Re: [DNG] Sorry for the accidental email

2019-10-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 02/10/19 at 02:53, Steve Litt wrote: > Anyway, could all of you except Dimitris forget you ever saw my email? What email? :-) -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 06/09/19 at 15:23, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > In ascii, udisks2 has been devuanized to remove a dependency on > libpam-systemd (and maybe libsystemd0, too.) > > The version of udisks2 in beowulf is very old compared to what's in > buster.   Really?  I'm on beowulf now, and I have: ii  udisks2 

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-06 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 07/09/19 at 01:58, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 07/09/19 at 00:34, fsmithred via Dng wrote: >> On 9/6/19 5:43 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: >>> On 06/09/19 at 15:23, fsmithred via Dng wrote: >>>> In ascii, udisks2 has been devuanized to remove a dependency on

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-06 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 07/09/19 at 00:34, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 9/6/19 5:43 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> On 06/09/19 at 15:23, fsmithred via Dng wrote: >>> In ascii, udisks2 has been devuanized to remove a dependency on >>> libpam-systemd (and maybe libsystemd0, too.) >

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-06 Thread Alessandro Selli
really need to devuanize udisks2 > anymore. Do we? > > Does anyone use udisks2 who doesn't want libpam-elogind or libelogind0 > with it?   I have them both, and I have nothing against them.   Bye, Alessandro -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifrat

Re: [DNG] New Nginx documentation for beginners

2019-06-14 Thread Alessandro Selli
ks,   Thank you, Steve.  I appreciate. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [DNG] Install failure: cannot boot netinst

2019-05-30 Thread Alessandro Selli
here are 8 files, as opposed to folders. > > I downloaded the netinst.iso file on a machine > running debian, used sha256sum to verify, and > burned using a dd command.   You can put an ISO image on a USB flash stick with dd, but you cannot burn a CD or a DVD with it.   To do that you'd

Re: [DNG] missing testing & ceres dists?

2019-05-27 Thread Alessandro Selli
guration details. > > https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/ & mirrors only seem to contain : Here is Ceres' stuff on pkgmaster: https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/ceres/   Bye, -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifra

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie security maintenance status

2019-05-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
make sure you have the latest devuan-keyring > package with apt-get install devuan-keyring and then point > your /etc/apt/sources.list to deb.devuan.org." > > > Indeed, when I change the sources.list to auto.mirror.devuan.org, I got > updates. > > So I guess, the documentation at >

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-11 Thread Alessandro Selli
project. > Enzo, please enjoy your leave and come back soon. Speaking for myself, > you have my full and unreserved confidence.   And mine as well. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-11 Thread Alessandro Selli
both free and proprietary. How could you expect Devuan to do differently? -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [DNG] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2019-03-20 Thread Alessandro Selli
there. >> >> My2Cents >> >> KatolaZ >> > killall -9 wpa_supplicant > > ;-)   THOU SHALL NOT KILL -9! https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28572/when-you-try-to-terminate-a-process-for-good-which-option-for-kill-should-you#28578 -- Alessandro Selli V

Re: [DNG] How can I install dokuwiki? it's not in ascci I think it's in ceres

2019-03-19 Thread Alessandro Selli
sions are > correct." > > does it refer to local.php?   I don't think so, at least not the one in /etc.  But again, I'm not a webmaster, I speak from a purely sysadmin point of view. > Greetings > Basati   Good luck! -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatar

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
007f0101 > > which is the same value!!! > > I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for all Devuan installation as it seems to be? > > And if it is so,is it correct that it is?   How intriguing! -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
c.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of alarm. [root@wkstn05 ~]# my id is 0x007f0101   So what?  Can't you read man gethostid(3)? -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signa

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
in the Internet it is.  What you described is the gethostbyname syscall. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
field  allowed values   -  --   minute 0-59   hour   0-23   day of month   1-31   month  1-12 (or names, see below)   day of week    0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)    A fiel

Re: [DNG] /var/lib/dbus/machine-id -- new dbus version

2019-03-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
gt; tracking you is not particularly smart: I am pretty sure chromium > would just read it when it starts, and then keep it in RAM, so you > might need to restart chromium every 10 minutes as well.   Plus, I would not make it evident to programs that my machine-id value is bogus.  I'd let

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
> >/dev/null 2>&1 " to keep this lightweight in my end and not > in the other end. :o)   The use of fortune as a RNG is telling of the number of gray hair you must have!   -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and en

