Re: [arch-general] dmraid wiki wrong on chroot proceedure??

2010-01-17 Thread RedShift
On 01/17/10 09:54, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I was helping someone on installing grub and I noticed the following on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake_RAID under "Install Grub" that does not look correct: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # mount -t proc none /m

[arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-03 Thread RedShift
Hi all Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than apache and preferably even smaller than lighttpd. It doesn't need a whole lot of features, it only needs to be able to execute CGI scripts.

[arch-general] A universal Operating System API - why don't we have it?

2009-12-18 Thread RedShift
Hi all It dawned on my that lots of industries have standards and companies generally keep to them. For example slabs of aluminium have standard sizes, building materials have well defined specifications, or take electrical components: there's a huge list of standardized components. You can e

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-02 Thread RedShift
David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, This is really strange. Sound used to work on my laptop, now it is just -- gone. The hardware hasn't changed (obviously): David Just an observation I'm making here, when I sift through the e-mail archives of the Arch e-mailinglist about every 7th or 8th post

Re: [arch-general] ftp.archlinux.org rate limiting

2009-11-23 Thread RedShift
Phillip Smith wrote: *anon_max_rate* The maximum data transfer rate permitted, in bytes per second, for anonymous clients. Good luck! Ah, I didn't think about doing it in the daemon... That would definitely be easiest, I think I'll do it this way! :) You don't need tc to do traffic s

Re: [arch-general] ftp.archlinux.org rate limiting

2009-11-22 Thread RedShift
Phillip Smith wrote: Hi all, Could someone share the details of how the 50kbps rate-limit is implemented on ftp.archlinux.org? I know Google gives me plenty of results for rate-limiting with iptables and tc but I've never had much success with tc, and the ftp.archlinux.org rate-limiting seems t

Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

2009-11-20 Thread RedShift
setup in combination with ArchLinux. [1] http://pden.zotac.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=175&category_id=15&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1 Best regards, Glenn RedShift wrote: Hi list Somehow I got it into my head that I wa

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread RedShift
Caleb Cushing wrote: so here's the problem I've discovered http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-kdm.html < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's and arch's developers responses are less than satisfactory. This is a security bug

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread RedShift
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:01 AM, wrote: Conclusion: Yeah, great, install xorg for a minimal graphical desktop, what you get is console-kit, for a minor feature in a monster DE. When will "Desktop" people start to see that they are being intrusive? They live in their own sm

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread RedShift
Rafa Griman wrote: (note, lots of things cut) I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very sluggish and incomplete. I can't enable the desktop effects because that makes things even slower. I'm doing this on a fairly decent setup, an AMD Sempron 2 Ghz with an nVid

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread RedShift
Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: A general rule in life is that nothing is ever free. Perhaps a bold remark to use in an open-source mailing list, but cost doesn't have to be defined by money. We simply pay for using Linux by coping with slightly lower performance in some (certainly not all) areas of

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread RedShift
Jozsef wrote: I guess you are right about everything. As a desktop Windows is better than KDE. If desktop is all that is matter for you then you should go for it :) By the way Alt+F2 is something I like in KDE4.3.2 for example. What about you? Is there anything you like in KDE4.3? I think i

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread RedShift
Allan McRae wrote: RedShift wrote: This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post my story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the technical details behind it. Keep that in mind. So you posted in both the forums and here

[arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread RedShift
This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post my story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the technical details behind it. Keep that in mind. I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very sluggish and incomple

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread RedShift
Sergej Pupykin wrote: Hi, I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I want to know reason why we disable /srv in packages? (Did I skip something?) **cut** >> /srv a

[arch-general] Request for hpacucli output from people running HP Smart Array controllers

2009-09-05 Thread RedShift
Hello all I'm gathering the output of the hpacucli program from as much configurations as possible. If you can find some free time for me, can you send me the output of: hpacucli ctrl all show detail hpacucli ctrl slot=1 show config hpacucli ctrl slot=1 array all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 arr

Re: [arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-27 Thread RedShift
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I'm looking for a way to adjust the font size scaling (no not the control center font size) so all the fonts in my kde4 desktop look right. Basically, in Arch kde4 on my laptop, all fonts look 1pt too big. Case in point, on suse, I have all my desktop

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread RedShift
Andreas Radke wrote: Today I've added a 2nd kernel to our svn called "kernel26-lts". It should help to make you less caring about kernel updates. The intention is to 1) have a 2nd choice for the kernel pkg that suits better in certain situations and 2) it can be a fallback when a reboot aft

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread RedShift
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I have been chasing an issue on Arch having to do with the 8800GT in it. A couple of weeks ago there was a driver update from Nvidia that has caused the fans on my video card to really take off. With all drivers before that there wasn't a noise issue. The bo

Re: [arch-general] The vsftpd only starts at the second attempt

2009-08-03 Thread RedShift
Lucas Salies Brum wrote: (r...@abraham ~):# ps -A | grep vsftpd (r...@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start :: Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon [FAIL] (r...@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd stop :: Stopping vsftpd FTP Daemon [DONE] (r...@abraham ~):# /etc/rc

Re: [arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?

