Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-23 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:40:21 +0200 lee sent: > These two functions are described in the man page. > > BTW, either IconMan or IconBox are deprecated --- I don't remember > which one. Thanks Lee, It was ButtonBar for laptop. I removed that entry in my menudefs.hook and it is gone, no longer a wor

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Marty
On 09/23/2014 12:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: 1) The goal is "modular Debian." Multi-init is the means to achieve it. Being tied to one init system is what caused Debian’s problems, and the replacement did not fix it. A modular system has to support al

syslog messages flooding the console

2014-09-23 Thread John Magolske
After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting syslog messages flooding the console, pages & pages of "Asset Found" stuff like: Message from syslogd@mymachine at Sep 23 13:46:11 ... ... Asset Found: IP Address - 16.20.3.0 / MAC Address - 0:00:00:00:00:00#012[*] Asset Found: IP Address - 26.2

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:10:22 +0100 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html Very, very nice, Jonathan! I'd be a lot happier person had the Debian crew had selected nosh as PID 1 and the daemon manager, and had various daemons m

Re: Where to put daemontools startup in systemd Jessie?

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:04:42 +0100 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Jonathan Dowland: > > You need to write a .service file for your svscanboot script, and > > put it in /etc/systemd/user. > > I did systemd units for this ages ago. It's better to do this as two > units: a "path" unit that wat

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-23 Thread lee
John Hasler writes: > lee wrote: >> Mike McGinn writes: >> As in any sane system of governance for this type of organization, the >> ones doing the work get to make the decisions. > > lee wrote: >> Then please modify Debians' social contract where it says that the users >> are the priority. > > I

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-23 Thread lee
Nate Bargmann writes: > * On 2014 21 Sep 15:10 -0500, lee wrote: >> Mike McGinn writes: >> >> > As in any sane system of governance for this type of organization, the >> > ones doing the work get to make the decisions. >> >> Then please modify Debians' social contract where it says that the us

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-23 Thread lee
Charlie writes: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:54:43 +0200 lee sent: > >> Why are things going wrong with it for you, and what >> things? > > Lee, > > If I can jump in here re: fvwm. [fvwm 2.6.5] On my desktop I have this > thing. I has two columns of squares which are labelled FileMGR - xv > -gview an

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: > I'll have to look into doign this too. I'm sure there's an explanation > to this considering things like u...@domain.ca and u...@host.domain.ca > have different results but if the keys weren't hashed in known_hosts > it would make troubleshooting a lot sim

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Keith Lawson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Do you all of the ip addresses and hostnames listed for those keys in > > > known_hosts? > > > > These are all servers

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Do you all of the ip addresses and hostnames listed for those keys in > > known_hosts? > > These are all servers I've been connecting to for years so I should > have their IP and host keys

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Keith Lawson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:45:50PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Keith Lawson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm > > getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting to > > f

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Keith Lawson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade > > yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've > > been connecting to for years: > > > > The authe

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Keith Lawson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:34:02AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:20:26 -0400 > Keith Lawson wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of any changes in openssh-client in > > jessie that would cause certain server keys that were previously > > working to be invalid? > > Hi Keith, > > You

DNS Resolution and Short Names with Dots

2014-09-23 Thread Mark Kamichoff
Hi - I've been running into somewhat inconsistent behavior with DNS short name resolution in Debian across a few systems. Here's the behavior that I've occasionally relied on over the years: % cat /etc/resolv.conf search example.com nameserver 192.0.2.10 % host foo.bar.baz.example.com. foo.bar.b

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Keith Lawson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm > getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting to > for years: > IDK this has anything to do with the problem you're seeing (u

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade > yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've > been connecting to for years: > > The authenticity of host 'blah' can't be established. > RSA key fingerprint is e8:08

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-23 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
T.J. Duchene: > Why is it not possible to create a completely generic shell script - > basically ala SysV that can parse systemd config files for those use cases > where Systemd is undesirable? Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It is far from impossible to parse .INI files with s

Re: apt broken in latest update

2014-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-23 21:39 +0200, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > The recent security fixes to apt have broken its behavior with the DVD > install. It doesn't seem possible to have the DVD lines in > sources.list along with the repository entries anymore, which means > you are now stuck downloading anything and

apt broken in latest update

2014-09-23 Thread Paul Zimmerman
The recent security fixes to apt have broken its behavior with the DVD install. It doesn't seem possible to have the DVD lines in sources.list along with the repository entries anymore, which means you are now stuck downloading anything and everything you want to install regardless of whether it

