Re: Google Chrome can share but Chromium cannot share screen

2022-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2022-09-11 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Bardet wrote: > Hi, > > Le 2022-09-11 07:39, Pankaj Jangid a écrit : > > For a few work related meetings, I have to use Google Meet. But the > > screensharing doesn't work in the Chromium installed from stable APT > > repository. Clicking on the

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:41:21 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
article link hasn't posted in several days. I know that because, no matter what name he uses, his posts are immediately recognizeable. So what's the purpose of your putting this link in your email? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: LSB headers and other junk, how do you hack a quick init script in debian these days?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
be a kludge and it would start looking a little like sysvinit scripts. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:17 +0200 Ludovic Meyer ludo.v.me...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
and thus install uselessd on Jessie? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
... === Check out the outstanding progress that fsmithred and dzz are making with a systemd-free Refracta. I think that similar construction can greatly benefit Debian: === SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
its war against Linux. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
of the difficulties it created for him, personally. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
the kernel still hand off to the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something else? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
. One of the first things I do when writing software is figure what the bottleneck is. If the bottleneck is the user's molassas slow 140 word per minute typing, I'll use an interpreter every time so I'm not the guy doing allocation and garbage collection and bounds checking. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: msg from tornow....

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
to stay. LOL, they *want* us gone. They're feeling the juice right now, and haven't yet considered the frequent consequences of my way or the highway. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:11:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:17:58, Steve Litt wrote: In default new-installed Jessie, does the kernel still hand off to the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something else? Yes it does

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
why a lot of us migrated to it. Wheezy *is* a KISS distro. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it still work in Jessie? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
argue with you that it's a DE only if the apps can all interact. Me, I'd prefer all my apps mind their own business, but hey, that's just me. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
list is an insult to our intelligence. You know it, and we know it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Remember when men were men and wrote their own init scripts? =)

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
destruction of the operating system we currently use. At this point, the technical issues are a minor thing. The big news is how humans are going to use those technical issues to replace our wonderful, almost POSIX OS with a Windows wannabe. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
of a sudden we just couldn't wait? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
of opinion between us, rather than the your opinion doesn't count type of thing. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, what's your impression of the relative boot time of nosh vs systemd? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
controlled by my computer. Quoted For Truth!!! Steve Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:53 -0700 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:06:17 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:24:16 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
submitting the bug trivial. *Every* project should have one of these. Thanks so much for telling me about this. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
for some fairly arcane enhancements to the basics of Claws-Mail. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
used something simpler (like a fifo with a very simple data definition) exclusively for notifications (the official visual and audio hints), but hey, that's just me. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
that's begging to be managed by daemontools instead of the unfathomable shellscripts it's now managed by. I spoze one could also make a point for managing it with systemd, but I can't afford the price of that ticket. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
. First, IMHO startx is better than booting directly to GUI. Secondly, now that stopping X gets you to the command prompt, you can type whatever shutdown/reboot/poweroff command you want. Unless those were messed up too. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
, but are you all sure that the delay *does* happen during the shutdown of Samba? If it turns out not to be Samba, you've just needlessly chased your tail for hours or days. Personally, I'd find out where all the time is going before troubleshooting Samba or any other package. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:38:12 -0400 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 10/17/2014 12:21 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens

Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
rename the executables), and it works. Bang, another 0d program! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: A Systemd Second Chance (Sorta)

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
it was the right thing to do. Thank you Ian, win or lose. You do good work! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
now on, when people laugh at my ugly, no-dependency, home grown solutions as kludges, I'll have exactly two words to say to them: *Thank you*. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
of this case clearly overrides the need to hit deadlines I agree. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
yourself that. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:44:41 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: are you all sure that the delay *does* happen during the shutdown of Samba? If it turns out not to be Samba, you've just needlessly chased your tail for hours

