As far as I know there are two possible main reasons for this kind of masking:
- The program is no longer maintained, so no updates on upcoming issues can be expected and possibly one has come up.
- There is no longer a Gentoo package maintainer for the program

So I suggest to first take a look at ...

Number 2 was my fault. Somehow while trying things /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and /etc/ldap.conf got mixed up. Only the first accepts an encrypted password.
I filed a bug report about the library names: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581306

Ok, so it is a combination of two things.
1 A wrong library name or at leas a missing simlink. /lib/nss_ldap.so.1 should be /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2. I probably will file a bug.
2 Unable to read the SSHA encrypted password in /etc/ldap.conf

So I can get it to work with a plain password, but that I do ...

I got a bit wizer. I found this: https://www.darkalchemist.co.uk/2014/05/30/ldap-raspberry-pi/ claiming a missing link in /lib to be the cause. While this did not solve anything I found weird inconsistencies between a AMD64 install of nss_ldap and the ARM install.
On AMD64 I have a 64 bit library ...

For years now I have an OpenLDAP DB running to manage all my logins. Linux, Samba, Mail, etc.
I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi and I can not get it working.
I have nsswitch.conf. ldap.conf and pam.d set up as usual.
It seems it is not able to connect to the database as I see in the log ...

Is there any news? I just hit this problem. I did a general update this weekend without at first noticing the problem.
Until due to missing ldap2zone I suddenly had empty zone files!

Hika

It did the trick. I'll keep an eye on problems with qt. If so I'll try reverting to emul-linux-x86-qtlibs.

It seems qt-4.8.5 doesn't support the 32 bit abi.
So you have to remove qt unmask the 4.8.6 counterparts including qtchooser and qttranslations and then run As I am doing now

I have good hopes skype will install afterwards.

Hika

Sorry, I was away some time and for some reason don't get the mails about posts.
Your apache error could come from you running another webserver.

(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

So you have to put the webserver on another address. For instance 8080.

You need to install the needed apache modules.
Add "APACHE2_MODULES="$APACHE2_MODULES authn_default" to your make.conf
although this module should be installed by default.
Check the output of emerge -pv apache

Also try going back to a stable apache version e.a. 2.2.27-r4 I have noticed modules to ...

I can confirm that for some reason the newer dracut versions don't properly support lvm. The device nodes simply don't get created. I had trouble for some time on several systems with creating new a initramfs after a kernel upgrade. Since at those times I had the old initramfs, which worked, I didn ...

Navar and Iclue, can you two move your fundamental discussion else! My question was and is about good alternatives for rdiff-backup!
Not about fundamental discussions, that in essence come to nothing. Especially within aforementioned context!

Hika

Hell, maybe I should fork it and start maintaining it. It's hard to walk away from a piece of software that does exactly what you need it to do and does it so well.

You have my vote! especially if you take on rdiffweb with it.
Or talk with https://bitbucket.org/jostillmanns/rdiff-commander/wiki ...

For some reason I've been thrown out of the maillist. MAybe I misclicked the wrong line in the mail.

Anyhow I have been looking into backuppc and for those who joined my question I will here give my experiences. I hope others will join with their further experiences.

First the pros and cons:
Pro ...

Weirdly enough the home directories themselfs are still on 700!

Changing the rights on the directory containing the homedirectories (owned by root.users) from 700 to 770 solved it. I have cups-pdf printing to $HOME/pdf-print.

Hika

I have still some problems with the routing. I can now ping a printer on the other side, but not the windows machines or the router. Is this a setting on these machines? To only answer to requests on the local net?
Another thing still not working is the dns synchronization of isc bind. It worked ...

One extra remark. It is in the wiki but hidden in the iptables config. Which I don't need here, for it is inside save networks.

I found the answer in the openvpn faq in openvpn.net.
For anybody who's interested. It is missing in the home router wiki. Hika

This is the routing table on the external server:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default Router.agrikos. 0.0.0.0 UG 2 0 0 enp1s0
loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
192.168.222.0 192.168.252.109 255.255.255.0 UG 2 0 0 tun0
192.168.232.0 * 255.255 ...

I am maintaining a server I have access to through a vpn tunnel. On my side I have a fli4l box as the end point the other side is on the server.
This works great as long as I don't want to reach further then the server. I can not even ping any of the machines on that network.
As far as I know the ...

Looking around, I so far have come up with backuppc as the best solution. I haven't yet really looked into it, but will the upcoming weeks.

Hika

One thing though.
A .mailfilter file in /home/samba/maildirs/$LOGNAME is ignored. It still looks for it in the system define homedirectory /home/$LOGNAME.
The weird thing is that this file does use the changed variables for HOME and DEFAULT, so you don't need to define them again.

Hika

I found the way to do it.
The way is using /etc/courier/maildroprc. I already before tried adding HOME="home/samba/maildirs/$USER" to it, but USER is not imported by maildrop in delivery mode.
LOGNAME is. So heading op /etc/courier/maildroprc with:
HOME="/home/samba/maildirs/$LOGNAME"
DEFAULT ...

I would like to ask some advise on backup software.
I recently replaced an old samba etc. server with a new one. The old one used rdiff-backup to daily backup the data internally and about weekly to an external disk. It used rdiffweb, so the users could retrieve data.
While rdiff-backup is well ...