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
m | cut -c 1-32 > /etc/machine-id or maybe: dd count=1 if=/dev/urandom 2> /dev/null | md5sum | cut -c 1-32 > /etc/machine-id -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
y both listening and non-listening -l, --listening Display only listening sockets (useless together with -a) -p, --processes Show process using socket.   Just like the same options for the netstat command. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG s

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 08/03/19 at 16:30, Bot Fap wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, 00:10 Alessandro Selli, <mailto:alessandrose...@linux.com>> wrote: > > On 08/03/19 at 00:50, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > > > > It's intriguing to see you get so emotional a

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 08/03/19 at 05:26, terryc wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 22:05:39 +0100 > Alessandro Selli wrote: > >> On 07/03/19 at 21:22, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: >>> Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 6:49 am: >>>>   Next improvement would be using curren

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 08/03/19 at 01:19, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > > Allesandro, my friend, over many years on the Internet, I've found that > certain discussions are best concluded with amicable production of the > set of facts that all present (within

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 08/03/19 at 01:09, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 10:56 am: >>   Please tell us.  When you need to do firewalling, what do you use and why? >> 1) ipfwadm >> 2) ipchains >> 3) iptables > I assume you ask me specifically.  

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
cated.  You only have your personal convictions to show.   Bye, -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 07/03/19 at 23:26, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 9:04 am: >>   I did not write they are useless.  I wrote that they are obsolete and >> deprecated. > > Yes. And those terms are badly chosen, because they are neither.   Please tell us.

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 07/03/19 at 23:26, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > > Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 9:04 am: >>   I did not write they are useless.  I wrote that they are obsolete and >> deprecated. > > Yes. And those terms are badly chosen, because they are neither.   They are b

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 07/03/19 at 22:18, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > > Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 8:05 am: >> On 07/03/19 at 21:22, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: >>> Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 6:49 am: >>>>   Next improvement would be using current commands (ip and

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 07/03/19 at 21:22, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > Alessandro Selli wrote on 8/3/19 6:49 am: >>   Next improvement would be using current commands (ip and iw) in place >> of the obsolete and deprecated ones, i.e. ifconfig and iwconfig: > The terms "obsolete" and &

Re: [DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
reless-Extensions/#Is_WE_being_further_developed_.3F -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT > partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for

Re: [DNG] iptables forced obsolescence over upgrade

2019-02-16 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 16/02/19 at 11:26, chillfan--- via Dng wrote: > And of course I don't need nft   Yes, you do.   For some reason  you don't *want* it, but that's a different matter. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding

Re: [DNG] xdm broken?

2019-02-16 Thread Alessandro Selli
ted to know how if > anyone has. > > ozi > > VirtualBox_test-64_15_02_2019_07_11_44.png   Please don't include a picture when a copy-and-paste would suffice. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050

Re: [DNG] [SOLVED] Error building vdev in devuan beowulf

2019-02-15 Thread Alessandro Selli
  Among them the gpg one, that still only supports gpg version 1. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread Alessandro Selli
boot > > Sounds like something we don't want.    I agree.  All I need to automate updates is a cron job -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E173

Re: [DNG] OpenSSH: delay on beowulf

2019-02-10 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 10/02/19 at 11:26, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > There's nothing in the logs. It just takes verry long to start.   Run it in verbose/debug mode. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding

Re: [DNG] Installing Steam on Devuan

2019-02-10 Thread Alessandro Selli
bian ones if not. >   You can get it here: https://store.steampowered.com/about/ -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: [DNG] Beowulf: eudev does not start at boot, making Xorg unusable

2019-02-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 09/02/19 at 00:13, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote: > Hi Alessandro. > > El Fri, 8 Feb 2019 21:53:44 +0100 > Alessandro Selli escribió: > >>     This afternoon I happened to be surprised I could not use my >> laptop's GUI because the screen was unresponsive to

Re: [DNG] Beowulf: eudev does not start at boot, making Xorg unusable

2019-02-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 09/02/19 at 00:08, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 12:38:06AM +0200, Dimitris via Dng wrote: >> hey, >> >> On 2/8/19 10:53 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: >>> � I shut down the DM, started eudev manually and I could recover the GUI. >>> >> it wa

