800 IN MX
On 4/8/20 7:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
NB: The cheap VPS instances that I work with do have static IP
addresses, but they share that static IP with a bunch of other VPS
instances. If you want your VPS to have a non-shared static IP
address, then make sure that's what you're signing up for
On 4/7/20 4:53 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Grant's mail server, I assume, is configured with the highest security
in mind, so I can see how a mail server with a dynamic I.P. could
cause issues in some contexts.
I don't do any checking to see if the IP is from a dynamic net block or
not. Some
On 4/6/20 10:49 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I am afraid most (if not all) ISPs will reject emails if the reverse
DNS does not match.
My experience has been that there needs to be something for both the
forward and reverse DNS. Hopefully they match each other and — and what
I call — round
On 4/6/20 3:17 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Hello,
Hi,
[O.T.] Unfortunately, Grant, I cannot reply to your direct e-mail. My
best guess is that you have a protection method in place in the
event that the reverse D.N.S.\ does not match the forward ?
You're close. I do require reverse DNS. I
On 4/6/20 1:16 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Greylisting suffers from one problem that unplugging the server
doesn't: greylisting usually works on a triple like (IP address,
sender, recipient), and can therefore continue to reject people who do
retry, but retry from a different IP address. This
On 4/6/20 1:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
More often than not, yes. The main exception I've seen are sites
that email you verification codes, such as some sorts of "two-factor"
implementations (whether these are really two-factor I'll set aside
for now). Many of these services will retry, but
On 4/6/20 11:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Ok, you're right.
;-)
My suggestion to create multiple records was in response to the claim
that there are MTAs that will try a backup MX, but won't retry the
primary MX, which is false to begin with. Trying to argue against an
untrue premise
On 4/6/20 11:14 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Why don't you say which MTA it is that both (a) combines MX records with
different priorities, and (b) doesn't retry messages to the primary MX?
You seem to have conflated the meaning of my message.
I only stated that I've seen multiple MTAs to (a)
On 4/6/20 6:35 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Hello,
Hi,
After many hours of confusing mixtures of pain and pleasure, I have
a secure and well-behaved e-mail server which encompasses all the
features I originally desired.
Full STOP!
I hoist my drink to you and tell the bar keep that your next
On 4/6/20 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Well, I can't refute an anecdote without more information, but if
you're worried about this you can create the same MX record twice so
that the "backup" is the primary.
That's not going to work as well as you had hoped.
I've run into many MTAs that
On 4/6/20 10:19 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I find that, with a backup MX, I don't seem to loose emails.
Having multiple email servers of your own, primary, secondary, tertiary,
etc, makes it much more likely that the email will move from the sending
systems control to your control. I think
On 4/4/20 11:34 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I am currently preparing a new harddisc as home for my new Gentoo
system.
Is it possible to recreate exactlu the same pool of
applications/programs/libraries etc..., which my current system have -
in one go?
Baring cosmic influences, I
On 4/3/20 4:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If you want to become an ultra-professional, that's fine. If you
just want to be able to send mail interactively from mutt...
OK, that's a bad example now that mutt has built-in SMTP client
capabilities.
How about ... if you only want to get email
On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler
:D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated.
I think that's an inaccurate statement.
First, m4 is a macro package, not a compiler.
Second, the macros are used to
On 4/2/20 8:23 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
It's very powerful but the configuration file format is almost
impossible to understand, so people developed an m4 application that
accepted a _slightly_ less cryptic language and generated the
sendmail configuration file.
The configuration file is far
On 4/2/20 6:26 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your time allows).
Feel free to ask questions about sendmail. I'll do my best to answer.
do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? or the command "sendmail"?
In this context, ebuild as a reference to the
On 4/2/20 8:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the
ultra-professional who already knows how to configure it (not
joking).
I take exception to that for multiple reasons:
1) Bootstrapping - you can't learn something without actually using it.
