Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ant issue after bump
On Tue, 02.03.2010 um 16:30 +0100, Andreas Radke wrote:
something different: you have bumped apache-ant - please look at this
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-February/008464.html
Any ideas how to fix our ant pkg that I can build OpenJDK again? Run ant
--diagnostics. Probably some stuff is missing (xerces and xalan are
present). I'd like to call everybody with some java experience for
help here.
The build failure is triggered by a bug in ant 1.8.0, which is already fixed
in their SVN:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48782
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revisionrevision=912258
As a workaround you can put symlinks to
/usr/share/java/{xalan.jar,serializer.jar} into
/usr/share/java/apache-ant/lib/ , which makes ant use the xslt processor
provided by xalan-java instead of the one from openjdk. As a side effect this
avoids the NullPointerException which caused ant -diagnostics to fail.
Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for su? Arch has the solution
Yes, same answer, you get owned. In fact, even with a password required, the 5 minute grace window for sudo does you in - some bad guy just keeps trying to sudo, until you do it legitimately, thereby allowing it freely for 5 minutes, and then he's got root. Isn't it possible to lock that to specific consoles with Defaults tty_tickets in /etc/sudoers ? I guess that with the 5 min. grace window will give a good balance between annoyance and security.
Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for su? Arch has the solution
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, same answer, you get owned. In fact, even with a password required, the 5 minute grace window for sudo does you in - some bad guy just keeps trying to sudo, until you do it legitimately, thereby allowing it freely for 5 minutes, and then he's got root. Isn't it possible to lock that to specific consoles with Defaults tty_tickets in /etc/sudoers ? I guess that with the 5 min. grace window will give a good balance between annoyance and security. That's a nice feature, but there's still a hole in it. Consider the case where you run sudo, close the window, and within the next 5 minutes something else allocates a PTY. It's likely to get the one you just closed, with your ticket still good for it.
[arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs
I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' which is the default location Postfix MTA writes everything it does to. I was sadly in that file using Vim and deleted the last line. I didn't restore the removed line and simply saved the file. I noticed now that the Postfix daemon no longer writes anything to the log file since I edited it. No permissions have changed at all. It's still in the same location and owned by the same UID/GID. Code: -rw-r- 1 root log 189 Mar 3 08:37 mail.log I can see that Postfix is however logging everything under '/var/log/everything.log' Anyone know how to fix this? I am worried I broke Postfix but mail is still flowing and I get no errors at all from Postfix. It's just not writing to 'mail.log' any longer.
Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs
I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' always use less to view log files. vim makes a copy of the files you open, and that could be a lot of unnecesseary IO for big log files. which is the default location Postfix MTA writes everything it does to. I was sadly in that file using Vim and deleted the last line. I didn't restore the removed line and simply saved the file. I noticed now that the Postfix daemon no longer writes anything to the log file since I edited it. When vim saves a file it actually saves a new copy of the file. But postfix kept the old file opened and is still writing to it. You can for example compare the inode of the file you see in the filesystem ls -i /var/log/mail.log and the node reported by lsof -p THE PID OF POSTFIX HERE -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' always use less to view log files. vim makes a copy of the files you open, and that could be a lot of unnecesseary IO for big log files. I wanted to really just clear all my log errors and mess from testing over the night and start fresh. This is really why I opened it in Vim. Just after I removed all the errors from the night before, it no longer wrote to the log file and more once saved. You can for example compare the inode of the file you see in the filesystem ls -i /var/log/mail.log and the node reported by lsof -p THE PID OF POSTFIX HERE Interesting! [r...@mail postfix]# ls -i /var/log/mail.log 15828 /var/log/mail.log [r...@mail postfix]# ps -ef | grep -i postfix root 24030 1 0 08:37 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 24298 24030 0 10:06 ?00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u postfix 24299 24030 0 10:06 ?00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u root 24311 24270 0 10:10 pts/100:00:00 grep -i postfix [r...@mail postfix]# lsof -p 24030 First, which is the correct PID? Is it the 'master' PID? Secondly, I don't appear to have the command in my system for some reason. Perhaps I need to install the utility.
Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?
KDE's output to terminal is new in 4.4. Before that, I could launch any kde from the command line and continue to work from it. Since the upgrade I'm just flooded. Could that be a build issue? Debuging output making its way into a final package?
Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?
David, are you running kdemod-legacy? If not, you should try it. Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] top posting
Hello listmates, is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing?
Re: [arch-general] top posting
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 23:31, Juan Diego juantas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing? To be clichéd... A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ~celti
Re: [arch-general] top posting
On 03/03/10 at 11:36pm, Patrick Burroughs wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 23:31, Juan Diego juantas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing? To be clichéd... A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ~celti I like it! --