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:51:34 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: I meant /etc/init.d/nmbd /etc/init.d/smbd Kind regards, Andrei LOL, same here (in my advice on troubleshooting to Pierre)_. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: how to boot in les than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
, I recently had the exact same problem with daemontools! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
titles. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
Hat via competition of a superior OS. If it's B, we won't even let out a wimper if, in 2018, they finally declare systemd as the one true init. I just don't want to do anything that jeopardizes the chances of the GR voting for choice. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
and take this entangled junk. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
, Doug. Even if it were nothing more than your first two points, it would be a travesty. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
all the way back to wpa-supplicant to get rid of the need for those daemons? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:10:47 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am free to take significant time out

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

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:33:38 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:12:51AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am free to take

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
a systemd-free or systemd-neutered Debian might be mainly a documentation problem, and I'm pretty good at documentation. Who wants to join me? It's your chance to make Red-Hat *really* hate you. And make a lot of Debian users and other Linux people love you. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:28:50 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: POINT OF CLARIFICATION: Nothing written below is nosh specific. It could be used with nosh, or upstart, or sysvinit, or any other PID1 that's *only* a PID1. So how about it, who wants to join me in neutering systemd

Re: how to shtdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
to cat then datesort all daemontools lots to see who's hogging the shutdown time. This is more than a diagnostic test. Because daemontools is so good at what it does, I'd just leave your services governed by daemontools, even after you solve the problem. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
somebody do me a favor and, on an installed (not upgraded) Jessie do aptitude show gnumeric to see if it depends on any systemd stuff? I'm also starting to list functionalities provided by the welded on systemd tools so that I can provide them in an elemental way. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

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

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:02:03 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 14 oct 14, 17:56:58, Steve Litt wrote: Because you don't want to inextricably drag a giant monolith into your Desktop Environment just to do a few things. If you compare systemd with a Desktop

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:11:10 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, surprise. Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful, but woe betide

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

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:08:26 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: And how were they handling this task before systemd? They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time after systemd-logind came along. I rest my case. SteveT

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
of the innuendo :-) SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

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

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:27:20 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time after systemd-logind came along. I rest my case. There's nothing at all (not even

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:06:00 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: 2014/10/16 5:46 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com: On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote: We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
with a Red Hat owned and controlled Linux, and is tired of hearing from those of us who do. The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem solved. SteveT Steve Litt* http

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hat special sauce, has also moved from paranoid conspiracy theory to yeah, it might happen. I think I said it a couple weeks ago: This systemd thing was once merely a technical disagreement, but it's transformed into a matter of trust. SteveT Steve Litt* http

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
actually looked into what depends on systemd? PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They could have made their PAM plug compatible with the old PAM, but nooo. Because interchangability is not only not their goal, it gets in the way of their goal. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
a financial stake in which way the thing goes, they have a huge incentive to vote in a way detrimental to the community or other entity. This is why bribery is a crime. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:51:09 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem solved. Sadly

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:37:30 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? PAM is enough for me, considering

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:35:34 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM functionalities run properly? Thank you

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
without you. *NO* Agreed. Andrei's OK. I know this impending systemd thing is bringing out the worst in me, and I think it's bringing out the worst in a lot of us. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
management books you'd recommend, especially in light of the fact that a lot of us want to change the PID1 software one way or another? I have a feeling such a book might make *me* more useful. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:31:04, Steve Litt wrote: Of course, then there's the matters of upstreams requiring systemd... As far as I understand none of the upstreams are actually requiring systemd itself

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:35:54 -0400 Marty mar...@ix.netcom.com wrote: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-linux Say hello to our new bosses? Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, surprise. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:18:57 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:48:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:02:08 +0100 Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 12/10/14 18:13, John Hasler wrote: You have no problem with an 1800 line

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

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
testing. The GR train passed… So what do you suggest instead? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
guys, let's not rush to judgement here. No matter how things turn out, I'll always respect the stance you took, and how long you maintained that stance in spite of people opposing you. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
, PLEASE read the preceding paragraph. Ansgar made my anti-systemd argument perfectly. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
and better). Oh shit. If I were going to give up free software and go proprietary, I'd go Mac. Unfortunately, at this point I'm actually considering Mac as my final backstop. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: Slackware springs to mind. Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I understand, they're proud that their package manager doesn't support dependencies. Sy wht? SteveT Steve Litt

