Re: [arch-general] SSH security

2015-01-06 Thread Bigby James
On 01/06, Ido Rosen wrote: Or would this be something worthy of an AUR package? That would be the way to go. Arch only ships vanialla packages where possible; a third-party patch from some stranger's blog won't make it into the official package. Before going ahead with that, though, a note: I'm

Re: [arch-general] systemd upgrade - run mkinitcpio automaitcally

2014-12-19 Thread Bigby James
On 12/18, Troy Engel wrote: Does it matter? No. Arch has been running on systemd for two years now, and udev has been part of systemd for most of that time. If this were a problem, we'd know by now. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is

Re: [arch-general] Booting ArchLinux with `initscripts` is now broken

2014-12-19 Thread Bigby James
I can't help with your specific problems, but an Archer has been maintaining a functional collection of SysV init scripts since the systemd switch. You might consider installing those.[1][2] [1]: https://bitbucket.org/TZ86/initscripts-fork/overview [2]:

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-06 Thread Bigby James
On 12/06, Florian Pritz wrote: On 05.12.2014 22:32, Bigby James wrote: Thanks for clearing that up. Wasn't sure exactly what the development flow was there. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete

Re: [arch-general] ibus

2014-12-05 Thread Bigby James
On 12/05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Marcel, hi Rasmus :) On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:34:29 +0100, Marcel Röthke wrote: You can remove all unneeded dependencies with the following command. pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs - Some unneeded packages might be build time dependencies, I don't want to

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-05 Thread Bigby James
On 12/05, Savya wrote: I was running mpv from the terminal today, and I got an unexpected message: Warning: mpv was compiled against a different version of ffmpeg than the shared library it is linked against. This can expose subtle ABI compatibility issues and can lead to misbehaviour and

Re: [arch-general] PS: Virtualbox downgrade - Was: FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly

2014-11-22 Thread Bigby James
On 11/22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Still odd that we still have a broken virtualbox package in the repositories. When there's no interest to stay with a stable version, then perhaps virtualbox should be dropped from the repositories and become an AUR package. Following upstream when the software

Re: [arch-general] PS: Virtualbox downgrade - Was: FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly

2014-11-22 Thread Bigby James
On 11/22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Unfortunately downgrading virtualbox (dkms) doesn't work with the current kernel version, IMO this is something completely different. I can downgrade, because I use other kernels too. You're saying that running 'dkms autoinstall' after downgrading VirtualBox

Re: [arch-general] Plasma 5 - how to start afresh

2014-10-19 Thread Bigby James
On 10/19, Bhushan Shah wrote: Hello! KF5/Plasma 5 settings are stored in to XDG_CONFIG_HOME. so if this variable is not set you can clear ~/.config and ~/.cache.. Woah, why would you ever advise anyone to delete the entire ~/.config and ~/.cache directories? They want to reset their KDE

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-14 Thread Bigby James
On 09/14, Tobias Hunger wrote: Factory reset is great, especially for a distro involving a lot of manual tweaking like arch:-) With factory reset you always know how to undo your own changes, getting back to the default state. That works for either all changes ever done to the system

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing

2014-08-21 Thread Bigby James
On 08/20, Leonid Isaev wrote: This changelog says that: * journald will no longer forward all local data to another running syslog daemon. This change has been made because rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog implementation these days) no longer makes use of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing

2014-08-21 Thread Bigby James
It seems this is just a change in the default settings, nothing more. I know, but not everyone follows systemd-devel. So, just updating systemd would lead to syslog mysteriously not logging anything... Sure, *if* you didn't already explicity set journald to use an external logging daemon.

Re: [arch-general] Manual for Samsung Chromebook Needed

2014-08-08 Thread Bigby James
On 08/08, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I'm investigating installing Arch Linux on a Samsung Chromebook, model xe303c12-a01us, as described on the Arch Wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_Chromebook_%28ARM% 29 . To do this it would be useful to have the user

Re: [arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

2014-07-18 Thread Bigby James
On 07/18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep tmp /etc/fstab #tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G 0 0 It's commented out, but I once had to use it and it solved the issue for me. systemd will allocate /tmp to a ramdisk by default, whether you specify

Re: [arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

2014-07-10 Thread Bigby James
On 07/10, Murari wrote: Thanks! It's nice (or maybe not...) to know that this is a problem with only the EFI stub loader. I do have a standalone grub entry which I haven't used in ages. I guess I will just add that to the gummiboot menu as a fallback and wait for the next kernel update. If

Re: [arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

2014-07-10 Thread Bigby James
On 07/10, Mike Cloaked wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Bigby James bigby.ja...@crepcran.com wrote: On 07/10, Murari wrote: Thanks! It's nice (or maybe not...) to know that this is a problem with only the EFI stub loader. I do have a standalone grub entry which I haven't

Re: [arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

2014-07-09 Thread Bigby James
On 07/09, Murari wrote: When I start my laptop (or restart it) and select the Arch Linux entry in the gummiboot menu, I sometimes only see a blank screen instead of any error messages or any of the usual boot text. This is a known issue, and yes, it's hard to describe or pin down. Some UEFI

Re: [arch-general] Network configuration

2014-06-13 Thread Bigby James
On 06/13, Yamakaky wrote: Hi all I write you this mail because I'm a bit lost between all these network configuration tools available : - systemd-networkd - dhcpcd service - netctl - wpa_supplicant - NetworkManager/wicd There is two profiles I use now : a laptop (wifi