2) I've
On 2/6/20 8:56 PM, John Covici wrote:
I do run my own mail server for years, but I would like to know how to
run those "hygene features". I do have spf, but that is about it --
maybe this should be another thread, but I want to keep doing this
and be sure of having my mail delivered to where
On 2/6/20 3:36 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
Sure you can set up just a simple email server
Having run a personal email server for 20 years, including all
contemporary hygiene measures, I don't think "simple" and "email server"
go together any more.
I can rattle off most of what I'm doing in
On 1/1/20 5:09 PM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Hi,
As some may recall, I have a 8TB external SATA hard drive that I do
back ups on. Usually, I back up once a day, more often if needed.
Usually I turn the power on, mount it, do the back ups, unmount and
turn the power back off. Usually it is
On 12/30/19 1:04 PM, Dale wrote:
Is there a way to find the IP for this thing?
Try running a network sniffer as you reboot it.
Most pieces of network equipment will send out some sort of broadcast
requests that will give some hint as to how they are configured. At
least what subnet they
On 12/5/19 12:22 PM, n952162 wrote:
But, since it's included in the package, and apparently (from the name)
will use a NBD device, then I think the dependency is logical
I disagree.
QEMU itself does not use NBD. Thus QEMU does not need to depend on
qemu-nbd. QEMU uses files on mounted file
On 12/5/19 12:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild should check
that the target system is capable of supporting it. The qemu ebuild
already spits out warnings about missing kernel options, not all of them
essential, so why not this one too?
I
On 12/5/19 12:33 AM, n952162 wrote:
The emerge should have checked for this and failed.
I don't think it should fail. I've routinely seen emerge check for
various kernel / network / other parameters and issue warnings about
things not being the way that the ebuild wants. But the ebuild
On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but
it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/
I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS. Primarily because both
NBD and iSCSI provide local block devices that are
On 11/13/19 9:51 PM, John Covici wrote:
Hi. I am trying to create a new installation as a chroot from my previous
one since I don't have another box at hand and don't want to take this
one down for several days to recompile everything. Now I am stuck trying
to emerge sendmail. I cannot
On 11/10/19 9:37 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that know the
name of the process that is trying to access it, and based on its name,
it links it to a file?
I've not heard of that specifically.
e.g. `ln -s X Y` will create link Y that
On 11/1/19 2:00 PM, Dale wrote:
I think we came to the conclusion that one person is causing this.
I don't agree with that conclusion.
Basically his emails trigger the spam alarm and it gets marked before
or upon receipt by gmail. It doesn't even make it to my in box.
I don't know if spam
On 10/31/19 9:52 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Hi,
I been getting quite a few of these lately.
Some messages to you could not be delivered. If you're seeing this
message it means things are back to normal, and it's merely for your
information.
Here is the list of the bounced messages:
- 188380
On 10/20/19 3:57 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
any idea what is this? and how did i get it?
At quick glance, it looks like a script to upgrade GCC across otherwise
not quite as compatible versions as possible.
Nothing in it concerns me.
Warning: I am relying on my uncaffeinated memory,
On 8/6/19 6:31 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
So, an initramfs doesn't actually have to do ANY of those things,
though typically it does.
I agree that most systems don't /need/ an initramfs / initrd to do that
for them. IMHO /most/ systems should be able to do that for themselves.
Nothing
On 8/6/19 10:28 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
An initramfs is just a userspace bootloader that runs on top of linux.
I disagree.
To me:
· A boot loader is something that boots / executes a kernel with
various parameters.
· An initramfs / initrd (concept) is the micro installation that runs
On 8/6/19 9:54 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
If it's computable it can be done, of course. Therefore it can be done,
currently. I don't think nobody has said it absolutely cannot be done.
>.<
So it sounds like it's a question of /how/ compatible / possible it is.
It seems as if there is
On 8/5/19 8:45 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
Even bigger hack.
I wouldn't be me if I didn't lob these two words out there:
mount namespaces
/me will see himself out now.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 8/5/19 6:28 PM, Jack wrote:
However, I keep wondering if an overlay file system might not be of
some use here. Start with /bin, containing only what's necessary to
boot before /usr is available.