Re: [DNG] Beowulf: eudev does not start at boot, making Xorg unusable

2019-02-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
grep eudev /var/log/messages returned nothing, on /var/log/syslog I only got a few instances of: Feb  8 20:17:13 wkstn05 vmunix: [    2.508284] udevd[213]: starting eudev-3.2.2 On 08/02/19 at 23:34, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: >>

[DNG] Beowulf: eudev does not start at boot, making Xorg unusable

2019-02-08 Thread Alessandro Selli
about keyboard and mouse configuration.  This was due to the fact eudev failed to start at boot.   I shut down the DM, started eudev manually and I could recover the GUI. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key

Re: [DNG] Creating directory in /var/run on bootup

2019-02-05 Thread Alessandro Selli
a minute passes between cron startup and it's execution.  But putting an ad hoc script is the best thing. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE

Re: [DNG] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** SOLVED Re: Upgraded to Beowulf, GIMP is broken

2019-02-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 03/02/19 at 15:48, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2019 Sun, 3 Feb 15:44:55 +0100 > Alessandro Selli scripsit: >> On 03/02/19 at 15:28, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> [...] >>   Next issue, firefox has lost his voice.  But only when run from XFCE's >> panel,

[DNG] SOLVED Re: Upgraded to Beowulf, GIMP is broken

2019-02-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 03/02/19 at 15:28, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 03/02/19 at 15:09, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> On 03/02/19 at 14:59, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: >>> Anno domini 2019 Sun, 3 Feb 14:53:30 +0100 >>> Alessandro Selli scripsit: >>>> On 02/02/19

Re: [DNG] Upgraded to Beowulf, GIMP is broken

2019-02-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 03/02/19 at 15:09, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 03/02/19 at 14:59, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: >> Anno domini 2019 Sun, 3 Feb 14:53:30 +0100 >> Alessandro Selli scripsit: >>> On 02/02/19 at 21:43, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote: >>> [...] >>>   I took

Re: [DNG] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Upgraded to Beowulf, GIMP is broken

2019-02-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 03/02/19 at 14:59, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2019 Sun, 3 Feb 14:53:30 +0100 > Alessandro Selli scripsit: >> On 02/02/19 at 21:43, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote: >> [...] >>   I took away the deb-multimedia repository *before* the upgrade, left >> th

Re: [DNG] Upgraded to Beowulf, GIMP is broken

2019-02-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
Candidate: 0.4.12-2   Version table:  *** 0.4.12-2 500     500 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages     100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding k

Re: [DNG] Upgraded to Beowulf, GIMP is broken

2019-02-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
missed some > important development in the last years?   You can get libdvdcss2 also from the Videolan repository, they have just that package AFAICT: deb https://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ / > Nik -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-02-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
more complicated from the '60ies than cars and auto repair shop have. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: Ope

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-02-01 Thread Alessandro Selli
[Time references are from the video on https://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html ] On 31/01/19 at 12:56, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > В Чт, 31/01/2019 в 00:19 +0100, Alessandro Selli пишет: [...] > I'd like to notice that Benno just repeats systemd's prop

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-02-01 Thread Alessandro Selli
l bug reports against it!   -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-01-31 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 31/01/19 at 03:38, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:19:44AM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> Might interest someone: >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/ >> >> [Front] Posted Jan 28, 2019 20:05 UTC (Mon) by corbet >> >> His a

[DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-01-30 Thread Alessandro Selli
nux system. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne

Re: [DNG] ..alsa+apulse and torbrowser... rpath is /usr/lib/apulse and is too long???

2019-01-22 Thread Alessandro Selli
paring themselves some time just to let their system behave in a sane way.   But let's start with a simple howto first.   Where shall we coordinate our effort, push our contributions to? -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key

Re: [DNG] ..alsa+apulse and torbrowser... rpath is /usr/lib/apulse and is too long???

