Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bluez 5 not connecting

2014-05-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/05/14 18:18, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2014 07:27:24 Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 29 May 2014 00:05:16 William Kenworthy wrote: >>> On 29/05/14 06:28, Mick wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 28 May 2014 20:02:29 Samuli Suominen wrote: >>>>> On 28/05/14

[gentoo-user] root on nfs and multiple ip addresses

2021-03-16 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I have just reinstalled my 32 bit Gentoo on a raspberry pi 3B with a Gentoo aarch64 image also with boot on an sdcard and root on nfs (both working fine with boot on an sdcard and root on an nfs share hosted on an moosefs cluster).  Both have a problem where the initial boot loader requests an

Re: [gentoo-user] root on nfs and multiple ip addresses

2021-03-17 Thread William Kenworthy
On 17/3/21 3:46 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:31:52 AM CET William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just reinstalled my 32 bit Gentoo on a raspberry pi 3B with a >> Gentoo aarch64 image also with boot on an sdcard and root on nfs (both &

Re: [gentoo-user] root on nfs and multiple ip addresses

2021-03-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/3/21 7:18 pm, Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:59:01 +0800 > William Kenworthy wrote: > > >> I have been moving away from fixed IP's using scripts to >> update via dynamic DNS (which is why two IP numbers per MAC are >> problematic). > Joo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gparted leaves gaps

2021-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/4/21 12:39 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I use gparted often, usually from SystemRescueCD, and a common task is to > move partitions to allow for one to be enlarged. I should be able to specify > all the operations in a list, but whenever I do that gparted inserts 1MB gaps >

[gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk.

2021-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I use a sata drive caddy with 2Tb hard disks for offline backups.  Almost everytime (within sessions are ok?) it asks for a password before automounting.  This is just annoying and has no security benefit in my environment (why just hard disks when USB keys and SD cards don't ask for one?

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk.

2021-04-01 Thread William Kenworthy
ith an unprivileged user: > >    $ mount / > > See also "man 8 mount" ("Non-superuser mounts"). > > I am not sure, if this also works with "automount" from > "net-fs/autofs", if this is what you meant with "automounter". > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk.

2021-04-01 Thread William Kenworthy
ext4 noauto,user,relatime >> 0   2 >> >> In this way, I can mount "/dev/sdx" with an unprivileged user: >> >>    $ mount / >> >> See also "man 8 mount" ("Non-superuser mounts"). >> >> I am not sure, if this also works wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk. (solved)

2021-04-01 Thread William Kenworthy
) {     if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system" &&     subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {     return polkit.Result.YES;     } }); rattus ~ # Thanks for the polkit hint. BillK On 1/4/21 6:08 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, I only have

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

2021-04-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 7/4/21 3:36 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 23:41:50 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I've done some research.  It seems Dovecot is what I need.  It uses mbox >> and has some features I might need one day already where Courier doesn't >> but there isn't much difference really.  If anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread William Kenworthy
Security? Are serial ports available? - Before Ethernet became affordable for the home user we use to use some variety of Laplink and its was fast enough in its day- a quick search shows its still available. If MTP is ok, use a phone as the middleman - though that basically the same process as a u

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/5/21 2:35 pm, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2021 21:58:25 -0400, > John Blinka wrote: >> [1 ] >> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:12 PM Jack >> wrote: >> >>> Given you say the UUID is for the boot partition, then both the linux and >>> initrd should just have the name of the kernel and in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     genkernel keeps a very detailed log at /run/iniramfs/gksoreport.txt. (or similar) When it exits to the cant find root prompt, type "shell" and you can read/save the report. BillK On 15/5/21 7:10 am, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling cla

[gentoo-user] USB WiFi dongle for gentoo based AP

2021-05-23 Thread William Kenworthy
Does anyone have experience with USB WiFi dongles? - I have purchased a couple of ones with different chip sets and cant find a satisfactory one: ralink 2870: just usable, but well known problem with errors when stressed. (IoT power switches are resetting and powecy

