Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
> > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:24:55PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and > its > > sub-directories. > > currently it is root : root and 775 > > I would havw www-data.www-data as owner, but it isn't likely to matter. >

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: You know, it is still possible that the installer team will fix bug #668001, systemd-shim will stabilize, and it will remain possible in some future release of Jessie, to build and run a Jessie system without systemd taking over one's system. Or maybe folks will come to t

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 10, 2014 11:34 AM, "Michael Biebl" wrote: > > Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >> You can use pre-seeding and run > >> > >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" > >> > >> in the debian-installer. Wh

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: I expressed a judgement that, based on experience, there are potential problems with installing and then uninstalling a piece of software with complicated dependencies, that would be avoided by doing a clean install. I did NOT say t

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I expressed a judgement that, based on experience, there are potential > problems with installing and then uninstalling a piece of software > with complicated dependencies, that would be avoided by doing a clean > install. I did NOT say that I'd tested t

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-10 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 nov 14, 13:56:36, Alexis wrote: >>=20 >> Iain M Conochie writes: >>=20 >> > However: >> >=20 >> > $: which umask >> > $: >> >=20 >> > So umask is _not_ a program (in the sense that there is no binary >> > called umask on the system) >>=20 >> zsh, however, is more h

Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
>You know, it is still possible that the installer team will fix bug >#668001, systemd-shim will stabilize, and it will remain possible in >some future release of Jessie, to build and run a Jessie system >without systemd taking over one's system. Or maybe folks will come to >their senses for Jessie

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > >> You can use pre-seeding and run > > >> > > >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Joel Rees
2014/11/11 3:29 "Michael Biebl" : > > Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. > > Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install > an alternative init. > Up until now you were forced to use sysvinit. Th

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: And you really think making another thread about the subject is the right way to "stop" the discussions about systemd? You couldn't have said that in one of the existing threads? You missed the option to invest the energy in distributions which don't use systemd. People

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 01:52 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential problems that might resu

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.11.2014 um 01:58 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 11.11.2014 um 00:43 schrieb Miles Fidelman: >>> Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in > such a > way th

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:43 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential problems that might

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.11.2014 um 01:52 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such >>> a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential >>> problems that might result from l

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential problems that might result from later uninstallation all the dependencies that systemd brings

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
And you really think making another thread about the subject is the right way to "stop" the discussions about systemd? You couldn't have said that in one of the existing threads? You missed the option to invest the energy in distributions which don't use systemd. People are angry, disappointed,

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.11.2014 um 00:43 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: >> >>> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a >>> way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential >>> problems that might result

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such > a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential > problems that might result from later uninstallation all the > dependencies that systemd brings in with it. If

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential problems that might result from later uninstallation all the dependencies that systemd br

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. It's not about "haters" ... necessarily, what abo

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.11.2014 um 00:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 10.11.2014 um 20:08 schrieb Jarle Aase: >> >>> What I don't like about systemd, is that it insists on doing things >>> I don't want it to do. I don't want /it/ to control the network or >>> udev, >>

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.11.2014 um 20:08 schrieb Jarle Aase: > > > What I don't like about systemd, is that it insists on doing things > > I don't want it to do. I don't want /it/ to control the network or > > udev, > > systemd-networkd is an entirely optional component

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a > way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential > problems that might result from later uninstallation all the > dependencies that systemd brings in with it.

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Mon 10 Nov 2014 at 14:44:22 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install an alternative init

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Mon 10 Nov 2014 at 14:48:15 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/10/2014 2:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where yo

Re: [newbie] OpenVPN: {DNS, ping, ssh} work, HTTP fails

2014-11-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Tom Roche a écrit : > > me@laptop:~$ date ; traceroute www.whatismyip.com >> Sun Nov 9 09:33:06 EST 2014 >> traceroute to www.whatismyip.com (141.101.120.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte >> packets >> 1 10.8.0.1 (10.8.0.1) 99.579 ms 99.584 ms 104.230 ms >> 2 * * * > ... This shows that forwardi

Re: Re: Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread fsmithred
One of the members of the refracta team is experimenting with repackaging stuff after removing the dependency on systemd libs. I think tornow provided the link to these packages in another post on this thread. This might be a viable option for some people, but it needs more testing than the few of

Re: Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread fsmithred
Are you sure that systemd libraries are required to install the server software that you want? I just tried 'aptitude -s install apache2 php5 mysql-server' on a jessie build with no systemd, dbus, libpulse0 or xorg, and it didn't complain. Here's an earlier iso I made of jessie with no systemd and

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Nov 2014 at 14:44:22 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > >Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > >>Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. > >Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install > >an alternative init. >

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Nov 2014 at 14:48:15 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/10/2014 2:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > >>> Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. > >> Ironically, jessie is the first release where

