Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Jens John
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to the current install as possible? Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the new disk using rsync. The advantage is that

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-19 Thread Jens John
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 14:46, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general > wrote: > > I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times > > than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or > > BTRFS), I reco

Re: [arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-19 Thread Jens John
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:39:05PM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: May 18 2018, Ralph Corderoy has written: ... dict -d moby-thesaurus thesaurus You may want to use something like tell () { dict "$@" | colorit | less -R } to get a coloured output, which is much more p

Re: [arch-general] Which MTA to use to store mails?

2018-07-03 Thread Jens John
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, at 15:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: > - I've got some Email/IMAP account. > - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. > - I've got too many Emails on the host. > - I don't want to loose any of the emails. > - So I will

Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change

2018-08-02 Thread Jens John
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, at 09:11, Joan AymĂ  via arch-general wrote: > The size problem can be solved using hollow clone. Not in a well-formed PKGBUILD. There's ample discussion on this topic available. Of course you're welcome to hack together whatever you want.

Re: [arch-general] do i need to match bind and bind-tools versions ?

2018-08-05 Thread Jens John
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 02:23:10PM +0100, niya via arch-general wrote: hi everyone i need to install bind version 9.11 for a samba dc, do i have to match bind-tools to the same version or can i install the latest version of bind-tools version 9.13. shadrock * On Arch bind-tools has no dependen

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-22 Thread Jens John
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:27:25PM +0100, Bjoern Franke wrote: But in MBR-land it seems to be the only alternative to grub? LILO is similarly dead but still exists and tends to work more or less without issues. Still using it on a number of servers with current kernels and hardware (* the Debia

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-12 Thread Jens John
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, at 12:02, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: > I am sorry to ask this so late in the discussion, but why Arch default of the > "other" module was insecure (and hence why the change)? Is there something > wrong with pam_unix? Not inherently. They implemented a suggestion from

Re: [arch-general] journalctl - configure date output persistent to short-iso

2019-06-23 Thread Jens John
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, at 00:22, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Anyone around who knows or did this already? >From casually scimming the journalctl source code, unless I've overlooked >something, it seems like only journalctl handles the presentation of the >data in the specified OutputMode which

Re: [arch-general] maria update to 10.4.6 breaks akonadi's db

2019-06-27 Thread Jens John
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, at 07:41, Oliver Jaksch via arch-general wrote: > Updated three of my KDE clients by terminal (not logged in by display > manager/DM) and ran > > # systemctl restart mariadb.service && mariadb-upgrade -u root -p This doesn't affect akonadi's data since it is located somepla

Re: [arch-general] External monitors are no longer detected (Intel graphics)

2019-07-02 Thread Jens John
Regarding kernel versions: I also had noticed instabilities (more errors than usual in dmesg from drm and i915, weird GL/compositing glitches) on my HD4400 Intel with one external monitor and laptop display starting with 5.1.x. I've so far remained on 5.0.3 and have not debugged in depth due to

Re: [arch-general] Ubunto to Arch complete data migration

2019-08-12 Thread Jens John
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, at 21:02, Matt Zand via arch-general wrote: > 1- what is the easiest way to do this? rsync -aAXv --progress --human-readable $source $destination > 2- do I need to partition hard-drive of new PC exactly as old one? No. > 3- will root and other user credentials stay the sam

Re: [arch-general] Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container?

2020-02-22 Thread Jens John
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, at 11:13, Christian Rebischke via arch-general wrote: > > you need to disable a few flags: > > --disable-software-rasterizer, --disable-dev-shm-usage and > --disable-web-security If you have to go so far as to --disable-web-security, then this must be a point where replacin

Re: [arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'

2020-04-09 Thread Jens John
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, at 17:59, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > I stopped using firefox with apulse a long time ago, since firefox > support for ALSA and Jack works, it's just a PITA to use firefox for > audio and video. > > As for ALSA support, it often happens, that you need to close all ta

Re: [arch-general] arch-general list down?

2020-09-06 Thread Jens John
On Sun, 6 Sep 2020, at 07:54, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > I have no posts from arch-general since 8/30. I have tried to post related to > a pacman update issue, but the posts are not getting though?? There are posts from you in the archive on a pacman issue. If you aren't receiving new lis

Re: [arch-general] [off-topic] Korganizer: get ics webcals periodically sync (can be read only)

2020-09-11 Thread Jens John
If this is a limitation, it's a limitation of Akonadi that it doesn't monitor remote single files for changes. A workaround could be to use the local file source, let korganizer monitor it for changes, and sync the local file using wget/curl and a systemd --user timer. This should work flawlessl

Re: [arch-general] Any arch-general changes since 9/24 -- I get no messages (but I see my messages in the archive)?

2020-10-14 Thread Jens John
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, at 00:41, David C. Rankin wrote: > I see other messages in https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/ > as well as the pacman suggestion I sent, but I get nothing on my end. > Suddenlink ISP issue? If your messages are accepted by the mailing list's SMTP server, whi

Re: [arch-general] locked out

2020-11-06 Thread Jens John
Just boot into the faulty environment, try the log in a couple of times (perhaps even on a TTY), reboot into recovery, inspect the journald and/or syslog records of the events, if any. Optionally enable debug logging on libpam. The answers should present themselves.

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

2020-11-09 Thread Jens John
> Can this at least be built and placed to "testing"? This would offer at > least some way to easily get pending security updates installed without > manual compiling. Just don't bother with Arch's release cycle and use Mozilla's build, either directly (with auto updates) or through https://au