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-05-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/6/21 12:45 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote >> >>> 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update. >>> >>> For certificates I would expect the old and invalid ones to be

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/6/21 9:29 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: >>> And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed >>> certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to certify who you >>> are, but at the expense of probably allowing access

Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo

2021-06-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 3/6/21 4:52 am, antlists wrote: > On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it >>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars), >>> don't expect it to last long. >> >>    I've never had a hard drive fa

Re: [gentoo-user] after latest update emerge completely broken

2021-06-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/6/21 9:53 am, John Covici wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:39:25 -0400, > John Covici wrote: >> I have binary packages for lots of things, including portage if I need >> it, but no way to emerge any of them. >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > I have an update. I was able to ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk.

2021-06-18 Thread William Kenworthy
I stumbled on a genkernel bug (#796272 <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796272>) with module loading - its a bit of a corner case but its looking like I might have found the cause. BillK On 18/6/21 2:13 pm, Hund wrote: > On April 1, 2021 10:12:00 AM GMT+02:00, William Kenworthy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/7/21 7:31 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> >>> I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am >>> now evaluating my options for the comin

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread William Kenworthy
There is a lot online - basically its optional and needed just in case (!) and should be versioned like its matching kernel and initrd. BillK one of many refs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28936630/what-is-the-need-of-having-both-system-map-file-and-proc-kallsyms On 1/7/21 2:59 pm, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Inquiry about gentoo kernel configuration

2021-07-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On 10/7/21 7:40 pm, Ramon Fischer wrote: > Hello Dongliang, > > you could retrieve kernel configuration files from a "Minimal > Installation CD"[1] of Gentoo. Mount it and look for > "/boot/gentoo-config". > > But I guess, you want a untouched version, don't you? > > -Ramon Hi, to expand on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user login manager

2021-07-13 Thread William Kenworthy
Is what you want "multi-seat" rather than "multi-user"? e.g., http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html Lots on google. BillK On 14/7/21 6:56 am, 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: >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/7/21 4:55 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:46:16PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > >>> Yea. First the SMR fiasco became public and then there was some other PR >>> stunt they did that I can’t remember right now, and I said “I can’t buy WD >>> anymore”. But there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/7/21 10:29 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:14 AM William Kenworthy wrote: >> 2. btrfs scrub (a couple of days) >> > Was this a read-only scrub, or did this involve repair (such as after > losing a disk/etc)? > > My understanding of SMR is tha

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 11:50 am, Wols Lists wrote: > On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote: >> (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR) >> >> It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk >> /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 78140

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 11:14 am, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 30/7/21 10:29 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:14 AM William Kenworthy wrote: >>> 2. btrfs scrub (a couple of days) >>> >> Was this a read-only scrub, or did this involve repair (such as afte

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 4:50 am, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 07:08 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 20:42 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: >>> >>> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 8:21 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:50 PM Wols Lists wrote: >> btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad >> things are likely to happen ... > So, USB hosts vary in quality I'm sure, but I've been running USB3 > drives on lizardfs for a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 9:30 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 8:59 AM William Kenworthy wrote: >> I tried using moosefs with a rpi3B in the >> mix and it didn't go well once I started adding data - rpi 4's were not >> available when I set it up. > Pi2/3s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/8/21 8:50 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >> Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a >> single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online >> borgback

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/8/21 8:50 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > ... > And thanks to the cache, a new snapshots usually is done very fast. But for > a yet unknown reason, sometimes Borg re-hashes all files, even though I >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/8/21 11:36 am, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 1/8/21 8:50 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: >> >>> Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a >>> single borgbackup

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/8/21 5:38 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 11:46:02AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >>>> And you are storing several machines into a single repo? The docs say this >>>> is not supported officially. But I have one repo each for /, /

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/8/21 5:55 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 11:36:36AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >>>> Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a >>>> single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 3/8/21 5:52 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 01:38:31PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >>> Yup. Today I did my (not so) weekly backup and rsynced the repo to the new >>> drive. After that I wanted to compare performance of my old 3 TB drive

