Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows

2012-02-24 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Moncef Baazet mob@gmail.com wrote: At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:26 +0800, mercator wrote: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output

Re: [arch-general] Can't boot, root device not found

2012-03-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
in the proper order. HOOKS=base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems Regenerate the initramfs using the command mkinitcpio -p linux Try booting again -- Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] Can't boot, root device not found

2012-03-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
ago.) -- Jayesh Badwaik

[arch-general] long list of declare -x statements on shell login

2012-04-15 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
does that file do? What should I do to remove that error? I right now just created an empty file by that name and there is no error now, but I suspect I should do something more? Thanks in advance -- Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] KRunner crashes

2012-04-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
/task/29517 -- Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] KRunner crashes

2012-04-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 19 Apr 2012 14:56:31 Maciej Sitarz wrote: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29467 Best regards I saw this post before but did not save it. I searched for it later while posting my answer, but could not find it neither on google nor anywhere else. Thanks -- Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
, master documents should always be plain text. The generated documents can be binary however. Also, there should be a fallback system where the plain text documents are used rather than binary documents so that the faults in generator do not affect the bootability of the system. -- Jayesh

[arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I am using some packages in python3.2 which create a __pycache__ folder. These folders is routinely blocking my updates and I have to remove the folders manually. Are any other among you facing the same problem? If yes, can I automatize it somehow? Thanks -- Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop

Re: [arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
to make it a habit. :-( -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
to unsigned is irritating. This will not push away people but it is irritating all the same. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html [0] http://www.muktware.com/news/2865/linus-torvalds-secure-boot-good- can

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
to unsigned is irritating. This will not push away people but it is irritating all the same. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html [0] http://www.muktware.com/news/2865/linus-torvalds-secure-boot-good- can

[arch-general] Location of sample websites

2012-06-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
paste the files to wherever he wants and then use them accordingly. Is there any reason for the current behaviour? Am I missing some aspect? Thanks for your reply in advance. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news

Re: [arch-general] Location of sample websites

2012-06-09 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Friday 08 Jun 2012 23:16:38 Pierre Schmitz wrote: Am 08.06.2012 22:59, schrieb Jayesh Badwaik: Hi, I am using wordpress and I found that the sample wordpress site is installed in the /srv/http location. I find it convenient that all such sample/getting started things should

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
for mail like gmail.com etc prefer forums. This especially works if you are a long term mailing list user and use POP3 mail and hence can search for question using your mail client search. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-12 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
, but it's not all that hard of a thing to do. Even I am of the same opinion. Then, people would not miss something that was already present in the forums and would not have to invest time in watching the forums and the mailing list separately. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
/Downgrading_Packages -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html [1] http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/alsa-firmware-1.0.25-1- x86_64.pkg.tar.xz [2]http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/alsa-firmware-1.0.25-1- i686.pkg.tar.xz

Re: [arch-general] Chromium's Langauge settings dialog not opening

2012-06-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
) -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

[arch-general] Advice on opening the .rm files in ArchLinux

2012-06-21 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have just downloaded the following file [0]. It is an .rm file but I am not able to open it in either VLC or Mplayer. I have posted -the error messages below. Thanks in advance. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [arch-general] Advice on opening the .rm files in ArchLinux

2012-06-21 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
it is playing video too so it is a video file in reality. Anyway, I will for now convert it too theora/mp4 from .rm from windows computer for now. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

[arch-general] Chromium browser does not follow the proxy settings

2012-06-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
fine. It is the chromium browser that is causing the problem. Any solutions? -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] Chromium browser does not follow the proxy settings

2012-06-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
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Re: [arch-general] Chromium browser does not follow the proxy settings

2012-06-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
, even after edit, the KDE application are working fine and process the proxy correctly and use it. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] Chromium browser does not follow the proxy settings

2012-06-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
The --proxy-server option is working perfectly fine for now. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] Free photo scan software with batch process?

2012-07-09 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
I don't know. But it used to do batch scans for my HP Officejet 4200 IIIRC. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] must be root to ping?

2012-07-14 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Ping requires/uses setuid. Probably, the new update was not compiled properly. On 14-Jul-2012 8:27 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Did I miss something? I now have to use sudo in order to ping: graton% ping 10.1.0.1

[arch-general] TexLive custom classes problem.