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > Exactly. I for one am getting sick and tired of being called names on > this list like 'hater' and 'whiner' Just to underline this, calling people names like hater, whiner, etc. are not conducive to discussions, are not appropriate on Debian mailing lists, a

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:50 PM, Martin Read wrote: > On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released >> *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, >> so be it. > > If you want *perfectly* stable software, why are you

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 10 November 2014 19:32:39, Juan R. de Silva a écrit : > > $ man mkfs.ext4 > > > > Look for "-m" argument. > > "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved > space is specified/recommended in man pages. > > GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (qu

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, so be it. If you want *perfectly* stable software, why are you using software that isn't formally proven? -- To UN

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: >>> Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. >> Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install >> an alternative init. >> Up until now y

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: >> Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I >> intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the >> systemd-haters. > It's not about "haters" ... necessarily, what about those

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install an alternative init. Up until now you were forced to use sysvinit. People seem to forget that.

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:01 PM, st wrote: > Hans wrote: > >> And at the beginning things never work perfect > > That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, > now should they? Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stay

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: > -- >> >> You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are >> going to come to his defense. It's LENNART! > > Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I > i

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread st
Hans wrote: And at the beginning things never work perfect That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, now should they? -- Best nightdreams. Serge Tiunov, "Do you really think you think http://e-head.net when you do think you

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.11.2014 um 20:08 schrieb Jarle Aase: > What I don't like about systemd, is that it insists on doing things I > don't want it to do. I don't want /it/ to control the network or udev, systemd-networkd is an entirely optional component, you don't have to use it. systemd-udevd is also an indivi

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
Please do not CC me on posts to the list. I read the list. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:24:55PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and its > sub-directories. > currently it is root : root and 775 I would havw www-data.www-data as

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Jarle Aase
On 10.11.2014 20:28, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install an alternative init. Up until now you were forced to use sysvinit. Peo

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Hans
-- > > You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are going to > come to his defense. It's LENNART! Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. My intention

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread golinux
On Mon, 11/10/14, Hans wrote: Subject: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 10, 2014, 11:23 AM Hi all, [cut] - If you do not like the behaviour of Leonard Poettering, do not quarrel with him. Hey, I guess,he wants a good s

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> $ man mkfs.ext4 > > Look for "-m" argument. "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved space is specified/recommended in man pages. GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (quite generous against default 5%). For NTFS, on the other hand, only 0.0067% w

Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"

2014-11-10 Thread Jarle Aase
On 10.11.2014 16:01, Marko Randjelovic wrote:> > Boot from Install CD/DVD and choose rescue mode. Than you can review > grub options and reinstall. Alternatively, you can try lilo. I have tried rescue mode and various "grub-install" and "update-grub" commands "update-grup" makes no difference.

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install an alternative init. Up until now you were forced to use sysvinit. People seem to forget that. -- Why is it that a

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >> You can use pre-seeding and run > >> > >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" > >> > >> in the debian-installer. While that

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and its sub-directories. currently it is root : root and 775 Secondly do you guys have any advice on more security of WP. i have heard that word press is kind of week in security. maybe i am wrong but i have heard that. no proble

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 09 nov 14, 22:32:45, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Is it possible, systemd dependency issues aside, to do a clean > > install of Jessie with an init other than systemd without first > > installing systemd? And, if so, how would one do it? > > https

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > I thought this list had some minimal etiquette requirements? Yes. See our code of conduct. > Do the list[masters] really allow comments like the above to stand? We do not announce actions that we take publicly. If you have a complaint about behavior on De

systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Hans
Hi all, I am now watching this systemd quarrel for a long time, and I must say, there is so much energy wasted in this. Please stop it! Really! There are solutions, which all will be happy. Solutions, that will bring debian forward, too. - If you don't want to use systemd, just leave it. You c

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: >> You can use pre-seeding and run >> >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" >> >> in the debian-installer. While that does indeed first install >> systemd-sysv, it's directly r

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/11/14 12:50 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 10.11.2014 01:33, schrieb Gary Dale: On 09/11/14 03:30 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Could you post the contents of your /etc/default/networking? Specifically, it should have either no explicit settings (everything commented out) or the following s

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.11.2014 um 07:32 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > Is it possible, systemd dependency issues aside, to do a clean > > install of Jessie with an init other than systemd without first > > installing systemd? And, if so, how would one do it? > > > > Every

on-the-fly disk partition format streaming?

