[arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

[Olivier Langlois]

Since a recent update (I have first noticed a couple of weeks ago this
new systemd enhancement), systemd started to automatically clean /tmp
directory daily. This is not something that I like as I prefer to decide
when to clean up and to manually perform the clean up.

I have tried

systemctl stop systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
systemctl disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

The disabling apparently did not survived a reboot and the undesired
systemd service came back.

I guess that I could mess with tmpfiles-clean config file but I am just
not interested in the service at all. What is the sure way method to
disable it for good?

thank you,

Re: [arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

[Savyasachee Jha]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Leonid Isaev  wrote:

>
> Perhaps a proper approach is to create a special target for your
> maintainance
> jobs which would pull all relevant services and would itself be triggered
> by an
> OnCalendar timer. Although I am not sure whether a timer can directly
> trigger
> a target yet...
>
>
They can, do refer to
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/cron_functionality where you
can find some examples of the same.

-- 
Savyasachee Jha

*"Aerodynamics is for people whodon't know how to build engines."*

Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

[Mark Lee]

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On 05/07/2014 05:16 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>   I would like to sign off with a little information about how this has
> gone.
>
> I had used the "F12" boot options method once.  Subsequently, the  Windows
> Boot Loader appeared on the GRUB menu.  I have since then installed Fedora
> 20, and it went very well.
>
> I now see that if once specifies "UEFI" as the boot method in the
BIOS, and
> not Legacy or Both, these linux distros look for the EFI partition (or
> whatever that is called), and if one specifies it to be mounted wihtout
> formating in the parititioning scheme, all goes well.
>
> Thank everyone for the help.  Now the machine boots right into GRUB.
>
> Alan Davis
To Alan,

That's excellent. But, the point of UEFI is not to use any boot managers
like GRUB. A proper UEFI install should be able to boot directly off the
firmware. On a very high level, UEFI internalizes boot loaders like GRUB
so instead of chainloading with a boot loader, one boots directly into a
UEFI program (windows, linux, mac os, etc...) I am glad to hear that
your machine setup is working though.

Might I add, if you are truly booting into UEFI mode with Linux (could
be Ubuntu or Arch), you could probably apply the procedures in the Arch
Wiki to boot Arch Linux without a boot loader


Regards,
Mark
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Re: [arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

[Leonid Isaev]

Hi,

On Wed, 7 May 2014 13:34:29 -0500
Maciej Puzio  wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Leonid Isaev  wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:23:26 -0500
> > Maciej Puzio  wrote:
> >
> >> As I wrote before, I can edit every timer file and set the elapse
> >> time. What I can't do is to change one setting which says when daily
> >> maintenance tasks are run. This was possible with cron, but is no

You mean, you could change /etc/anacrontab?

> >> longer possible now. What's the problem to edit four files? Well, this
> >> is multiplied by the number of machines that are under my care.

Why can't you put additional configs in /etc/systemd/system/xxx.timer.d/ dir?

> >> Again, here is relevant systemd RFE link:
> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77938
> >
> > This is bogus.
> 
> Leonid, please reread the above paragraph and my previous posts, with
> comprehension. With all due respect, your replies are not related to
> the issue discussed.

It is completely unclear what you want to be fixed and the title is
misleading...

If you have machines m_1 ... m_N and want to spread the anacron jobs, you need
to edit N anacrontabs, right? Now you need to do k*N changes, k -- the number
of jobs used to be started by anacron. Are you asking for a centralized
control affecting all "daily" timers like the per-machine anacrontab? If true,
this is unlikely to be implemented (at least I wouldn't do it).

Perhaps a proper approach is to create a special target for your maintainance
jobs which would pull all relevant services and would itself be triggered by an
OnCalendar timer. Although I am not sure whether a timer can directly trigger
a target yet...

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

[Alan E. Davis]

  I would like to sign off with a little information about how this has
gone.

I had used the "F12" boot options method once.  Subsequently, the  Windows
Boot Loader appeared on the GRUB menu.  I have since then installed Fedora
20, and it went very well.

I now see that if once specifies "UEFI" as the boot method in the BIOS, and
not Legacy or Both, these linux distros look for the EFI partition (or
whatever that is called), and if one specifies it to be mounted wihtout
formating in the parititioning scheme, all goes well.

Thank everyone for the help.  Now the machine boots right into GRUB.

Alan Davis

Re: [arch-general] KDE Issue

[Tomasz Kramkowski]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:01:01AM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However,
> a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive,
> and it sits at this icon forever and won't load. What could be going wrong?
> Nothing on the forums shows information on this issue.
> 

I can never remember the name of that thing, but I'm guessing that is
simply a session choosing screen(?).

Have you tried asking him to [double]click on the icon? If that doesn't
solve the "problem" then I don't know what will.


