Re: [OT] Floppies [was: Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason]

2014-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Doug wrote: > >Steve Litt wrote: > > > Screw that! I'm buying an old Kaypro 2x on Ebay, and using CPM for the > > > rest of my life! > > > :-) > > > >Good luck finding floppies! > > Turns out that is a big problem in maintaining the first generation of > electronic voting m

[OT] Floppies [was: Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason]

2014-08-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Doug wrote: On 08/06/2014 09:05 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:51:03 -0400 Tom H wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on system

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/06/2014 09:05 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Screw that! I'm buying an old Kaypro 2x on Ebay, and using CPM for the rest of my life! I have fond memories of my old Kaypro, the Televideos ( had them all, including the portable and the server), IMSAI and Altos computers and CP/M. And even MP/M. I

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Doug
On 08/06/2014 09:05 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:51:03 -0400 Tom H wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on systemd, for what r

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 11:03:45 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 08/05/2014 07:01 PM, AW wrote: > >And the documentation on the official systemd site is quite terrible, > >at least so far as I've been able to discover. > > They must have copy/pasted the initial systemd documentation from > the Arch L

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:51:03 -0400 Tom H wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on systemd, for what reason I haven't a clue.

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 08/05/2014 07:01 PM, AW wrote: And the documentation on the official systemd site is quite terrible, at least so far as I've been able to discover. They must have copy/pasted the initial systemd documentation from the Arch Linux Wiki. When the powers that be over at Arch Linux decided t

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:51:03 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > > > LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do > > everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on > > systemd, for what reason I haven't a clue. >

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 00:20:56 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > I have a basic question: I want to migrate to systemd [reasons below] [Snip] > However aptitude dist-upgrade shows me: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > graphviz{a} rsyslog{a} sysvinit-core{a} The testing distribution is i

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Joe
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 00:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > > I have a basic question: I want to migrate to systemd [reasons below] > > However... > > 1. I see on this list itself evidence of breakage No doubt about that. > > 2. Ive experienced some myself and I could only guess that it was

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:01:57AM CEST, AW > said: >> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 >> Tom H wrote: >>> >>> journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 >> >> Thanks! >> But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... >> journalctl show auth >> journalctl

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:17:15 -0700 > Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Aug 2014, Slavko wrote: > > > To be precise, i often read about these things: monolitic, binary > > > files and boot speed. I don't like first two and i am n

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:01 PM, AW wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> >> journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 > > Thanks! > But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... > journalctl show auth > journalctl show apache2 > journalctl show postgresql > or even better still > journal

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:01:57AM CEST, AW said: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > > > journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 > > Thanks! > But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... > journalctl show auth > journalctl show apache2 > journalctl show postgresql > or even better st

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 19:01:57 -0400 AW wrote: > But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... This makes the number '4' meaningful... ... SyslogFacility= Sets the syslog facility to use when logging to syslog. One of kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, authpriv, ft

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 Tom H wrote: > journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 Thanks! But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... journalctl show auth journalctl show apache2 journalctl show postgresql or even better still journalctl show -v postgresql and I found the '-o verbose' option to

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:12 PM, AW wrote: > > cat /var/log/auth.log > or > journalctl 'something unknown by me' journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 There's tab completion, so on my laptop where I've aliased systemctl and journalctl to sc and jc (and duplicated the systemctl and journalctl bash completi

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do > everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on > systemd, for what reason I haven't a clue. Maybe you should look into adapting the Android Init Language :

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:44:50 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: >I hear PAM now depends on >systemd, for what reason I haven't a clue. I'd bet last Tuesday's burrito special that you could compile and install a version of PAM without systemd... However, it's not all surprising that PAM pulls in a systemd

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:05:59 -0400 AW wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:32:48 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > >When I switch to systemd, I'd like to have it as isolated as humanly > >possible, just because I'm a modularity kind of guy. > > I've been watching the thread here... and I understand the

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Aug 2014 at 12:32:48 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Cool! Finally someone who knows it and is on the ground floor. I have > some questions... Debian isn't a department store. But if it were you want the penthouse, which is where the the systemd maintainers reside. > When I switch to system

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Aug 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > Cool! Finally someone who knows it and is on the ground floor. I have > some questions... > > When I switch to systemd, I'd like to have it as isolated as humanly > possible, just because I'm a modularity kind of guy. > > I'm thinking of starting the mini

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:32:48 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: >When I switch to systemd, I'd like to have it as isolated as humanly >possible, just because I'm a modularity kind of guy. I've been watching the thread here... and I understand the thought of not changing from sysvinit because sysvinit work

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:17:15 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2014, Slavko wrote: > > To be precise, i often read about these things: monolitic, binary > > files and boot speed. I don't like first two and i am not interested > > in latest. > > These are just accessible reasons. The mai