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

2014-05-09 Thread Maciej Puzio
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Savyasachee Jha wrote: > They can, do refer to > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/cron_functionality where you > can find some examples of the same. Thank you for the link, it is quite interesting. A rather verbose solution (in sheer number of files),

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-05-09 08:26:59 -0700] Kyle Terrien: > In ntp-4.2.7, there is a file called .placeholder. I know, I put it there. :) Anyhow I'm glad you diagnosed your problem. -- Gaetan pgp2Z8jsm8yHj.pgp Description: PGP signature

[arch-general] archlinux kernel 3.14.2-1 Broadcom BCM4312 firmware-files not found

2014-05-09 Thread Andreas Adelmann
Hello List, my Netbook: Packard Bell DOT M Intel Z520 1.33G 1GB RAM Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) arch 32-bit fully updated. I'm using b43-firmware from AUR. uname -a: Linux laptop 3.14.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon 14 April 21:01:08 CEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux With Kernel 3.13.8-1 an

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread luc . linux
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:43:11PM -0400, Carl Schaefer wrote: > it appears that getaddrinfo() rescans /etc/hosts in full for each > lookup. That's not obviously related to the problem you're having with > ntpd, but it does seem that huge ad-blocking host files are horribly > inefficient. Does an

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Carl Schaefer
On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 08:47 -0700, Kyle Terrien wrote: > I was using an old hpHosts /etc/hosts file (to block ads). I reverted it > to the stock /etc/hosts file in the package filesystem, and ntp-4.2.7 > runs without thrashing. > > I'm re-enabling Adblock Plus for now--until I get around to creati

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 05/08/2014 06:34 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > Hi fellow Archers, > > I seem to be having trouble with ntpd.service since the 4.2.7 upgrade. I > can't get ntpd to run as the ntp user. Well, I feel dumb. After adding a couple more -d flags to ntpd, I got something about unable to lookup hostnames.

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 05/08/2014 11:00 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2014-05-08 18:34:54 -0700] Kyle Terrien: >> I took out the "-u ntp:ntp" parameter (so ntp runs as root), and these >> errors disappeared. Also, ntpq -p returns the NTP servers I'm >> synchronized with. So, I'm pretty sure the issue is permissions rela

Re: [arch-general] Cannot update archlinux

2014-05-09 Thread Maykel Franco
2014-05-09 12:20 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning : > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Maykel Franco wrote: >> 2014-05-07 2:39 GMT+02:00 Doug Newgard : >>> On 2014-05-06 15:12, Marcel Korpel wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Maykel Franco wrote: > > Cannot found any package

Re: [arch-general] Cannot update archlinux

2014-05-09 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Maykel Franco wrote: > 2014-05-07 2:39 GMT+02:00 Doug Newgard : >> On 2014-05-06 15:12, Marcel Korpel wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Maykel Franco >>> wrote: Cannot found any package called haskell-mmap: LANG=C sudo pacman -Ss

Re: [arch-general] Cannot update archlinux

2014-05-09 Thread Maykel Franco
2014-05-07 2:39 GMT+02:00 Doug Newgard : > On 2014-05-06 15:12, Marcel Korpel wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Maykel Franco >> wrote: >>> >>> Cannot found any package called haskell-mmap: >>> >>> LANG=C sudo pacman -Ss haskell-mmap >> >> >> It's in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/