Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Rainer Weikusat wrote: > But leaving these two general remarks aside, I don't quite understand > what you wanted to express. That "freedom of choice" is very important - as demonstrated by two posts setting out the reason why (for the poster's situation) the correct option is both one way and

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/05/2016 15:44, Rob Owens a écrit : - Original Message - From: "Didier Kryn" Le 03/05/2016 19:10, Rob Owens a écrit : Yes, but then when an openrc user wants to start/stop a service, he cannot do '/etc/init.d/myservice start' like he could do on any other OS using openrc. He'd ha

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Hendrik Boom writes: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:45:24PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Stephanie Daugherty writes: >> > Process supervision is something I'm very opinionated about. In a number of >> > high availability production environments, its a necessary evil. >> > >> > However, it shoul

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:45:24PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Stephanie Daugherty writes: > > Process supervision is something I'm very opinionated about. In a number of > > high availability production environments, its a necessary evil. > > > > However, it should *never* be an out of the bo

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Stephanie Daugherty writes: > Process supervision is something I'm very opinionated about. In a number of > high availability production environments, its a necessary evil. > > However, it should *never* be an out of the box default for any > network-exposed service, Service failures should be ext

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-04 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Stephanie Daugherty writes: Service failures should be extraordinary events, and we should strive to keep treating them as such, so that we continue to pursue stability. Restarting a service automatically doesn't improve stability of that software, it works around an instability rather than ad

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 04 May 2016 18:18:02 + Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > Process supervision is something I'm very opinionated about. In a > number of high availability production environments, its a necessary > evil. > > However, it should *never* be an out of the box default for any > network-exposed s

Re: [DNG] nfs mounts in fstab

2016-05-04 Thread Fernando M. Maresca
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 01:55:15PM -0400, Steven W. Scott wrote: > It sort of reminded me of Ubuntu, where networking issn't activated until > desktop login time. Once I added the adapters to interfaces and set up the > wpa_supplicant definitions the fstab mount was successful. Most bothersome >

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-04 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
Process supervision is something I'm very opinionated about. In a number of high availability production environments, its a necessary evil. However, it should *never* be an out of the box default for any network-exposed service, Service failures should be extraordinary events, and we should striv

[DNG] nfs mounts in fstab

2016-05-04 Thread Steven W. Scott
FYI, If anybody is having trouble getting nfs mounts in fstab to work, have a look at /etc/network/interfaces and make sure your interface is defined there - I've been trying to figure out why mine wasn't working for the past few days and found the only thing in interfaces was lo. Could have b

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread poitr pogo
upstart is init subsystem which is using same names for binaries; commands as sysvinit probably to be a drop in replacement, not ment to coexist with sysvinit. sysv-rc,openrc , file-rc all depend on init binary daemon and are replacements for init.d/rc(S) files which init binary executes. so they

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 4 May 2016 09:54:37 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Steve Litt" > > > On Tue, 3 May 2016 10:06:07 -0400 (EDT) > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > >> I agree with putting each init in its own directory, but sysvinit > >> should not own /etc/init.d. sy

Re: [DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 May 2016 22:41:48 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > We're not the first people to think about supporting > alternative init systems. There are collections of the > init scripts already available. > > https://bitbucket.org/avery_payne/supervision-scripts > https://github.com/tokiclover/supervisi

Re: [DNG] Default purpy desktop theme

2016-05-04 Thread Go Linux
On Wed, 5/4/16, fsmithred wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Default purpy desktop theme To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 11:13 AM On 05/04/2016 11:20 AM, Go Linux wrote: > Evidently the default purpy desktop graphics didn't make it into the beta. > :( You can find the purpy w

Re: [DNG] Default purpy desktop theme

2016-05-04 Thread fsmithred
On 05/04/2016 11:20 AM, Go Linux wrote: > Evidently the default purpy desktop graphics didn't make it into the beta. > :( You can find the purpy wallpaper here (among all the others): > > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/desktop-base/tree/master/backgrounds > > And it looks like the purp

[DNG] Default purpy desktop theme

2016-05-04 Thread Go Linux
Evidently the default purpy desktop graphics didn't make it into the beta. :( You can find the purpy wallpaper here (among all the others): https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/desktop-base/tree/master/backgrounds And it looks like the purpy window manager theme is here: https://git.devuan.

