Re: [arch-general] list of user/group ids supplied by official packages

2015-01-05 Thread David J. Haines
ug report for the same thing in both Arch & RHEL - RHEL > .spec also creates this user like Arch) but the other two do not. > *shrug* > > -te > > [1] > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com 0xAFB3D16D - F929 270F B7C3 78AE A741 434F A7C6 F264 AFB3 D16C

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-17 Thread David J. Haines
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:30:43AM +0100, Neven Sajko wrote: > On 16 December 2014 at 20:52, David J. Haines wrote: > > gdisk is also capable of placing new partitions at the end of a block of > > empty space without having to do manual calcuation of the start sector. > > I

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-16 Thread David J. Haines
onally find this behavior invaluable. -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com 0xAFB3D16D - F929 270F B7C3 78AE A741 434F A7C6 F264 AFB3 D16C

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-10 Thread David J. Haines
quot;please don't top post." In other words, your responses should be at the bottom of the e-mail so that people can read from the top down and understand what's going on. Good luck! -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com 0xAFB3D16D - F929 270F B7C3 78AE A741 434F A7C6 F264 AFB3 D16C pgp9AUAYTlyYX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

2013-01-24 Thread David J. Haines
t; Please remember that dropping it from [core] makes it in no way any less > available. > > I've no problems with moving vi as long as it doesn't disappear from the > install media. It's useful to have around long enough until you can pacman > -S vim. This does raise the question of whether we should have nano in [core] in the first place. At least vi is referenced by POSIX. -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base

2012-10-19 Thread David J. Haines
ument at > all. > > > [0]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12890 > [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22482 > [2]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22480 IMHO, wpa_supplicant should no more be in base than should linux-atm, brltty, or any of the firmware packages, e.g. ipw2100-fw. In essence, it's a package for the support of certain hardware / network configurations (albeit, widely used ones) that aren't handled directly by the kernel. -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com

Re: [arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

2012-09-14 Thread David J. Haines
-- > > jude > > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > You always want to mount root read-only until such time as the system itself remounts read-write. This is by design. IIRC, it's related to the fact that you can't fsck a disk mounted read-write, thus the "-R" option for fsck. -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

2012-06-12 Thread David J. Haines
: Why is it such a bad thing? > > Answer: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read > > text. > > > > Regarding to the signature, shouldn't it be two dashes + a space? "-- " > > > > -- > > Ralf > > > > > > > > No, we just want you to respond to prior e-mails like I am: at the bottom of the string, not the top. -- David J. Haines djhai...@gmx.com

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread David J. Haines
I stand corrected in my "interim" language. David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 20.01.2012 02:08, schrieb Tavian Barnes: >> IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread David J. Haines
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:53 AM, David J. Haines wrote: > On Jan 20, 2012 2:10 AM, "Florian Pritz" wrote: >> >> On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes >> > wrote: >> >> On 19 Janu

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread David J. Haines
On Jan 20, 2012 2:10 AM, "Florian Pritz" wrote: > > On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes > > wrote: > >> On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: > >>> a funny bug in the Xor

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes wrote: > On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: >> a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical >> access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program. >> Most people use those programs to lock th

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 01/20/2012 01:32 AM, David J. Haines wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin >>> wrote: >>>> c

Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
l/2012-January/024298.html It works on mine as well. Fully updated. David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.1-4 - two i686 lockups after ~ 5 hours of operations. two x86_64 seem OK

2011-11-10 Thread David J. Haines
e >> digging. > > your machine reboots because of a drifting clock?  i don't understand. > > aren't you running ntpd (not openntpd)? < *HINT* *HINT*, if not ;-) > > -- > > C Anthony > My clock is fine, as far as I can tell. David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.1-4 - two i686 lockups after ~ 5 hours of operations. two x86_64 seem OK

2011-11-10 Thread David J. Haines
tebin.com/64QKSJTN > > -- > Regards, > Richard Schütz > I'm getting lockups on an i5 box with Intel graphics running x86_64 while I'm using it. This has been happening while I've been using the computer and has been happening since 3.0.7-1. 3.0.6-2, however, seemed perfectly fine. David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux Cheat Cube (english)

2011-10-05 Thread David J. Haines
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Merijn wrote: > Of this version (http://dev.archlinux.org/~angvp/cheat-cube-en.svg) the blue > arrows are still a bit off, we will fix that right? And perhaps even change > */etc/rc.d/daemon* *start/stop/restart* to *rc.d start/stop/restart*. If the > initscripts is

Re: [arch-general] SSH Tunnel doubts

2011-07-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > El 19/07/11 09:26, David J. Haines dijo: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase >wrote: > > > Your contribution to Arch World Domination Enterprises has been > received > > > and a comp

Re: [arch-general] SSH Tunnel doubts

2011-07-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07/19/2011 01:49 PM, David J. Haines wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli >> wrote: >> >> Em 18-07-2011 18:14, Sven-Hendrik Haase escreveu: >>> >>>

Re: [arch-general] SSH Tunnel doubts

2011-07-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: > Em 18-07-2011 18:14, Sven-Hendrik Haase escreveu: > > On 07/18/2011 10:03 PM, David J. Haines wrote: >> >>> And yet, it doesn't touch on forwarding of anything other than X11 data. >>> >&

Re: [arch-general] SSH Tunnel doubts

2011-07-18 Thread David J. Haines
8.1.100:2000 (I didn't use the port 22 from your example, as that would imply that ssh wasn't running there, so you'd need to use -p and other messiness). Hope this helps, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. < jeffrey.pa...@gmai