2012-07-18 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf- dist} And still when I run the latex command, it tells me that the jbnotebook.cls is not found. What can be the problem? -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] TexLive custom classes problem.

2012-07-18 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
realized that the problem was in TEXMFDB variable where a typo had rendered the home directory useless. Anyway, I had read that the TeXLive should automatically anyway search in ~/texmf. Why did this not happen here? Any ideas? -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post

Re: [arch-general] Updating AUR package with pacman

2012-07-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
care of everything? You can just install the new version. Pacman takes care of it. But even better would be to use something like packer/yaourt. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] Updating AUR package with pacman

2012-07-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 18:44:13 Thorsten Jolitz wrote: Jonathan Dlouhy dlouh...@gmail.com writes: On 07/19/2012 12:18 PM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 17:13:44 Thorsten Jolitz wrote: Hi List, when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
does something similar, except for if you are talking about /local but then, /local has the purpose of being /local, it can be vendor- supplied local program which are specific to the machine and it will have /bin /etc /lib and stuff? -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail

[arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
the dependencies I guess. Thanks for reading such a long mail if you have reached this far! -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Well, then: /opt - /usr/opt And everyone will be happy :) No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal stuff. That is the conflict. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 11:12:34 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: Well, then: /opt - /usr/opt And everyone will be happy :) No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal stuff. That is the conflict

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
configured boot process. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 12:50:47 Tom Gundersen wrote: I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest /opt to /crap Should make it clear what kind of packages belong there ;-) ;-) -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html

[arch-general] Playback sequence in Amarok-2.5.0-2 gone crazy

2012-07-30 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
to it requiring libavformat.so.53 which is now on my computer at 54 version and similar other files. I am trying to access Arch Rollback Machine right now to try 2.5.0-4 and will get back to you about what happens with it. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post

Re: [arch-general] Texlive package install

2012-08-03 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
, but requires either Xetex or LuaTex. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-07 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday 06 Aug 2012 04:57:33 Sébastien Luttringer wrote: Maybe one day zsh will become the default shell on arch :) What a day that will be!! -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
no other keyword in this context which would have got me the answer I wanted. So if someone from systemd and pulseaudio is reading this thread, awesome job people. I like your stuff. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
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[arch-general] Chromium usage of KDE proxy fixed

2012-08-11 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, Just realized that chromium now uses the KDE proxy settings properly now. :-) Awesome work. Thanks to whoever did it. :-) :-) -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

[arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-13 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
.) -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012- August/006066.html

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
mezcalero is Lennart and falconindy is Dave). Really, I don't think this is something we need to worry about. +1 -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] Systemd screen brightness

2012-08-15 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
? They work fine in my case. So, the problem might be specific to your keys. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
servers. Or if you have a desktop, you can try testing systemd once in a while and report errors, which can then be resolved. With the variety of computers existing, it is possible that every case reported here will be unique. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-17 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 16 Aug 2012 20:54:21 Ionut Biru wrote: with or without this poll, we are continuing with our plan. +1 -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
you expect someone to develop a better init system that systemd if the person has to first be compliant to all systemd things before even getting started. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
. Systemd will be widely supported (for better or for worse), and the corresponding effort to install initscripts is very very small and developers time is valuable. I think the debate of default is useless. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sunday 19 Aug 2012 19:11:12 you wrote: I think the debate of default is useless. I meant the voting not debate. That was typo. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
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Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
' to the PRESETS line. If this is done, would libcurl be automatically pulled into the initrd? -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
for a long time, until it tried firing up pavucontrol and saw it was not installed and neither was any pulseaudio package.) Also, there is no systemd dependency in KDE. So, KDE might be bad for you in general, but in this case, it is definitely good. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, Apparently, Gentoo has recently forked udev. [1] I am not completely sure since the main poster is a n00b according to the gentoo forum ratings, but rest of the discussions seems legit. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-28 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
as a dependency due to some funcitonality which was present in systemd only. [1] What is going on I am not sure, but this shows that GNOME in future is going to have a hard dependency on systemd. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-28 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
going to be making the changes. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde = new problem - solved

2012-09-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Martín Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: All is well!! Did you mean All Izz Well!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LltgOtFSg (from the movie Three Idiots, a very great one) I love Bollywood! Oh well! :-) --

