Re: [arch-general] Setting Computer Hostname via DHCP Server

2011-09-29 Thread Taylor Hedberg
dhcpcd should do this automatically. From dhcpcd(8): If the hostname is currently blank, (null) or localhost, or force_hostname is YES or TRUE or 1 then dhcpcd sets the hostname to the one supplied by the DHCP server. It seems to work for me. If you're setting the hostname manually

Re: [arch-general] Enable FLTK Octave backend?

2011-09-29 Thread Stefano Avallone
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 16:43:59 Eric Bélanger wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Stefano Avallone stava...@unina.it wrote: Hi, I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) plotting capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new backend is

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:24PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Sep 28, 2011 3:53 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: The way it works is that both the frontend (the unprivileged process, e.g. the GUI for setting your timezone) and the backend (the privileged process, e.g. the

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: Yet some Gnome/KDE desktop apps are able to mount even when running for a normal user, when PK agrees (which in my eyes is a subvertion of a policy set by the sysadmin). How do they do this if neither 'mount' nor the

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 22:52:42 +0200: Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: Hi there, I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically at the machine to mount the usb drive, but not remote users. This makes sense for two

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Martti Kühne
Well from what I know from my days back with $certainotherdistro, PK mounts local drives in /media and remote drives in ~/.gvfs . currently I use mount(8) manually, since I don't use a big DE nor filebrowser (IMO too many of them make use of stuff like this) and wouldn't make use of this

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-29 12:36:30 +0200: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically at the machine

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically at the

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-29 12:35:56 +0200: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-29 12:36:30 +0200: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically at the machine

[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.5-1

2011-09-29 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, please signoff nfs-utils, upstream release - enabled now libmount support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26129 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tavian Barnes
On 29 September 2011 06:55, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if I understand

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:55:25PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: This makes no sense.  I don't mind if they use their own sticks on their own laptop. I do if they use it one this particular machine. This is surely a very uncommon scenario. It is easily solved by tweaking the PK policies

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:54:51PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: As a somewhat hackish workaround there's the gconf-no-polkit package in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41983 Works well enough for me. I also need gconf for a single package only. Good tip, thanks. But I'd

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [prerelease] initscripts-2011.09.2-1

2011-09-29 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 30/09/11 00:00, Tom Gundersen wrote: Towards read only /etc: * /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is now a static file, rather than being generated on every boot (this means we need to use -f when updating) Please do not