Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread karl
Tilt!: i wonder if we ever get to see such SSIDs from iwlist anyway - how is it supposed to print SSIDs that contain the zerobyte ... iwlib.c line 989..995: /* Is it a non-ASCII character ??? */ if(isescape || !isascii(*s) || iscntrl(*s)) { /* Escape */

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
Rethinking about it, there is no need to use the ESSID in the table. A table like the following would do the job neatly, in my humble opinion. ESSIDs are already saved in the interfaces files, so a table like the following is enough: 1 my little wifi at home 2 my wifi at work 3

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-08-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:29:43 +0200 Joerg Reisenweber reisenwe...@web.de wrote: On Sun 26 July 2015 23:18:58 Steve Litt wrote: You can roll your own automount with one day's work using inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command. Works without X or window manager. Heck, I'll do

Re: [DNG] xfce not shutting down on Devuan

2015-08-25 Thread adamdm
I solved installing slim and enabling the auto-login. Even using your config startx didn't worked out... Thank you all! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:06:52 +0100 Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com wrote: Rethinking about it, there is no need to use the ESSID in the table. A table like the following would do the job neatly, in my humble opinion. ESSIDs are already saved in the interfaces files, so a table like the

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:24:17 +0200 (CEST), Karl wrote: Tilt!: i wonder if we ever get to see such SSIDs from iwlist anyway - how is it supposed to print SSIDs that contain the zerobyte ... iwlib.c line 989..995: /* Is it a non-ASCII character ??? */ if(isescape || !isascii(*s)

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Irrwahn irrw...@freenet.de writes: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:49:39 +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: tilt! t...@linuxfoo.de writes: On 08/25/2015 02:09 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: Considering that this enforces some kind of 'bastard URL-encoding' (using + as prefix instead of %) for all other bytes,

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-08-25 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 26 July 2015 23:18:58 Steve Litt wrote: You can roll your own automount with one day's work using inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command. Works without X or window manager. Heck, I'll do it myself if more than 20 people want it. +1 /j signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
For the attention of the packager: I found a way of using a pascal compiler command to compile the Lazarus project without having Lazarus running. The procedure is as follows: cd to-directory-containing-sources Issue this weirdo-of-a-command: fpc-2.6.4 -MObjFPC -Scghi -O1 -Tlinux -g -gl

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread tilt!
Am 25. August 2015 15:52:15 MESZ, As mentioned above: if there is any real issue with the code at all, it is the fact that null characters (zero bytes) are not handled correctly by the code. But that's a feat it has in common with many consumer WiFi appliance configuration utilities (and a

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
OOOps: type TDynamicRecord = record RecordTypeID: integer; ActualRecord: Pointer; end; should be: type TDynamicRecord = record RecordTypeID: TRecordTypeID; ActualRecord: Pointer; end; On 25/08/2015, Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com wrote: Quote: Rainer

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:24:01 +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: Irrwahn irrw...@freenet.de writes: snip It is totally sensible to break down the character set to something that is more or less guaranteed to be valid for building names in any file system currently in use on this planet. This

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
We can easily avoid having to encode ESSIDs by creating a file containing a texual lookup table as the following, but since the project is already functional, it looks like rebuilding a house that is already habitable. essid1my little wifi at home essid2oops, wifi at my partner's! essid3

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
Quote: Rainer Wrote: A C string of length 0 is just a \000. A NULL pointer is not a string. A unallocated variable, be it anything from a simple basic variable like an int*, to the most complex of struct variables, is simply a placeholder for a memory address, or a pointer devoid of space,

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread tilt!
Am 25. August 2015 16:52:41 MESZ, schrieb Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com: We can easily avoid having to encode ESSIDs by creating a file containing a texual lookup table as the following, but since the project is already functional, it looks like rebuilding a house that is already habitable.

