Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Allison
I would have thought that this only makes sense in the context of a "point-in-time release". i.e. you have a server which isn't updated as regularly as your desktop. The onus then is on the user to ensure that the versions of packages they are using are "safe". I don't see this as a problem with

[arch-general] rsyncd pid file already exists

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
Hi, rsync when run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/rsyncd writes it's own pid file to /var/run/rsyncd.pid this conflicts with the start-stop script which also writes the pid file. I couldn't get rsync to start as a daemon after upgrading yesterday, without commenting out the line in the start-stop scr

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
On 11 March 2010 10:30, Chris Allison wrote: > > > On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison > wrote: >> >> Morning, >> >> Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql >> database (whether local or over the network) stopped being

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison wrote: > Morning, > > Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql > database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. > I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql con

[arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
find what has changed. Any ideas where the change may have happened. thanks Chris Allison -- Calling the unnamed register the unnamed register really does nothing but negate the name the unnamed register and render the unnamed register useless as a name, thus the unnamed register is named the

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Allison
ooh does Gentoo suck, that hasn't happened to me for ages 2009/4/1 M Rawash : > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:28 +0200, Thomas Bohn wrote: >> On Wed, April 1, 2009 10:09, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: >> >> > This was posted in march.   And it's discussed on the developer mailing >> > list and voted for.  Pe