Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
lists are hugely superior to forums. That's also why most free software projects have mailing lists, not forums. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
. By the way, I just read on the nosh web page that they can provide nosh-systemd-services_1.7_amd64.deb, which supposedly supports nosh in daemontools compatibility mode under systemd. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:16:47 -0400 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 10/8/2014 10:36 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: If what you did works for everybody when Jessie goes stable, you've just singlehandedly ended this whole argument. Not really. Just because

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:47:33 +0100 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: So if you've seen some of your posts not be posted, be aware that ... I often see debian-user messages in Gmail's spam box

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:27:30 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Complexity is not a simple topic. :-\ Can I quote you on that? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
at OpenBSD. Every bit of configuration is easily done from an editor, and there's little complexity beyond the complexity of the original problem domain. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

How to network-install Jessie?

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How does one network-install Jessie? I always network-install Wheezy, and love it that way, but I've never found a way to network-install Jessie/Testing. Is there any way that doesn't involve installing Wheezy and then upgrading? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Prolem with external monitor

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
with various laptop function keys. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708 Read the first 10 messages. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
[to a tech-ctte vote]. I don't think that many substantial new arguments are going to be brought by waiting more on this topic. And it is clear that we have reached a point where not having clear guidance is severely hurting the project. Let me (Steve Litt) paraphrase this: We've

Re: pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:16:58 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:57:07 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: Fortunately, I installed something that automounts my thumb drives

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:24:11 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/06/2014 05:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I think the right way to moderate a list is: A) Tell everyone it's a moderated list B) Send the poster a short reason why his post has been moderated. Sure

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
, you're wasting my limited bandwidth. :/ Ric Having a bad year, Ric? Every time you post, you're in a bad mood. You know how to use procmail, why don't you just filter suject Moderated posts?, or filter *me* out? As a matter of fact, that just gave me an idea. Thanks! SteveT Steve Litt

I'm sorry

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Five minutes ago I posted a mean, personal attack. Nobody needs that, especially these days. So I just procmailed that particular person to /dev/null, so I won't see his messages and respond to him. I apologize to the list and the person I personally attacked. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
, but that's not all that simple either. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
argument. If you want to collaborate on this article, I'll throw an extra hard disk in my experimental box to tech edit your instructions. This just might be good news. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Suggested Openbox hotkey functions

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:22:04 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 06 oct 14, 18:08:22, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Everyone has a different way of working, so your hotkeys will probably be different than mine, but systemd here's a list of Openbox functions I

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:59:30 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: Hi Steve, On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:23:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: 1) Don't respond to obvious trolls. Although obvious trolls wasn't defined Since there is probably some concern that an obvious troll might

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 23:10:32 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:59:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi Steve, On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:23:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: 1) Don't respond to obvious trolls. Although obvious trolls

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:08:15 +0200 Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote: On 07/10/14 07:23, Steve Litt wrote: These are nowhere near a verbatim repeat of what the Listmaster said, but if these two things are what he meant, well, I can live with that, always assuming it's enforced

Re: pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
with pcmanfm, on either Ubuntu or Debian (Wheezy). Only Thunar did it, and then only on Ubuntu. Fortunately, I installed something that automounts my thumb drives to /media/usb0, /media/usb1, etc, so I don't need my file manager to do it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Suggested Openbox hotkey functions

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
, and it was kind of like bolting a drillpress to a car: it's messier than it's worth, and doesn't work all that well, and is rather memory consuming. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Wifi works again. Should I post bug reports?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
enough evidence to deduce whether or not it's a permissions problem. You should re-try the original programs, and if you suspect permissions, temporarily change them, but not while plugged into the Internet. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
on all my laptops. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: upgrade from 7 to testing no longer possible

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
was about 40% of why I moved from Ubuntu to Debian. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
a list is: A) Tell everyone it's a moderated list B) Send the poster a short reason why his post has been moderated. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:50:54 -0700 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 10/6/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Moderated posts? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, October 6, 2014, 4:42 PM Hi all

Suggested Openbox hotkey functions

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
Window SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Action, inaction, and over-the-top

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
room for mockery to make your point without swearwords or extreme incivility. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 21:43:37 -0500 Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: * On 2014 06 Oct 16:45 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Several of my posts to lists.debian.org have not made it to the list, as defined by both my inbox and the list archive. These posts all had something in common

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:42:14 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, Several of my posts to lists.debian.org have not made it to the list, as defined by both my inbox and the list archive. I emailed listmas...@lists.debian.org, and although I didn't get a yes or no answer

