Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-13 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 13/10/17 04:01, Nate Bargmann wrote: To close this out, I worked with parazyd for a while on IRC this morning and this noon and his assessment is that the hardware drivers are loaded and things should be working. Well, it's not so back to the Olimex Debian image from which I've already

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 04/07/17 09:23, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: the flag will only disable the check against NAME_REGEX defined in /etc/adduser.conf. The flag will not permit to create usernames starting with dash or containing invalid characters (ie not in [-0-9a-z_]) . for the sake of not spreading false

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 03/07/17 18:23, Joachim Fahrner wrote: Am 2017-07-03 17:34, schrieb dev: useradd and adduser work differently. One allows it, the other does not. Just thought 'why not make them work the same?'. That's all. That's right, that's a bug. They should work the same, and they should follow

Re: [DNG] Running Devuan on a BeagleBone Black?

2017-05-31 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
Hello, On 25/05/17 16:05, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: On 25-05-17 13:50, Antoine wrote: I have a BeagleBone Black and I would like to run headless Devuan on it. There was an SD-card image available a few months ago, but I can't find it again (and it didn't work very well anyway).

Re: [DNG] Help with xmodmap+xcape

2017-05-10 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 09/05/17 23:36, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote: Hi All, I decided to live dangerously (with backups) and I recently upgraded my laptop install from Jessie to Ascii. It was a full fledged installation (X and all the bells and whistles...) and so far so good except for a couple of little things.

Re: [DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

2016-11-08 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
link [1] is wrong, right one: [1] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng On 08/11/16 09:31, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: On 08/11/16 07:32, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: I will update the webpage accordingly, indicating the talk.devuan.org webforum and the DNG mailinglist

Re: [DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

2016-11-08 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 08/11/16 07:32, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: I will update the webpage accordingly, indicating the talk.devuan.org webforum and the DNG mailinglist as the main places for discussion, but also the git.devuan.org issues as the place where to report bugs. Once updated, it would probably

Re: [DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

2016-11-07 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
Dear Jaromil, On 07/11/16 10:50, Jaromil wrote: you are right, devuan-discuss never took off. it also did not receive much love from any admin and I believe is stuck with some moderation bit noone has attended. It is a failed plan which I suggest we interpret as part of the "Beta" as much as

Re: [DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

2016-11-07 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 06/11/16 17:40, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 17:14:39 +0100, Giovanni wrote in message <5be642ae-c983-3ee3-db68-be1e7657a...@ideanet.be>: On 06/11/16 15:20, KatolaZ wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: Based on the MLs description

Re: [DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

2016-11-06 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 06/11/16 15:20, KatolaZ wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: Based on the MLs description on [2], devuan-discuss is the primary ML for requesting help and discuss about Devuan. That is wrong! The fact is that DNG is the primary ML for such things

[DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

2016-11-06 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
to devuan-discuss. Regards, Giovanni [1] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20161106.095648.d2208b15.en.html [2] https://devuan.org/os/community [3] since 2 may 2016: about 50 mails sent to devuan-discuss, about 3800 to DNG -- Giovanni Rapagnani ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] tool to check for updates without root??

2016-06-22 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 22/06/16 08:20, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:15:17AM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > The easiest way is to have a cron script that runs once a day, with > root provileges, and calls "apt-get update". another way of periodically updating the lists of packages is to add