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 21:09:30 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 23/09/2014 20:46, Brian a écrit : > > You do not like that systemd will be the default init system for Jessie. > > Tough. Exercise your choice not to have it. Or is easier to moan rather > > than just get on with using sysvinit? > > > >

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 16:21:53 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-09-23, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > What would be a good substitute for the broad, aquamarine borders? > > > > Well here in France we're humanitarians and have Bloggers Without Borders > (BWB). :) La réponse parfaite. Il n'y a pas de rép

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Erwan David
Le 23/09/2014 20:46, Brian a écrit : > On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 19:30:34 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > >> Compare it to to a init system which is the main reason to choose a >> desktop environment... >> >> See >> http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/debian-switches-back-to-gnome-from-xfce.html >> >> >> So syt

Re: Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd

2014-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-22 05:45 +0200, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > The package systemd-sysv installs a symlink ./sbin/init -> > /lib/systemd/systemd. The system fails to boot, complaining that > "/sbin/init" > can't be found. In bug #750360, I found a workaround that I have been using > for several months

Re: Where to put daemontools startup in systemd Jessie?

2014-09-23 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jonathan Dowland: > You need to write a .service file for your svscanboot script, and > put it in /etc/systemd/user. I did systemd units for this ages ago. It's better to do this as two units: a "path" unit that watches the service directory and a "service" unit that is started when the service d

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 19:30:34 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Compare it to to a init system which is the main reason to choose a > desktop environment... > > See > http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/debian-switches-back-to-gnome-from-xfce.html > > > So sytemd does in fact orient *everything*. You are

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 13:40:02 -0400, Mike McGinn wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 12:54:44 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > I just had a look and didn't realise how closely Debian is reliant on the > > C language! Surely, this can't be good! > > The entire kernel is written in C. A lang

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 12:58:26 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:11:03 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Let's discuss your analogies... > > === Depending on glibc === > True, it's a single point of failure, but it's made by GNU, whose > agenda is less harmful to Linux than the

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-23 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 21-09-14 21:26, Sven Hartge schreef: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> op 21-09-14 13:40, Sven Hartge schreef: > >>> You cannot install it in a way t run it side by side. By installing >>> the libc6 package from Jessie it will overwrite the one from Wheezy. >>> This is how the package manager work

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Mike McGinn
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 12:54:44 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:11:03PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: > > > 1) The goal is "modular Debian." Multi-init is the means to achieve > > > it. Being tied to one init system is what ca

Re: Debian Wheezy XFCE Chromium PepperFlash Plugin Error

2014-09-23 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 23-09-14 00:30, Robert Crawford schreef: > Computer is HP Pavilion a230n tower with 768mb ram 120 hd agp Nvidia > Riva TNT2 with 32mb ram card. > > Installed standard desktop (Gnome3), I was getting error message about > Gnome 3 crashing, The default Gnome3 is 3D. I think you can only run thi

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Erwan David
Le 23/09/2014 18:58, Steve Litt a écrit : > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:11:03 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: >>> 1) The goal is "modular Debian." Multi-init is the means to achieve >>> it. Being tied to one init system is what caused Debian’s problems, >>> a

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread John Hasler
The Wanderer writes: > All very reasonable, at each step. I'm not sure I see much problem > with it in practice, either... I do. It's what leads to an image manipulation program depending on a particular init system. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:11:03 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: > > > > 1) The goal is "modular Debian." Multi-init is the means to achieve > > it. Being tied to one init system is what caused Debian’s problems, > > and the replacement did not fix it. A modula

Re: pc version of yahoo.com

2014-09-23 Thread Scott Lair
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:09:39 -0700 Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41:18AM -0400, Scott Lair wrote: > > Anyone having trouble getting to yahoo.com pc version in wheezy? I > > keep getting the mobile version. I have tried updating iceweasel to > > the backported version, cleared

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:11:03PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: > > > > 1) The goal is "modular Debian." Multi-init is the means to achieve > > it. Being tied to one init system is what caused Debian’s problems, > > and the replacement did not fix it. A m

Re: [OT] SSH Server for Android

2014-09-23 Thread Andre N Batista
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:30:02PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 22 Sep 14:24 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > If what you some way to control your phone via your PC, SSH X11 Forwarding > > won't help. But there may be applications that allow that (at least > > partially). Probably

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:33:01PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 09/23/2014 at 12:21 PM, Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:04:33PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> As best I can dredge it up quickly, the dependency chain is: >

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 23 sep 14, 11:37:22, John Hasler wrote: > Why in heaven's name does Gimp require audio? It doesn't. Gimp depends on libgegl (Generic Graphics Library) which depends on libsdl (Simple DirectMedia Layer) which also supports audio and is thus compiled with support for pulseaudio (depends on

