Re: [DNG] Debian blocks latest Intel microcode update

2018-08-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Antony Stone - 23.08.18, 00:04: > On Wednesday 22 August 2018 at 23:32:28, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Don Wright - 22.08.18, 21:56: > > > El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer > > > and Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU > > > microcode updates. Th

Re: [DNG] Debian blocks latest Intel microcode update

2018-08-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Don Wright (wm...@dslextreme.com): > El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and Intel > over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode updates. The added > terms (see comments) appear to attach liability to both Debian and mirror > sites if the end us

Re: [DNG] Unbound details: was Mozilla and cloudflare to hijack all your DNS requests - for your own good of course

2018-08-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI (ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org): > Sadly, Debian and Devuan have nothing that compares with the Drak* tools. Standards of what are desirable tools for system administration, They Do Differ[tm]. On that foundation (diversity of opinions) we derive horse racing, among

Re: [DNG] Debian blocks latest Intel microcode update

2018-08-22 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 22 August 2018 at 23:32:28, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Don Wright - 22.08.18, 21:56: > > El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and > > Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode > > updates. The added terms (see comments) appear to at

Re: [DNG] Debian blocks latest Intel microcode update

2018-08-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Don Wright - 22.08.18, 21:56: > El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and > Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode > updates. The added terms (see comments) appear to attach liability to > both Debian and mirror sites if the end user violates ce

[DNG] Debian blocks latest Intel microcode update

2018-08-22 Thread Don Wright
El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode updates. The added terms (see comments) appear to attach liability to both Debian and mirror sites if the end user violates certain new restrictions regarding bench

Re: [DNG] Devuan and the raspberry pi 3+

2018-08-22 Thread Jim Jackson
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 08/21/2018 11:24 PM, Jim Jackson wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> I used devuan_ascii_2.0.0_arm64_raspi3 from the embedded sets running > >> on the 3B+ > >> You do have to resize the root partition manually if you do not use >

Re: [DNG] Unbound details: was Mozilla and cloudflare to hijack all your DNS requests - for your own good of course

2018-08-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:10:00 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > > If you are looking for a distro with easy-to-use GUI interface, and > > without systemd, you might consider PCLinuxOS, and its suite of Drak* > > configuration apps inherited from Mandrake / Mandriva / Mageia. > Or one can use Devuan. It

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread ael
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t contain any sbin > folders, only bin. If I login to root with “su -“ then the $PATH is as > expected. Perhaps this extract from util-linux NEWS is relevant:-

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread wirelessduck
> On 22 Aug 2018, at 20:28, John Hughes wrote: > >> On 22/08/18 08:24, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: >> I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and >> immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI >> installed. >> >> I notice when I login

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/21/2018 11:24 PM, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI installed. I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t contain any sbin folders, o

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 22.08.18 12:10, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and > > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and > > has no GUI installed. > > > > I notice when I

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread Jaromil
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and > > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and > > has no GUI installed. I notice when I log

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI > installed. > > I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t c

Re: [DNG] Devuan on Panasonic FZ-G1

2018-08-22 Thread Jaromil
dear Bruce, thanks for hinting about alsactl, I suspect checking the dependencies of this package may make the life easier to a number of people installing Devuan without using the desktop task. On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Bruce Perens wrote: >And the solution is: run alsactl init. >Does any pa

Re: [DNG] Devuan on Panasonic FZ-G1

2018-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:02:09 -0700 Bruce Perens wrote: > And the solution is: run alsactl init. I sure wish you'd told me about alsactl init 15 years ago, Bruce. Restoring to a known-good situation is priceless in troubleshooting. Thanks for telling me about it today. SteveT Steve Litt Sept