Re: [arch-general] Update problems

2015-09-02 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sep 2, 2015 9:29 AM, "edson duarte" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > hi! > > pacman reports that the repositories are up to date for a couple of > weeks now with no errors or warnings and this had never happened, i've > tried looking in the forums and the news on

Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot (OT)

2012-10-02 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Oct 2, 2012 7:15 PM, "nailz" wrote: > > On 3 October 2012 00:18, Your Real Name wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:29:38PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > On 01/10/12 20:23, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:49 AM, gt wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:49:05AM

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-29 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sep 29, 2012 10:26 PM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:53 AM, <1007...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ...sometimes I want to contact the > > devs to bring something up or ask a question on it. > > There's a bug tracker where you can directly contact maintainers, for > bugs/feature

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Aug 16, 2012 10:04 PM, "Justin Strickland" wrote: > > A better solution would be for you to reinstall with a clean pure install, > then install systemd, and see if you run into the same solution which I bet > you won't, I'm calling pebkac and ID-107 until you've used systemd on a > pure instal

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > There has been much ado on the arch-general mailing list about the move to > systemd. I participated in part of it, but like others finally tired of > "seeing a dead horse kicked" over and over and over. So much so that the > last dev who real

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto < denisfalqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Felipe Contreras > >> wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, phani wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:47:12 +0530, Calvin Morrison < > mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do polls or >> statistical information gathering in order to better server their >> customers. >>

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Øyvind Heggstad wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:59:24 +0200 > Jérôme Bartand wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Yesterday I read on Phoronix that Arch devs are planning to switch to > > SystemD, but many users are unhappy with this move. You can see a lot > > of controver

Re: [arch-general] OT: "Major distributions" (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

2012-08-14 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Aug 14, 2012 6:52 PM, "Leon Feng" wrote: > > 2012/8/15 Thomas Bächler : > > Am 14.08.2012 18:19, schrieb Brandon Watkins: > >> Systemd isn't going anywhere anytime soon, its going to be adopted by RHEL > >> (which means it would also be adopted by RHEL derivatives like CentOS), and > >> its bei

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

2012-07-28 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: > As far as I can tell from the systemd blog and people's reactions > here, the only advantages systemd offers are: > - Splitting the configuration files, which increases the robustness of > the configuration files > - Daemon supervision >

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

2012-07-26 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Mike wrote: > On 26/07/12 16:35, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >> The 26/07/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: >>> >>> By the way ... >>> ... is there the need to improve something that already works >>> >>

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

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 22.07.2012 22:45, schrieb David C. Rankin: > > I prefer a well commented rc.conf config file to virtually all of the > other > > sysv and variations I've seen. A single file, well laid out and easily > set up > > with reasonable

Re: [arch-general] Install Scripts

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 07/22/2012 11:35 PM, Nicholas MIller wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:30 PM, v01...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > >> Why don't you want to use `pacman -Ss` for a list of available packages? > >> &g

Re: [arch-general] Install Scripts

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
an arguement for what you are searching for. I usually remove acouple things from base such as Nano and wpa_supplicant ( desktop is hardwired) which with aif was quite simple since it showed you everything. > 2012/7/22 Nicholas MIller > > > where you could browse the > &g

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

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:52:49PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > > I wonder why everyone thinks that Archlinux is about a single config > file... > > It is the same myth as "Arch is faster than distro XYZ" or the "simple > BSD > > init". >

[arch-general] Install Scripts

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
I just looked over the install script wiki page, and was curious if there was any plan on adding something similiar to AIF where you could browse the avalible packages, I know for me at least during install I may know what i need to install but don't think about it until i read it.

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

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 22.07.2012 21:11, schrieb Myra Nelson: > > On my system rc.conf is 716 B. The three files > > (hostname 8 B, vconsole.conf 47 B, and locale.conf 30 B) take up less > > space. Granted at the moment it's more but that will be offset

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

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > I've followed this discussion closely and, as can be seen in one of > the posts below, I initially objected to it. I had previously tried > systemd with little success. Next I carefully re-read all the > objections, complaints, rants, raves, e

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

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Nicholas MIller > wrote: > > I'm also curious how the people who work on initscript believe systemd is > > superior. > > I think it's a consensus! Ta

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

2012-07-22 Thread Nicholas MIller
I will admit I have yet to try systemd, however the current init/rc.conf was a major reason for me coming to archlinux. I found the ease of not having to think about where a lot of configuration files was quite KISS. I'm also curious how the people who work on initscript believe systemd is superi

Re: [arch-general] mpd, ncmpcpp

2012-07-10 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Jul 10, 2012 9:47 AM, "Arno Gaboury" wrote: > > On 07/10/2012 04:42 PM, Kwpolska wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: >>> >>> On 07/10/2012 04:19 PM, gt wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:47:48PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > Dear list > >

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Nicholas MIller
On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, "Stephen E. Baker" wrote: > > On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: >>> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate >>> greeter process thus the graphical interface

Re: [arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-25 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Apr 25, 2012 12:57 PM, "Leonid Isaev" wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:19 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > in the last months there have been many discussions about init systems, > > especially systemd. The current state seems to make no one really happy > > - the curr

Re: [arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-25 Thread Nicholas MIller
sounds better than systemd to me On Apr 25, 2012 9:03 AM, "Patrick Lauer" wrote: > > Greetings, > > in the last months there have been many discussions about init systems, > especially systemd. The current state seems to make no one really happy > - the current Arch Linux init system is a bit min

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Apr 4, 2012 5:17 PM, "Nicholas MIller" wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:10:12 -0400 > > Kaiting Chen wrote: > > > > > Yeah run each service as an unprivileged user and you sho

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:10:12 -0400 > Kaiting Chen wrote: > > > Yeah run each service as an unprivileged user and you should be fine. If > > security is very critical than run something like SELinux or a similar RBAC > > system. > > If you do

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Apr 3, 2012 3:59 PM, "Kaiting Chen" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Nicholas MIller wrote: > > > hello > > > > I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I > > am looking to add a mailserver as well as an

[arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas MIller
hello I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't know if I should be using a separate vmachine for each service. I am more concerned about security than resource use. however the publicly r

[arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas MIller
hello I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't know if I should be using a separate vmachine for each service. I am more concerned about security than resource use. however the publicly r

Re: [arch-general] [mirrorlist] Remove ftp mirrors from the default list

2012-02-13 Thread Nicholas MIller
Did I miss an announcement? On Feb 14, 2012 11:06 AM, "Abdul Halim Mat Ali" wrote: I don't find download small files is slow especially when the mirror is at your country. Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that one mirror using FTP. Arch-devs. Kindly do not delet

Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-13 Thread Nicholas MIller
remove the # from the startof the line you want to use On Dec 14, 2011 8:41 AM, "Grant McDuling" wrote: Hi, I am busy installing Arch core and am stuck at configuring the locale-gen part of the process. I am asked to uncomment the locales I need. Does this mean to delete them? There is a

Re: [arch-general] replacement for clyde

2011-08-19 Thread Nicholas MIller
I use yaourt without any problems. Used Clyde prior. And I don't notice any major differences On Aug 19, 2011 7:02 PM, "Karol Babioch" wrote: Hi, Am 19.08.2011 08:49, schrieb Gour-Gadadhara Dasa: > Before clyde I used yaourt (which now has C-back end, afaik), tried paktahn > (which has some