Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

2012-06-20 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Ionut Biru wrote: On 06/20/2012 06:40 PM, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > At Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:13:13 +0400, > Sergej Pupykin wrote: >> >> What do you think about ffmpeg-compat package ? > > I've put it to community-staging and build motion, synfig and > openscenegraph packages with it. > why did yo

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > > Hello Arno > > [snip] > > Please always start a new thread ;) > For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent > thread. :-) > > Thanks for the ad

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Jason Ryan said the following at 06/20/2012 04:54 PM : > I encountered this same issue at the start of the year: it is simply a matter > of > completing the installation and chrooting in to install grub to both your > devices: http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/02/11/lvm/ > The wiki seems strongly

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/12 09:15, Klaus wrote: > > Is there a line like "tmpfs /tmptmpfs nodev,nosuid0 > 0" which > creates a ramdisk and mounts it on /tmp. I think that is the > standard configuration of Arch Linux. I believe this is cor

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Damjan said the following at 06/20/2012 04:21 PM : >> # reboot >> >> >> >> When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: >>ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found >>ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0 >> >> What do I have to do to get past this error? >> >>Doc >> >> PS I tried

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

2012-06-20 Thread Ionut Biru
On 06/20/2012 06:40 PM, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > At Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:13:13 +0400, > Sergej Pupykin wrote: >> >> What do you think about ffmpeg-compat package ? > > I've put it to community-staging and build motion, synfig and > openscenegraph packages with it. > why did you bother to ask us f

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-20 Thread Jason Ryan
On 20/06/12 at 04:10pm, D. R. Evans wrote: > D. R. Evans said the following at 06/20/2012 11:27 AM : > > I have carefully followed the RAID instructions at: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation > > > > I have not used LVM, just RAID. I have double

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-20 Thread Damjan
# reboot When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0 What do I have to do to get past this error? Doc PS I tried to go back to the very beginning and walk through the instructions again, but when

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans said the following at 06/20/2012 11:27 AM : > I have carefully followed the RAID instructions at: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation > > I have not used LVM, just RAID. I have double-checked what I actually did, and > believe that I did exa

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 10:21 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 16:14:46 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent thread. :-) Not in my .muttrc. What option is this? I might

Re: [arch-general] What causes the 3-5 sec delay before :: running early hooks (udev)?

2012-06-20 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/20/2012 03:11 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: No, you need logs much before that. Udev should be noted twice in dmesg: one is when initramfs is unpacked (with low PID ~ 40); and you posted another. Thanks Leonid, I found the earlier entry, but there is virtually no delay on the earlier udev

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Manolo Martínez, Wed 2012-06-20 @ 16:14:46-0400: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: For the mutt > > users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent > > thread. :-) > > Not in my .muttrc. What option is this? I might have unbound the key > for some reason :) The m

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 16:14:46 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > > For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent > > thread. :-) > > Not in my .muttrc. What option is this? I might have unbound the key for > some re

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent > thread. :-) Not in my .muttrc. What option is this? I might have unbound the key for some reason :) > > Manolo

Re: [arch-general] What causes the 3-5 sec delay before :: running early hooks (udev)?

2012-06-20 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:44:53 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 06/20/2012 01:10 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > It is either the kernel or the initramfs. Your dmesg might tell you more > > (possibly some misbehaving kernel module?). Also, what modules/hooks do you > > have in your initramfs? > > >

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > Hello Arno > > Sorry for the offtopic bit, but i have noticed that your threads tend to > branch out from some other thread, many times. > > I believe that you use the reply button on an existing topic and then > start your own thread. This look

Re: [arch-general] What causes the 3-5 sec delay before :: running early hooks (udev)?

2012-06-20 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/20/2012 01:10 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: It is either the kernel or the initramfs. Your dmesg might tell you more (possibly some misbehaving kernel module?). Also, what modules/hooks do you have in your initramfs? Tom Thanks Arno, Tom, There are no non-default hooks on the desktops. The

Re: [arch-general] What causes the 3-5 sec delay before :: running early hooks (udev)?

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jun 20, 2012 7:21 PM, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > Guys, > > After recent updates to 3.4.3 and systemd-tools, etc., I have a new delay on boot. The system just seems to sit for any extra 5 secs or so with a blank screen after switching from grub to start booting. The delay happens before the f

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I've > just tried to run systemd-tmpfiles manually and it seems that it is > not able to do even a simple task such as rm -rf /tmp/*. For my own understanding is it possible to add an exec line to these systemd files like for the inittab replacements getty.service so that you can add anything yo

Re: [arch-general] What causes the 3-5 sec delay before :: running early hooks (udev)?

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 07:21 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, After recent updates to 3.4.3 and systemd-tools, etc., I have a new delay on boot. The system just seems to sit for any extra 5 secs or so with a blank screen after switching from grub to start booting. The delay happens before the first

[arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
I have carefully followed the RAID instructions at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation I have not used LVM, just RAID. I have double-checked what I actually did, and believe that I did exactly what the page tells me to do. I have two identical drives, w

[arch-general] What causes the 3-5 sec delay before :: running early hooks (udev)?