I wonder how much of what would need to be in the pre-/usr /bin
directory can be provided by
On 8/5/19 5:34 PM, Mick wrote:
I am not entertaining ad hominem attacks on whoever may have been
involved in such decisions. Only the impacts of such decisions on
gentoo in particular.
:-)
I probably used an incorrect figure of speech and caused confusion.
We're only discussing the merge
On 8/5/19 5:52 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Don't you have to go through some extra hoops (a flag to the mount
command or something) to mount over a non-empty directory?
Nope.
I don't recall ever needing to do anything like that in Linux.
I do know that other traditional Unixes are more picky
On 8/5/19 5:45 AM, Mick wrote:
Interesting concept, thanks for sharing.
You're welcome.
Unless I misunderstand how this will work, it will create duplication
of the fs for /bin and /sbin, which will both use extra space and
require managing.
Yes, it will create some duplication. Though I
On 8/5/19 4:49 AM, Mick wrote:
It is being /assertively/ promoted persistently by the same devs.
Okay.
Just because it's the same developers promoting both does not mean that
any logic / evidence they might provide in support of /usr merge is
inherently wrong. We should judge the merits of
On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow
/usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs /
initrd. (I'll reply in another email with details to avoid polluting
this thread.)
I think that a variation
On 8/4/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote:
I don't know more about this, but it seems we are being dragged towards
a systemd inspired future, whether the majority of the gentoo community
of users want it or not.
How is the /usr merger /directly/ related to systemd?
In my view system binaries should not
On 7/8/19 2:18 AM, Christian Groessler wrote:
Ideally for everything inside an xterm or console screen. I'm going to
try "-cm" for xterm. Thanks David (in a previous post) for the suggestion.
If the -cm command line option does what you want, you can easily add
the following to the
On 7/5/19 1:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
In the case of GRUB2 that is unlikely to be the case, as it is meant
to do everything. That's why the auto-generated config files are so
long and full of conditionals. On a system you have full control over,
you can remove all the conditionals.
I had
On 7/5/19 8:40 AM, Vladimir Romanov wrote:
May be your motherboard or BIOS just too old, and it doesn't support
such hard disks?
I remember a time when Linux would support large (multi-GB) drives when
the BIOS would not support them.
Linux could bypass the BIOS and talk directly to the
On 7/5/19 8:04 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
it probably is worth taking the time to see if you can bend to the tool
rather than making the tool bend to you.
At face value, this is antithetical to how computers should work.
Computers should do our bidding, NOT the other way around.
That being
On 7/4/19 1:10 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I'm new here. My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge",
"man" and other command line programs. I managed to do in the shell
(bash), but I'm somehow lost how to change it elsewhere. In "vi" I know
of "syn off".
Try
On 6/24/19 12:12 PM, Mick wrote:
LVM-RAID uses the kernel's mdraid,
Yep.
You can get device mapper command(s) to show the internal / under the
hood MD devices.
I feel like what LVM does to mirror (RAID 1) devices is complex. You
end up with non-obvious LVs that are then raided together
On 6/24/19 11:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Of course it is, a RAID1 device is just a block device on which you can
put any filesystem you like. RAID and LVM are complementary technologies
that work well together, but neither needs the others (apart from the
device-mapper bit).
Eh. LVM can
On 6/24/19 2:40 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Yes, I've done the same on two boxes that have no need of lvm. It does
seem wasteful though.
Probably.
I dislike the fact that other things that need device mapper have to
drag LVM along, or apply (what I call) a device-mapper-only /hack/.
I feel
On 6/22/19 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
The indentation shows that is is a hard dependency of cryptsetup, which
is backed up by reading the ebuild. I expect that it needs the
device-maper functionality provided by lvm, in which case you can set the
device-mapper-only USE flag to avoid
On 6/22/19 2:13 AM, Mick wrote:
These USE flags are the same like mine.
ACK
I don't think it is a shell related problem (but may be wrong).
I think we need to be very careful and specific what part we think is
shell (thus possibly readline) related vs terminal emulator related vs
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