Re: dselect, init and systemd-sysv

2016-01-19 Thread koanhead
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:00:02 +0100, Aldo Maggi wrote: > Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've > received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be > uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action. > I've thought that as in previous cases (to

Re: run wireshark as non-root

2015-05-17 Thread koanhead
On Wed, 13 May 2015 19:50:02 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 07:28:14PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: log out then back in again. Third , I do not restart my computer , and it does not take effect! I find everything is right! The group wireshark exists, my account is in

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread koanhead
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:02 +0100, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd... we hope. Looking at the laptop, I noticed that the suspend indicator was on, even though I have had power management ignore the lid switch... It turns out that logind, a piece

Re: simple, dumb question

2014-11-20 Thread koanhead
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:00:03 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 19 nov 14, 21:25:52, koanhead wrote: I have had to pin the systemd package -1 to prevent it being reinstalled on upgrades or on dist-upgrades... Please do report bugs if apt-get still tries to replace sysvinit-core

Re: simple, dumb question

2014-11-19 Thread koanhead
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:10:04 +0100, Hans wrote: Hi folks, just a simple question. No flamewar, no weighting! At the moment I am running debian/jessie with systemd. And at the moment I am happy with it. Good! It is nopt quite clear for me, but is the next debian/stable release planned

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread koanhead
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:00:03 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 14 November 2014 09:18:22 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:56:08 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to have missed my question about which plugin/backend Iceweasel is using to play the video.

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-23 Thread koanhead
On 10/20/2014 04:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and bolted onto and

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread koanhead
On 10/11/2014 12:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 11 Oct 2014 at 12:49:15 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:53:20 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: You might want to check your facts: Linus Torvalds only created the Linux kernel, which is notoriously

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread koanhead
On 10/10/2014 01:10 PM, James Ensor wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: All well and good but what happens when sysv* get purged from the repos? When is this going to happen? I'm not aware of any intention to purge sysvinit-core from jessie or sid.

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-08 Thread koanhead
On 10/08/2014 07:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: koanhead wrote: On 10/06/2014 04:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian... I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off Debian and also give me the required information

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-07 Thread koanhead
On 10/06/2014 04:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian... I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off Debian and also give me the required information to: 1. close the maximum number of ports. I see him using

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread koanhead
On 09/28/2014 06:00 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:48:47PM -0700, koanhead wrote: On 09/25/2014 05:00 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:15:36PM -0700, koanhead wrote: I'm aware of BSD-style init, but the mailing-list thread [1] I posted [1

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread koanhead
On 09/25/2014 05:00 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:15:36PM -0700, koanhead wrote: can't use. I brought this up once on #offtopic and was told that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds (that's a paraphrase using the same words, not a quote) and then ridiculed. It's

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread koanhead
On 09/25/2014 03:30 AM, martin f krafft wrote: ... the Universal Operating System should also cater to non-desktops. And not only to other-than-desktop, but also to ports and architectures other than i386/amd64. I don't have a problem with systemd per se. I have used it before on Fedora

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread koanhead
On 09/16/2014 03:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:05:25 -0500 Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: * On 2014 16 Sep 12:51 -0500, st wrote: Surely, I'd love to see the votes on 'What distribution currently alive is a fair Unix-like GNU/Linux, stable as in Debian Woody',

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread koanhead
On 08/10/2014 11:40 PM, sa...@eng.it wrote: koanhead writes: For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this from a Jessie box without systemd... All I did was use aptitude interactively to remove systemd-* and then review and adjust the solutions as necessary

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread koanhead
On 08/10/2014 10:30 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... I have a philosophical problem with systemd, I suspect it will cause problems, my fallback is OpenBSD (or maybe Debian/kFreeBSD, thanks Reco) For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this from a Jessie box without systemd. It's

Re: Does anyone have mimic-tools1.0.1.deb package?

2014-07-29 Thread koanhead
On 07/28/2014 05:20 PM, koanhead wrote: Here's a thread on it at the aMSN forums. Derp. I forgot to include the link: http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=2954.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Does anyone have mimic-tools1.0.1.deb package?

2014-07-28 Thread koanhead
On 07/28/2014 02:50 PM, Martin T wrote: Hi, thank you for the reply, but looks the mimic-tools1.0.1.deb installation package has never been in official Debian repositories. Here's a thread on it at the aMSN forums. It has links to both source tarballs and .deb files, but those links are