2012-06-20 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, After recent updates to 3.4.3 and systemd-tools, etc., I have a new delay on boot. The system just seems to sit for any extra 5 secs or so with a blank screen after switching from grub to start booting. The delay happens before the first line: :: running early hooks (udev) is writte

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 20 June 2012 18:47, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > Looks like a bug, if you create a bug report I'll look into it. Done, it's FS#30384 > That said, I think you want to use 'D' rather than 'd' (check the man > page). Alternatively, you can specify an age in milliseconds, rather than > days... Thank

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 05:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:57 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote Well, SSD's limited number of write cycles is largerly a myth these days [snip] A storage drive should be usable in quasi every way. We aren't talking about an USB stick or DVD RW ;). If you need

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 20 June 2012 18:32, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > On 20 June 2012 18:28, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. >>> My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up d

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jun 20, 2012 6:32 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" wrote: > > On 20 June 2012 18:28, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. > >> My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer c

Re: [arch-general] Note on TDE - gcc 4.7.1 resolves kwrite crash

2012-06-20 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 20 June 2012 12:35, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > >  Just a quick note that update to gcc 4.7.1 resolved an infinite loop > introduced when TDE was built on gcc 4.7.0-x resulting in a kwrite/kate > crash on line-wrap. Confirmed with fresh TDE archroot build on 6/19. TDE > 14.0.0 release upcom

[arch-general] Note on TDE - gcc 4.7.1 resolves kwrite crash

2012-06-20 Thread David C. Rankin
All, Just a quick note that update to gcc 4.7.1 resolved an infinite loop introduced when TDE was built on gcc 4.7.0-x resulting in a kwrite/kate crash on line-wrap. Confirmed with fresh TDE archroot build on 6/19. TDE 14.0.0 release upcoming. Date not set, but expected in next couple of mon

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 20 June 2012 18:28, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" wrote: >> >> Hello, >> before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. >> My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. >> Now I have to do that manually which is

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 20 June 2012 18:24, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský > wrote: >> I dug through the git of initscripts and it seems to be caused by the >> replacement of the original code by the systemd-tmpfiles tool. I've >> just tried to run systemd-tmpfiles manuall

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" wrote: > > Hello, > before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. > My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. > Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. > > I dug through the git of inits

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > I dug through the git of initscripts and it seems to be caused by the > replacement of the original code by the systemd-tmpfiles tool. I've > just tried to run systemd-tmpfiles manually and it seems that it is > not able to do even a simple

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 20 June 2012 18:20, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:05:38 +0200 > Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > >> Hello, >> before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. >> My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. >> Now I have to do that manually

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 20 June 2012 18:15, Klaus wrote: > Lukáš Jirkovský schrieb: >> Hello, >> before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. >> My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. >> Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. >> >> I dug through

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:05:38 +0200 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > Hello, > before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. > My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. > Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. > > I dug through the git

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread A Rojas
Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > Hello, > before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. > My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. > Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. > See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1118239#p11

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus
Lukáš Jirkovský schrieb: > Hello, > before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. > My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. > Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. > > I dug through the git of initscripts and it seems to be c

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Sakalis
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > Hello, > before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. > My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. > Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. > > I dug through the git of i

[arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-20 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
Hello, before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature. My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot. Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying. I dug through the git of initscripts and it seems to be caused by the replacement of the origi

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:20:55 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:57 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote > > Well, SSD's limited number of write cycles is largerly a myth these days > > [snip] > > > > [...] > The way they're handled might be important in a way it's important for > HDDs to

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
> > It'd be nice if you added it to the AUR. > > M > After I roll out this update, that's on my list of stuff to figure out :). I have never created an AUR package, doesn't sound to difficult. Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the pres

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

2012-06-20 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:13:13 +0400, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > > What do you think about ffmpeg-compat package ? I've put it to community-staging and build motion, synfig and openscenegraph packages with it.

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/20/12 at 09:28am, Squall Lionheart wrote: > Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my next > version since it's a huge improvement over the current one with a lot of > very powerful and user friendly features, as well as efficiency > improvements. > It'd be nice if

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
Squall, very nice work going to give this a shot later today on a test box. Thanks for pointing this out. I tried a few things in suggestions to my OP but this seems to be the best so far. Thanks for bringing this back up > > > Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my ne

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:57 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote > Well, SSD's limited number of write cycles is largerly a myth these days > [snip] > A storage drive should be usable in quasi every way. We aren't talking about an USB stick or DVD RW ;). If you need tricks to enlarge the lifetime, than it'

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Squall Lionheart wrote: I wrote a system backup program called "mime" that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called "lsmim

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:36:17 +0200 Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear all, > > My /, /boot and /usr are on a BTRFS /(except /boot on ext2) on a ssd. > I want to add this line in my fstab to avoid too many writings on my ssd : > > *tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0