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2014 at 12:37 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Why in heaven's name does Gimp require audio? AFAIK, it doesn't. It does require graphics handling, though. One of the libraries it uses for that relies on an SDL library. That SDL library in turn

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread John Hasler
Why in heaven's name does Gimp require audio? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4tab8e5@thum

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2014 at 12:21 PM, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:04:33PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> As best I can dredge it up quickly, the dependency chain is: >> >> gimp -> libgegl-0.2-0 -> libsdl1.2debian -> libpulse0 -> >> libsystemd-

Re: Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 sep 14, 22:45:44, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > Not interested in a debate over systemd. But I have a boot issue and since > there isn't a bug that matches the symptoms, I suspect my setup may be > peculiar and I'm hoping someone may have some insight. > > The package systemd-sys

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Curt
On 2014-09-23, Steve Litt wrote: > > What would be a good substitute for the broad, aquamarine borders? > Well here in France we're humanitarians and have Bloggers Without Borders (BWB). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: > > 1) The goal is "modular Debian." Multi-init is the means to achieve > it. Being tied to one init system is what caused Debian’s problems, > and the replacement did not fix it. A modular system has to support > all init systems, including systemd, clones

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:50:04AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Chris Bannister" > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > It woun't kill any detract

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:04:33PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > As best I can dredge it up quickly, the dependency chain is: > > gimp -> libgegl-0.2-0 -> libsdl1.2debian -> libpulse0 -> > libsystemd-id128-0 Close, but no cigar :) On this system libsystemd-id128-0 is not installed, and aptitude te

Re: [OT] SSH Server for Android

2014-09-23 Thread Danilo Sampaio
Thanks. Danilo Sampaio Analista de Sistemas Sr. Capgemini Em 23/09/2014 10:13, "Joel Rees" escreveu: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Danilo Sampaio > wrote: > > Hi Joel, > > > > Terminal IDE is not exactly what i'm looking for. I need control my > android > > phone from PC. I'm looking for a

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-23 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:01:36 -0400 schrieb PaulNM: > Questions for the OP: > Is the Desktop always on? If so, it could be the master server. No the Desktop is only used if the screens of the notebooks are to small. ;-) > Do you want to sync even if the laptops are not home, not just have > co

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/23/2014 11:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 23 sep 14, 08:35:49, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> A much closer example would be if you only had one tractor dealer >> available, and he decided only to carry one tractor. > > There is only one tractor available, because the builders of other

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2014 at 11:35 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:50:46PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> Gimp already depends on (parts of) systemd in current stable. >> Do you know a way to install gimp without installing (parts of) >> systemd

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-23 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:22:05AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> * Get rid of run levels. > > > > And the reason for this change is? Runlevels are good where they are, > > even if you don't use them. > > Well, openbsd doesn't have runlevels, and it gets along just fine. > > openbsd does have some

Re: Ideal Debian distro for Asus Notebook?

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 sep 14, 11:53:04, Gary Dale wrote: > > This is a reasonably powerful notebook that is probably running > Windows, not MSDOS. Well, at least here there are quite a few laptops for sale with only FreeDOS ;) > Any version of Linux will probably run fairly > well on it. It doesn't use any

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:44:41 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-09-23, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Blogging *is* a good idea. I'll consider that. Thanks. > > > > Please lose those broad aquamarine borders if you blog. They're > butt-ugly. What would be a good substitute for the broad, aquamarine

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 10:59:32 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:08:35 +0100 > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > > Dear Steve, > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:57:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Funtoo is most famous for a permanent ban on systemd. > > > > As interesting a

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Chris Bannister" > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + > > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what > > > breaks, to help us to get a Deb

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 sep 14, 05:14:25, lee wrote: > > Try to help by providing translations, and you'll find it's impossible > because there's nowhere and no one to offer such service. I'd like to answer to this point, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by it. Could you please clarify or maybe give some

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Curt
On 2014-09-23, Steve Litt wrote: > > Blogging *is* a good idea. I'll consider that. Thanks. > Please lose those broad aquamarine borders if you blog. They're butt-ugly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:27:24 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > I can hack the odd script and drive a compiler, so if there were to > > be existing software that could do the job with a bit filed off > > here and there, I'd have a go. But having done a bit more reading > > recently, it se

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:20:26 -0400 Keith Lawson wrote: > Is anyone aware of any changes in openssh-client in > jessie that would cause certain server keys that were previously > working to be invalid? Hi Keith, You said "certain" server keys. If I were you, that's where I'd hang my hat. Make a

