Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29/08/2015 8:49 AM, T.J. Duchene wrote: snip rubbish Lennart is the /main/ reason systemd exists; vocal or not. The linux kernel is bloated, it shouldn't be as large IMHO either. It too goes against the *NIX way Read Lennart's own blog,

Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Huh, don't give our stick government any ideas; TV has never had a license issue in my lifetime in AU. And if the LNP (Liberal/National Party - coalition or rather demolition!) ... succeeds in screwing us over more, it just might be on their cards :( We have pay tv, but plenty of free to air;

Re: cp output format

2015-07-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 19/07/2015 7:59 PM, Nicolas George wrote: cmp /cdrom/300_megs_file_1 /cdrom/300_megs_file_2 ... and when you are done buying a replacement for your optical drive, you can tell me if cmp was really better than a hash. You make a very

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 20/07/2015 8:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: I am on a couple mailing lists hosted at lists.sourceforge.net. Msgs to those lists goto a black hole, and the last msg I got from that server was around 14:20 EDT Thursday.

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 20/07/2015 9:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 19 July 2015 19:13:10 Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, On 20/07/2015 8:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: I am on a couple mailing lists hosted at lists.sourceforge.net. Msgs to those lists goto a black hole, and the last msg I got from that server

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 17/07/2015 9:16 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le nonidi 29 messidor, an CCXXIII, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : HOME_DIR=$(grep ^${fix_name}: /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f6) eval HOME_DIR=~$fix_name is much simpler, more efficient, and would work with NIS- or LDAP-based user databases

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 18/07/2015 9:40 PM, The Wanderer wrote: mmv file.~*~' file.#1 Okay, well from the OP ... $ cp --backup=t file /destination/file First time use of mmv: $ mmv file.~*~ file.#1 However, the next time you try the cp again, it will create a new ~1~ as it doesn't exist and using mmv

Re: cp output format

2015-07-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 16/07/2015 10:23 PM, Haines Brown wrote: Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When periodically run it produces file, file.~1~, file.~2~, etc. How do I get rid of the ~ so that the

Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lisi, On 13/07/2015 8:48 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: But I don't like the loook of this: Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) Security Chip Again, comments please. I would be more concerned Lenovo for other reasons; helping customers with spyware MITM SSL certs for that reason alone, even

Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-07-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 6/07/2015 2:44 AM, Alef Farah wrote: On 2015-06-28 19:00, Don Armstrong wrote: Contentless maligning of systemd and/or other parts of Debian are not on topic on Debian mailing lists, and certainly not on topic on -user. Please stop. On the

Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-06-29 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/06/2015 8:00 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: It's a bug in udev, which is now part of systemd. EXACTLY, just why systemd is a problem, creeping in to other areas and causing grief. So sad. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-06-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/06/2015 2:36 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: This might be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789723 Try upgrading to udev 221-1 or disabling /lib/udev/rules.d/42-usb-hid-pm.rules by creating an empty file in /etc/ e.g. via touch /etc/udev/rules.d/42-usb-hid-pm.rules Looks

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/06/2015 11:49 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck, plain and simple. I absolutely agree with the post that systemd is a cancer And I

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 23/06/2015 1:43 AM, Martin Read wrote: On 22/06/15 15:32, Gene Heskett wrote: But from the tone of the messages, I think its clear that it should have spent another 6 months on the back table in a lab someplace, getting the kinks worked out

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 23/06/2015 12:31 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: But please, please: don't pour hate on people writing free software. This is not helping anyone (well, it is helping those not wanting free software to succeed!). Unfortunately it's not that simple

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2015-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/06/2015 5:38 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: chris tknch...@gmail.com writes: systemd is a cancer that you should completely eradicate especially on a system like that Please follow Debian's Code of Conduct[1] (or just basic manners) on

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/06/2015 4:02 AM, Dan wrote: Thanks a lot for your answers. I can not use intel because the provider of our company only proposes AMD or NVIDIA for the workstations. I do not need a very fancy graphic card, I need something that works.

