On Friday, February 06, 2015 07:52:33 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > Arch Linux doesn't even have an installer. You just do your own thing. > That might suit you better. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide > > Lisi > Manjaro is arch based, and someone here suggested it, saying they liked it.
I had it installed for a couple days, but ran into so many brick walls in trying to configure it, that with only a forum you have to register to access, and I had no mail running to reply to the confirmation messages the registration process needs, so I was working blind. All the networking stuff was moved around, and given what looked like bsd names. It took a day just to get a static network working. Once I got it online, I went looking for a mailing list, but they do not have one. It is also a rolling release & I did use pcLOS for 6 months or so, dead stable, but at thge expense of there being so many missing dependencies when you wanted to build & install something I needed that I gave up. Texstar seems to think the world revolves around email and web browsing & nothing else. So I bailed & went back to the older linuxcnc issued cd, based on the server edition of 10.04.4 LTS. Web browsing is painful on that old a release, but everything else works well except that kernel is a 32 bitter, no PAE, and spends as much time in swap as anywhere else because it could only use a bit over 3Gb of the 8Gb in ths machine So I blew that away and tried to install wheezy 2 more times & disk speed was about floppy speeds due to the sector miss-alignment that getting anything done was frustrating at best. So I went back to the newest, wheezy based linuxcnc hybrid.iso you can get from linuxcnc.org and installed that. The swap is miss-aligned but the mail partition is not. So now, even my web page, which is on this machine, is back online. Address in the sig. Because I am reasonably familiar with it, I just finished recovering about 8Gb of old mailfile based emails and have most of my filters working right now. In the process I converted about 7Gb of mailfiles to maildir format, so there are not any maillfile folders on the system now. And I did not use the kmailcvt function to do it, I simply read the mailfiles from /var/mail as if they were incoming mail. Its about 100x faster than kmailcvt to boot. Its been a struggle, but life is back to good now. All I should have to do the next day or so are fix any crontab driven functions that might miss-fire, the amanda backup program probably being on that list. So next I should sudo -i, the cd into home/amanda and do a make install as root. But that is failing due to an auth failure, seems the user amanda is not properly setup in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. But they are supposedly all matched up from the old install. From the old install: gene@coyote:/mnt/ltsslash/etc$ grep amanda passwd amanda:x:1001:1002::/home/amanda:/bin/sh gene@coyote:/mnt/ltsslash/etc$ grep amanda group disk:x:6:amanda,gene lp:x:7:amanda,gene amanda:x:1002:gene from the new install: gene@coyote:/mnt/ltsslash/etc$ cd /etc gene@coyote:/etc$ grep amanda passwd amanda:x:1001:1002::/home/amanda:/bin/sh gene@coyote:/etc$ grep amanda group disk:x:6:amanda,gene lp:x:7:amanda,gene amanda:x:1002:gene So that is identical to the old install. But I get auth failures that were not ever a problem on the lucid installs: root@coyote:/home/amanda# su amanda -c "amcheck Daily" su: Authentication failure (Ignored) sh: 1: amcheck: not found The latter I have to assume is because its not setting the $PATH correctly, However it is the first entry in the $PATH now. The freshly built amcheck is in /usr/local/sbin. I could use some clues? Thanks. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502061010.29596.ghesk...@wdtv.com