2019-01-22 Thread Alessandro Selli
and a mouth to speak, and it's been a pretty long time that software has been used to deliver not just text, but video and audio as well (jeez, I first did it on a Pentium-166!). -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and

Re: [DNG] Debian dev takes a break from packaging systemd

2019-01-21 Thread Alessandro Selli
t >   Yes, it's amazing.   Even more amazing is that such a software was almost universally adopted as a key piece of the OS. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE

Re: [DNG] Devuan on the Librem5 devkit

2019-01-01 Thread Alessandro Selli
good news, the new year is starting positively!   Happy New Year to everybody! -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [DNG] (no subject)

2018-12-25 Thread Alessandro Selli
here XX is the selector of the natioonal language, pt for Portugese), under X11 you can use setxkbmap XX instead. Hope it works. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE

Re: [DNG] IceCat

2018-12-25 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 25/12/18 at 10:51, aitor wrote: > > Hi all, > > I recently packaged the icecat browser for devuan ascii replacing to > mozilla firefox: > > http://www.packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/i/icecat/ >   Very well, that's a neat Xman present!  ☺ -- Alessandro S

Re: [DNG] Installing without rebooting

2018-12-21 Thread Alessandro Selli
long uptimes with new kernels. ;o)   AFAIR, uptime is not maintained through a kexec. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-16 Thread Alessandro Selli
ian, then, sometime, in the future, when I get enough time to do it, I'll migrate it to Devuan...) -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signat

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-16 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 16/12/18 at 11:10, KatolaZ wrote: > However, I am pretty sure that 99.9% of the Devuaners would probably > find the result quite uncomfortable, inconvenient, skinny, and overly > archaic.   Not I.   What VUA would? -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiav

Re: [DNG] About gnuinos ascii

2018-12-12 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 12/12/18 at 00:36, aitor wrote: > Thanks for your attention, and merry christmas to all of you :)   Thank you for your contribution, and Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to you!  ☺ -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encod

Re: [DNG] Audio woes in Ascii - speakers but no headphones

2018-12-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
tion:Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii) > 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 > > What should I be looking at from within Devuan? > > /Lars   i solved a like problem unloading and re-loading snd_hda_intel.  See if the same happens to you (maybe with some other audio modules, according with what s

Re: [DNG] Request for comments - training room

2018-12-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
nization are already familiar with it (ie, they're all grey-haired or bald and gray-bearded or look like Yoda); 4. long-term support is not an issue.   In all other instances, run LDAP and/or Samba instead. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GP

[DNG] systemd killed the NIS star [was: Re: Request for comments - training room]

2018-12-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
a sysvinit Desktop nor a systemd Desktop the sysvinit server. Nevertheless why don't we update to ypbind-mt-1.38? Elimar -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.as

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il 03/12/18 12:53, Alessandro Selli ha scritto: > On 03/12/18 at 11:30, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> Running "update-rc.d rsyslog disable 2" resulted in error messages >> like the following: >> >> ERROR MESSAGE: >> insserv: warning: current start runleve

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
update-rc.d atd disable would disable atd on all runlevels. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 03/12/18 at 10:50, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:33:44AM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> On 03/12/18 at 10:05, Adam Borowski wrote: >>> realtime greatly reduces atime writes, but it's still too much. >>   I wouldn't say so.  Since relatime upd

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-03 Thread Alessandro Selli
it's time to kill the nasty thing.   If only it was any nasty. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
from Debian on January 2017: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flashybrid   Looks like development upstream stopped 11 years ago: https://github.com/elcuco/flashybrid Latest commit 2a0d291 <https://github.com/elcuco/flashybrid/commit/2a0d291101605ecc9511e5fea6d29f91d98be0a1> on 23 Sep 2007 --

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
for reading: Permission denied Your method does make sense.  It even works for root!  ☺ -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: O

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 02/12/18 at 17:23, Adam Borowski wrote: > You'd want to set noatime on every machine > you control.   Some mail servers and clients do use it to determine if a mail was read after it arrived.  In this case, it'd be better to have it set on /var. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dh

Re: [DNG] packages.devuan.org is not updated for a long time

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
rver certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none Err:49 https://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security/main amd64 Packages   server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfil

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
relatime0 1 > > Or disable rsyslogd .. I think it was this sequence: > # update-rc.d rsyslog disable 2 > # update-rc.d rsyslog disable 3 > # update-rc.d rsyslog disable 4 > # update-rc.d rsyslog disable 5 update-rc.d rsyslog disable will work for all

Re: [DNG] Request for comments - training room

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
ists.dyne.org> > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > > -- > Tomasz Kundera > > ___ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
ilesystem.sh ; sync) real    3m39,434s user    0m1,024s sys 0m1,950s [alessandro@wkstn02 ~]$ time (\rm -r /mnt/loop/Dir_* ; sync) real    0m2,486s user    0m0,002s sys 0m0,082s   -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG sig