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Re: [arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

[Maciej Puzio]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Leonid Isaev  wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:23:26 -0500
> Maciej Puzio  wrote:
>
>> As I wrote before, I can edit every timer file and set the elapse
>> time. What I can't do is to change one setting which says when daily
>> maintenance tasks are run. This was possible with cron, but is no
>> longer possible now. What's the problem to edit four files? Well, this
>> is multiplied by the number of machines that are under my care.
>> Again, here is relevant systemd RFE link:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77938
>
> This is bogus.

Leonid, please reread the above paragraph and my previous posts, with
comprehension. With all due respect, your replies are not related to
the issue discussed.

Re: [arch-general] makepkg, curl "no route to host"

[Gabriel Ozaki]

Like Savyasachee says, try this:

DLAGENTS=('ftp::/usr/bin/curl -fC - --ftp-pasv --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o
%o %u'
  'http::/usr/bin/wget -c -O %o %u'
  'https::/usr/bin/wget -c -O %o %u'
  'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync --no-motd -z %u %o'
  'scp::/usr/bin/scp -C %u %o')



2014-05-07 10:38 GMT-03:00 Mihamina Rakotomandimby <
mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org>:

> On 05/07/2014 04:12 PM, Gabriel Ozaki wrote:
>
>> can you show your /etc/makepkg.conf ?
>>
>
> Here you are: http://pastebin.com/CmieZk6A
>
>

Re: [arch-general] makepkg, curl "no route to host"

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On 05/07/2014 04:12 PM, Gabriel Ozaki wrote:

can you show your /etc/makepkg.conf ?


Here you are: http://pastebin.com/CmieZk6A

Re: [arch-general] makepkg, curl "no route to host"

[Savyasachee Jha]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <
mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org> wrote:

> How can I switch to "wget" just to try?
>

Just change the DLAGENTS line specific to the protocol in
/etc/makepkg.conf. For example, for http, you can set

"http::/usr/bin/wget -c -O %o %u"

to use wget for http downloads while using makepkg.

-- 
Savyasachee Jha

*"Aerodynamics is for people whodon't know how to build engines."*

Re: [arch-general] makepkg, curl "no route to host"

[Gabriel Ozaki]

Hi
can you show your /etc/makepkg.conf ?




2014-05-07 10:03 GMT-03:00 Mihamina Rakotomandimby <
mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org>:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with makepkg.
> I want to install ctemplate from AUR:
>
> $ makepkg -s
> ==> Making package: ctemplate 2.2-1 (Wed May  7 15:49:15 EAT 2014)
> ==> Checking runtime dependencies...
> ==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
> ==> Retrieving sources...
>   -> Downloading ctemplate-2.2.tar.gz...
> [...]
> curl: (7) Failed to connect to ctemplate.googlecode.com port 80:
>   No route to host
> ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading ctemplate-2.2.tar.gz
> Aborting...
>
> But when browsing to http://ctemplate.googlecode.com with my browser is
> OK. The same for ping, it's OK.
>
> $ ping ctemplate.googlecode.com
> PING googlecode.l.googleusercontent.com (173.194.78.82) 56(84) bytes of
> data.
> 64 bytes from wg-in-f82.1e100.net (173.194.78.82): icmp_seq=1 ttl=43
> time=244 ms
> 64 bytes from wg-in-f82.1e100.net (173.194.78.82): icmp_seq=2 ttl=43
> time=243 ms
>
>
> I do have route to "ctemplate.googlecode.com".
>
> How special is "curl" way to connect to the network so that it doesnt find
> a route for this destination?
>
> How can I switch to "wget" just to try?
>
> Thank you.
>

[arch-general] makepkg, curl "no route to host"

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Hi all,

I have a problem with makepkg.
I want to install ctemplate from AUR:

$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: ctemplate 2.2-1 (Wed May  7 15:49:15 EAT 2014)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading ctemplate-2.2.tar.gz...
[...]
curl: (7) Failed to connect to ctemplate.googlecode.com port 80:
  No route to host
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading ctemplate-2.2.tar.gz
Aborting...

But when browsing to http://ctemplate.googlecode.com with my browser is 
OK. The same for ping, it's OK.


$ ping ctemplate.googlecode.com
PING googlecode.l.googleusercontent.com (173.194.78.82) 56(84) bytes of 
data.
64 bytes from wg-in-f82.1e100.net (173.194.78.82): icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 
time=244 ms
64 bytes from wg-in-f82.1e100.net (173.194.78.82): icmp_seq=2 ttl=43 
time=243 ms



I do have route to "ctemplate.googlecode.com".

How special is "curl" way to connect to the network so that it doesnt 
find a route for this destination?


How can I switch to "wget" just to try?

Thank you.

[arch-general] KDE Issue

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However,
a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive,
and it sits at this icon forever and won't load. What could be going wrong?
Nothing on the forums shows information on this issue.