Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

2020-11-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: > urlview has served me faithfully for many years in conjunction with >mutt. In a recent install, I find it's no longer available (python >2.7?). Stated reason was "upstream dead" (which seems the case since 2013, with issues on github[1])... >ext

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

2020-11-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Jack wrote: [..] >Found it. It is "middle dot" U+00B7 which in UTF-8 two bytes of octal 302 >267 or hex C2 8E. > >Also, now that I look at the page source, I see "Introduction to >Metaprogramming in Nim · HookRace Blog" so I do wonder if it >is something funny with th

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

2020-11-26 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:20:52 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > According to: > https://wiki.webevaluation.nl/sending_e-mail_with_ssmtp > ssmtp has no local e-mail so it can not send cron output to > /var/mail/user The manpage here says --- It does not do aliasing, which must be done either

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

2020-11-26 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:20:52 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Aliases for TO: addresses would normally need to be set in > /etc/aliases, but SSMTP doesn't read this! Instead, you need to edit > /etc/mail.rc and add a line such as alias root > root Concerning root: Can't you just put root=

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:20:41 GMT Dale wrote: >> >>> P. S. I been meaning to ask this for ages now. What happened to our >>> other Allan? I think he was from Africa or something and admin'd a >>> bunch of puters there. McKinnon or something like

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2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his > machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.  > So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.  > Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.  > Dale > :-)  :-)  When you men

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his > machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.  > So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.  > Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.  > Dale > :-)  :-)  When I sent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Dale
Thomas Mueller wrote: >> I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his >> machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.  >> So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.  >> Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.  >> Dale >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:01:22 -0600, Dale wrote: > I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his > machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.  > So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.  I had a feeling that what what he had done. I can't ima

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 07:35:20 -0600, Dale wrote: > Dare I mention hal?? Please don't :-( -- Neil Bothwick I distinctly remember forgetting that. pgphjboaJku8G.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Jack
On 11/26/20 8:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:01:22 -0600, Dale wrote: I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore. So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch. I had a feeling tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2020-11-26 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 26 November 2020 00:10:00 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:37:15 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > since my old 64 GB Verbatim USB sticks became too small, I bought two > > new 128 GB Philips sticks. Because I need to read and write them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-26 Thread antlists
On 26/11/2020 04:09, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-11-26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Thank you for input. Maybe that is why it is so hard to find good explanation/howto how to configure it. The config file looks very simple, that is I decided to try it. Ah, that's another devine mystery.

[gentoo-user] nvidia x server settings doesn't open

2020-11-26 Thread thelma
I just installed nvidia-drivers-455.28-r1 and can not start "nvidia x server setting" it doesn't open. running: $ nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. -- Thelma

[gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-11-26, antlists wrote: >[...] > So a fully-functional sendmail installation is the most powerful, > flexible mta there is out there. The snag is, most people only use 10% > of that power, but nobody can agree on which 10% is the most important. After trying to think of reasons to use se

[gentoo-user] php-5.6.33

2020-11-26 Thread thelma
I need to install old: php-5.6.33 on my new system. One program I have depends on it. Is it possible and what is the easiest way to go about it? I have the "php-5.6.33.ebuild" (and all other files) on my old system in dir: /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/php-5.6.33 Is it possible to copy it to my: /usr/lo