[arch-general] nfs problems

2012-06-20 Thread Guillermo Leira
Hello! When I installed 3.4.2, I had boot and shutdown problems in two computers (another six went fine), so I downgraded them to back to 3.3.8. I have just upgraded to 3.4.3, and it failed again. Commenting out nfs-common and nfs-server made them work again. Now the systems work fine, but I woul

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
I wrote a system backup program called "mime" that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called "lsmime" which is used to list, restore and view informa

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew Hills
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > *tar -zcf  "./`date +'%D-%H-%M.tgz'`" /var/log This will cause a different problem... maybe you wanted %F instead of %D. (Check "man date".) --Andrew Hills

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I didn't follow this thread, but IIRC I read something about "not to write to often to SSD"? So you take care regarding to noatime etc.? FWIW "Reliability and lifetime SSDs have no moving parts to fail mechanically. Each block of a flash-based SSD can only be erased (and therefore written)

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 02:36 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 20/06/12 22:22, Andrew Hills wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: tar -zcf "./`date +'%d-%b-%y.tgz'`" /var/log This date format will have you cursing yourself if you shut down more than once in the same day. I think he wi

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Allan McRae
On 20/06/12 22:22, Andrew Hills wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Arno Gaboury > wrote: >> tar -zcf "./`date +'%d-%b-%y.tgz'`" /var/log > > This date format will have you cursing yourself if you shut down more > than once in the same day. > I think he will be cursing himself when he r

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew Hills
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > tar -zcf  "./`date +'%d-%b-%y.tgz'`" /var/log This date format will have you cursing yourself if you shut down more than once in the same day. --Andrew Hills

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 11:03 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-06-20 10:36:17 +0200] Arno Gaboury: My /, /boot and /usr are on a BTRFS /(except /boot on ext2) on a ssd. I want to add this line in my fstab to avoid too many writings on my ssd : *tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec

Re: [arch-general] syslinux and grub

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2012 16:22:16 D. R. Evans wrote: > So at this point I'm still left wondering what I'm supposed to do instead of > the grub thing so that the boot information is correctly mirrored on to the > other RAID1 device. > > In other words, what *should* the wiki say instead of having the

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Jan Steffens
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: >> add this in my */etc/rc.local.shutdown*: >> >> |*echo "Copying LOGs..." >> >> now=`date +"%Y%m%d_%Hh%M"` >> mkdir -p /logs_backup/$now >> cp -Rp /var/log/* ~/backup/logs_back

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 11:23 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-06-20 11:08:37 +0200] Arno Gaboury: I fully understand these 3 lines, and thought it was not a complicated way to back up /var/log at shutdown. But as it seems there is much simplier way, I will then investigate. I did not say those three lines

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > add this in my */etc/rc.local.shutdown*: > > |*echo "Copying LOGs..." > > now=`date +"%Y%m%d_%Hh%M"` > mkdir -p /logs_backup/$now > cp -Rp /var/log/* ~/backup/logs_backup/$now/* > > My ~ folder is on another HD. > > Will this scrip

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-06-20 11:08:37 +0200] Arno Gaboury: > I fully understand these 3 lines, and thought it was not a > complicated way to back up /var/log at shutdown. But as it seems > there is much simplier way, I will then investigate. I did not say those three lines were complicated; quite the opposite. My

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

2012-06-20 Thread Sergej Pupykin
What do you think about ffmpeg-compat package ? # $Id$ pkgname=ffmpeg-compat pkgver=20120509 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://ffmpeg.org/"; license=('GPL') depends=(als

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Jesse Jaara
There is a directory syncing daemon in AUR it does exactly what you want. Dir-sync-daemon is the name if I remember correctly.

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear all, > [snip] > TY for advising. Hello Arno Sorry for the offtopic bit, but i have noticed that your threads tend to branch out from some other thread, many times. I believe that you use the reply button on an existing topic an

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/20/2012 11:03 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-06-20 10:36:17 +0200] Arno Gaboury: My /, /boot and /usr are on a BTRFS /(except /boot on ext2) on a ssd. I want to add this line in my fstab to avoid too many writings on my ssd : *tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-06-20 10:36:17 +0200] Arno Gaboury: > My /, /boot and /usr are on a BTRFS /(except /boot on ext2) on a ssd. > I want to add this line in my fstab to avoid too many writings on my ssd : > > *tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0* > > So each time I reboot,

[arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Arno Gaboury
Dear all, My /, /boot and /usr are on a BTRFS /(except /boot on ext2) on a ssd. I want to add this line in my fstab to avoid too many writings on my ssd : *tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0* So each time I reboot, my /var/log will be emptied, which could

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Gour
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:43:58 +0100 Dennis Börm wrote: > we're using > > http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ > > for that purpose I see it's available via AUR, but, afaik, it does not support Arch's pacman due to lack of hook support in Pacman. Can you share some light how do you use etcke