Re: [arch-general] systemd fsck

itions cannot be checked while mounted read-write and the usual way of doing this for the root partition has been to add "ro" to the kernel command line, and to remount the root partition read-write after checking it. (Though running the check from initramfs might be an even better method, Arch here has an option for that.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap + gmail : don't sync anymore

better, remove it from crontab and set "idlefolders = ['INBOX']". -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Softlink /media

;s certainly more convenient – but there's still tab-completion, so it's not too bad now. AFAIK, the change was made for security/privacy reasons, though. Fedora is trying to have multi-seat working transparently, and I think they don't want user A to see user B's mounted disks. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

m a file will work, because the pre-resume kernel has to mount the filesystem in order to read from the hiberfile, but the filesystem is already mounted by the hibernated kernel... -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

1 GB for swsusp. (A large part of RAM is usually used by cache, which can be just freed before hibernating.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Build pacman statically

sions of grandeur." I'm fine with the minimalism of plan9, but I'd much rather have my system free from arguments ad hominem, even if I'm not sure if the former quote was serious or not. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] upower.service stop working

core dumps are not stored by default, and they would be useless without debug symbols anyway. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] pacman's default download manager?

in environment (lowercase – not $HTTP_PROXY). -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] locale.conf

o set 12 identical variables. LC_MESSAGES, as well as other LC_* variables, should have the same effect everywhere. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Kwpolska wrote: > 1. DO NOT TOP POST. > 2. There is NO voice chat on IRC. Get something else. > 3. This is OT. I believe discussions regarding top-posting vs bottom-posting are OT here. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel

ort it (e.g. KVIrc), but it's always implemented client-side, and it usually works only between two users... -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] locale.conf

uage anyway], and the C collation would put all accented letters after "Z", which is ... not very useful. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] locale.conf

uses US-ASCII, not UTF-8 (although Debian has "C.UTF-8"). So I would /not/ recommend setting "C" as $LANG. (Or as anything else, except $LC_COLLATE). -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

affecting network printers using IPP in any case anyway. That's right, it only affects printer discovery. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

DNS-SD to function – Avahi clients do not use the system's resolver when performing service discovery, but contact the daemon directly. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

e part of IPv6, but sometimes breaks in IPv4). -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

"server" machine is linux but > not arch and still running cups version <1.6 and is not currently > running avahi So install Avahi? If I remember correctly, older CUPS versions support both CUPS and DNS-SD browsing. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Suspend to ram and uresume hook for systemd

#x27;t be looking for for libgcrypt, since it is already part of the hook. If it prints out the libgcrypt version, it doesn't mean "looking for". - The uresume hook needs libgcrypt not because of volumes, but because s2disk can be configured to encrypt the hibernation image. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd

et (systemd-git does). -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Suspend to ram and uresume hook for systemd

t won't come back up without a complete restart, fsck > volumes that were not cleanly unmounted, etc. Since this is a desktop, > I really don't need the suspend option, it's just nice to save a > little electricity. Does `s2ram` still work? -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Linux kernels start with 3.2.1 not 3.2.0 Technically 3.2 is 3.2.0. Not that OS versioning is related to this discussion... -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:31 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: >> I prefer `systemctl mask` and pacman's NoExtract, but I suppose that's >> the same thing. > > hrm, i thought it was doing it in post_install bu

Re: [arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:59 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am 29.07.2012 00:56, schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas: >>> Try enabling getty@tty1.service: >> >> Unfortunately this didn't wo

Re: [arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 29.07.2012 00:20, schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas: >> tty0? How exactly do you switch to it? > > Ctrl+Alt+F1. That's tty1. Try enabling getty@tty1.service: ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service

Re: [arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd

e initrd, but I'm not sure. tty0? How exactly do you switch to it? One cannot have a console on /dev/tty0, sine it's not a real tty but only a pointer to the currently activated console. [That's what console(4) says anyway.] So I don't know how it could have worked in the first place. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

#x27;s "KillSignal", not "Kill-Signal". -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] systemd and pm-utils

these suspend/resume scripts or does it > have its own method? It uses /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/. $1 = "pre" | "post" $2 = "suspend" | "hibernate" -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Joining mp3's --> Floating point exceptionffmpeg

f them. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

eceiving a DHCP lease), and systemd will interpret this as a signal that the service has now started, without having to add systemd-specific sd_notify(). -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] BIND 9 problem

mains, just delete them completely... (But for "ns1", you must use the real public address of the server.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] BIND 9 problem

much harder to answer such questions when I cannot look at the real information with `dig` and such. (You forgot to change line 63, though.) Also, using "notify no" is a poor idea – makes DNS updates a bit slower. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

gh for /one/ unit to have Before or After. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Yes, I don't like those Windoze like ini files of systemd, too. I honestly don't know if this is serious. What is the difference between a "key=value" rc.conf and a "key=value" ini file of systemd? -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Arch's move to systemd integration