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:02:55 +0200, Tilt! wrote: Am 25. August 2015 16:52:41 MESZ, schrieb Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com: We can easily avoid having to encode ESSIDs by creating a file containing a texual lookup table as the following, but since the project is already functional, it

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Irrwahn irrw...@freenet.de writes: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:02:55 +0200, Tilt! wrote: Am 25. August 2015 16:52:41 MESZ, schrieb Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com: We can easily avoid having to encode ESSIDs by creating a file containing a texual lookup table as the following, but since the

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:06:52 +0100 Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com wrote: Rethinking about it, there is no need to use the ESSID in the table. A table like the following would do the job neatly, in my humble opinion. ESSIDs are already saved in the interfaces files, so a table like the

[DNG] curated list of news

2015-08-25 Thread Jaromil
FYI just found out devuan on voat https://voat.co/v/devuan to whoever concerns, thanks for curating this section! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread karl
Irrwahn: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:24:17 +0200 (CEST), Karl wrote: Tilt!: i wonder if we ever get to see such SSIDs from iwlist anyway - how is it supposed to print SSIDs that contain the zerobyte ... iwlib.c line 989..995: /* Is it a non-ASCII character ??? */ if(isescape

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:16:08 +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: On 25/08/2015, Irrwahn irrw...@freenet.de wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:20:20 +0200 (CEST), Karl wrote: Irrwahn: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:24:17 +0200 (CEST), Karl wrote: Tilt!: i wonder if we ever get to see such SSIDs from iwlist

Re: [DNG] remove systemd for the love of Yog-Sothoth already

2015-08-25 Thread aitor_czr
Hi again, I recomend you to use pristine-tar in combination with git-buildpackage. *** EXAMPLE 1: HOW TO GET THE SOURCES USING PRISTINE-TAR 1) Download any git repository (for example, systemd): $ git clone https://gitlab.com/aitor_cz/bulmages.git 2) Enter into the

Re: [DNG] Mirroring Devuan

2015-08-25 Thread karl
Jaromil: we haven't yet worked on the mirroring mechanism, but we will once done, there will be a script and it will be easy I guess it will be a sort of amprolla satellite process so that the mirror redirection will be handled by nextime's software ... I would be good if one could have a

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
Since eth0 is usually configured in /etc/network/interfaces, and a normal installation creates a functioning interfaces file, I think, it is better to leave what works unchanged. The backend can be modified a little to call ifup eth0, and if more than one ethX exist, which is highly improbable on

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi Tilman Kranz, What should I do? Could give me more details as to what I should do, please? Edward On 25/08/2015, tilt! t...@linuxfoo.de wrote: Hi Edward, On 08/25/2015 12:51 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: [...] Please accept merge request #1 cleanup of backend binaries. I forgot to add

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
tilt! t...@linuxfoo.de writes: Hi Edward, On 08/25/2015 12:51 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: [...] Please accept merge request #1 cleanup of backend binaries. Two random remarks: , | size_t essid_safe_strlen(uint8_t * bytes) | { | size_t result; | | if(!bytes) |

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:35:21PM +0200, Irrwahn wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:16:08 +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: The contents of interfaces files created by backend are as follows, but if necessary, we can create more than more template, although it doesn't look it will be necessary.

Re: [DNG] remove systemd for the love of Yog-Sothoth already

2015-08-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 17:09 +0200, aitor_czr wrote: Hi Svante, Pristine-tar branch guarantees a constant checksum in the sources *.bz2. The packager should not make changes in the source (this is only for the developer), all the changes must be done in the debian branch using quilt. Shortly

Re: [DNG] Mirroring Devuan

2015-08-25 Thread aitor_czr
Hi, Jaromil, I did something similar in January, but it took me so long... I have the script in another hard disk. I will reanalize it (whenever i have the time) and share with you. I suppose rsync woult be the best tool to mantain the repository. I don't know if it would be better than

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
tilt! t...@linuxfoo.de writes: On 08/25/2015 02:09 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: Considering that this enforces some kind of 'bastard URL-encoding' (using + as prefix instead of %) for all other bytes, it's also going make people who believe that UTF-8 would be a well supported way to represent

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread tilt!
Hi, On 08/25/2015 02:09 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: Considering that this enforces some kind of 'bastard URL-encoding' (using + as prefix instead of %) for all other bytes, it's also going make people who believe that UTF-8 would be a well supported way to represent non-ASCII characters very

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: tilt! t...@linuxfoo.de writes: Hi Edward, On 08/25/2015 12:51 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: [...] Please accept merge request #1 cleanup of backend binaries. Two random remarks: , | size_t

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-25 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:09:27 +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: snip , | uint8_t essid_allowed_chars[] = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-; | | [...] | | int essid_allowed_char(uint8_t c) { | size_t i; | size_t k; | | int rv; | | rv =