2009-07-29 Thread RedShift
Fredrik Eriksson wrote: Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository t

Re: [arch-general] PCI modems

2009-07-23 Thread RedShift
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: RedShift wrote: Hi all, I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kerne

[arch-general] PCI modems

2009-07-23 Thread RedShift
Hi all, I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver). Does anyo

Re: [arch-general] Kompare

2009-06-27 Thread RedShift
richard terry wrote: Still using kde3 and don't seem to have kompare on my disk. Not in the Archlinux or AUR packages, can one still get a kde3 package for arch? Regards Richard [gl...@polaris ~]$ pacman -Qo /opt/kde/bin/kompare /opt/kde/bin/kompare is owned by kdemod3-kdesdk-kompare 3.5.

Re: [arch-general] Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-05 Thread RedShift
Magnus Therning wrote: Any good suggestions for a light-weight SMTP server? All email goes off-box to my ISP for remote delivery, I don't require any local delivery. Things like exim/sendmail/postfix feels like overkill. It would even be enough if all that's available is something like an /

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread RedShift
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: Hi, Many package manage user/groups in many differents ways. (no much problem here) Many do things like: @ when installed 1) check if not user foo exists then create it 2) check if not group foo exists then create it @when removed 1) remove the user foo (without c

Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

2009-05-11 Thread RedShift
Marq Schneider wrote: * Motherboard: Asus P5N7A-VM http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8YiUFvK51IergAqY&templete=2 + Powerful on-board graphics (nVidia 9300) + Supports 16 GB of RAM + eSATA port + Optical audio output + HDMI, DVI and VGA video output + Gigabit ethernet + Solid caps - nVidia o

Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

2009-05-04 Thread RedShift
Sun, 03 May 2009 21:33:14 +0200 From: RedShift Subject: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer To: General Discusson about Arch Linux Message-ID: <49fdf17a.8040...@pandora.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed * Motherboard: Asus P5N7A-

[arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

2009-05-03 Thread RedShift
Hi list Somehow I got it into my head that I want a home theater PC. I'm growing tired of having to watch television and movies on my computer's 17" LCD screen. At the shop I used to work at, once in a while we'd build a media center computer, but the concept never really took off here (Belgi

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

2009-04-01 Thread RedShift
Rafa Grimán wrote: For x86 based models, I guess we'll have to switch for the time being to another distro, which IMHO isn't too much of an issue. Sooner or later we'll have to switch over to x86-64 based systems since x86 is used on old hardware: hard to get replacements, doesn't scale, less

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

2009-04-01 Thread RedShift
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. Personally I also agree they made a good choice. Okay, what is the alternative? Especially if you don't want end up with Debian-

[arch-general] Computer blocking due to kernel <-> userspace incompatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread RedShift
Hello list Is it possible a computer gets stuck (not responding to keyboard, the only way to bring it back alive is a hard reset) because of a incompatibility between the kernel and userspace? The cursor is still flickering though, that is what leads me to believe it's software crash, not a h

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

2009-03-30 Thread RedShift
Agus Setiawan wrote: -- Regards, Agus Setiawan http://mysetiawan.net Censorship by the governments? Conspiracy theories please. Glenn

Re: [arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)

2009-03-28 Thread RedShift
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:08 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files) test: /test exists in filesystem I think it has to do something with this: [...@server ~]$ pacman -Qo

Re: [arch-general] OpenOffice.org on Acer Aspire One

2009-03-09 Thread RedShift
solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: I'm trying to use OpenOffice.org on my Acer Aspire One. OpenOffice.org is known to behave badly on Acer hardware. bad luck for you. try it on another hardware. Lol? @op: try install the bitstream TTF fonts. Glenn

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mailman hiccup

2009-03-03 Thread RedShift
Geoffroy Carrier wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:10, RedShift wrote: I've been working on my own mailing list manager, it's completely written in PHP and uses SQL as a backend, but at this point a bit specific to our setup. Because our company is all about open source I intend on