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:50:46PM +0200, lee wrote: > Gimp already depends on (parts of) systemd in current stable. Do you > know a way to install gimp without installing (parts of) systemd? And > gimp is not the only thing with a dependency like this. That's actual dependencies for the g

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Joe
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:19:50 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2014 14:53:15 Joe wrote: > > As Lisi and others have pointed out, the > > design of systemd and the decision of Debian to make systemd the > > 'default', or in practice the only init system, are set in stone. > > There

Re: There is no choice ...well yes there is

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 sep 14, 16:17:13, Ric Moore wrote: > So, I do not recommend the upgrade process from Wheezy to Jessie > as a general rule. I think it's still too early in the release cycle to make such recommendations. Based on my experience with Debian so far I trust upgrading bugs to be dealt with

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > I can hack the odd script and drive a compiler, so if there were to be > existing software that could do the job with a bit filed off here and > there, I'd have a go. But having done a bit more reading recently, it > seems likely that any alternative init would have to be written from

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 23 sep 14, 08:35:49, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > A much closer example would be if you only had one tractor dealer > available, and he decided only to carry one tractor. There is only one tractor available, because the builders of other tractors retired. Some of the old tractors still seem

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 10:43:24 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I *really* wish I'd evangelized daemontools on this list before the > majority of the systemd conversation occurred. Daemontools is much, > much more than a substitute for any init. You're an Evangelist? Here was me thinking you were one o

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Keith Lawson" > > Hello, > > I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday > I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been > connecting to for years: > > The authenticity of host 'blah' can't be established. > R

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Joe
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:49:52 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > ...the design of systemd and the decision of Debian to make systemd > > the 'default', or in practice the only init system... > > Not true. "Default" just means that it's the init you get if you > don't specify anything els

Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Keith Lawson
Hello, I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting to for years: The authenticity of host 'blah' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is e8:08:db:b0:e7:38:57:d4:82:a8:a4:1c:42:f0:25:0

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:08:35 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Dear Steve, > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:57:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Funtoo is most famous for a permanent ban on systemd. > > As interesting as your OS experiments are, I do wonder whether > debian-user is the right pla

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > ...the design of systemd and the decision of Debian to make systemd > the 'default', or in practice the only init system... Not true. "Default" just means that it's the init you get if you don't specify anything else. Other inits are allowed and encouraged but _someone has to devel

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:29:20 +0200 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Apparently Joel has (valid! ) other commitments. There are people > willing and able to work on systemd. Unless someone else steps up > with code or an online class in linux IPC, I'd say the case can be > closed. Huh? The whole point

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2014 at 10:19 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2014 14:53:15 Joe wrote: > >> As Lisi and others have pointed out, the design of systemd and >> the decision of Debian to make systemd the 'default', or in >> practice the only

Re: /etc/network/interface file auto reset.

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 sep 14, 14:02:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Further reading: ... > http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html A kind soul pointed out to me off-list that this link is dead. Apologize for not checking, here is a link to the same document: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt Kind regards, And

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 September 2014 14:53:15 Joe wrote: > As Lisi and others have pointed out, the > design of systemd and the decision of Debian to make systemd the > 'default', or in practice the only init system, are set in stone. > There's nothing to discuss. I have never said anything of the kind.

Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?

2014-09-23 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 23/09/14 at 10:02am, Harry Putnam wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > > a2enmod takes a simple name like "cgi" not a name with .load or .conf > > on the end like "cgi.load". You want "a2enmod cgi" without the > > ".load" on the end. > > Yeah, I finally got that part. > > But still not seeing

Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?

2014-09-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: > a2enmod takes a simple name like "cgi" not a name with .load or .conf > on the end like "cgi.load". You want "a2enmod cgi" without the > ".load" on the end. Yeah, I finally got that part. But still not seeing what is bad about what I did... after all it did allow the cgi

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/23/2014 9:36 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:35:49AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 9/23/2014 8:26 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Joe
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:26:06 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + > > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what > > > breaks, to help us t

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:35:49AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 9/23/2014 8:26 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: > >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + > >> "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > >> > >> > >>> > >>> It woun't kill any detractors to try

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2014 11:32:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Tuesday 23 September 2014 09:55:36 Rick Thomas wrote: >> > Without a working OS, you will need to find a way to eject the CD tray in >> > order to boot from it. Here’s the trick: >>

Re: apt-get update problem

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 06:20:38PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Running "apt-get update" on one of my machines gives: > > W: Failed to fetch > copy:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/Debian%20GNU_Linux%207%20%5fWheezy%5f%20-%20Official%20Snapshot%20i386%20LIVE_INSTALL%20Binary%2020140723-18:32_dis