Re: (Song) Fk SystemD

2014-10-05 Thread Steve Litt
do this. It hurts the credibility of the entire group who agrees with you 100% on the issues. There are enough *facts* about systemd, Poettering, Sievers and Redhat to logically and completely make your point. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: [Startubuntu] Throw clarity to the world

2014-10-05 Thread Steve Litt
What do you mean by fully flat graphics? If you mean no 3D, Linux has had that forever: Don't install Compiz, and use Xfce, LXDE, Openbox, or a host of other desktops. Stay away from Unity :-) On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:23:02 -0300 Felipe de Andrade Neves Lavratti felipe...@gmail.com wrote: It seems

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
whose discussion descends to this low level. Lisi Yeah, go ahead. And then three more will pop up for each one you silence. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
continuing protestations couldn't be used as a recruiting tool for the anti-systemd folks. But nooo! What am I missing? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Throw clarity to the world

2014-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
(AKA workspace). Cool! I think fvwm had that in the 20th century! That snap feature to tile your windows actually looks pretty good. Anyone know of an equivalent command for Openbox? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
to handle chroots, but it won't do VMs. Too old. LXC is worth a look. Thanks Jonathan. I use Docker from time to time, but never knew about LXC. If I use LXC experimentally, what's a good, simple, proof of concept use case? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: xen bootcamp (was: xen: was Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd) upstream

2014-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 12:20:31 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Hi Reco, This is outstanding information. Thank you! On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:16:41PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:57:41 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, ok. We all got

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
. So if I had an uber-Geek in the family, that's what I'd give him or her. I understand the benefit of using one distro and learning it in and out, but I think in the long run that won't work for someone with a wide variety of computing needs. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

xen: was Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
I'm vastly misinformed, once your dom0 xen is installed, you can now install domU hosts of any type you want, with or without systemd, and use them to your heart's content. Am I understanding the situation right? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: Bluetooth mouse? (Solved)

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
it fixed. What's the benefit of a bluetooth mouse over an RF mouse like the Logitech 310? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:45:13 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:29:22AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt

Re: apt-get errors

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
commands. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
onto a 128Mb machine (but it could hardly run more than one or two GUI programs simultaneously, using Xfce). SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:13:10 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:58:30AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Me, I'm personally going to continue fresh installing, because I enjoy the spring-cleaning aspect of it, and the fact that I'm starting my new

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
guarantee you can run any app you want. Why don't you convert your Debian server to OpenBSD running as a guest of xen? If you already know and use xen, you have the easiest escape hatch in the world. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

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

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
of fact, the way things are going, that can be said for all of Linux. So actually, I hope I'm wrong. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
ones. LXDE and Xfce are two of the best. I *always* have LXDE on my laptops, so that when my IQ drops 30 points before giving a presentation, I can get my laptop and projector resolution matched, and easily pull up my presentation. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: How to make more space available for /

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
your new installation, so be picky: Copy only real data that you produced. As you can probably tell, I'm not a big fan of major version upgrades. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 Yes. I'm a huge believer in wiping and reinstalling major versions. It's like spring cleaning, and I

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:55:32 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 23:50:45 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote

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

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
- but not really. Oh, the same way I could say: I am forced to write init scripts for a package. As I recently just did: The difference being that the Linux *you* originally moved *to* required init scripts. Nobody changed everything on you. SteveT Steve Litt* http

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

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
on an experimental with PC-BSD sometimes, late at night. A little slow, but pretty good. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
modules argument. Here's my take on that... http://troubleshooters.com/linux/systemd/lol_systemd.htm SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:57:12 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 11:18:22 schrieb Steve Litt: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:02:35 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 14:51:01 schrieb Miles Fidelman

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:10:52 -0500 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Dowland wrote at 2014-09-28 13:05 -0500: The more and more I read people objecting to the modularity of systemd, the more I am reminded of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate re microkernels. It does seem to be

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
.htm#locking_your_screen HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

Re: systemd and server use (was: Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream)

2014-09-26 Thread Steve Litt
with the features you enumerate above, I'd be dancing in the street, not looking for a way out. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: 2 fork or ~2 fork

2014-09-26 Thread Steve Litt
modularity or follow the money, their response is that we're just like the guy threatening lawsuits. Don't worry, it'll blow over. And for every one of us that gets silenced, three more pop up. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