Re: [arch-general] arch way for ip aliasing

2009-02-21 Thread RedShift
Adam Stokes wrote: Does one exist or are we still putting them in rc.local? Thanks Use your brains next time, it took me exactly 1 second to come up with this. In rc.conf: eth0="eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" eth0_1="eth0:1 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread RedShift
Preston C. wrote: I think that this is a simple question. How do I mount an external hard drive before I log into my desktop? Thanks You have been asking all these newbie questions while these have been widely covered by The Internets. I suggest you use an Internet Search Machine like googl

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread RedShift
Damjan Georgievski wrote: I find it pretty frustrating that once bugs are closed in http://bugs.archlinux.org/ you can no longer add comments. The only option you have is request re-opening of the bug, which, I guess, would then frustrate the maintainer who closed the bug. Adding comments to alr

Re: [arch-general] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons

2009-02-14 Thread RedShift
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: Hi people! I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for these directories at rc.sysinit step. In my cas

Re: [arch-general] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons

2009-02-12 Thread RedShift
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: Hi people! I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for these directories at rc.sysinit step. In my cas

Re: [arch-general] HTML email will be rejected

2009-02-11 Thread RedShift
Aaron Griffin wrote: Hello all, I am writing to inform you that I have changed all the Arch lists to reject HTML formatted email. Please send messages in plain text only. Note: This is true of all lists, but I am only sending this message to the higher trafficked lists. Cheers, Aaron Good r

Re: [arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim

2009-02-11 Thread RedShift
Avramucz Péter wrote: Hi! What would you say to a wodim -> cdrecord transition? I have a bug here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13181 . And Joerg Schilling wrote me, that cdrecord is still developed. So, what do you say? What is there to say? You're free to install any software you like on

Re: [arch-general] smbmount: command not found

2009-02-08 Thread RedShift
Strika wrote: Greetings to all, When i try to mount a remote Windows share with smbmount i have this error: smbmount: command not found. yaourt -Qi samba Name : samba Version: 3.2.7-1 URL: http://www.samba.org Licenses : GPL3 Groups : None Provi

Re: [arch-general] Moonlight 1.0

2009-01-22 Thread RedShift
Amanai wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:57:26 -0800, RedShift wrote: Amanai wrote: The final Version from Moonlight 1.0 released on January 20th. Will this be avaible in the Archlinux repo's extra? http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ Moonlight is an open source implementation of Micr

Re: [arch-general] Moonlight 1.0

2009-01-22 Thread RedShift
Amanai wrote: The final Version from Moonlight 1.0 released on January 20th. Will this be avaible in the Archlinux repo's extra? http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems. It's avaible for 32/64 bit! Release Notes

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread RedShift
Hello David Rosenstrauch wrote: In recent days, dovecot's "imap" processes keep getting stuck. Each time I check my server there's a bunch of "imap" processes (sometimes 2 of them, sometimes 4, sometimes 6) that are using all of the box's CPU. And worse, there's no way to kill the processes ei

Re: [arch-general] Kernel PKGBUILD proposition: Ease custom kernel compilation.

2008-12-08 Thread RedShift
Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: Hi all! * lots of text here * Whoah, that PKGBUILD is HUGE. Take a look at mine, which I use for my custom configs. It doesn't do one thing though, and that's install the kernel headers. You need those if you want to compile out-of-tree modules like nvidia. I'm n

Re: [arch-general] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier!

2008-12-05 Thread RedShift
Geoffroy Carrier wrote: Many thanks to all of you. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 18:12, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welcome aboard, Geoffroy! Is it pronounced JEFF-roy, jeff-ROY or neither? On this particular concern, let me give you a few of my nicknames to avoid you this issue: - G

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Grub2

2008-12-04 Thread RedShift
Ronald van Haren wrote: Hi all, Grub2 is now in my staging dir for both architectures. I'll move it into extra shortly. Things to know: - config file changed to /boot/grub/grub.cfg - config syntax changed a bit - most information can be found on the grub2 archwiki page [1] If you have any expe

Re: [arch-general] remove HWD from extra and wiki!