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 3/8/21 6:03 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 02:12:24PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: >>>>> And you are storing several machines into a single repo? The docs say this >>>>> is not supported officially. But I have one repo each for /

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 6/8/21 4:40 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 10:18:06AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > >>> You could delete and rebuild the cache each time (or I think there is a >>> way to do without it). >> If the cache can be easily rebuilt, then there’d be no need to store it a

[gentoo-user] python2 problem

2021-08-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I am trying to install the ssspsk python module using pip for python 2 (for tuya-convert) but its not working. I have installed python 2.7 from portage and followed the wiki (set python_targets, emerge -NuDv etc.), however pip seems to only know how to install for python3. For python 2.7 do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/9/21 5:38 pm, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:06:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:20:52 BST Michael wrote: >>> Out of interest, have you tried booting a NUMA enabled kernel to see what >>> dmesg reports? >> Yes, it's been enabled ever since

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/9/21 7:25 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 24/9/21 5:38 pm, Michael wrote: >> On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:06:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:20:52 BST Michael wrote: >>>> Out of interest, have you tried booting a N

[gentoo-user] irqbalance

2021-09-24 Thread William Kenworthy
In going down the NUMA rabbit hole, I discovered "irqbalance".  Does anyone have an opinion on its usefulness? It is in portage. On some multicore arm systems I am using irq affiity to steer certain irq's to faster CPU's (network, usb) - but from what I have be

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/10/21 11:30 am, coa...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi y'all new confused user regarding package management > > How do you guys manage and protect your packages? > Do you just put everything on world and end up with a huge world file? > Do you have basic system files on world and the rest you protect or

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter

2021-11-06 Thread William Kenworthy
In reality, today there seems to be little to choose from between ethernet cards for the average user - wasn't always the case though.  I have a number of usb-<->ethernet plugins and pcicards.  Some are bonded (mix of usb and pci) and are mostly realtek though there is an intel or two.  I am using

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance?

2021-11-12 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/11/21 5:56 am, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:06 PM Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Not a recommendation precisely but there's a guy on YouTube named Jeff >> Geerling that's doing a lot of that sort of thing using a Raspberry Pi and >> multiple SATA drives. I've just built my

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance?

2021-11-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/11/21 12:52 am, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:35 AM William Kenworthy wrote: >> Look at the odroid HC4 - I am using 5x the older HC2 version for moosefs >> - they are USB3 based but work well in this application. They are arm32 >> but 64bit is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

2021-11-17 Thread William Kenworthy
On 18/11/21 7:24 am, Jack wrote: > On 2021.11.17 18:15, Wol wrote: >> Just filed bug 824282. >> >> In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make >> install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...". >> >> This worked fine, and I then ran grub-mkconfig, sorted out gru

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

2021-11-27 Thread William Kenworthy
quickpg the existing  modules then try the remove/reinstall fix. You can then use "emerge -K =package" or even a manually reinstall (by coping them over the newer ones) to replace the modules if things don't work out. I would think in your case needing to keep kernel specific modules around th

[gentoo-user] OT: BATMAN vs frr/ospf

2021-12-01 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi all, has anyone had experience using the batman-adv protocol and can comment on its use instead of ospf? The recommended "drop in" replacement for quagga/ospf based routing with the frr/ospf package has proven to be a less than stellar replacement in my case (not

[gentoo-user] clean up a git sync'd portage

2021-12-04 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi all,     are there any settings useful to reduce the size of a git sync'd portage? Its just hit 22Gb and the little arm system I use to maintain it is choking.  I am doing a git clean -f and git gc --aggressive in the hope it reduces it some, but from reading I

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted

2021-12-12 Thread William Kenworthy
I thought the gentoo default mail program is nullmailer? Changed from smtpd(? or something named similar) some time back.  Simple, reasonably versatile and has easy configuration. BillK On 12/12/21 21:25, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hey list, I am looking for an as-simple-as-possible setup fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted

2021-12-13 Thread William Kenworthy
True - missed that! BillK On 13/12/21 17:36, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:36:33 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: I thought the gentoo default mail program is nullmailer? Changed from smtpd(? or something named similar) some time back. Simple, reasonably versatile and has

[gentoo-user] log4j

2021-12-15 Thread William Kenworthy
I was reading up on log4j and its recent problems and discovered it can "hide" layers deep inside java jar files depending on how its used. I can see that dev-embedded/arduino includes log4j directly (and does it embed log4j in code produced for IoT?): rattus ~

[gentoo-user] OT: what keyboard is suitable for a touchscreen?

2021-12-17 Thread William Kenworthy
I have been using the onboard keyboard from an overlay for the touchscreen on my surface laptop, but it currently only supports python 3.8.  What else is in portage or overlay that is worth trying? BillK

[gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-19 Thread William Kenworthy
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?) BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/12/21 13:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 20/12/21 11:17 am, 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?) BillK How easy should it be? Won't ffmpeg allow you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

2021-12-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/12/21 04:59, Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

2021-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
A point to keep in mind - if you can feel the drive moving it may be generating errors!  Depending on the drive, the errors may just be handled internally and I can see it slowing things down though probably would be barely noticeable.  I have seen it myself with random errors from a WD green d

Re: [gentoo-user] SD memory card not erasing, even with dd.

2021-12-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/12/21 20:26, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 20:21:32 GMT Dale wrote: Howdy, As some may recall, I have quite a few deer trail cameras that use SD memory cards. On occasion some of the cards start acting weird. I've got one that is really weird. Usually I just replace the

Re: [gentoo-user] SD memory card not erasing, even with dd.

2021-12-29 Thread William Kenworthy
... This thread has been interesting tho.  At least I know that a Sandisk card at least tries to fail in a way that I can get the data off that did get written to the card.  Hey, that's a lot better than some I guess.  :-D  I've had some other brands that when they die, they dead. You get nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel's new configs not used?

2022-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/1/22 13:44, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:44:51 +, Wols Lists wrote: Compiling the kernel and modules? Replace 1 with make all modules_install install There's also the matter of the initramfs, one of the main reasons people use genkernel, alth

[gentoo-user] OT: whats a good laptop for gentoo these days?

2022-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
My MS surface pro4 has died (swelling battery has popped the screen - known problem) so I am looking for a better replacement. I bought it new years ago but it only got good Linux support (touchscreen etc.) in the last couple of years so its been a bit frustrating. So the question is - whats a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: whats a good laptop for gentoo these days?

2022-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
On 10/1/22 00:26, Jack wrote: On 1/9/22 07:49, William Kenworthy wrote: My MS surface pro4 has died (swelling battery has popped the screen - known problem) so I am looking for a better replacement. I bought it new years ago but it only got good Linux support (touchscreen etc.) in the last

Re: [gentoo-user] "EZ mode" vs "AP mode"

2022-01-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/1/22 19:45, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Thelma: What kind of routers work with "EZ mode" Recently I was plying with a wifi light switch and couldn't get "EZ mode" to work with my Asus router. AP mode, worked but for this to work phone's Bluetooth and Personal Hotspot need to be turn ON (du

Re: [gentoo-user] "EZ mode" vs "AP mode"

2022-01-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/1/22 21:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:38:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Z mode is  the smart dev acting as an accesspoint for the controlling phone app to connect - so it cant in that mode connect to anything else.  To reflash the firmware with something

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few years ago insisted on a two-compone

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/1/22 00:06, Dale wrote: tastytea wrote: On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know w

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/1/22 22:06, Marco Rebhan wrote: On Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:22:02 CET Dale wrote: What do others do with spam to minimize it? Hi Dale, I'm not sure if you're talking about self-hosted mail because you mention dovecot, if you do: Google Gentoo mail gateway - there are a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] how to restart the network, no net.enp1s0

