Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-04 Thread Florian Lohoff
liability, this is why people started moving away from tcp wrapper (which i think is a shame) I personally moved to nftables which is nearly as simple once you get your muscle memory set. If ssh is your only candidate of network service you could also use match statements in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-07 Thread Florian Lohoff
hes unconditionally enabled/switched to mips32r2 Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
nd the like which are now all stuck with pre-Stretch Debian Releases. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

2023-05-22 Thread Florian Lohoff
of today is not what we had when i initiated that Port 20 years ago. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
ROMs/BIOSes much like UEFI today and may even be booting files from a Filesystem on a specific partition and thus disk label type. So you are not breaking compatibility with 80ies OSes but the platform as a whole. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-19 Thread Florian Lohoff
cate variants are a PITA on servers, especially when virtualized. Imagine a 100+ VM hypervisor at 6:30 starting an updatedb job on all VMs in parallel. I debugged stuff like that for customers so yes - This problem is real. My ansible "essential" roles purge all variants of locate. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
HTTP/TLS handshake will take multiple RTT. This will effectively break ANY setup behind Sat links e.g. for example all cruise ships at sea. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de UTF-8 Test: The 🐈 ran after a 🐁, but the 🐁 ran away signature.asc De

Re: Debian vs Linux namespaces

2019-03-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 01:15:39PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 3/25/19 11:41 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 01:34:34PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > AFAICS there are se

Re: Debian vs Linux namespaces

2019-03-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
ying if you try to maintain the Debian host > system, and a LXC container is affected instead. > https://bugs.debian.org/888569 > https://bugs.debian.org/888743 > https://bugs.debian.org/858837 > https://bugs.debian.org/924551 https://bugs

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-07 Thread Florian Lohoff
es contain all the functionality. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de UTF-8 Test: The 🐈 ran after a 🐁, but the 🐁 ran away signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-04 Thread Florian Lohoff
ase. I suspend/resume multiple times a day and thats my current uptime: 07:49:26 up 22 days, 20:04, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.17 And thats a pretty standard Lenovo T420... I dont care about rebooting ... And i havent had the issue that the switch of suspend to hibernate

Re: Multipath (SAN disk) support broken in jessie

2016-11-15 Thread Florian Lohoff
ose niche bugs will not get any attention or fixing. So you better work around those bugs ... The installer is scriptable and i have tons of classes working around bugs in the last releases. You better start testing Stretch NOW and report bugs ASAP. Flo -- Flori

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Florian Lohoff
times a year because of reliable suspend/resume possibilities. Typical Virtual Machine setups even only do it ONCE in their whole lifecycle - who cares if it takes some seconds more? Making boot THE reason for the UsrMerge is simply overrating it. Flo PS: And i hate giving up on technical issues

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-15 Thread Florian Lohoff
emd. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754987 which is already merged with #755708, #755736, #756649, #760976, #763041 Open 4 months now ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Switching to systemd - statistics Was: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 03:34:32PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:19:41PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I meanwhile see the systemd issue as a social problem within debian. There > > are > > design issues which are REALLY controversial. In the pa

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
s this lead to better approaches to see the light e.g. udev. This has changed - Debian has changed. It seems we need to rush in all interesting stuff without looking forward past some months - Today systemd might be THE solution to some peoples problems. Is it tomorr

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
alled moon-buggy just to remember those days ;) m68k is gone - You are gone. Wish you all the best. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
ret systems to admin you are not hurrying for the next release. So the masses of users have not yet even heard of systemd, nor have experienced it. So my guess is that the big uproar from the sysadmins comes 3-6 Month after release. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get install sysvinit-core removes gnome?

2014-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
t; This is not specific to Debian. *ΓΆrgs* Because i - aehm - cant set an icon for my system via hostnamed or something? I still wait to wake up to let this bad dream of systemd go past me. This can only be a bad dream ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@

apt-get install sysvinit-core removes gnome?