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

2014-09-26 Thread Steve Litt
difficulties installing some tarball be construed as Debian imposing anything on upstreams? Dependencies, or perhaps in the era of systemd, dependencies factorial, make it just as hard to ./configure;make/make install as they do to apt-get install. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
command of !/.xinitrc. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
sysvinit. Let's wait for a good alternative, and in the meantime keep sysvinit is a lot different than let's keep sysvinit (indefinitely). SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
on it brings about. […] Fedora does already depend on systemd --- and I would say completely. Or do you see a choice here? And exactly *how* is this relevant to Debian? Well, for one thing, it was one reason the DDs used to select systemd. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:55:29 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 25/09/14 16:40, Steve Litt wrote: Let's wait for a good alternative, and in the meantime keep sysvinit is a lot different than let's keep sysvinit (indefinitely). Voting let's keep sysvinit *in jessie* says

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:08:42 +0200 Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl wrote: op 25-09-14 17:30, Steve Litt schreef: On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:59 +0200 Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl wrote: Hello, I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting services

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
for slitt, no password. There's probably a right way to fix it, but I haven't found it yet, so I just work around the problem. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
, requiring no changes to the kernel, and no collaboration with userland, other than modes that were used by the old one. When that went well, they could have added a few features, on and on, and everyone would have been happy. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
is. But it's written in Python, managed by daemontools, so it's pretty easy to modify to one's own needs. If you really get desparate and this is the only option you have left, let me know and I'll slap an Expat licence on it and give it to you. HTH, sure it doesn't :-) SteveT Steve Litt

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:30:22 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:58:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: True, it's a single point of failure, but it's made by GNU, whose agenda is less harmful to Linux than the agenda of Redhat. I nearly choked on my coffee

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
to judgement and B) the choices encompassed only systemd and two not so good choices. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Daemontools Introduction

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just finished writing a daemontools intro here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/djbdns/daemontools_intro.htm SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:16:26 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:33:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Look at it this way: If GNU wanted to stick stuff into their compiler to reduce the utility of Linux, they would have done so years ago. They never have

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:19:55 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 23 sep 14, 19:48:38, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:10:22 +0100 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com wrote: http://homepage.ntlworld.com

Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
:~$ == Does anyone know if there's an fix for Debian's bash, and how to install it? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x' this is a test slitt@mydesq2:~$ Thank you! I was worried about that. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
but relatively unknown software such as daemontools 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. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:08:35 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org 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

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
a long way toward pointing you in the direction of the root cause. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

Re: Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:44:41 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-09-23, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com 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

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
no such definition that CLI user identification must interact with part of PID 1's package, nor that a GUI program know the intimate details of PID 1. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Where to put daemontools startup in systemd Jessie?

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
to see what that would be like. I wonder how much stuff I could still install after doing that. Interesting experiment. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-22 Thread Steve Litt
, perhaps it's about time those who railroaded this atrocity through *do* walk off. Going along with linkage between a GUI desktop and PID 1? Really? How Macintosh! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-22 Thread Steve Litt
. He used Debian because he _did_ like it, not because he didn't. Lisi And I'm sure Jerry likes Debian too. As it existed before systemd. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Preliminary Funtoo report

2014-09-22 Thread Steve Litt
systemd refugees would be newbies. I'm going to continue working with Funtoo, and also trying PC-BSD in the next several days. I'll let you know. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
of PID 1. But don't take my word for it, and don't believe my one paragraph filter of the information, read it yourself. Seriously, it's an eye opener. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
a much higher hassle level to continue using a modular, sane and POSIX operating system. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:57:36 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/21/2014 11:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time

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

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
little fvwm documentation, every time I try to use fvwm things go wrong fast. I'm pretty sure that fvwm is native on OpenBSD, and some small Linux distros. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
changed. Whatever happened to it's ready when it's ready? http://troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199906/_debian.htm SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
experience a slowdown. The process on top of the list is the one which's causing all this mess on your PC (most probably, as there may be several of them). Very nice! Thanks for the tip. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
I wouldn't want to speculate before using htop and iotop, but for many of the years I used Kmail (and therefore the KDE libraries), I regularly had dbus-daemon instances go rogue and eat up 98% of the processor. It got so bad that I made a daemon to go out every 5 seconds, find any dbus-daemon

Re: SDD I/O very low 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
of writes. Many times, this fragmentation can be corrected. See this: https://sites.google.com/site/lightrush/random-1/howtoconfigureext4toenabletrimforssdsonubuntu HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Where to put daemontools startup in systemd Jessie?

2014-09-20 Thread Steve Litt
personally need to do what's necessary to run it at boot. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Where to put daemontools startup in systemd Jessie?

2014-09-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:40:58 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 04:02:44PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Right now I have the following at the bottom of my /etc/rc.local in Wheezy: csh -cf '/command/svscanboot ' How would I accomplish

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:45:30 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:08:45 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: 4) Why re-implementing systemd? Writing your own init is much more

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