2014-11-10 Thread Wes Thomas
Hi All, Is there a way to "stream" simulated filesystems? To narrow that question down: imagine a Beaglebone with a USB IN and OUT. You plug an NTFS formatted USB drive into IN, with a USB cable coming OUT and plugged into, say, a machine running OSX. Linux would simulate a storage device on OUT,

Re: Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.11.2014 13:49, fsmithred a écrit : Pinned dbus and libpulse0 to wheezy versions and util-linux to the last jessie version that didn't need libsystemd0. It seems to be working, so far, but as mentioned, it may break at some point with upgrades. I wonder if there is some compilation fl

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Nov10:1657+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html Debian's own Michael Biebl posted the comment to which Poettering publicly announced this udev roadmap back at the end of May. How could the assurances udev would be stay init

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 11:49 PM, fsmithred wrote: > It seems to be working, so far, but as mentioned, it may break at some > point with upgrades. Others can try the same thing and share their > experiences. If you're willing to accept libsystemd0, then I thin

Re: exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/11/14 15:42, John Foster wrote: > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on mail.myserver.net has non-zero > size, mail system might be broken. > > the error above is popping up. I did the removal of the log file as > suggested in several solutions that I found. However I see that they are >

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Andre N Batista
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came > formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and > results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GP

Re: exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:42:03AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on mail.myserver.net has non-zero size, > mail system might be broken. > > the error above is popping up. I did the removal of the log file as suggested > in several solutions that I found. H

exim4 panic log issue

2014-11-10 Thread John Foster
exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on mail.myserver.net has non-zero size, mail system might be broken. the error above is popping up. I did the removal of the log file as suggested in several solutions that I found. However I see that they are all related to an issue with the kernel and IP

Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.11.2014 um 15:41 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: > On 10/11/14 at 03:01pm, Marko Randjelovic wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:16:59 +0200 >> Jarle Aase wrote: >> >>> I have been using "testing" for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to >>> the latest version. That was a disaster. Eventually I

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.11.2014 um 07:32 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > Is it possible, systemd dependency issues aside, to do a clean install > of Jessie with an init other than systemd without first installing > systemd? And, if so, how would one do it? > > Everything I've read so far talks about "replacing" systemd

Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"

2014-11-10 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 10/11/14 at 03:01pm, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:16:59 +0200 > Jarle Aase wrote: > > > I have been using "testing" for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to > > the latest version. That was a disaster. Eventually I gave up fixing the > > upgrade and performed a fresh

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 07:20:46PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > for some testing we first want to install our Wordpress website inhouse. > and for that i have designed a Debian 7. and installed all the necessary > packages that are needed for the deployment. > now i want to grant rights to

need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
for some testing we first want to install our Wordpress website inhouse. and for that i have designed a Debian 7. and installed all the necessary packages that are needed for the deployment. now i want to grant rights to our freelance web developer so he can deploye the website. i never did this i

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 8:47 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > If systemd can stand on its own, it doesn't have to be defended > against every "whinger" that comes along. > > (And I'll have you know that many, probably most of those you accuse > of being whiners are very busy working out alternatives. And part of > t

Re: Time for compassion and the Init GR

2014-11-10 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/10/2014 3:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 11/7/2014 2:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Jo, 06 nov 14, 22:11:59, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> > >>> I thought he took special care to not make any assumptions about the >>> results. >>>

Re: INTEL HD Graphics

2014-11-10 Thread Dan
*WORKS FOR ME NO PROBLEM, I'VE BEEN RUNNING WHEEZY FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR, A1 SO FAR, * On 11/07/2014 10:05 PM, Joris Bolsens wrote: >From my experience yes, it works on jessie without any problems. On 11/07/2014 07:03 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: On 11/08/2014 11:57 AM, Joris Bolsens wrot

Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"

2014-11-10 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:16:59 +0200 Jarle Aase wrote: > I have been using "testing" for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to > the latest version. That was a disaster. Eventually I gave up fixing the > upgrade and performed a fresh install (with encrypted root file system). > No matter what

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread ken
On 11/10/2014 08:18 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and results surprised me quite a

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread John Hasler
Chris Bannister writes: > I read that as 'trouble unsubscribing?' then Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org. I read it as 'technical trouble with this list'. You're right, though: now that we have listmoms the footer needs to be redone. File a wishlist bug. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Tanstaafl writes: > >>> And because some devs want to placate those whiners, we get interminable >>> political games and good people quitting the project. >>> >>> Why don't the anti-systemd people do what they've been threatening the >>>

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:40:09AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > The listadmins act on things that they notice, or are brought to their > attention. They are rather busy and all volunteers. If you think a post to > this (list or any other Debian list) is in breach of the code of conduct, > plea

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:51:49 -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit : [...] > > If so, what happened to "Linux is all about freedom of choice" ? GNU/Linux is maybe about "freedom of choice" but GNU/Linux distributions have never been. You see the difference? Distribution are integrators that some

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came > formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and > results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GP