2008-12-03 Thread RedShift
Pierre Chapuis wrote: Le Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:10:34 +0100, Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Well, it does not produce working xorg.conf files. However: X -configure should be prefered; so there is no need for hwd (anymore). It doesn't provide working xorg.conf files only since xorg

Re: [arch-general] x hotplugging probs

2008-12-01 Thread RedShift
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Held schrieb: David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ah - figured it out: evdev kernel module wasn't being automatically loaded in my rc.conf. The X server runs as root, so it should be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper 1.02.29-1 & lvm2 2.02.43-1

2008-11-16 Thread RedShift
Tim Gelter wrote: Thomas Bächler wrote: Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: I'm a user, not a dev, running on i686. I couldn't find a definition of a 'signoff', but I updated abs, built the 2 new packages, they compiled fine, i installed them, rebooted my system and everything came up fine (dm_crypt+lvm

Re: [arch-general] Weird upgrade problem ??

2008-11-15 Thread RedShift
Read the news Niels Rasmussen wrote: Hi all I've just installed Arch linux again after 9 month with Ubuntu and several other distros (yeah, they all come back! :-)) I've followed "The Beginners Guide" and did everything as described. Anyway, I've got the system up and running, and now writi

Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site

2008-11-14 Thread RedShift
Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm You cost me 5 minutes of my productivity, I'm invoicing you for that! ;-) Glenn

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: first results

2008-11-09 Thread RedShift
Pierre Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I think you all are interested in the result of Allan's crazy idea to get some stats about package usage. I spent some/alot time this weekend to present you some stats. At first: I played a bit with gettext and some usefull pages are available in German and Eng

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Election Night

2008-11-05 Thread RedShift
Aaron "Hussein" Griffin wrote: I'm assuming it will be quiet around here tonight. Many of us will be glued to our TVs/radios/internet waiting for election results. So no one break the server tonight! Allan, I'm looking in your direction :) Obama has won. But the real challenge has yet to co

[arch-general] test

2008-11-02 Thread RedShift
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Re: [arch-general] bftp & denyhosts

2008-10-14 Thread RedShift
Sergey Manucharian wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:04:54 + "Jon Kristian Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is ther any reason you are using bftp, instead of for example sftp? Actually there is no specific reasons, it was installed 2 years ago, and now services a whole bunch of users with c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-29 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: Now that our installer installs the whole base group by default, I'd wish it would stick to the essential part. I suggest cleaning this up a bit: Packages that IMO shouldn't be in base: - dialog Nothing depends on it, why do we even need it in core? - hwdetect Nothing us

Re: [arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

2008-08-20 Thread RedShift
David Rosenstrauch wrote: I use Arch x86_64 - so far without a problem. But I've found recently that there's a few AUR packages that I'm unable to compile. (e.g., virtualbox-modules) Seems like the build needs the /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h file, which isn't installed on my Arch64 system.

Re: [arch-general] problem with the new b43 module

2008-08-13 Thread RedShift
metin wrote: hi all, I am having trouble with the new b43 module for my bcm4318 pci wireless device. I can connect to the internet without a hitch but the connection drops unexpectedly and randomly even in good conditions near the wireless modem after a couple of minutes or so; and it won't

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-13 Thread RedShift
David Rosenstrauch wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be able to play some tunes. Try pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla. That's pretty much the equivalent of the stock KDE packages, albeit, in modular form, and with a few tweaks. (And, yes

Re: [arch-general] running sybase under arch linux

2008-08-11 Thread RedShift
Scott Weisman wrote: Hello everyone, I've got a big problem I hope someone can help with. I've been a huge fan and user of Arch since early 2004. I really like it and it works great for me. I have several production servers also running it, with no problem whatsoever. However, I have one ancie

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Snort UID / GID

2008-07-18 Thread RedShift
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Hugo Doria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thus this way snort can work out of the box with less privileges. Anyone who wants can put snort to run with another user. And, in any case, this email was just a question. I don't see why people have

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Snort UID / GID

2008-07-17 Thread RedShift
Hugo Doria wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why can't the users themselves create a snort uid/gid... As the snort itself will run with the snort user/group is better create them during the installation. -- Hugo Why is i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Snort UID / GID

2008-07-17 Thread RedShift
Hugo Doria wrote: I've updated the snort package. The package is now working well, but I have a question: I am creating a snort user and group during the package installation. Should we reserve a UID / GID to it? I think this is important because snort should run with fewer privileges since it c

Re: [arch-general] [SPAM] [arch-dev-public] two patches for rc.d/network

2008-07-16 Thread RedShift
James Rayner wrote: 1) 0001-add-some-useful-error-messages-to-wireless-code.patch Makes the wireless code in rc.d/network output some useful errors and a tad more robust, rather than failing and giving no useful error at all. Not tested yet, I don't have an insecure or WEP network to try it on,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Multilib on Archlinux x86_64