Re: [arch-general] Akonadi file content search

2012-10-05 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Andy Pieters pieters.andy.mail...@gmail.com wrote: Hi girls and boys This may seem like a daft question, and I did research this at length on Google, but is there any frontend that one can use to search file file contents? You might want to try nepoogle which

Re: [arch-general] [gnome 3] PrintScreen key doesn't launch gnome-screenshot

2012-10-12 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:12 PM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: It is like the key is dead. But it is not a keyboard problem, same thing happens with another keyboard. Use the showkey to determine, if the key is being determined by the kernel when pressed. If it is being determined,

Re: [arch-general] [gnome 3] PrintScreen key doesn't launch gnome-screenshot

2012-10-12 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:09 AM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: First log I looked at. Nothing is stored. Nothing in /var/log/errors.log too. Dmesg | tail ? Nothing. /var/log/everything.log ? Nothing This is really dumb and quiet. Far too quiet. Just out of curiosity, may be the

Re: [arch-general] [gnome 3] PrintScreen key doesn't launch gnome-screenshot

2012-10-12 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: In some way, yes. But I didn't try shutter. Same behaviour. What I meant was, probably the screenshots are getting saved? Even though there is no dialog? As is written there in a link in the comments? -- Jayesh

[arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, Whenever I install a new text editor, it will hijack the files without notifying me. My .tex files were associated with Kile and when I recently installed emacs, it hijacked the file associations. This happens quiet often. Going by the Archway, I guess this is unwarranted. The system is

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
One can use defaults.list file in /usr/share/applications to associate. But it is one hell of a job. Especially when C header is different from c source. The problem is mainly that for the application to overwrite 100s of file association wrongly take no time. For me to restore them back is a

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
PM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com wrote: snip I am thinking of writing a small program to do so. I'll let you know how I am progressing. Right now I only have a design in my mind and I have some exams coming up in three-four days. So after I am done with them, I would put my

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, All the programs, mimeo, xdg-open are oriented towards using mime info to open application. My problem is different. What I want is a way to tell my desktop environment or whatever to use which applications. The main issue is as follows. Every program that gets installed can do anything to

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Engineering VNIT, INDIA - On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All the programs, mimeo, xdg-open are oriented towards using mime info to open application. My problem is different. What I want is a way to tell my desktop environment or whatever to use

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-25 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
and Communication Engineering VNIT, INDIA - On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:48 AM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: Jayesh Badwaik wrote: Now whenever a new package is installed. It will contain an XML file containing description of the mimetype in the same manner. When the package

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
at 2:38 AM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: Jayesh Badwaik wrote: Yeah. I too have my personal stuff for that. I have a script actually which uses a file and from that creates the default.list file which is then used by anyone who cares to use it (Firefox, KDE etc

Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

2011-12-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, At least I need Xfce. I was a KDE3 user (for some tasks I used Ion2). When KDE4 replaced KDE3 I switched to GNOME2 and when GNOME3 replaced GNOME2 I switched to Xfce. I tested a lot of DEs/WMs. Really? Did you do that? I know there are themes for slim that are easily available which

Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

2011-12-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
EDIT I believe that unless your other applications (the ones that matter) do not directly require pulseaudio, you should be fine. I believe that unless your other applications (the ones that matter) do directly require pulseaudio, you should be fine. --

[arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according to the blog post), but that update has not yet come into archlinux. And while, the

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2012-01-24 10:41:10 +0530] Jayesh Badwaik: I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:41:10AM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: Hi, I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 20:48:42 Jesus Alvarez wrote: When I brought the topic up in #archlinux, there was some concern I was using a repo and not solely relying on AUR. Why do you not want to use AUR? -- Cheers Jayesh

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 22:32:13 Patrick Burroughs wrote: Who says he's not? All the packages he's mentioned are available on the AUR, maintained by him; he's offering unofficial repositories as a supplement to the AUR, for people like myself who don't want to kill their laptop compiling all of

[arch-general] How to suppress the list of variables that are output at shell login?

2013-01-06 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, Whenever I login in zsh using an `su -l user` command, I get the following list of variables outputted on the shell HOME=/home/user LOGNAME=user PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/share/backuppc/bin SHELL=/bin/zsh TERM=xterm USER=user How can I suppress

Re: [arch-general] How to suppress the list of variables that are output at shell login?