2022-01-21 Thread William Kenworthy
There was a news item on network naming - it might be that.  A couple of people got caught by it. BillK On 21/1/22 20:48, n952162 wrote: The point is, something has changed in openrc, and I was hoping somebody knew about it. It used to be that you could restart the network with:   rc-servic

[gentoo-user] Two wifi client interfaces and routing

2022-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I am trying to use a raspberry pi (3B running gentoo 32bit, openrc) to create a routed link between two access points (the rpi acting as a client to both AP's) so I can access the monitoring port (6607, modbus) from homeassistant.  One AP is an Huawei inverter with a built in "island" acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Two wifi client interfaces and routing

2022-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks for the detailed reply - my response is inline: On 1/4/22 00:17, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 3/31/22 7:21 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> I am trying to use a raspberry pi ...  to create a routed link >> between two access points ...  so I

[gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular access point to an interface or fail? I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two wifi interfaces - unfortunately they are not equal so I want wlan0 to connect to only one particular AP, and wlan1 to the ot

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular access point to an interface or fail? I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/4/22 23:12, Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular access point to an interface or fail? I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two wifi interfaces - unfortunately they ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/4/22 16:05, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:46:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way

[gentoo-user] verify-sig

2022-04-08 Thread William Kenworthy
A new use has shown up named "verify-sig".  It seems simple enough from its euse description but its causing a large number of packages to be rebuilt unnecessarily (it defaults to off on my sytems).  Should I enable it? - I can find much info on it and it looks like it will cause major user has

Re: [gentoo-user] verify-sig

2022-04-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks. BillK On 9/4/22 15:32, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 02:50:30PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: A new use has shown up named "verify-sig".  It seems simple enough from its euse description but its causing a large number of packages to be rebuilt unneces

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

2022-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
and don't forget to run "uname -a" to get your currently running kernel version and make sure you don't delete that! "IF" "uname -a" isn't the latest version you have in /boot, some more investigation as to why will be needed. BillK On 1/7/22 04:29, Lee wrote: > The OP should read the section o

[gentoo-user] python mess - random winge!

2022-07-04 Thread William Kenworthy
I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are rebuilding python modules for 3.10 without any input from me (prior to this 3.10 was on the system but wasn't picked up by applications.)  This is breaking non portage apps like homeassistant which are still not fully 3.10 safe - ok that'

Re: [gentoo-user] python mess - random winge!

2022-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/7/22 14:24, w...@op.pl wrote: > Dnia 2022-07-05, o godz. 13:04:07 > William Kenworthy napisał(a): > >> I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are >> rebuilding python modules for 3.10 without any input from me (prior >> to this 3.10 was on the

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-08-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 6/8/22 20:42, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 6 August 2022 12:08:30 BST Dale wrote: ... The more you try to escape the 14 eyes Big Brother, the closer you may fall into the hands of various authoritarian regimes. LOL! Even VPNs like NordVPN which operates within the jurisdiction of Panama

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/8/22 06:44, Dale wrote: Howdy, With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and also filling up.  First casualty, my backup disk.  I have one directory that is . . . well . . . huge.  It's about 7TBs or so.  This is where it is right now and it's still trying to pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread William Kenworthy
What are you measuring the speed with - hdparm or rsync or ? hdparm is best for profiling just the harddisk (tallks to the interface and can bypass the cache depending on settings, rsync/cp/?? usually have the whole OS storage chain including encryption affecting throughput.  Encryption itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/8/22 13:34, Grant Taylor wrote: On 8/20/22 10:22 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: ... If that is an Odroid XU4, then I strongly suspect that /dev/sda is passing through a USB interface.  So ... I'd take those numbers with a grain of salt.  --  If the system is working for you, then b

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/8/22 06:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: [..] Also, if you're using ext2/3/4, there's the preset, i.e. if you're rather sure about what kind of data is going to be on there, you can tune it so that it reserves more or less place for metadata like inodes, which can be another bit. When I for

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread William Kenworthy
If your using nut, it has to be setup - and should be regularly tested to make sure it works. BillK ' On 12/9/22 09:56, Dale wrote: Howdy, Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with some power problems.  Ironically they went out a few hours after the storm was gone.