2008-07-08 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: Andreas Radke schrieb: It's more a question what Arch64 was founded for: to be the bleading edge leading _pure_ 64bit distro around. That's been its goal since the project has started. And I think we did a good job. You may have missed the early discussions when we made de

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Multilib on Archlinux x86_64

2008-07-08 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: Andreas Radke schrieb: You must have mixed the mailing lists! Actually, no. Arch64 was founded to never have support for 32bit compatibilty. So move this into the community/AUR list. Yeah, maybe, and I am extending it. I give you a strict -1 for any 32bit compat stu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.25.10

2008-07-03 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: Just a bump to .10 and a minor configuration change (AOE added). It is built with gcc 4.3.1, so if any binary modules break, please tell me. It may be smart to wait for GCC 4.3.2 to come out, because of this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451068 Glenn

Re: [arch-general] /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolc.conf.tail

2008-07-03 Thread RedShift
timetrap wrote: dhcpcd is fine. But this is a patch for dhclient. Which is a totally different dhcp client. When I installed wicd, dhclient was a dependency, if you want to use wicd, you need to use dhclient. If you want to have multiple search domains with dhclient (through wicd), you need t

Re: [arch-general] /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolc.conf.tail

2008-07-03 Thread RedShift
timetrap wrote: Hi, this is my first message to arch-general. I have been helping a user on the forums who needs multiple search domains in his /etc/resolv.conf file. His original question was this: "Our DHCP isolates clients to a separate subnet than the servers. As such, unless you fully

Re: [arch-general] Need to mount 2nd SATA drive

2008-06-28 Thread RedShift
Allie Daneman wrote: I can't figure out how to mount my 2nd SATA drive...my primary disk is mounted by uuid in my current fstab but disk 2 doesn't seem like it's being found correctly. Can anyone help out...how do I figure out the uuid of my 2nd drive ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -la /dev/disk/

Re: [arch-general] [gcc-4.3] segfault when runnung -O3 compiled c++ code

2008-06-26 Thread RedShift
Maik Beckmann wrote: Hi, Can someone confirm that this http://codepad.org/I313t7BN compiled with g++ -O3 test.cpp -o test gives a segfault when trying to run it via ./test ?? I mailed to the gcc-help list regarding this issue: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.help/24804 Thanks,

Re: [arch-general] apache-/httpd-config files (was: [arch-dev-public] cleaned-up apache package)

2008-06-25 Thread RedShift
Finkregh wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:31:50 +0200 Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Btw: does anybody know why the previous maintainer has used /etc/httpd/conf instead of /etc/httpd? Why is that directory used at all? Doesn't it make more sense to use something like '/etc/apache/'

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread RedShift
Pierre Schmitz wrote: Hi, as mentioned in the apache thread I would like to use a dedicated user/group for our different webserver packages. To achieve this I'd like to add the user/group http to our filesystem package. (It allready contains them for mail and ftp) According to http://wiki.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem-2008.06-1

2008-06-19 Thread RedShift
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why does this package mess around in /usr/local? IIRC there are no Arch packages that use /usr/local and it's meant for local deviations, so wouldn't it be wise not to touch /u

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem-2008.06-1

2008-06-19 Thread RedShift
Dan McGee wrote: New filesystem package: * Bumped the month number * Updated services/protocols files. These were updated in CVS 3 months ago but had still not gotten a rebuild, and were lost in the transition to SVN. This will close FS#9941. I couldn't build for x86_64, so if someone could do t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2008.05-1

2008-06-19 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: I think it is time to release this, here are the changes: - Remove usbfs special handling from rc.sysinit, for explanation see http://localhost/git/?p=arch/initscripts/.git;a=commit;h=f3e064ec822b3dae191e1ae5d2bb921a970af86e - Make USEDIRECTISA default to no - this is a

Re: [arch-general] Will Firefox 3 be brought into extra ?

2008-06-19 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: Allie Daneman schrieb: Will Firefox 3 replace Firefox 2 in a future release ? No, we will use Firefox 2 until end of all times. Firefox 3 will never come to extra ... in fact we will go back to Firefox 1 next week, Arch always uses the oldest and most outdated software.

