[gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings. The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', so I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as it should. Now I find it causes a problem when restoring a backup: tar fails in restoring that file, of course, and reports an error. The number of f

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/5/24 9:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', so I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as it should. What?!?!?! Network Manager can't be made to keep it's hands off of /etc/resolv.conf so the workaround is

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 5 November 2024 16:27:57 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 11/5/24 9:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', > > so I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as > > it should. > > What?!?!?! Network Manager can'

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:56:41 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2024 11:49:18 GMT I wrote: > > On Saturday 14 September 2024 13:05:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Just one little fly in the ointment: the status string became too long > > > to > > > show properly. Perhaps sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 11/5/24 11:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 11/5/24 9:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', so >> I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as it >> should. > > What?!?!?!  Network Manager can't be made to keep it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 5 November 2024 16:27:57 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: >> On 11/5/24 9:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', >>> so I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as >>> it should. >> What?!?!?

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Grant Taylor writes: > On 11/5/24 9:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', so I did, >> and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as it should. > > What?!?!?! Network Manager can't be made to keep it's hands off of > /etc/r

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/5/24 10:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: What?!?!?!  Network Manager can't be made to keep it's hands off of /etc/resolv.conf so the workaround is to leverage file system features to break Network Manager's hands when it tries to touch the file? Clarifying, after some replies that I've seen.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 11/5/24 6:41 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > Clarifying, after some replies that I've seen. > > I was surprised by, and doubted, the idea that Network Manager might not > be able to be configured to leave /etc/resolv.conf alone. Oops, yeah, sorry. My reply was badly worded -- I responded to your po

[gentoo-user] sinit (suckless init) + daemontools-encore on Gentoo

2024-11-05 Thread Eduardo Santos
I searched for sinit on the gentoo-user archives and couldn't find anything, there's only a few Reddit threads which don't help much. Would it be possible to follow the steps here[1] to use sinit + daemontools-encore on Gentoo, or are there hard dependencies on OpenRC that make this impossible? Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 6 November 2024 00:08:12 GMT Eli Schwartz wrote: > But my reply was really intended for Peter. I don't quite understand > what Peter read (when saying "the Network Manager man page says to > chattr") to overlook the fact that the manpage is fairly clear in the > only place it talks ab