[arch-general] kernel vga setting problems

2008-06-22 Thread Ralph Alvy
Why is it that after the last few upgrades with pacman I can't use any 'vga=nnn' setting anymore in my grub menu.lst? I used to use 'vga=792' 'vga=795', if memory serves me here. I keep ending up with a message at boot time that tells me the video mode selected is no recognized.

[arch-general] Package file lists?

2008-06-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Used to be that when viewing a package's info on the Arch web site that there was a link to click on that would take you to a page that would list the files contained in that package. (i.e., equivalent to the output of "pacman -Ql ") Seems like that functionality is gone now though. Just wo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Simo Leone
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 06:36:41PM +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > > before a specific point in arch history we used to tell people that making a > system "secure" and "easy" is the job of a sysadmin. > > For people who like a default "security" without rtfm, there is always debian. >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/g roup to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Sunday 22 June 2008 19:41:33 Jan de Groot wrote: > Bad system design is something else than leaving people on their own to > secure things. Depends on your opinion,... > These user accounts own files. So you're trying to fix a problem that wouldnt be there if arch would use the default u

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:36 +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > > > Why not just use nobody for programs that need their own user, as a sane > > > default. Any smart admin should create any groups and users himself when > > > necessairy. And prevents cluttering of unnecessairy users/groups. For

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/g roup to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
> > Why not just use nobody for programs that need their own user, as a sane > > default. Any smart admin should create any groups and users himself when > > necessairy. And prevents cluttering of unnecessairy users/groups. For > > example in my httpd setups, the http users would never be used. > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:04 +0200, RedShift wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as mentioned in the apache thread I would like to use a dedicated > > user/group > > for our different webserver packages. To achieve this I'd like to add the > > user/group http to our filesystem package

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread RedShift
Pierre Schmitz wrote: Hi, as mentioned in the apache thread I would like to use a dedicated user/group for our different webserver packages. To achieve this I'd like to add the user/group http to our filesystem package. (It allready contains them for mail and ftp) According to http://wiki.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Azureus

2008-06-22 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
2008/6/21 Ondřej Kučera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Really loong text… > > -- > Cheers, > Ondřej Kučera > > I've used Azureus for a long time, but because of its age I've stopped using it and now I'm happy user of Ktorrent