2014-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
stemd-shim + sysvinit-core/utils would be enough to make a usable system but it seems there is some dependency in jessie which makes gnome unavailable without systemd. Am i wrong? Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Di

Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
and fail with an error message instead of an illegal instruction violation. So checking in an postinst script would be overkill wouldnt it? Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
stems. So basically what you say is Debian ended support for other init systems because whatever one chooses you pull in half the systemd? I was against all the systemd stuff because i saw this coming. There is no way to avoid the "userspace.exe" blob Debian is soon mad

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
t an accessibility plus. XFCE is a good option and i have been playing with it for a while but it feels very rough at the edges - still a lot better than G3 at not standing in my way. My collegues completely switched to cinnamon and laugh at my resistance in giv

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
issue which is getting debated over a lot. But i think the systemd proponents have made a much broader issue from it which is now about trust, choice, and taste. You cant win here. Flo PS: I talking about Debian as "you" because i dont feel beeing part of Debian anymore. -- Flori

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
ork would really work out but if some people would listen to the noise the systemd issue makes. IMHO its not about systemd per se. The past decisions about architectures and now systemd splits off some parts of our userbase. For me Debian has long lost the "Universal" in "Univers

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-10 Thread Florian Lohoff
e. It was fine in a way - it had new concepts - but it was a horrible failure. -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:58:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. > > I'm afraid I don't agree here: BOMs are nasty stuff that serve no purpose

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Florian Lohoff
iles should be encoded in UTF-8 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets "(deleted)" / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
s on docking at work. WTF?!?! Its 2013 and we went through xinerama and randr extension to get this working. I simply say Wheezy/Gnome3 is a step back because basic functionality was removed. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets "(deleted)" / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
o care. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets "(deleted)" / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Florian Lohoff
e for any random issue and fix it - but this is more or less a basic Debian/Gnome3 installation and my user experience not so positive. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mount point gets "(deleted)" / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:52:13AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Florian, > > nice to read from you again! (even though... see below :) > > On Dienstag, 4. Juni 2013, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I cant unmount the original mount not with -l nor with -f - both hang. &g

mount point gets "(deleted)" / unable to unmount

2013-06-04 Thread Florian Lohoff
rnel/debug", 0x7f59ac90, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) readlink("/scratch", 0x7f59ac90, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) readlink("/scratch/pobox", ^C Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-28 Thread Florian Lohoff
in/bugreport.cgi?bug=698917 Also suspend related - overheat after suspend/resume. Flo PS: "We broke suspend - we need systemd to speed up boot" -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Florian Lohoff
ed. The point is that every now and then somebody decides to rewrite and as a mirror admin i need to find out how the current way will work, the current configuration looks like and how to fit it into the monitoring. Its a little annoying that every year somebody tries to invent the wheel ag

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
64bit of all? > > > mips/mipsel 32 32 > > I think that's 32/64, 32; at least for mipsel. Userspace for mips and mipsel is 32bit (o32 abi) and the kernel is 32/64 depending on the machine type. This has nothing to do with the endianess - we should have 64 bit s

Re: gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Florian Lohoff
gal instruction tar -cf - . > > Is this really something that can be fixed on the gnat-4.4 side? Does > "tar -cf - ." work at all in the relevant chroot on mayer? LD_LIBRARY_PATH / LD_PRELOAD tricks going on? Flo -- Florian Lohoff

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-03 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:53:10PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Florian Lohoff > > | I have ~600 Machines in the field - all with /usr on a seperate fs - If > Debian > | is going to make seperate /usr a no-go its about 30 Euros worth > | of field Engineer tim

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-03 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:11:31PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 02 septembre 2009 Γ  22:30 +0200, Florian Lohoff a Γ©crit : > > /usr was on seperate filesystems for decades and some 3733t broken by design > > Desktop utility turns around old Unix paradigms

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-02 Thread Florian Lohoff
30 Euros worth of field Engineer time - swapping disks. /usr was on seperate filesystems for decades and some 3733t broken by design Desktop utility turns around old Unix paradigms? I dont get it ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org "Es ist ein grobe

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Lohoff
37/tcp timserver time37/udp timserver ntp 123/tcp ntp 123/udp # Network Time Protocol Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom

Re: Why do we have to support tmpfs for /var/run (policy changes in 3.8.1)

2009-04-04 Thread Florian Lohoff
see them for /var/run, instead they make things more > complicated, > slower and error prone (for imho no real gain) Interesting - The unix way IMHO was that /tmp looses content on reboot while /var/tmp did not. This had been the case for commercial Unices for at least some decades. Fl