Re: [arch-general] Odd Problem After Install

2014-06-11 Thread Bigby James
On 06/10, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: There are, in fact, lines below the cleaning status. Looks to me like part of the init process: I see a two lines from netctl saying that it is restoring my profile, another saying that I've reached the default user runlevel, and another that says starting

Re: [arch-general] Odd Problem After Install

2014-06-11 Thread Bigby James
On 06/11, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: After a system update this morning, it now works. It was likely a broken package in Gnome, since many Gnome packages got updated. Good to hear. Just remember in the future to let folks know what behavior you expect to see, or what you're trying to accomplish

Re: [arch-general] Recommended reading for Shell expansion mechanism

2014-05-30 Thread Bigby James
On 05/30, Heiko Becker wrote: Hi all, as I'm trying to give shell programming and things like that a start, I have a short question related to the shell expansion: I heard that it is possible to exclude things after using a wildcard like ./* for every file in the current directory. Am I

Re: [arch-general] QEMU bug report

2014-05-27 Thread Bigby James
On 05/27, Steven Honeyman wrote: Sorry if this sounds a little rude, but could someone please actually read this bug report before it just gets closed? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40571 (it has already been flagged for closure - wrongly or without good reason) Thanks, Steven. The

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-19 Thread Bigby James
On 05/18, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Bigby James bigby.ja...@crepcran.com wrote: On 05/17, Dimitris Zervas wrote: On May 17, 2014 5:22:32 PM EEST, Roland Tapken m...@lalamuhkuh.de wrote: BTW: Another good idea that would be helpful is add comments on installed

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-19 Thread Bigby James
On 05/17, Bardur Arantsson wrote: On 2014-05-17 22:08, Bardur Arantsson wrote: Hm. Rethinking this I was going to say something about listing (and screening) all the files that a package *would* install, but it seems that it's not possible to list files installed by a package before

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-17 Thread Bigby James
On 05/17, Dimitris Zervas wrote: On May 17, 2014 5:22:32 PM EEST, Roland Tapken m...@lalamuhkuh.de wrote: BTW: Another good idea that would be helpful is add comments on installed packages on pacman. e.g. why did you install them. But that's another thread No offense, but if you need to

Re: [arch-general] X11vnc in xbmc archlinux

2014-04-07 Thread Bigby James
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 01:06:06PM +0200, Maykel Franco wrote: 2014-04-07 13:00 GMT+02:00 ger...@gmail.com ger...@gmail.com: I need start x11vnc when computer boot... Sorry for my english. Thanks for your response. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:54:44PM +0200, Arthur Țițeică wrote: It raises a question mark that the two most important components of a system (systemd and the kernel) have security measures disabled. People in this thread like to put out the over subjective lightweight factor but still

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:05:25PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: Well, they came in when people argued in favor of them. [0] [0] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2013-November/034385.html That entire thread regards the userspace packages and the kludge of a policy that are

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:01:06PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: I'm very much for cleaning up the kernel config from things that factually are useless. Factually useless is not a subjective standard by which to measure things. If you don't personally configure the features in question by

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Bigby James
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:07:23AM +0100, Nicolas Iooss wrote: Here are three arguments to motivate my disagreement. * First, removing LSM support makes it difficult for users to test LSM. Before 3.13 kernel, users needed to recompile their kernel (or to install linux-selinux AUR package)

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Bigby James
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:56:28AM +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: I plan to use : dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 21 | grep GRUB dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 21 | grep LILO to check the bootloader I have. I am really new to arch linux, but I want to fix that problem. It seems I

Re: [arch-general] netctl provides wifi-menu which is unusable

2014-02-26 Thread Bigby James
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:34PM -0600, Garrett Hopper wrote: This would be great. It's always annoyed me that it's sitting there unusable. I don't usually play this card, but netcl takes up 7 kilobytes of disk space---an infinitesimal amount relative to many core *NIX utils---and only runs

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:16:15AM +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:27:15AM -0800, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: On 02/11/14 at 10:11am, Bigby James wrote: On Mon Feb 10 12:20:45 EST 2014 Kyle wrote: I'll take a little frustration of non-linux using normal human beings over a captcha that completely excludes visually impaired

Re: [arch-general] LUKS emergency self-destruct

2014-01-13 Thread Bigby James
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:57:28AM +0100, Paladin wrote: Hi, does anyone know if there is plan to implement this: http://www.kali.org/how-to/emergency-self-destruction-luks-kali/ in Arch? Patch https://github.com/offensive-security/cryptsetup-nuke-keys is not too big and IMHO it would be

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Bigby James
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:33:30PM +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 13 Jan 2014 12:59:28 Maxime Gauduin wrote: IMHO, the reason why you would choose to use rubygem over pacman depends of how extensive a ruby user you are. I like to have gems handled by pacman, but I only use a few

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Bigby James
Please, please /please/ don't recommend spin-offs as Arch Lite or Arch Made Easy or anything like that. Neither Manjaro nor Chakra are closely related to Arch, and giving folks the impression that they are just leads them to ask for help on our forums--where they get the brush-off--and everyone

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-28 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Suppose for some reason the majority of scientists believe in the theory of the Big Bang. And then I come along and wonder... where is the evidence? Well, if the Big Bang theory has merits, there would be tons of

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-26 Thread Bigby James
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Bigby James anokn...@gmail.com wrote: Having watched this thread (and the Beware thread) for some time, I can say without equivocation that Felipe is not trying to reason

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-25 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:03:44PM -0300, Denis A. Alto?? Falqueto wrote: You know that all this jibber-jabber could be easily avoided if you just asked for help or opened bug reports, don't you?