Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Brad Campbell
On 05/02/16 15:30, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi, The argument of those who support protecting the hardware against a probable breakage are logically sound: I support them. I see it simpler than that. I've always believed that best practice was if you don't need it mounted rw, then don't. For ex

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, The argument of those who support protecting the hardware against a probable breakage are logically sound: I support them. Let us look at it differently and let us consider the switching power supply that supplies stable voltages to the various circuits of a computer. Would anyone agree that

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, Till now: (voting still open) Voted YES: 5 Voted NO: 4 I am abstaining from voting. Edwad On 05/02/2016, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:03:24AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> Do you agree to renaming netman? > > no > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > g

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer H. Rauschenberg
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Simon Hobson wrote: > Yes, in an ideal world where everyone is a "full time admin". But in the > real world, more systems are used by "average users" who just expect > "stuff to work". So IMO, you either build stuff that works (or at least > is up-front about what's wrong),

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:03:24AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Do you agree to renaming netman? no Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch be

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..me, I do not see any point in keeping it mounted at all. > Whenever such a need arises, it should be mounted read-only. > If a need to write to /sys/firmware/efi/efivars should happen, > the machine should first be taken off-line, backed-up etc out > of production and int

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Dave Turner writes: > Simon old chap, we are ALL geeks here! And thus by definition on the > edge of just about all normal spectra... > I think Rainer is probably diametrically opposite to me on the weirdo > spectrum! Like all normal people, I'm convinced I'm normal and everybody else is weird.

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Aldemir Akpinar
> > ..me, I do not see any point in keeping it mounted at all. > Whenever such a need arises, it should be mounted read-only. > If a need to write to /sys/firmware/efi/efivars should happen, > the machine should first be taken off-line, backed-up etc out > of production and into a maintenance mode,

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Steve Litt writes: [...] > Is there anyone on this list who would object to *Devuan* mounting > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars read-only? 'A distribution' would usually provide some default settings for mounting virtual filesystems but I don't really care what these are. If I don't consider such a f

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Dave Turner
Simon old chap, we are ALL geeks here! And thus by definition on the edge of just about all normal spectra... I think Rainer is probably diametrically opposite to me on the weirdo spectrum! DaveT On 04/02/16 13:27, Simon Hobson wrote: Didier Kryn wrote: for the real "general case", someone

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:33:33 -0500, Steve wrote in message <2016020413.720b2...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:42:35 + > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > Simon Hobson writes: > > > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > > > >> "Whoever disagrees with me MUST either have a hidden, mal

Re: [DNG] Change netman into another name.

2016-02-04 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/03/2016 08:30 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi All, I did a google search for netman but I was presented with several pages of results always pointing to other similarly named commercial projects. Therefore, I am thinking about changing netman's name into a unique name so that users would be

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Steve Litt writes: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:36:05 + > Simon Hobson wrote: > >> Trash the OS - fair game (maybe). Brick the hardware, that's another >> kettle of fish. > > Another (and consistent) view is that we had a deal. From 1969 til > 2013, we had a deal that if you backed up every day an

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:42:35 + Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Simon Hobson writes: > > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > >> "Whoever disagrees with me MUST either have a hidden, maliscious > >> agenda or be out of his mind" is a pretty standard way to (attempt > >> to) handle a situation where someo

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Wim
2016-02-04 18:53 GMT+01:00 Rainer Weikusat : > Wim writes: > > [...] > > > I'd like to see Devuan do better. Better than Debian, fi. Windows doesn't > > seem to have this problem, as far as I could figure out. A format c:/ > > doesn't erase UEFI... > > Formatting a Linux disk partition also doesn

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:36:05 + Simon Hobson wrote: > Trash the OS - fair game (maybe). Brick the hardware, that's another > kettle of fish. Another (and consistent) view is that we had a deal. From 1969 til 2013, we had a deal that if you backed up every day and then used a bad rf command, re

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20

2016-02-04 Thread Steven W. Scott
YES NETMAN has been around as a standalone mainframe network/system automation product since at least the 90s on MVS/ESA, and later moved into workload manager under z/OS but it is still known and referred to as NETMAN. CA also has a product called NETMAN for mainframe systems, I suppose because I

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Wim writes: [...] > I'd like to see Devuan do better. Better than Debian, fi. Windows doesn't > seem to have this problem, as far as I could figure out. A format c:/ > doesn't erase UEFI... Formatting a Linux disk partition also doesn't change anything in the EFI NVRAM. Linux (the kernel) provi

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Wim
2016-02-04 17:55 GMT+01:00 Simon Hobson : > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > "Whoever disagrees with me MUST either have a hidden, maliscious agenda > > or be out of his mind" is a pretty standard way to (attempt to) handle > > a situation where someone ran out of arguments but doesn't feel like > >