Re: [OT] SSH Server for Android

2014-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Danilo Sampaio wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Terminal IDE is not exactly what i'm looking for. I need control my android > phone from PC. I'm looking for a opensource project, because i'll probably > make customizations. Terminal IDE does have an ssh server. But it idoesn

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 September 2014 11:32:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2014 09:55:36 Rick Thomas wrote: > > Without a working OS, you will need to find a way to eject the CD tray in > > order to boot from it.  Here’s the trick: > > Don't Macs have paper-clip holes? (Genuine question - I

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

2014-09-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 08:27:27 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 9/22/2014 10:02 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > There are some people who are trying to squelch conversations on this > > list with cries of FUD! FUD! > > > > Well said, Joel. And it's interesting to see who reads it and who > doesn't.

Re: pc version of yahoo.com

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 03:09:39PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41:18AM -0400, Scott Lair wrote: > > Anyone having trouble getting to yahoo.com pc version in wheezy? I keep > > getting the mobile version. I have tried updating iceweasel to the > > backported version, cle

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/23/2014 8:26 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + >> "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >> >> >>> >>> It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what >>> breaks, to help us to get a Debian system we can

Re: apt-get update problem

2014-09-23 Thread John Conover
Darac Marjal writes: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 06:20:38PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > > > Running "apt-get update" on one of my machines gives: > > > > W: Failed to fetch > > copy:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/Debian%20GNU_Linux%207%20%5fWheezy%5f%20-%20Official%20Snapshot%20i386%20LIVE_INST

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

2014-09-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/22/2014 10:02 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > There are some people who are trying to squelch conversations on this > list with cries of FUD! FUD! Well said, Joel. And it's interesting to see who reads it and who doesn't. No surprises, I must say. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what > > breaks, to help us to get a Debian system we can all be proud of > > instead of talking up a sto

Re: [OT] SSH Server for Android

2014-09-23 Thread Danilo Sampaio
Hi Joel, Terminal IDE is not exactly what i'm looking for. I need control my android phone from PC. I'm looking for a opensource project, because i'll probably make customizations. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/09/23 2:24 "Danilo Sampaio" : > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Martin Read
On 22/09/14 23:53, lee wrote: And don't mention multiple sound cards (which Joe can't even imagine to have) ... Funnily enough, a substantial number of non-technical computer users do, in fact, have multiple audio devices in their desktop computers. For example, they might have a set of speak

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Peter Nieman
On 23/09/14 00:53, lee wrote: Fortunately, you don't even need to install it on Debian. Except that in Wheezy an awful lot of packages depend on libpulse0 even though they work perfectly well without Pulseaudio, and they'll create a directory under $HOME that contains nothing more than a brok

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-23 Thread Marty
On 09/23/2014 05:14 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: So my challenge is to you: *Act* for change. Instead of just venting your frustration here, which will do nothing, absolutely and utterly nothing for any change! But basically the opposite, the more energy you put into venting engaging here in

Re: apt-get update problem

2014-09-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 06:20:38PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Running "apt-get update" on one of my machines gives: > > W: Failed to fetch > copy:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/Debian%20GNU_Linux%207%20%5fWheezy%5f%20-%20Official%20Snapshot%20i386%20LIVE_INSTALL%20Binary%2020140723-18:32_dis

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-23 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:54:43 +0200 lee sent: > Why are things going wrong with it for you, and what > things? Sorry for the noise Lee. I found what the thing was called. It was a laptop ButtonBar and I got rid of it. So it's done. Thanks for your help, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 September 2014 09:55:36 Rick Thomas wrote: > Without a working OS, you will need to find a way to eject the CD tray in > order to boot from it.  Here’s the trick: Don't Macs have paper-clip holes? (Genuine question - I haven't got access to a Mac.) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

2014-09-23 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 23. sep. 2014 04:02, Joel Rees wrote: [snipped] Just to off-set the negative comments, I'd say Joel R. States his case pretty well, though I think dropping the sarcasm-bit would have improved it. I'll paraphrase my understanding of A FEW of Joel's points, just to see if I read him correctl

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

2014-09-23 Thread Curt
On 2014-09-23, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. September 2014, 11:02:47 schrieb Joel Rees: >> There are some people who are trying to squelch conversations on this >> list with cries of FUD! FUD! > > Honestly: I stopped reading there. > I didn't get past the subject line. -- To UN

Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream (was: Re: There is no choice)

2014-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 22. September 2014, 23:50:46 schrieb lee: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > Am Montag, 22. September 2014, 03:41:53 schrieb lee: > >> "Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > >> > Jessie freezes no later than November 5th 2014. Allow folk who are > >> > trying > >> > to work on the distribution to

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