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
of -offtopic. :s/off-topic/stuff that Andrei deems off-topic/ SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
/if that happens, we should see the hard dependencies between systemd and other stuff that has been absorbed by systemd disappear. The real problem is that Poettering and others over there have rather indicated an unwillingness to do that. Three words: Follow the money. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:05:59 +0200 lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: pingaddr=8.8.8.8 pingaddr=192.168.100.96 Why is this is defined multiple times? Mistake! The 8.8.8.8 isn't needed. That's a test of Internet connectivity, when what I wanted

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
as a sure fire field separator. The C program could also take an option as to whether or not should find hidden files, and it could prepend ./ onto all relative paths not already beginning with ./. I might do that tonight. Thanks for this great info. I wish I'd had it a decade ago. SteveT Steve

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:06:11 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Let's comment that for people newer to scripting than I am. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: ### RUN THE DAEMON ### exec envuidgid slitt envdir ./env

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:33:48 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 11 oct 14, 17:41:28, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:28:31 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Really? How do you write an initscript that restarts your daemon

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:07:01 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 11 oct 14, 21:40:49, Steve Litt wrote: From my viewpoint, shellscripts were never intended to be big, huge programs. To me, they just glue together commands, and have a few rudimentary branching

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
replace all of that with a struct pointer. But then again, as a user, his implementation is none of my business, whereas his overall architecture is *certainly* my business, especially if it constrains my abilities to maintain/modify my system. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:16:54 -0700 Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: This essay practically screams out for somebody to write a C program that takes an argument of an arbitrary string, finds all files in a directory, and returns a long string

Re: How to do this ?

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
up, ssh in, and run uppp.sh To shut down, you ssh in, run downnn.sh. If you sometimes need to reboot instead of powering off, you could remove the shutdown from downnn.sh and just do it manually while you're ssh'ed in. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
kernel, which is notoriously monolithic[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate This is very true, but the kernel knows its boundaries, and doesn't try to conquor all sorts of other, non-related, subsystems. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
if the change will turn out to be bad it will *not* destroy GNU/Linux, but help it evolve in better ways. Not if Red Hat has their way, and it appears they're on their way to getting their way. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
use every day. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:21:14 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 11 oct 14, 13:40:08, Steve Litt wrote: sysvinit is an idea whose time has gone. sysvinit is a poor way to showcase the Unix Way. First of all, the whole idea of runlevels is bizarre, and adds a lot

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
, wouldn't I just CLI log into different users on Ctrl+Alt+F2 and Ctrl+Alt+F3, and run startx from each? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
modifications to the script. Does imapfilter run in the foreground, or does it have an option to run in the foreground? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
a lot more circumstances than any Linux implementation currently ignores it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

In Poettering's own words: was question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
Poettering says in this 9:31 interview. Everybody should view this video! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:05:19 -0400 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 10/11/2014 05:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:21:14 +0300 Daemontools runscripts are incredibly simple shellscripts, that I'm sure you could write no sweat except in very wierd edge cases. Here's

Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
to remember to go out to two dozen forums to find your conversations. 2) You don't need to log in to post a reply. I'm on several forums. But invariably, as time goes on, I forget their existence. The day's just too busy to walk around the web visiting groups. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:58:04 +0300 softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: On 10/10/2014 05:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: You missed the biggest 2 advantages of mailing lists: You missed my point entirely. Those two advantages are reserved in my proposal. OK then... As long as it continues acting

Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:01:15 +0300 softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: On 10/10/2014 05:58 PM, softwatt wrote: On 10/10/2014 05:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: You missed the biggest 2 advantages of mailing lists: You missed my point entirely. Those two advantages are reserved in my proposal

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