Re: [arch-general] Xen for Arch Linux - Update 1

2008-06-14 Thread RedShift
p://archserver.be/packages-devel/linux-xen0.tar http://archserver.be/packages-devel/xen.tar Glenn RedShift wrote: Hi all, I've been keeping busy today with Xen for Arch Linux. I've created the following packages: -> This package contains the userland tools to administer a Xen

[arch-general] Xen for Arch Linux

2008-06-08 Thread RedShift
Hi all, I've been keeping busy today with Xen for Arch Linux. I've created the following packages: -> This package contains the userland tools to administer a Xen dom0 host. xen-3.2.1-1-i686.pkg http://archserver.be/packages-devel/xen-3.2.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> This package contains the Xen

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-20 Thread RedShift
I guess you don't like HTML email as well :-( Xavier wrote: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? arch-general is really painful to read sometimes. Thanks!

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-20 Thread RedShift
I guess you /don't/ like HTML email as well :-( Xavier wrote: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? arch-general is really painful to read sometimes. Thanks!

Re: [arch-general] pacman changes libcrypt.so.1 symlink

2008-05-07 Thread RedShift
Xavier wrote: Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: Hi I don't know if it's bug or feature, but it makes me crazy. It begun probably after some pacman upgrade. I'm using blowfish passwords with my archlinux, so my /lib/libcrypt.so.1 points to libxcrypt.so.1 instead of libcrypt-2.7.so from glibc. In my pacman.c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues: 1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit. 2) I'd like to remove the (hardcoded) line /usr/bin/setterm -blank 15 from rc.sysinit. Can I get opinions on these? Thomas, Having read your last

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: Arvid Ephraim Picciani schrieb: On Monday 07 April 2008 13:52:21 Thomas Bächler wrote: If I assume a user has no idea what 'lo' is, I can still give him a working system by hardcoding the 'lo' interface to rc.sysinit. Your assumptions are worse then i thought. I just

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
There is in fact a valid reason why we should not hardcode devpts and I am thinking of dropping the thought, but none of you even cared to bring it up, instead you bitch about your weird principles, which you claim to be Arch's principles, insulting developers and being an ass on the way.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: RedShift schrieb: /proc and /sys are already hardcoded. About your system being broken without these filesystems mounted: - SSH (both server and client) won't work without devpts mounted - None of the virtual X terminal things will work without devpts mounted It do

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:12 +0200, RedShift wrote: I'm sick and tired of complaining about issues like these, that shouldn't be discussed in the first place. Do you think I like complaining? Since when do we assume the user is stupid? All that's been accom

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
RedShift wrote: Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 00:24 +0200, RedShift wrote: Thomas Bächler wrote: RedShift schrieb: Thomas Bächler wrote: I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues: 1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit. What&#x

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread RedShift
Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 00:24 +0200, RedShift wrote: Thomas Bächler wrote: RedShift schrieb: Thomas Bächler wrote: I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues: 1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit. What's wrong with

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-06 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: RedShift schrieb: Thomas Bächler wrote: I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues: 1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit. What's wrong with putting that in fstab? What if I don't want to have that mounted? So

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-06 Thread RedShift
Thomas Bächler wrote: I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues: 1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit. What's wrong with putting that in fstab? What if I don't want to have that mounted? So instead of modified fstab I'd have to mess with rc.sysinit eve

Re: [arch-general] Custom kernel compile fails

2008-04-01 Thread RedShift
CtM wrote: Happy April everyone! I was just wondering if anyone else was having issues building a recent custom kernel. I find that it fails on the make command. Here is the output I get: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 kernel/built-in.o: In function `getnstimeofday': (.text+0x205d3): undefined refere

Re: [arch-general] html messages on this list.

2008-03-30 Thread RedShift
** 1. /Oh/ don't be *such* a square® Keith Richie wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:25:30 +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: please stop sending broken html from dialup machines. I can't believe

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-24 Thread RedShift
Simo Leone wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:28:13PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Users are happy with the new ISOs, just read the Forum thread about it. You know what. I don't care if the users are happy with the new ISOs. That's right, I finally said it. _I DON'T CARE_ I don't care bec

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Processor Generation++

2008-03-17 Thread RedShift
Pierre Schmitz wrote: Am Montag, 17. März 2008 10:11:15 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: My opinion on this, why to desupport something which might be still used, also we all know that x86_64 is the future and therefore i don't think the benefit is worth the trouble. In addition to this MMX would no

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-i810 obsolete?

2008-03-11 Thread RedShift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Deop i Argemí wrote: Well, I don't use the xf86-video-intel because it's buggier to me than i810 is. Anyway, the most important reason to keep using i810 is that I can get my laptop to suspend to RAM which i can't with the intel one. Please, do not remove the pack

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