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson writes: > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > >> "Whoever disagrees with me MUST either have a hidden, maliscious agenda >> or be out of his mind" is a pretty standard way to (attempt to) handle >> a situation where someone ran out of arguments but doesn't feel like >> admitting that. > > Not a

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/04/2016 06:29 PM, Clarke Sideroad wrote: If a trademark problem occurs with a minor comic super hero, deal with it then. (-; Do you remember Mandrake? :-) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/04/2016 05:21 PM, aitor_czr wrote: On 02/04/2016 12:47 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi All, This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name change. The question is: Do you agree to renaming netman? The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will ad

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Clarke Sideroad
I vote NO. It would seem today a lot of names start with "net" and you will tread on toes somewhere or other and "netman" seems no worse than the alternatives. If a trademark problem occurs with a minor comic super hero, deal with it then. (-; Clarke __

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Rainer Weikusat wrote: > "Whoever disagrees with me MUST either have a hidden, maliscious agenda > or be out of his mind" is a pretty standard way to (attempt to) handle > a situation where someone ran out of arguments but doesn't feel like > admitting that. Not at all. I have a perfectly sound

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/04/2016 12:47 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi All, This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name change. The question is: Do you agree to renaming netman? The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will adhere to the outcome vote. The poll will be

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20

2016-02-04 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/04/2016 12:47 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi All, This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name change. The question is: Do you agree to renaming netman? The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will adhere to the outcome vote. The poll will b

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:44:48 +, Rainer wrote in message <87k2mka61r@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com>: > Didier Kryn writes: > > Le 04/02/2016 13:07, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : > >> for the real "general case", > >> someone who blindly trusts the advice of strangers despite he > >> do

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: > Le 04/02/2016 13:07, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : >> for the real "general case", >> someone who blindly trusts the advice of strangers despite he doesn't >> understand it will end up getting himself in trouble sooner or later and >> probably rather sooner than later. > > Eg

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson writes: > Didier Kryn wrote: > >>> for the real "general case", >>> someone who blindly trusts the advice of strangers despite he doesn't >>> understand it will end up getting himself in trouble sooner or later and >>> probably rather sooner than later. >> >>Eg nearly any client

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread karl
Didier: > Le 04/02/2016 13:07, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : > > for the real "general case", > > someone who blindly trusts the advice of strangers despite he doesn't > > understand it will end up getting himself in trouble sooner or later and > > probably rather sooner than later. > Eg nearly an

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Didier Kryn wrote: >> for the real "general case", >> someone who blindly trusts the advice of strangers despite he doesn't >> understand it will end up getting himself in trouble sooner or later and >> probably rather sooner than later. > >Eg nearly any client of a physician, a lawyer... :

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/02/2016 13:07, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : for the real "general case", someone who blindly trusts the advice of strangers despite he doesn't understand it will end up getting himself in trouble sooner or later and probably rather sooner than later. Eg nearly any client of a physician,

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Svante Signell
YES On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 08:03 +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi All, > > This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name > change. The question is: > > Do you agree to renaming netman? > > The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will > adhere to the o

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread dev1fanboy
I vote NO On Thursday, February 4, 2016 7:03 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi All, > > This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name > change. The question is: > > Do you agree to renaming netman? > > The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will > adhe

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Hendrik Boom writes: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:03:24AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name >> change. The question is: >> >> Do you agree to renaming netman? >> >> The answers should be YES and NO. No long replie

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson writes: > Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Dave Turner writes: >>> There seems to be an assumption that everybody is a 'power user' and >>> knows exactly what they are doing. >>> The reality is not like that at all. >>> Leaving nasty surprises for the unwary and inexperienced is at worst >

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Emiliano Marini
NO On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Marlon Nunes wrote: > YES. > > > On 2016-02-04 04:03, Edward Bartolo wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name >> change. The question is: >> >> Do you agree to renaming netman? >> >> The answers should be Y

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Peter Vachuska writes: [...] > And I still don't understand why one would want a switch that bricks > your computer? It's easier to punish it this way than physically smashing it to bits. But there was no such switch involved here. Just a non-volatile RAM whose contents can be modified (that's

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 03/02/2016 22:29, Peter Vachuska a écrit : 03.02.2016, 14:56, "Steve Litt" : Let's talk about a minimal standard of safety as opposed to relying on "knowing what you're doing." A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I wouldn't have hesitated using 'rm -rf /' if I was going to remove

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Marlon Nunes
YES. On 2016-02-04 04:03, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi All, This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name change. The question is: Do you agree to renaming netman? The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will adhere to the outcome vote. The poll will b

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:03:24AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi All, > > This mail thread is intended to collect votes regarding netman's name > change. The question is: > > Do you agree to renaming netman? > > The answers should be YES and NO. No long replies needed, I will > adhere to the

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Dave Turner writes: >> There seems to be an assumption that everybody is a 'power user' and >> knows exactly what they are doing. >> The reality is not like that at all. >> Leaving nasty surprises for the unwary and inexperienced is at worst >> malicious and at best inco