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/06/2015 4:55 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: Does anyone here have any inside information on what is happening (or not happening) with the Devuan project? It seems to be dead, or at least dying. Not so quick. systemd is a huge mistake for

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-04-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/04/2015 2:07 AM, bjf...@gmail.com wrote: Reading Wikipedia- it says systemd was chosen as default on Jessie aft er discussion over these mailing lists... Is this wrong? It is wrong to a great extent. Most negative discussion of system was

Re: My first brush with systemd

2015-03-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 30/03/2015 9:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Any useful suggestions for what I could try? In my book, chuck systemd would not count as useful. Though it has crossed my mind. :-( You wouldn't be the first... to chuck systemd ... it's bad new ;-) A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 31/03/2015 3:18 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 31/03/2015 1:00 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community It's too early for an April fools joke, no matter where you live. Or is it serious ? Lennart Linux lives on give us back Linus

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 31/03/2015 1:00 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community It's too early for an April fools joke, no matter where you live. Or is it serious ? Lennart Linux lives on give us back Linus

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
it (partially caused by my ignorance of systemd), I decided to take the leap - if nothing else, to be able to honestly criticize it and actually know what I was talking about. On 18/02/15 20:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: You couldn't even bring yourself to say systemd, what's wrong with saying

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/02/2015 2:26 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2015 10:32:59 Martin Read wrote: On 18/02/15 07:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: What I want from a DPL (another thread), is a DPL that will remove systemd (for starters), particularly

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Okay, you've had two supporting replies, that is virtually none. I would like to say a BIG NO THANKS ... Debian is much less than it was for me. You couldn't even bring yourself to say systemd, what's wrong with saying it? Now, just wait

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/02/2015 2:52 PM, Jack Chuge wrote: I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0, seems odd for ever. Keep in

Re: rsync question

2015-02-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 7/02/2015 12:01 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: That seems to work, but here's a problem. Each time it enters a new user directory I have to re-enter the root password. I realize I can just set it up so that I don't have to enter a password at

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/01/2015 5:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 31 dec 14, 09:45:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've never said anyone should be obliged to maintain Debian the way I want. I said the way they are going is not acceptable, so my clients are

Re: bind9 needs sometimes a restart after resume from suspend

2014-11-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/11/2014 8:42 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: blackbox:/etc/bind# cat /etc/systemd/system/bind9-resume.service So ... buggy systemd bites yet again; and *some* [too many] people still don't understand why we don't want this on our Debian (or other)

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/11/2014 3:50 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: It would be nice if I could have used the time replying to your obstreperous and bilious attack helping people with Debian problems. Unfortunately *systemd is very much now a Debian problem* going

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/11/2014 11:07 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: And *what do we know about the original customisation* that was made - which may have 'some' bearing on the badness of the upgrade/update defaults?? Oh, I get it, you think Debian is perfect and that

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 23/11/2014 11:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI writes: But they are anathema to the We are systemd of Borg, resistance is futile crowd. And then there is the Systemd is the Borg! Kill! Kill! crowd who jump into every mention

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 23/11/2014 7:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: How many people subscribe to this list? How many people follow the various reposting of this list? Sorry Scott, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. The assumptions you are making

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/11/2014 3:38 AM, John Hasler wrote: Andrew McGlashan writes: I DO NOT WANT SYSTEMD ON ANY SYSTEM THAT I ADMINISTRATE ... is that so hard to understand? What's hard to understand is why I should give a damn. Ditto on why I should give

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/11/2014 4:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 11/23/2014 11:43 AM, John Hasler wrote: Andrew McGlashan writes: You will never see the full picture of the problem if you only listen to what is allowed to be received via the debian-user list

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/11/2014 1:11 AM, songbird wrote: the vote is in. let us thank each one of them for their efforts to continue making Debian what it is: a fractious and wonderful expression of free source code, the ability to distribute such in a

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/11/2014 4:01 AM, golinux wrote: My beloved Debian, RIP. Very sad that the ride will be over when when Squeeze and Wheezy (and possibly Jessie - jury is still out) get to EOL . . . golinux (soon to be linuxrip) 1 I am greatly

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/11/2014 5:45 AM, Brian wrote: The vast majority on debian-user see this list as being for the support of users who *use* Debian and not a talking shop about it. Encouragement to pervert its purpose is little short of bad manners, no matter

Re: Lennart Poettering Linux -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 7:38 PM, Matt Ventura wrote: On 11/9/2014 11:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Andrew McGlashan: Forwarding a message as is from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. No, it is not. Sorry

Re: Lennart Poettering Linux -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 9:55 PM, Martin Read wrote: On 10/11/14 08:57, Andrew McGlashan wrote: And for those choosing to go with systemd they'll need 20 updates of Jessie just because the kernel is intrinsically linked to systemd and needs an update

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 11:49 PM, fsmithred wrote: It seems to be working, so far, but as mentioned, it may break at some point with upgrades. Others can try the same thing and share their experiences. If you're willing to accept libsystemd0, then I think

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: -- You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are going to come to his defense. It's LENNART! Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended

Lennart Poettering Linux -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Forwarding a message as is from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. begin forward... http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html On Fri, 30.05.14 04:32, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote: 2014-05-30 4:26 GMT+02:00

Re: Lennart Poettering Linux -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/11/2014 6:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Andrew McGlashan: Forwarding a message as is from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. No, it is not. Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other

exim4/hotmail problems since upgrade to wheezy

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have a server that was upgraded from squeeze-lts to wheezy. Since the upgrade, any mail coming from hotmail servers can no longer be delivered to the server. I see lots of errors like these in the /var/log/exim4/mainlog TLS error on

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/11/2014 7:51 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: The fact that the Constitution is being used to ram a GR down the developers' throats two weeks before Jessie freeze may have a teensy bit to do wit that? Maybe so, but that in itself is sad. I'm

Re: exim4/hotmail problems since upgrade to wheezy

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, SOLVED ... Short story: regenerate exim.crt and exim.key Turns out that most servers out in the world were happy with the re-use of the old exim.crt and exim.key files. These servers had problems until I created new key and cert files:

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 9/11/2014 2:03 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: On 8/11/2014 7:51 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: The fact that the Constitution is being used to ram a GR down the developers' throats

Re: Problems with greylistd and exim and gmail

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2/11/2014 8:24 PM, Virgo Pärna wrote: Ok problem is solved. I did have invalid lines in file: like that 209.85.128/17 line. And exim stops processing file, if it meets invalid host line. I guess, that it was just coincidence, that it

Re: Who's locking down the code?

2014-10-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/10/2014 10:24 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: That is 100% true, I couldn't give a rats if it is PID1 or not. It IS systemd, that's more than enough for me to want it OUT -- it's a cancer that is spreading

Re: Who's locking down the code?

2014-10-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/10/2014 4:30 AM, goli...@riseup.net wrote: The fact that an executable is linked against a systemd library doesn't automatically mean you have to run systemd as PID1. This is especially true for the sd-daemon and sd-journal libraries in

Re: msg from tornow....

2014-10-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Thanks for the cc in this case, your message never made it to the list, it was /probably/ silently dropped changing the subject line to see if it helps *this* message to get through ;-) for the list *benefit* ... said email

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

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/10/2014 6:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ConsoleKit, unmaintained. But fixed, for kFreeBSD A. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iF4EAREIAAYFAlQ+ZOQACgkQqBZry7fv4vtv5gEAqxefTmCV1PLqwNWgJOGeFwGD

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/10/2014 3:22 AM, Slavko wrote: But e.g. my dbus package doesn't depends on systemd at all: LANG=en aptitude show dbus | grep Depends -A2 Depends: libaudit1 (= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (= 2.17), libcap-ng0, libdbus-1-3 (= 1.7.6),

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

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/10/2014 6:49 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: reported bugs will get less attention nowtoo). But the consolekit deprecation happened a long time before the tech-ctte decision about systemd. Some one/people could have picked it up long ago. If

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 3:14 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Well I guess I'd find it a lot cleaner to make the choice as part of installation, rather than have systemd installed as a default and then have to uninstall it. I hate

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 8:09 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: aptitude search '?depends(^systemd$)' # aptitude search '?depends(^systemd$)' Wednesday 15 October 14:54:30 EST 2014 -- search ?depends(^systemd$) p libpam-systemd - system and service

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 11:01 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I suspect any list with offtopic in its name will get ignored when there is a large number of people want to say something about a specific topic. Absolutely, it helps hide problems under the rug, so

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/2014 9:04 AM, lee wrote: Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org writes: Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue might initiate a GR? No.

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/2014 11:21 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream developers I’m both, and I joined Debian to try to make an impact… - the two

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 4:24 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:29 AM, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: Sysvinit-core was introduced in jessie and systemd-sysv conflicts with sysvinit-core. Systemd-sysv is also available in wheezy, but there are 24486 reports from the popcon version 1.61

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:47 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in the server

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 6:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 19:45:03, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote: 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. Last I checked, Mac hadn't patch Shellshock

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 6:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:21:24, Andrew McGlashan wrote: A default desktop install of Jessie will bring in Gnome and as a result will also bring in systemd Small correction here, just to make it 100

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 7:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote: That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually. That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff to -user

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. 1% participation in any discussion on a list such as

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 8:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: In my opinion this is the very definition of vocal minority. Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be yet to learn of the facts at some stage. but otherwise have no

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 9:11 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Although I'm up with patching, but I most definitely don't want any system that I am responsible to maintain to have systemd installed, it is far

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your production servers with sysvinit. Okay, for now, that is until more packages

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 13/10/2014 2:34 AM, Martin Read wrote: On 12/10/14 15:53, lee wrote: And when they are filtered, does the sender get a message telling him that their message hasn't been delivered? The requirement in RFC 2821 (the successor to RFC 821 which you've recently been referring to) section

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/2014 3:45 AM, The Wanderer wrote: My understanding is that the only filtering which has been stated to be being used is not keyword-based, but thread-based. That is, if the post is in a thread which has been added to the filter list,

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/2014 4:22 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 02:50:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: There is an amazing level of resistance to care what us users and sysadmins think of the changes dictated by the vote of the Tech CTTE

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 13/10/2014 5:48 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 05:02:15 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Not a single one of these people have a *genuine* problem with systemd on Debian. The first port of call for genuine problems with systemd is the mailing list at pkg-systemd

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/10/2014 8:44 AM, James Ensor wrote: But, to get more to the point of my original question, there has been so much discussion about systemd here, but as far as I can tell very little of this discussion has been of practical use for a debian-user. Are you crazy, people are having problems

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/10/2014 2:01 AM, James Ensor wrote: The point of this thread was to demonstrate that you *do* still have a choice. It's relatively simple to remove systemd from your Debian installation if you choose to. In the short term, sure, but in

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/10/2014 4:01 AM, James Ensor wrote: What I was trying to say here is that people seem to want to debate the philosophy/quality/whatever about systemd, and have used this to come to wrong conclusions about the practical aspect of using an

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:52:20PM +0100, Brian wrote: If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X Ironic signature there... Isn't that how the /filtered/ posts are supposed to

Re: killer bunny

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 9/10/2014 10:47 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 9/10/2014 10:40 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, $ sed 's/s.st.md/killer bunny/' * it looks like the filtering has been adjusted * re-sending The more I read about the use

Re: the Rabbit of Caerbannog

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
it much earlier and it didn't come through?? Are posts being moderated, posts that are not in line with CTTE views? On 5/10/2014 7:44 AM, John Hasler wrote: Andrew McGlashan writes: My view is that the Rabbit of Caerbannog is a forgone conclusion and no-one whom hasdecided that it should

Re: the Rabbit of Caerbannog

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 9/10/2014 10:40 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, $ sed 's/s.st.md/the Rabbit of Caerbannog/' Bingo!!! Definitely moderated posts! :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Definitely moderated posts: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg00602.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg00603.html :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 9/10/2014 7:01 AM, Brian wrote: No problem, just don't killfile incoming messages. Problem solved. But if you *do*, then say you did it and say why. Otherwise, don't killfile incoming message. From less than 7 days ago:

systemd

2014-10-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Do I want systemd ? - definitely and absolutely NO. Is there any point arguing here in debian-user ? - definitely NOT. My view is that systemd is a forgone conclusion and no-one whom has decided that it should be will be convinced otherwise.

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm going to address a number of things here First off, I used to use this script [1], with an entry in /etc/rc.local to kick it off on boot. My goal was to start the RAID1 array only if 2 members could be found (minimum), I added a 3rd

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/09/2014 4:00 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: First off, I used to use this script [1], with an entry in /etc/rc.local to kick it off on boot. My goal was to start the RAID1 array only if 2 members could be found (minimum), I added a 3rd

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 20/08/2014 12:22 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: Steve Gibson reports, Secure browser connections can be intercepted and decrypted... Worth a look: https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm Got a good fingerprint in my browser, it matches from the Gibson tool

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/08/2014 10:06 AM, Mike McClain wrote: Please describe your network topology. Where's the Win2k box ? __ | Debian| LAN| Windows 2000 | Inet|Linux

Re: /dev/random5

2014-08-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 7:51 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: [...] If you do the /dev/zero against a volume, then no useful data will remain on that volume ... you need to backup that file system first, then restore

Re: /dev/random5

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 5:43 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/03/2014 10:45 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 3/08/2014 10:48 PM, B wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:20:19 +1000 I do not agree with that because using only zeros makes the result part predictable for the attacker: Yes, but the method

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Bret, On 3/08/2014 8:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: Actually we are subject to a bill of rights, see here: http://www.clrg.info/2011/02/validity-of-bill-of-rights-1688/ That applies only to Victoria - I believe that, like motor vehicle roadworthiness testing, human rights legislation applies to

Re: Desktop sharing question

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 25/07/2014 11:17 PM, Nelson Green wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:36:47 -0500 Nelson Green nelsongree...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning all, Good afternoon alone, PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
My own view is why systemd fix sysinit instead, where it is broken or rather the packages [whatever they are] that don't work properly. systemd gives faster boot times, so what! I prefer to boot less often and run with what works until I /have/ to do a reboot, so it wouldn't matter if it

Re: Australian law was: Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 9:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 04 August 2014 09:44:31 Andrew McGlashan wrote: I wonder about Kirby myself. To me, it shouldn't be the court deciding a matter of fact via *their* opinion. If the law says xa and the opinion says xb ... then it is up to the parliament

Re: What is the connection between Microsoft and systemd?

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 9:13 PM, Jeff Bauer wrote: The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity. - Abraham Lincoln Now THAT is truly funny! Thanks A. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 10:03 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: ​I've seen tons of posts sent to this list about systemd... bla bla bla... and did not understand what's the matter with it.​ ​I wonder what are you all doing with your init scripts which doesn't work with systemd. So what? If it isn't broken,

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 11:35 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2014-08-04 15:11 GMT+02:00 Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au mailto:andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au: On 4/08/2014 10:03 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: ​I've seen tons of posts sent to this list about systemd

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/08/2014 11:32 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: My own view is why systemd fix sysinit instead, where it is broken or rather the packages [whatever they are] that don't work properly. Who should fix

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