Re: [arch-general] Mirror down?

2017-04-21 Thread Peter Baldridge via arch-general
There's a list for mirror operators at arch-mirr...@archlinux.org they may find this info useful as they can bug the mirror owner or remove it from the rotation.

Re: [arch-general] How secure is wifi-menu

2015-04-01 Thread Peter Baldridge
I think the same could be said for most things on the box. If someone can write to that folder, they can probably just run the file and do not need you to run wifi menu to trigger the file. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:43 AM, h...@dev-nu11.de wrote: hi I recently switched to a new laptop and

Re: [arch-general] Is Voting Effective?

2014-04-11 Thread Peter Baldridge
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Taylor Hornby ha...@defuse.ca wrote: both are included in Debian's official repositories. Debian has more packages than another distro that I am aware of. Last I heard, it was around 30,000. That is one thing they do very well. That's very much the polar

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

2014-03-27 Thread Peter Baldridge
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Thomas Bächler The fact that these LSMs must be compiled into the kernel and cannot be built as modules tells you something important: These options change the behaviour of the kernel at its core. I was under the impression that this was s security feature to

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

2014-03-27 Thread Peter Baldridge
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Ott This seems like it doesn't exactly fit with the Arch Way though. Arch is supposed to be simple and minimal. Why should the default be add all the features for a distribution that is partially based on being minimal and lightweight? I guess I just

[arch-general] PCRE 8.34-1 Upgrade breaks expected regex behavior for MediaWiki

2013-12-29 Thread Peter Baldridge
Hello All, The most recent upgrade to pcre 8.34-1 seems to disallow group names starting with a digit. A quote from the PCRE news.txt [1]: Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this change also in PCRE. I found this bug report[2] on the mediawiki site that

[arch-general] Virt-Manager Doesn't connect to localhost domain after upgrade.

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Baldridge
Hello List, I've just recently upgraded with an Syu which included an upgrade from virt-manager 0.10.0-3 to 0.10.0.-4. This update seems to have pulled libvirt-python into the mix which from what I can tell was not there before or was not a separate package. (version 1.2.0-1-x86_64). My first

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

2013-08-24 Thread Peter Baldridge
I run 3 colos and I would be happy to provide hardware and bandwidth. It's not a service I would use but if someone was interested in maintaining, I could probably have a dual core box with 1tb raid-1 storage and bandwidth online in short order. If someone wants to put together a maintenance team

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

2013-08-24 Thread Peter Baldridge
On Aug 24, 2013 12:02 PM, Lieven Moors lievenmo...@gmail.com wrote: It seems a new arch rollback machine has already been set up: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1316259#p1316259 It seems that way. And it sounds like they will be getting it tuned up so anyone can host a mirror.

Re: [arch-general] iptables forward policy

2012-08-26 Thread Peter Baldridge
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Juan Diego Tascón juantas...@gmail.comwrote: Is there any way to debug iptables, Juan, Another good way to debug IPTables (if you can limit the traffic to the box to just what you are troubleshooting) use the command : sudo iptables -Z sudo watch -n .5