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
bled (nobarrier or barrier=0).   These mount options will increase the chance of data loss and filesystem corruption in the case of an abnormal filesystem close (system crash or sudden power loss), but significantly decrease the number of write operations on the ext4 filesystem during regular oper

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 29/11/18 at 18:19, Roger Leigh wrote: > If you're a ZFS user   Yeah, that's it. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
ace where both live together - I have one desktop like this.   Server's peculiarities do deserve to be taken into consideration by a soi-disant universal OS. IIRC Debian is used a lot on servers.   Why do you think ro, nodev, barrier, sync and other mount options do no make sense on a RAID/LVM filesystem?

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
at home have been doing a poor job at using different closets to store only their own stuff and each different closet's drawer to put different kinds of clothing, let's dump together whatever belongs to anyone in a big chest placed in the middle of the room.  L

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
the needs of entire classes of users, that they are already here or that they may develop in the future.  GNU/Linux is just losing in adaptability, potability and customizability, which was one of the reasons many people switched to it. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@eki

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
does not come down crashing and burning was /usr damaged, allowing the superuser to login to see what happened and attempt to recover the lost data when the system is still online. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encodin

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
system layout do not take into consideration servers?   Why do you think ro, nodev, barrier, sync and other mount options do make sense on a RAID/LVM filesystem? -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E1738

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 28/11/18 at 12:15, Alessandro Selli wrote: >   Why do you think ro, nodev, barrier, sync and other mount options do > make sense on a RAID/LVM filesystem? "... do NOT make sense ..." -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG sign

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
ec in / that has libraries in /usr on a system that mounts /usr over an NFS mount regardless of what the local / is lying on (local disk or network filesystem). -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384

Re: [DNG] merging /tmp

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
wapon checks the file's permissions and does warn you if they allow anybody other that the owner to read it). -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Descript

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
ions I am not > yet running). If I encounter that, I will consider that situation to > involve critical bugs that I would resolve through the package > maintainer if possible, or via a locally built alternative if not.   Yep.  I got the feeling developers/packagers have

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 28/11/18 at 09:08, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > >>  Can you name me one distribution other than Red Hat (which in >> fact is not a desktop-friendly distribution) that does not allow one to >> "do their own partition setu

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 23/11/18 at 18:26, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2018-11-23 09:03, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> On 23/11/18 at 14:32, Stephan Seitz wrote: >>> >>> Again, are you doing the work for your setup you care so much? >> >> >>   Yes, I am.  It's me who designs

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
ssage/20181118.010137.9938d5f1.en.html   Wrong, you did get my response: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181118.033658.96309362.en.html -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 23/11/18 at 23:17, Roger Leigh wrote: > So if you're insistent upon retaining a separate /usr, that shouldn't > be a problem.   Tomorrow morning at 4:00 o'clock I'll wake everyone up ringing the Church's bells to celebrate. -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
a a piece of hardware!  You only spared it the flame-thrower! -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 23/11/18 at 15:52, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:52:00PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > [cut] > >> >>   My rants were an answer to a (former) Debian maintainer/devloper who >> was on this list justifying the necessity of Debian's / -> merg

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 23/11/18 at 14:32, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:09:17 +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: >>   I do get the reasons the merge proponents prefer this filesystem >> layout.  What I rant against is their choices being imposed on me. > > They are not imposed on

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 23/11/18 at 14:25, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:09:17PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > [cut] > >> >>> Devuan is currently used in a mutlitude of >>> environments that include server farms, corporate and personal >>> servers, emb

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
sing udev's rules (the ASCII package install 18 such rules).  Yet, I think sometimes human intervention is still needed, and of course several USB modems (as well as PCMCIA/CardBus ones and some WiFi dongles and Access Points) are partially, poorly or not supported at all. Alessandro -- Alessan

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 23/11/18 at 06:26, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:24:05PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> On 22/11/18 at 19:21, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> On 21/11/2018 16:11, Alessandro Selli wrote: >>>> On 21/11/18 at 13:17, Roger Leigh wrote: >>>>&

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-22 Thread Alessandro Selli
he mount > option, nobarrier or barrier=0 would have been simply dangerous for data > integrity unless you have made sure that no sudden write interruption by > for example power loss can happen.   I use them on battery-backed systems.   Bye, -- Alessandro Selli VOIP SIP: dhatara

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