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread poitr pogo
If I had to be and admin of mixture of linux distributions I would probably use 'service', instead of remembering all commands suited for different init flavours and checking on which box I'm about to run a command. But in such a case I probably would not care what kind of init subsystem is runnin

Re: [DNG] For all you automounter programmers

2016-05-04 Thread fsmithred
Someone said they wanted a non-gui way to mount removable devices by label. Here it is. Let me know if it works for you or not. (It's working well here.) I'll add support for labels in the gui pmounter, too. https://gist.github.com/fsmithred/81a4e1585175c377c32ed2f670ab9ef3 -fsr ___

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:44:30AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Normally *this* admin never uses the service command because: You should because the service command cleans the environment. If you do „/etc/init.d/ start” you can have strange results. 1) it is not available on all distros or may n

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Steve Litt" > On Tue, 3 May 2016 10:06:07 -0400 (EDT) > Rob Owens wrote: > >> I agree with putting each init in its own directory, but sysvinit >> should not own /etc/init.d. sysvinit stuff should go in /etc/sysvinit >> and by default /etc/init.d should be

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Robert Storey writes: > For whatever it's worth, I'm fully supportive of the idea of defaulting to > a simpler init system such as S6, Epoch, Runit, you-name-it. I can't speak > for anyone else, of course, but I tend to think the sort of people who are > attracted to Devuan see the virtue of simpl

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Didier Kryn" > Le 03/05/2016 19:10, Rob Owens a écrit : >> Yes, but then when an openrc user wants to start/stop a service, he >> cannot do '/etc/init.d/myservice start' like he could do on any other >> OS using openrc. He'd have to do '/etc/openrc/myservice

Re: [DNG] network-manager depends on libpam-systemd (Daniel Reurich)

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/05/2016 10:30, Joel Roth a écrit : How do you like ceni? There isn't much detail in the man page. How does it deal with suspend? (With wicd-gtk I have to reconnect after wake-up.) I see there is a debian package available here: I have ceni installed on my Debian-wheezy. I just gave i

Re: [DNG] OT Re: cloud

2016-05-04 Thread Noel Torres
Hendrik Boom escribió: On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:23:05AM +, hellekin wrote: On 05/03/2016 06:05 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2016 10:44:29 + > hellekin wrote: > > >> I want to call it "rabbit" or "Shub-Niggurath" > > I fear the latter name would not be well received in the

[DNG] e: network-manager depends on libpam-systemd (Daniel Reurich)

2016-05-04 Thread emninger
Am Wed, 04 May 2016 10:07:01 + schrieb dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org: > How do you like ceni? There isn't much detail in the man > page. How does it deal with suspend? (With wicd-gtk I have > to reconnect after wake-up.) > > I see there is a debian package available here: > > http://aptosid.com

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan (and Windows)

2016-05-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 08:10:40AM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > > There's a special place in hell for people using ambiguous > > abbreviations, acronyms, and nicknames. > > You mean, like the whole IT industry - and in fact pretty well any industry ? > Such terms are routi

Re: [DNG] OT Re: cloud

2016-05-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:23:05AM +, hellekin wrote: > On 05/03/2016 06:05 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2016 10:44:29 + > > hellekin wrote: > > > > > >> I want to call it "rabbit" or "Shub-Niggurath" > > > > I fear the latter name would not be well received in the United Sta

[DNG] OT Re: cloud

2016-05-04 Thread hellekin
On 05/03/2016 06:05 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2016 10:44:29 + > hellekin wrote: > > >> I want to call it "rabbit" or "Shub-Niggurath" > > I fear the latter name would not be well received in the United States. > Would replacing "Shub-Niggurath" with "Henry Ford" make it any be

Re: [DNG] For all you automounter programmers

2016-05-04 Thread fsmithred
On 05/04/2016 05:58 AM, Boruch Baum wrote: > On 2016-05-02 08:12, fsmithred wrote: >> No support for file system labels at this time. If someone can tell me a >> reliable way for unprivileged user to get the labels, I'll add it. Feel >> free to use these scripts as they are or as motivation to crea