2013-01-07 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm using zsh and this doesn't happen here. What does the .zshrc of the user you're su-ing into look like? Have you seen this page? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh Yes, I have seen that page. My

Re: [arch-general] How to suppress the list of variables that are output at shell login?

2013-01-07 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com wrote: You may also add a `echo $profile` command in the /etc/profile file, just after `for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do` to see the trace of sourced files. Thanks for the suggestion. I implemented this and

Re: [arch-general] newbie: looking for docs

2013-01-16 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
You might want to start here. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: Hello, I am very new to archlinux (as of late last week, and I am struggling to find any documentation on how to create new

Re: [arch-general] Rerun bootloader from initramfs

2015-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
> Because I'm talking about this [1] and not software based encryption. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption Shouldn't BIOS take care of that? -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] Rerun bootloader from initramfs

2015-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
tility, and then you can unlock it from the the BIOS and vice-versa. So, I think that makes it standard enough, but not sure. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik Center for Applicable Mathematics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

[arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have read the dangers of mounting efivars as writable recently, and I think there should be an entry in the archlinux installation guide and beginner's guide which should say exactly what is said in the warning in [1], and then link to [1] for further instructions. -- Cheers Jayesh

[arch-general] AUR Packages no longer visible from Archlinux

2016-02-29 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I am no longer to view any AUR packages using either packer or yaourt. Is anybody else facing the same problems? $ yaourt -Ss visit community/visitors 0.7-4 A very fast web log analyzer $ -- Jayesh Badwaik

[arch-general] Unknown Trust and Corrupted Package

2016-01-24 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
lid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] Unknown Trust and Corrupted Package

2016-01-24 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday, 25 January 2016 03:23:25 IST Levente Polyak wrote: > Looks like people tend to forget about updating pacman keyring. > > pacman-key --refresh-keys Oops, feel very silly now. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] Unknown Trust and Corrupted Package

2016-01-25 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
es should be updated in the archlinux-keyring package, but that may not be enough if the keyring package is not recent enough. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/ Package_signing#Adding_developer_keys

Re: [arch-general] AUR Packages no longer visible from Archlinux

2016-02-29 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday, 29 February 2016 19:54:54 IST Marshall Neill wrote: > This is what I fail to understand; How did this get out of testing when > obviously something is broke? AUR does not promise any stability, unlike core and extra packages. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] AUR Packages no longer visible from Archlinux

2016-02-29 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday, 29 February 2016 22:10:00 IST Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > yaourt 1.7 is (or should be) compatible with package-query 1.8. A new > version of yaourt will follow in a few days :) Thank you. I guess I will be using pacaur for a few days then. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] Issues with Bluetooth Headset

2016-03-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
I seem to have found the problem, but no solution yet. Downgrading bluez from 5.38-1 to 5.37-2 removes the problem. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
ple would start writing tutorial like articles for simple enough uses. For example see [1]. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Simple_stateful_firewall

[arch-general] Issues with Bluetooth Headset

2016-03-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
h result 'core-dump'. 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Unit entered failed state. 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Please don't top post. http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
n bash. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
d Hat. Hence, not using something because of Microsoft is a very good argument given their track record of using patents nowadays to get even instead of competing on software. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Friday, 19 August 2016 17:33:28 CEST Kwang Moo Yi via arch-general wrote: > I can't help pointing out that PowerShell is MIT. The point was patents. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
to wikipedia. Almost free software licenses are only copyright, not patent. GPLv3 is an exception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Comparison_to_other_licenses -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
are in public periodically. This is exacerbated by the fact that they *do* use patents to pursue their agenda. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
A beer from me too. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Hooks

2016-08-21 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
ation linked there and put in the first directory > listed in that paragraph. You'll find some nice hook examples as well > in that directory Thank you all of you for quick responses. I read the pacman#Hooks page. It is not that descriptive, but alpm hooks look descriptive enough. -- Che

[arch-general] Pacman Hooks

2016-08-21 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have been trying to write some hooks for my pacman and so, I search the internet for it. I could not find any documentation on it, apart from some examples and a blog post on Allan McRae's blog. I was wondering if there is such a documentation or not? -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

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