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Ron
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:28:34 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > So, it will run a course and we will get to the point where systemd will > be unavoidable in most if not all of the Linux world. "We are Systemd of Borg, resistance is futile..." ? If so, what happened to "Linux is all about freedom

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-10 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:16:09 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : > Le 09.11.2014 05:05, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:32:57 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> 1. What are your issues, reasons for doing so - general and/or > >> specific? > > > > I've had trouble with

Re: Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread fsmithred
Refracta IS Debian, but since I'm not Debian, I can't call it that. It's debian jessie with sysvinit instead of systemd. The jessie-based version of refracta was created in the following manner - Standard-system install of wheezy. Pinned "*systemd*" to -1 dist-upgrade to jessie added some packages

Re: good disk/cpu/videocard temperature display that works in KDE

2014-11-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 02:56:02PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > I finally upgraded my other pc to KDE 4.14.2, and am looking for a > temperature display for the hard disks, CPU, video card and motherboard. > > It needs to show actual temperatures and also have some labelling of which > temperature

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 9:55 PM, Martin Read wrote: > On 10/11/14 08:57, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> And for those choosing to go with systemd they'll need 20 updates of >> Jessie just because the kernel is intrinsically linked to systemd and >> needs an update

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 09.11.2014 05:05, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:32:57 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: 1. What are your issues, reasons for doing so - general and/or specific? I've had trouble with passwords in the network-manager starting a few months ago. I tried a few other wifi connectivit

Re: Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
John Hasler writes: >tornow writes: >> I am not a big fan of such workarounds. It doesn't seem to make sense > >to work against Debian all the time. If one doesn't want systemd, > >then > >the solution is to leave. I mean: If you use Debian, then you use it > >cause it is rock solid, aka stable.

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/11/14 08:57, Andrew McGlashan wrote: And for those choosing to go with systemd they'll need 20 updates of Jessie just because the kernel is intrinsically linked to systemd and needs an update. Debian wheezy entered freeze with Linux kernel version 3.2.30. As of today, a system running wh

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:01 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other infrastructure you > rely on) instead of maintaining workarounds and compatibility code in > perpetuity makes perfect sense. It amazes me the depths that some systemd proponents obfuscate and

Re: initramfs prompt

2014-11-10 Thread Achim Spreen
Darac Marjal wrote: add root=: Hello Darac. # Partiton table: #1 pri ? sda1 ? ? # make by OS automatically #5 log 0.45 sda5 B ext4 / #6 log 12.0 sda6 ext4 /home #7 log 9.6sda7 ext4 /usr #8 log 3.2sda8 ext4 /var #9 log

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Mart van de Wege
Tanstaafl writes: >> And because some devs want to placate those whiners, we get interminable >> political games and good people quitting the project. >> >> Why don't the anti-systemd people do what they've been threatening the >> whole time and fuck off to another distro or to FreeBSD? > > Wow.

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:35:16AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > I thought this list had some minimal etiquette requirements? Do the list > moms really allow comments like the above to stand? If so, I guess > Debian has fallen farther than I thought, and maybe it *is* time to look > elsewhere - even th

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/8/2014 10:03 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Quite frankly, I'm disgusted. A developer with a lot of contributions is > chased away by the noise made by a bunch of whiners who can't even be > bothered to set up a test server. Obviously you didn't bother to read his posts. His problem was not

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 nov 14, 22:32:45, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Is it possible, systemd dependency issues aside, to do a clean install > of Jessie with an init other than systemd without first installing > systemd? And, if so, how would one do it? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668001 Ki

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 7:38 PM, Matt Ventura wrote: > On 11/9/2014 11:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan: >>> Forwarding a message "as is" from another mailing list ... very relevant >>> to Linux and the systemd dilemma. >>> >> No, it is not.

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/9/2014 11:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Andrew McGlashan: Forwarding a message "as is" from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. No, it is not. Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other infrastructure you rely on) instead of mainta

Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"

2014-11-10 Thread Jarle Aase
I have been using "testing" for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to the latest version. That was a disaster. Eventually I gave up fixing the upgrade and performed a fresh install (with encrypted root file system). No matter what I did (I tried 5 - 6 fresh installs on two disks, and a few b

Re: Time for compassion and the Init GR

2014-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 7, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 11/7/2014 2:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Jo, 06 nov 14, 22:11:59, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> I thought he took special care to not make any assumptions about the >> results. >> >> Kind regards, >> Andrei I’m with Andrei. I think S

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Andrew" == Andrew McGlashan > writes: Andrew> On 10/11/2014 6:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Andrew> The world of FreeBSD with ZFS seems so much more appealing day after day. Great. Please switch to FreeBSD (it's a great OS), if you do not like where Linux is headed, instead