Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 10/09/20 5:11 am, Javier via arch-general wrote: Usually that get fixed by using "--overwrite /usr/sbin". But I find it wrong for tigervnc to own "/usr/sbin", so I think in this case tigervnc is not right. Would this be the case, or it's OK for tigervnc to be the owner and then to overwrit

Re: [arch-general] arch-general list down?

2020-09-05 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 06/09/20 11:24 am, David C. Rankin wrote: I have no posts from arch-general since 8/30. I have tried to post related to a pacman update issue, but the posts are not getting though?? There are three posts from you in September. You can always check the web version. https://lists.archlinux

[arch-general] Does PAM 1.4.0 require rebuilding all application / modules using libpam?

2020-08-20 Thread Amish via arch-general
Hello, I have few packages (eg. pam_geoip, pam_abl) in custom repo which use libpam. Can someone clarify if PAM upgrade to 1.4.0 would require those packages to be rebuilt? I have few systems using those PAM modules and if those modules break after updating and rebooting then I will lose a

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread Amish via arch-general
I am also of opinion that Arch should be neutral and should not promote (or demote) what is not going to help in Arch development. There are contributors from all over the world who may or may not be of the same opinion as moderators or others. This is not about Reddit and not about LGBT righ

Re: [arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio

2020-04-03 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 03/04/20 5:58 pm, Amin Vakil wrote: As it's true for pretty much all update process for pretty much every OS in the world, things can break if the update is interrupted. I meant as other linux distros keep multiple kernel versions, if something happens during kernel update you can always boot

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

2019-11-14 Thread Amish via arch-general
Hello Andy, On 14/11/19 3:05 pm, ProgAndy wrote: Hello Amish, I am not sure but I feel that install hook should now have higher priority so that kernel is copied back to /boot as early as possible instead of after most of the hooks. i.e. say after systemd hooks, may be renamed to 40-mkinitcpio

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

2019-11-13 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 13/11/19 11:22 pm, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Em novembro 13, 2019 14:30 Amish via arch-general escreveu: I would like to report an issue I faced due to this. Not an issue for everyone but can be an issue in a certain special cases. Even so, I would prefer if you made this bug report

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

2019-11-13 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 11/11/19 3:11 am, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: All our official kernels: linux, linux-lts, linux-zen and linux-hardened, do not install the actual kernel to /boot anymore. I would like to report an issue I faced due to this. Not an issue for everyone but c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

2019-11-10 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 11/11/19 3:11 am, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi All, As most of you have noticed already, the kernel packages had some recent changes where they do not install the kernel to /boot, as well as they do not have any kmod [0] nor mkinitcpio hooks anymore. Neither they do in

Re: [arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-20 Thread Amish via arch-general
Hi, On 20/09/19 6:51 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 9/19/19 8:29 PM, Amish via arch-general wrote: Thanks but why would one parse logs to log it back to logs? I'm not sure what this statement means, but there is no "parsing", and the only "logs" a

Re: [arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-19 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 19/09/19 10:44 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On September 19, 2019 1:00:26 PM EDT, Amish via arch-general wrote: those users who use logwatch that they need to take following actions: 1) pacman -Syu 2) cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/logwatch.service.d/local.conf [Service

[arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-19 Thread Amish via arch-general
Hello, Recently logwatch package was updated. The cron file (from cron.daily) was removed and replaced with systemd.timer. But logwatch.timer is not activated automatically, which means the users who use logwatch will stop getting daily "auditing" emails and may not realize this for some days

Re: [arch-general] pambase - creating needed files for apps with normal user auth - pam_unix.so?

2019-02-19 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 20/02/19 12:59 am, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After the pambased defaults change, I thought I had gotten everything fixed, today scanning to server via vsftpd issued: Feb 19 12:19:49 phoinix vsftpd[8652]: pam_warn(ftp:auth): function=[pam_sm_authenticate] flags=0 service=[ftp] termina

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-08 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 09/02/19 12:50 am, David C. Rankin wrote: All, With the latest change to pambase, e.g. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pambase&id=3552aba772e8bebbe754a4d01f2729e291dd2070 if you have services that rely on pam authentication, such as dovecot, etc.

Re: [arch-general] php-pear compromised

2019-01-23 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 24/01/19 9:54 am, Amish wrote: On 24/01/19 2:46 am, ProgAndy wrote: Am 23.01.19 um 22:08 schrieb Andy Pieters: Any of you seen the news about php-pear? There's an AUR package that downloads from pear.php.net so if that was within the last 6 months it could have been the compromised one

Re: [arch-general] php-pear compromised

2019-01-23 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 24/01/19 2:46 am, ProgAndy wrote: Am 23.01.19 um 22:08 schrieb Andy Pieters: Any of you seen the news about php-pear? There's an AUR package that downloads from pear.php.net so if that was within the last 6 months it could have been the compromised one? https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Amish via arch-general
about your proposed changes. Regards, Amish On 09/12/18 8:23 am, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:56:29 +0530, Amish via arch-general wrote: Thats because you have assumed that people will install only Linux. And that too plain Linux. Chainloading e.g. FreeBSD

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 09/12/18 6:50 am, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: On 12/9/18 2:14 AM, Amish via arch-general wrote: Simple is to use a tool in this case. Hand writing a full conf file is no way simple. Are you sure about that? Here's your handwritten 'full conf file'... m

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 09/12/18 6:13 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: Well, yes. In fact, I consider the mere existence of the grub-mkconfig command to be a harsh sin. :p ... It boggles my mind that a distribution that prides itself on: - DIY, - KISS, - understanding how things work, and - the avoidance

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 09/12/18 5:31 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: Could we have handled this better? Yes -- if I were the person who performed that update, I would have added a message echoed in the post_upgrade: "Performing one-time restore of user-generated grub.cfg due to removing it from the pac

Re: [arch-general] bind/named dying after 24-48 hrs. "assertion failure"?

2018-12-07 Thread Amish via arch-general
On 07/12/18 1:57 pm, David C. Rankin wrote: All, Has anyone else encountered a bind 9.13.4-1/named daemon dying with "assertion failure" in the past week. I have encountered the problem twice. Happens to me everyday (morning) from about a week or may be more. Dec 07 07:40:47 amish named[768

[arch-general] GnuCash out-of-date since 1 and half month

2018-11-14 Thread Amish via arch-general
Hello, GnuCash has been flagged out of date since 1 Oct 2018. (new version 3.3) Bug report page says to report such issues to mailing list. So just wanted to report the same. Hope maintainers do look at it. I have built it for myself. It gave build error with current PKGBUILD. But I managed t