TFS, Reiserfs), sufficiently small files can be stored in the inode itself, taking up zero blocks. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] pm-hibernate not working since update to 3.4.5-1-ARCH

gt; that disks haven't been unmounted orderly, recovers journal and I am > back to a fresh booted system then. I just have to ask: do you still have the "resume" hook and the related option in kernel command line? I remember this happening when I accidentally lost mine a few weeks earlier. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Kernel verbosity

line parameter (quiet), is it using a patch for that > or something? It's specified in kernel configuration at compile time: CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL=4 -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] must be root to ping?

lity` will try to show you "user.security.capability". Use `getfattr` for the rest: $ getfattr -d -m "-" ping # file: ping security.capability=0sAQAAAgAgAAA= See attr(5) for xattr namespaces. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] must be root to ping?

e error might be caused by something else, too. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] must be root to ping?

pt[2]. [0]: http://lwn.net/Articles/420799/ [1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=c319b4d7 [2]: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/iputils.install?h=packages/iputils -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

nfigured hash is only necessary for creating new hashes in `password`. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??

directories, can be done using `debugfs` – Linux just disallows that in link() currently. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??

mlinks to "usr/lib". If they are directories, fix that. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

ocalhost" anyway. Use nss-myhostname. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] How to make wicd work under systemd?

mplain – you just lose some of the advantages of systemd if you run all your daemons like that. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] How to make wicd work under systemd?

ed to systemd how exactly? > I guess you can fall back to rc anyway? The initscripts-systemd package will add support for both rc.local and individual rc.d scripts. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

directory > > Any suggestions how I can fix it? `locale-gen` should help. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] How to make wicd work under systemd?

...In other words, make it exactly like the "wicd.service" unit that Arch already ships in extra/wicd. Why did you write your own unit in the first place? `systemctl enable wicd.service` should be sufficient. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] How to make wicd work under systemd?

ese are not needed anymore. > [Install] > WantedBy=network.target I think multi-user.target is traditional here... Don't forget to `systemctl enable` your unit, and verify it with `systemctl start` of course. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 in testing killed my system.

grade, `pacman -S --asdeps lib32-glibc` to reinstall. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] iPod HOWTO?

ount /dev/disk/by-label/iPod /media/iPod -o uid=$UID In any case, the commands are exactly the same as with a generic USB pendrive. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

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

mp 1777 root root - -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

in for a while using BIND, NSD, or MaraDNS until you can remember the SOA record fields at five in the morning, *then* set up MySQL. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > what are forwaders? A feature where you configure a DNS server to forward certain queries to another server instead of replying by itself. (Like a proxy.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

technically "DNS" means Domain Name *System*, not "Server".] -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

(Vim) more convenient than a web UI. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

l? i've read the wiki a lot of > times... If you could please ask something more specific... -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Different encoding on tty's and X, solution (or workaround?)

<http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8@nl.linux.org/msg01694.html> for an explanation. The `tree` tool is one unfortunate exception. I never get around to filing a bug report about it. Maybe initscripts and/or your shellrc also have a broken test for ".utf-8"? -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Anyone running hylafx with systemd - modem init/respawn OK?

the following are strictly necessary, but they ; are used by existing getty units. UtmpIdentifier=%I TTYPath=/dev/%I TTYReset=yes TTYVHangup=yes (Note: Untested. I don't actually have the hardware.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Start a daemon, show a syntax error

he $mounts array to be built inside the loop and used outside it. (Play around with `while read; do echo $$ $BASHPID; done` in both forms to see the primary difference.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

On 2011-11-21 23:36, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > So how is this stuff controlled these days? Those funky desktop files? > gconf? dconf? Something else entirely? The default programs are kept in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, according to fd.o "MIME Actions spec".

Re: [arch-general] Dynamic Titles in urxvt (bash) Without Side Effects?

On 2011-11-16 15:51, Bastien Dejean wrote: Hey, I've added the following lines to my .bashrc: case "$TERM" in rxvt*|xterm*) set -o functrace trap '[ -z "$BASH_SOURCE" ]&& printf "%b" "\e]0;$BASH_COMMAND\a"' DEBUG>& /dev/null ;; esac

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

On 2011-10-24 17:42, Dwight Schauer wrote: This morning I saw "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." in my boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update. What is this, bait and switch? I've been running Linux and BSD systems since 1996 and typically always have /usr in a separate partition (as