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Noel Torres
Steve Litt escribió: [...] I think the only daemons you really need in an installer are the gettys, sshd, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd. And you'll probably want the display manager too. Those obviously must be included in packages. The more obscure stuff can exist first on the Wiki, and gradually b

Re: [DNG] For all you automounter programmers

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/05/2016 11:58, Boruch Baum a écrit : On 2016-05-02 08:12, fsmithred wrote: No support for file system labels at this time. If someone can tell me a reliable way for unprivileged user to get the labels, I'll add it. Feel free to use these scripts as they are or as motivation to create somet

Re: [DNG] For all you automounter programmers

2016-05-04 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2016-05-02 08:12, fsmithred wrote: > No support for file system labels at this time. If someone can tell me a > reliable way for unprivileged user to get the labels, I'll add it. Feel > free to use these scripts as they are or as motivation to create something > better. Are you looking for?:

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/05/2016 05:43, Joel Roth a écrit : nteresting, I thought /sbin was historically for statically linked executables needed at boot time, or for system recovery. I think the 's' stands for "System-critical", not "Statically-linked". Didier ___

Re: [DNG] network-manager depends on libpam-systemd

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 03/05/2016 20:03, Steve Litt a écrit : On Tue, 3 May 2016 11:53:33 +0200 Didier Kryn wrote: Yes, I know. All these front-ends use wpa_supplicant in their kitchen. I just wonder why they find it more clever to re-do on their own what wpa_supplicant can do alone. I think I can answer

[DNG] Supervision scripts (was Re: OpenRC and Devuan)

2016-05-04 Thread Joel Roth
We're not the first people to think about supporting alternative init systems. There are collections of the init scripts already available. https://bitbucket.org/avery_payne/supervision-scripts https://github.com/tokiclover/supervision -- Joel Roth __

Re: [DNG] network-manager depends on libpam-systemd (Daniel Reurich)

2016-05-04 Thread Joel Roth
emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > Also: Ceni is an excellent ncurses based tool to administrate network > connections (it's based on dhcpd and wpa_supplicant), more basic then > networkmanager and wicd ((who both, it think, there are not just > overlays but they use their own way to deal with the hardwa

Re: [DNG] For all you automounter programmers

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 03/05/2016 19:12, fsmithred a écrit : @Didier - try pulling out the usb stick and replacing it with a different one. When I do that, the cache does not get updated. didn't try that. will do tonight :-) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org ht

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 03/05/2016 19:10, Rob Owens a écrit : Yes, but then when an openrc user wants to start/stop a service, he cannot do '/etc/init.d/myservice start' like he could do on any other OS using openrc. He'd have to do '/etc/openrc/myservice start'. Not a really big deal, but I think it's undesirable

Re: [DNG] Fwd: For all you automounter programmers

2016-05-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 03/05/2016 17:27, fsmithred a écrit : On 05/03/2016 09:34 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 03/05/2016 14:48, hellekin a écrit : On 05/03/2016 12:16 PM, Jim Murphy wrote: Problem, blkid uses a cache that is only updated when root runs blkid. Any changes are not automatically updated. A user only s

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 04 May 2016 06:47:06 + Noel Torres wrote: > Steve Litt escribió: > > > On Mon, 2 May 2016 22:15:44 -1000 > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > > > >> The problem with supporting multiple init systems is that > >> there is an init script for each service that has to be > >> ported or rewritt

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 01:03:08PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > For whatever it's worth, I'm fully supportive of the idea of defaulting to > a simpler init system such as S6, Epoch, Runit, you-name-it. Many people agree that sysvinit with its symlinks and run levels is overly complex for the com

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan (and Windows)

2016-05-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Steve Litt wrote: > There's a special place in hell for people using ambiguous > abbreviations, acronyms, and nicknames. You mean, like the whole IT industry - and in fact pretty well any industry ? Such terms are routinely used because they make speech and writing less verbose. I did my appre