Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
is „better”. Without this definition we won’t get the right solution. I prefer several half-assed options I can choose from instead of having one solution I don’t like and I can’t change. Then I can use Windows again. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
will solve these problems when you have dependencies outside the box you are booting. The local admin has to check if all timings are right and must adjust them if they are not fitting. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
-platform distribution. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:10:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 15, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: Okay, I am not a DD, This pretty much explains why you are not qualified to partecipate to this discussion. You do not seem to be interested in having users, do you

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
think performance issues are a problem. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-30 Thread Stephan Seitz
to /usr. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-27 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-25 Thread Stephan Seitz
that no rootkit module could be loaded). Most of these admins have /usr separated from /. Should all these admins start repartitioning their systems or fiddle with initramfs? We can do this with new systems, yes, but not with the old ones. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
/var, e.g. for squid, news, databases Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-09 Thread Stephan Seitz
system services which GNOME depends on, presumably. Such services should not be started in the early boot stage. And when the system switches to runlevel 2, /usr is mounted. So, this is no excuse. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-09 Thread Stephan Seitz
release to another without reinstalling everything. This is one of the main reasons why I use Debian. If you wish to through this great advantage away because of crappy software, fine. But be prepared that you will lose people. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
forcing the user to have /usr on the /-partition. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
even not supported on the platform. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:11:56PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: But as was seen in the last discussion, not everyone *has* an initramfs, because it is not needed in many cases or sometimes even not supported on the platform

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:44:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: Yes, but by the admin, not by Debian, and the admin may not be interested in adding a new layer of possible failures, because it works. And other admins may

Re: Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
. But / was ext2 for a long time (good enough for small partitions), now it has ext3. So it can always be repaired with a rescue DVD. So I am not really interested in making the important boot/repair partition bigger than necessary. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 13, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: - I think that the probability that defective hard drive sectors will hit a small partition is less. So your „repair partition” will probably boot at least

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
am no interested in changing this good tradition. So please don’t break other people’s setup. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
„exit 0” version. And talking with other people, this seems to be far easier to remember if they want to revert the change. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
this service. But why are the unit files not configuration files to begin with like init scripts? In my eyes they all belong in /etc. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:37:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 20:01 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : So, since you don’t need it, other people don’t need it either? No, since I don’t need it, I don’t want to be forced to use it. You know, there are some who just

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:46:54AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 09:58 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : So, since you don’t need it, other people don’t need it either? No, since I don’t need it, I don’t want to be forced to use it. So you prefer to force your crap

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
. Of course, if we decide that systemd has to run on kfreebsd as well before we change the default init, then the migration will last longer. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
it is not even a configuration file. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
# 3) # -r enables logging from remote machines (deprecated, only used in # compat mode 3) # -x disables DNS lookups on messages received with -r # -c compatibility mode # See rsyslogd(8) for more details RSYSLOGD_OPTIONS=”-c5” Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
sysklogd, syslog-ng and rsyslog. But I don’t think it is worth to replace sysvinit. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
addresses have to be activated later. Any hints are welcome. Maybe this is the wrong list and the discussion should be moved to debian-user? If yes feel free. I’m reading both lists. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net

Re: ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
address types (say one fixed address, so you know how to reach the system, and one dynamic address (privacy extension) for outgoing traffic)? If not yet, is this feature planned? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public

Re: some suggestions towards a Debian .desktop policy [Was: Warm up discussion about desktop files]

2011-04-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
, why can’t I find it in the menu?). I don’t know what XFCE does now, but I use mostly the shell to start applications, because I don’t want to look through to menu only to find out that someone thought I shouldn’t see the application. Happy Eastern! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: some suggestions towards a Debian .desktop policy

2011-04-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
. And I had already people in my company who asked me why they didn’t find a certain application in their menu. Well, it was filtered because other people thought they shouldn’t see this application in the environment the users were using. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
of the base installation and handling my network without me choosing to do so. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
looked like this I could live with the fact not being able to (de)activate one part of a dual stack interface. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
and leave the rest alone in the default installation. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
. The only thing that I miss from ifupdown (and I configured bonds, bridges and vlans) is a good IPv6 support. I can’t separately activate or deactivate IPv4 or IPv6 parts of an interface. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | PGP

Re: bonding and bridging

2007-08-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
In debian.devel.user Guus Sliepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add the bonding module to /etc/modules, so that bond0 exists when the network interfaces are brought up. Then you can do something like: iface bond0 inet static address 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 slaves eth0 eth1

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