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-29 Thread Florian Lohoff
Machines under my umbrella spreaded around germany - And the most occuring bug is a broken disk. So when pocon is installed but basically most of the disk accesses fail you get the above error i'd guess. So yes - the dpkg database might be broken - but because of hardware

Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-02 Thread Florian Lohoff
s type I expect it is capable > to build ~5% of the unstable archive per day. IOW, the current backlog > should be handled soon. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little sec

Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Lohoff
vote your time to a) Find the cause of the build crash b) Hunt down the kernel bug in 2.6.24 c) Poke at the buildd admin to move the buildd to the new disk subsys All those might actually solve the problem and not work around it .. Thanks for you time ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-22 Thread Florian Lohoff
Just to followup ... On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Ryan and me have been communicating on a hardware mod on rem - one of > the mipsel buildds. Basically the machine is running on a PIO based ATA > disk because of the fundamentally broken design o

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
issue is known - its worked on - most likely not the speed everyone is happy with ... Flo PS: There is also a kernel bug in the mips and mipsel kernels which got triggered on the buildds lately which crashed them hard a couple of times and caused delay by downtime - see debian-mips list. --

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
ild since *all* the debian update/upgrade trying > http.us.debian.org go there. > > Where do I send a bug report about IP number sorting in (I presume) > gethostbyname()? I guess its an nscd issue ? Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-2280134

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
upgrade a couple hundret machines from woody via sarge to etch ... (Can we make 6 Year Release cycles please?). Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have ne

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
.org? And the questions about the security.debian.org woody stuff is not about further supporting it but rather the packages currently updateing woody. I dont think they now will be copied to the main woody archive tree so where will the old security updates go ? Flo -- Florian Lohoff

woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-05 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i just noticed woody is gone which is *aehm* a problem for me but thanks archive.debian.org not unfixable (Expect couple of hundret machines). Is there a schedule for non-US and security fixes to disappear and where will they disappear to ? Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL

Re: mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-07 Thread Florian Lohoff
ork on my packages i might take a look at other people bugs. IMHO the number of architectures is not the real problem of release cycles. BTW: I can live with release cycles of 2-3 Years very good. As an admin of ~500 Machines i am happy not to upgrade every 6 Month. Flo -- Florian

mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-07 Thread Florian Lohoff
second machine up and running again and there are plans to get another 700Mhz SMP Machine up and running on the weekend. mipsel will catch up very soon. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-2280134 Heisenberg may have been here.

[VACATION] .au Sydney 29.9(Today)/30.9

2003-09-29 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i am in Sydney for Today and Tomorrow - So if any Debian enthusiasts is willing to go out for a Beer or Keysigning ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-2280134 Heisenberg may have been here. pgpszBaWXKKTM.pgp Description

[TRAVEL] 1-9th June Helsinki/Finnland

2003-06-01 Thread Florian Lohoff
reachable on my mobile +49-171-2280134 and probably be reading e-mail (If GPRS Roaming permits). Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Heisenberg may have been here. pgpwziteipDkv.pgp Description: PGP signature

London next 2 days

2001-05-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i am going to be in and around London on Thursday and Friday probably even the Weekend - I would like to meet other Debian developers and drink a couple of beers. I'll be reading email as normal (I love uucp over ssh) Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

archive.debian.org

2001-01-05 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, what happened to the above machine ? It seems to be unreachble for a couple of days Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
s set an env var saying DPKG_NOSTARTDAEMONS=1 or something like this. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 "Write only memory - Oops. Time for my medication again ..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
le and schedule 2.2r2 early containing XFree4, Kernel 2.4, Apache 2 as main "features" otherwise everyone will have their most loved package delay potato and a new distribution never will get released. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 &

Re: Floppy access with noauto and booting

1999-09-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:21:23PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > I have this in my /etc/fstab ... > > /dev/fd0/floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 2 > > Please try: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy msd

Floppy access with noauto and booting

1999-09-24 Thread Florian Lohoff
g ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice

Re: static user IDs

1999-09-21 Thread Florian Lohoff
thown out without mercy Agree ... qmail is nice - but it is non-free, nor the default mta for debian. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ...