Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Chris Adams
mounted in that type of setup (users don't get space on the local drive except /tmp), so ~/.local would be meaningless. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Adams
to be functional and is not network enabled, it may be enabled by default Is CUPS functional without any configuration? How do you print without configuring a printer? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's

Re: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
be removed. I'm just saying that space savings as justification of removing ddate is stupid. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
over time, I don't know how to get the device nodes with the correct access for the desktop user anymore, and I figure if somebody went to the trouble of removing the udev rules, there's not much point in asking to have them added back. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com said: On 08/29/2011 10:22 PM, Chris Adams wrote: It is very irritating, since I only use floppies when I really need to, Is this due to the need to boot into DOS to run a firmware utility or something similar? If so, you can create

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
. These are for embedded systems that use a standard PC-style floppy controller. Replace the floppy drive with something else that still looks to the system like a regular floppy drive. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
the floppy module is loaded? I have never seen that happen, on systems with or without floppy drives, yet you seem to be saying it happens on vast numbers of them (99.9% in an earlier message). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
answer my actual question? How many systems hang when floppy.ko is loaded? If it is a large number, it should be easy to point to lots of data. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
. Leaving known-working hardware unusable at install is just rude and irritating when it is needed. There should be good justification, not just a bunch of developers don't use it anymore, so we don't think anybody else needs it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
notebook that will not book from USB. And for the cheap price of PCs these days, whether it is building your own or grabbing an oem system, just upgrade to something that does have full usb support. Feel free to PayPal me money for a new notebook. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: floppy support

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Adams
ignore it and stop loading the module. sigh... -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: floppy support

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Adams
access is concerned. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora kernel bug day.

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Adams
know suspend is another fun area, but are there any good tools to figure out what is wrong when suspend/resume doesn't work right? I've got a problem system (RH BZ 548593) that I don't know what else I can do to try to fix. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
monitor much of the time); can't we at least try to correct for that case first, and _then_ try to deal with multi-monitor setups? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com said: Obviously you embed radar in every projector. Projectors with auto-focus already detect the distance to the screen (I think they use IR). I don't expect that they change the EDID screen size reporting though. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
no maximum length is a denial of service waiting to happen. I'm sure the passwords are hashed, so it isn't a matter of storage, but the input buffer is not unlimited, and neither are the hash iterations to process the input. What is the actual limit? 256 characters? 512? -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
their system to compile things. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
if this feature goes through? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
, but there are several things in /bin that are established standards (such as /bin/sh for shell scripts). /lib{,64} is part of the ABI because of /lib/ld-linux.so.2 and /lib64/ld-linux-x86_64.so.2. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
been a significanly used Unix-like system since 7th Edition that didn't have a Bourne-like shell at /bin/sh. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com said: 2011/10/25 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net: Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com said: I created feature page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F18MorePortableInterpreters I strongly object to this feature

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Adams
somebody's idea of neatness. I have no problem removing compat symlinks when they are no longer needed; I just don't believe that will ever be the case for /bin, /lib{,64}, and /sbin. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
utilities were in odd places like /etc and /usr/lib. The idea of /sbin and /usr/sbin was to get compiled executables out of those places (and to not clutter up the normal bin directories with stuff users didn't need). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Harald Hoyer harald.ho...@gmail.com said: For daemons, which should not be called directly on the command line, I would suggest to move them to /usr/lib/packagename/ anyway. That's what /usr/libexec is for. /usr/lib{,64} is for libraries and such, not executables. -- Chris

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
use anyway. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net said: One big question though: can RPM handle such a change? IIRC, when the switch from /etc/rc.d/init.d to /etc/init.d was made, initially everything was going to be moved and the old paths symlinked for a few releases. However

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Chris Adams
directly myself, so I'm not familiar with what is required). Since all the packages that depend on libpng would have to be rebuilt twice if you don't go to the latest version now, I'd say go ahead and get it over with once (i.e. go to 1.5). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: xfce-weather-plugin stopped working

2011-11-04 Thread Chris Adams
The Weather Channel (weather.com) as its data source? They cut off the old free API and now charge for the new one. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list

Re: xfce-weather-plugin stopped working

2011-11-05 Thread Chris Adams
the policies. However, policies change, and sometimes on relatively short notice. I think weather.com was the default for a number of projects, and that probably was costing The Weather Channel money (that didn't give them anything in return). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Heads up: libpng bumped to 1.5.x in rawhide

2011-11-05 Thread Chris Adams
in package dependencies. Hmm, I didn't know that. Which does RPM use when generating dependencies? It would appear that it is is using ldd; should that be changed? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
question: is it possible for root to see these alternate tmps? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
the root user could see them. If he is only mounting as tmpfs then I don't think the admin could easily get into the namespaces to see them. I would be against something that hides stuff from root. That's a recipie for disaster. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
is accessing that directory, that's probably good enough. But we could definitely add this if necessary, as a property on the bus object of the service, which would then be queriable with systemctl show. If it isn't too hard, that would be good as well. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
trivial than I like already. Well, if they're subdirectories of /tmp, you'd have to deal with all the usual /tmp attacks of known targets. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com said: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Well, if they're subdirectories of /tmp, you'd have to deal with all the usual /tmp attacks of known targets. Hmph? They wouldn't be accessible to anything

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-09 Thread Chris Adams
, etc.) to separate the systemd-created private tmps. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-03 Thread Chris Adams
(or any other signed data for that matter)? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Adams
about this. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
, and that even FESCo shouldn't be able to set an update policy for KDE packages. Why don't you give the kernel maintainers the same courtesy? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: What does the DVD media check if installing a new Fedora version? / Proposal

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
not be a problem now). If you are looking at the master or mirror directory, you could use dd to only read the right number of bytes from the disk and pipe the output to sha256sum. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
. Again, proof? They have enough patches to sort through every release as it is, and they don't want to add more. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
over all packages in the distribution (or all packages that tangentially affect them). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
big and hierarchical, you don't always get a lot of feedback (even when one of the maintainers picks up your patch in their tree to go upstream). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: Chris Adams wrote: SIGs don't exist to exercise control over all packages in the distribution (or all packages that tangentially affect them). As I said elsewhere on this list, that's exactly where our organizational structure

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
, then that SQLite should be fixed! What if it isn't a bug, but just different behavior? To do such an update in F12, you need to audit the other users of SQLite (of which there are many) and check them against a new version, possibly updating many dependent packages as well. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
achieve anything either. Is it impossible for you to accept the fact that not everybody agrees with you on the direction of Fedora, and that maybe (just maybe) you are in the minority? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Staying close to upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
and not assume they know what's best for the rest of the distribution. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: If we really are the only ones true to Fedora's original principles As I recall, upstream, upstream, upstream was one of those principles that you are demanding others now break. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: systemd and filesystems with noauto

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Adams
filesystems means that they shouldn't be automatically mounted. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: systemd and filesystems with noauto

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Adams
be mounted explicitly (i.e., the -a option will not cause the filesystem to be mounted). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Adams
by not having any MTA installed (other than a little bit of disk space)? I understand that a little bit of disk space can add up quick, but a local queueing MTA is a pretty standard part of a Unix system. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com said: Chris Adams wrote: What do we gain by not having any MTA installed (other than a little bit of disk space)? I understand that a little bit of disk space can add up quick, but a local queueing MTA is a pretty standard part

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Adams
or for researchers to study? So, according to you, Unix-like systems are only for researchers to study? How does PCs evolving every 5-10 years have any bearing on being Unix-like or not? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Adams
distributes. People like it. Yes, and they should continue to use it -- for sysv scripts. I thought the last big discussion resulted in agreement that chkconfig and service should continue to work for all services. Is that not the case? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: systemd and changes

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Adams
there is something capable of replacing it. Maybe you don't have bridges, 802.1q VLANs (and even bridged VLANs), etc., but last I checked, NM didn't handle them. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Adams
think of (such as delivering root mail to a non-root user or smarthosting, possibly with authentication setup) requires manual configuration in any case. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Adams
be in @Core, because cronie is mandatory and requires /usr/sbin/sendmail (until the rawhide version of cronie, which will log to syslog if there's no /usr/sbin/sendmail). Why is sendmail also in @Base? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Adams
(if there's a reason and it isn't just an accident, that might have some bearing on removing it from both). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: systemd and changes

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Adams
support all the same things in network-scripts that ifup/etc. do, and it adds some things of its own for WPA and the like). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list

Re: systemd and changes

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Adams
the universal vi (but then the config files are not well documented). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
14.1: Now with GNOME3!) with more targeted/focused changes. That's probably not practical with the available manpower however. Why do we need to be concerned about being similar to or different from Ubuntu? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet

Re: e4defrag support?

2010-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com said: Some things to test would be attempting to defrag files which are being actively written to / read from in various ways - concurrent access, mmap, etc. Also make sure to test files used by sendfile() and splice()/vmsplice(). -- Chris

Re: trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

2010-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
, and said they will unbundle others once their changes settle down. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
to communicate (yes, such switches are crap, but when it isn't your network, you don't get to choose). Not having a tool to do that already installed makes it impossible to fix. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com said: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: I noticed that ethtool is not in the default install anymore (probably for a release or so, but I didn't notice it until now).  Why is that? It is the only tool

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com said: Chris Adams wrote: Maybe ethtool should be added to @Base? Or patch initscripts to use ethtool instead of deprecated cruft. You cut out the part of my email where I quoted the changelog showing that had already been done. The net

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
, but I think the problem starts with curl. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
setups with /usr on a hard drive. Basically, if Fedora is going to follow the FHS at all, bugs like 626007 should be fixed, not ignored because somebody doesn't like a separate /usr. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
filesystems are mounted. I expect other bugs attributed to separate /usr are really problems handling non-default partitioning schemes of many kinds. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com said: On 10/19/2010 11:28 AM, Chris Adams wrote: And how many of those bugs are exclusively a /usr-is-separate problem vs. how many of them are didn't-anticipate-alternate-partitioning problems? If I understand your distinction correctly

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
user-writable files (assuming separate /tmp and /var). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
restrictions due to the bootloader and other things), so you really don't want anything else in there. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: who broke fedoraproject.org usability?

2010-10-27 Thread Chris Adams
. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: The HTTP thingy is not really how admins should access the logs. They should just use journalctl. So why is it part of the core package instead of a subpackage? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Adams
(e.g. mounting filesystems of a drive on another system, running from a rescue image, etc.)? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: On Tue, 09.10.12 09:09, Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) wrote: Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: If people want some pixel-perfect copy of the traditional /var/log/messages, then they should

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Adams
stopping to look up said options) to get unfiltered output is frustrating. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Adams
is the equivalent for logrotate in the systemd journal case? How can you configure how much log data is kept and for how long? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Adams
is), rather than hard-coded. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Adams
-time pain, but then the Band-Aid™ would be ripped off and we'd be done. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Adams
(for example CGIs scanning for certain types of errors). How does that work with journald? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Adams
controls (again, on some of my systems, some logs are readable by different groups, sometimes more than one via file ACLs). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing

Re: modules, firmware, kernel size (was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes)

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Adams
obvious). That already exists some for -modules-extras. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: change of names of configuration files

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Adams
things around is just useless churn. These settings have been in these files for a long time (I know I have scripts that pull the HOSTNAME variable from /etc/sysconfig/network). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
down the road (bugs as well as poor design choices). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
to /usr/local/bin. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
has never AFAIK been in /bin, on any system I've used). The only case I would think /bin/perl would happen is if some software install script tried to be smart and change the shebang line, and it searched in common directories but not in $PATH order (starting with /bin). -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: Packaging help needed: Prevent noarch package from requiring 32bit RPMs on a 64bit system

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Miro Hrončok m...@hroncok.cz said: So how is this done in official repos? Different architectures are kept separatelly and I need to provide two repos? Yes (go look at the repo configs). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-02 Thread Chris Adams
I've logged into any of the Fedora servers in that time has been related to mirror management (and that is pretty rare as well). And (because I'm a lazy email reader) I post here from a different email address than my Fedora-registered one. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Adams
? Hint: not tmpfs. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
to have multiple hash tables). Now, given that, I still write most of my system admin stuff in perl. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
just go with an in-memory SQLite table. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
server)? My email client uses around 2gb of ram firefox usually is using between 512Mb and 1Gb your statement for me is false. Read the message, especially SOHO server. Most people are not running email clients and Firefox on servers. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
stay with yum. You should learn about something before you criticize it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF dnf is currently implementing a (subset of) existing yum commands. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
yum, it may get a symlink from /usr/bin/yum. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Adams
is hardly worth worrying about unless the command in question is run multiple times per minute, all the time. And besides: $ time perl -e 1 real0m0.008s Perl is 6 times faster than Python! :) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Adams
). - Configure additional partitions for the simple case e2fsprogs parted LVM? I know it is a can of worms, but it has been the default for a long time now. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Adams
, to name a few things which AFAIK it does not yet, it isn't a suitable replacement. If/when it gets to the point it can handle all the things the basic network service/scripts can do, then having it in @core could be revisited. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Adams
that the system clock can be initialized from the network. Trying to set it accurately by hand can be annoying, and an accurate clock is required for some network authentication methods like Kerberos. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't

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