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn experience, anyone?

2022-09-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On 18/9/22 15:26, n952162 wrote: Hello all, I want to ssh over my openvpn connection, and I can't do it, the connection times out. I saw a reference to gentoo in the openvpn scripts in /etc/openvpn and thought maybe somebody here  knows something about this. Earlier my institution recommende

[gentoo-user] realloc() failure in motion

2022-09-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I am setting up some  cameras (esp32cam) and intended to use motion for them but it crashes on startup with a realloc() error. The system is an up to date arm64 (odroid N2+), mostly stable. Has anyone seen this before? BillK ha /etc/motion # /usr/bin/motion -c /etc/motion/motion.conf -k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realloc() failure in motion

2022-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/9/22 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2022-09-18, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am setting up some  cameras (esp32cam) and intended to use motion for them but it crashes on startup with a realloc() error. The system is an up to date arm64 (odroid N2+), mostly stable. Has anyone seen this

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

2022-11-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Install lshw - might give more info. Boot off of an install, ubuntu, sysrescue or other live USB and investigate dmesg. BillK On 16/11/22 00:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, My new laptop shows this from /proc/cpuinfo: --->8 processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu fami

[gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

2022-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system (I want to use getmails per instance IDLE parameter).  The docs say that it can work with postfix, however suitable examples and information is lacking.  Currently fetchmail is delivering multiple accounts vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

2022-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/11/22 20:37, Wols Lists wrote: On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system Are you using getmail, or getmail6? https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/documentation.html#python3 A quick "e

Solved: GRe: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

2022-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/11/22 21:01, William Kenworthy wrote: On 25/11/22 20:37, Wols Lists wrote: On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system Are you using getmail, or getmail6? https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
* didn't send to the list the first time :( On 9/12/22 07:30, Dale wrote: I just wonder, could I use that board and just hook it to my USB port and a external power supply and skip the Raspberry Pi part?  I'd bet not tho.  ;-) Dale :-)  :-) Check this one: https://www.hardkernel.com/sh

Re: Living in NGL: was: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/12/22 21:30, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 7:51 AM Wols Lists wrote: On 19/12/2022 12:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale wrote: If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd like to have a remote tho. 😉 So, I've don

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/12/22 14:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 05:53:03AM + schrieb Wols Lists: On 21/12/2022 02:47, Dale wrote: ... In layman’s term, a stripe of mirrors. Raid-1 is the mirror, Raid-0 a (JBOD) pool. So mirror + pool = mirrorpool, hence the 1+0 → 10. ... I tend t

[gentoo-user] Lxc weirdness

2023-01-02 Thread William KENWORTHY
Hi, I am having a problem with lxc where tasks run via lxc-attach seems to hang or run so slow it may as well be hung. No log messages, no signs of anything else wrong. It appears independent of kernel versions, and regular updates have occurred to the external environment. The lxc VM's are mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/3/23 04:27, Morgan Wesström wrote: On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: 1) Where's the appropriate place for these files in Gentoo and why? 2) If the appropriate place is either of those folders with a version number, how do I install the files there without hard coding the version numb

[gentoo-user] running KSM

2023-03-23 Thread William Kenworthy
I am interested in running KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging) on an lxc server.  Some other distros have a tuning daemon to extend/control ksm but I cant find anything gentoo. I have it in the kernel and can run it with fixed defaults but I hope to do better. Does anyone have recommendations on how

Re: [gentoo-user] How to restart/fix frozen XFCE4

2023-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/4/23 13:28, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: At time to time my XFCE4 freezes.  The screen is responding to the keyboard, mouse pointer is moving on the screen but nothing is responding. I just lookup some solutions and found this one: - press: CTRL+Alt+T  (to get to terminal) - pidof xf

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