From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrtOD-0002Sy-Jv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:02:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8803AE06C3; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAABE06C3 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:02:08 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtUEAHP+vkpLd+Cw/2dsb2JhbACBT8N2CI1rgkMIgVMFh30 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,461,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="46665494" Received: from 75-119-224-176.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.224.176]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 27 Sep 2009 09:02:07 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:02:06 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:02:06 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use Message-ID: <20090927130206.GA5344@waltdnes.org> References: <20090927012338.GA12732@waltdnes.org> <200909270855.57149.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909270855.57149.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: e2389282-8df8-4904-b513-09a1408c29d2 X-Archives-Hash: a2b03f9eec300e0d24e33cac60bd0e10 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote > To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) Sorry about that. Here are the details... [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt... d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4 USE="pop smime smtp -berkdb -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla" 0 kB It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries manually, but very unlikely. Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on creating symlinks called "sendmail"? My most embarressing moment as a linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly cronjob. I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with "2>&1". The garbage output went to root via "sendmail", which was actually a symlink to mutt. mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email out the door to my ISP's MTA. So the hourly garbage went to root at my ISP. They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs, I set root= in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP. I also went around stomping on the symlinks. So far, I've discovered /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a "touch .keep" inside the directory. -- Walter Dnes