Re: [DNG] Keep em coming

2018-10-21 Thread Mark Hindley
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 06:54:25PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Several of you emailed me with package name to add to the list I've > curated and the list G. Pape has curated. Here are the recent additions > from this mailing list: > > > acpid >

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-21 Thread terryc
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:07:19 +0200 Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 10/17/2018 03:18 PM, terryc wrote: I'm going to start off by saying I'm unable to help you with your quest. In fact, my answers are basically like the local who is asked by a tourist "How do you get to blah-blah from here" and

[DNG] Keep em coming

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Several of you emailed me with package name to add to the list I've curated and the list G. Pape has curated. Here are the recent additions from this mailing list: acpid apcupsd apt-cacher-ng bind9 clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam clamav-milter

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:07:36 +0200, Didier wrote in message <826ba68a-6289-d047-7e74-d970996d2...@in2p3.fr>: > Le 21/10/2018 à 19:01, Didier Kryn a écrit : > >     I'm not an expert, but it seems to me the answer is in inittab; > > the following line invokes the daemon which launches all the >

[DNG] Debian (and therefore Devuan) runit package needs a little help

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Install the runit package like any other package. Then put the following in /etc/inittab, probably at or near the bottom: sv:123456:respawn:/usr/bin/runsvdir /etc/service "___" Except the string of underscores contains 85 underscores: I couldn't put all 85 in email. When making

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread eric
On 10/21/18 11:54 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/21/18 6:24 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The smart tv has wifi, like all this smart stuff we have today, if the HDMI cable has internet, I doubt it, just audio and video. Just so everybody

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:34:35 +0100 Simon Hobson wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > > What I said was that if you like sysvinit, use it, but for gosh > > sakes don't take the time and energy to modify it or update it or > > give it systemd features. > > +1 > Old does not equal broken. Perhaps

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 6:24 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/10/18 21:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I first noticed it while testing Stretch, I run a multimedia setup no problem with Jessie without systemd or wheezy, I was running a intel laptop HDMI to a big

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Simon Hobson
Steve Litt wrote: > What I said was that if you like sysvinit, use it, but for gosh sakes > don't take the time and energy to modify it or update it or give it > systemd features. +1 Old does not equal broken. Perhaps the reason sysvinit hasn't seen much maintenance for a while is that it just

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 21/10/18 at 15:32, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 08:50:40AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:25:04 -1000 >> Joel Roth wrote: >> >> I don't remember the symlink maintenance scripts, so I >> usually do this: >> >> chmod a-x /etc/init.d/exim4 >> Does your next

[DNG] Everyone OK for using the logger program for runit logging?

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, With runit, you can either use the "runit way" of recording log files, in which one looks in the daemon's run directory for something called .main, or you can use one of several logging programs. I'm using logger, and a Devuan ASCII VM guest I downloaded has the logger program and I

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 21/10/2018 à 19:01, Didier Kryn a écrit :     I'm not an expert, but it seems to me the answer is in inittab; the following line invokes the daemon which launches all the scripts: si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS     Well, there is also the following lines: l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0

Re: [DNG] Service directory location

2018-10-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 21/10/2018 à 17:19, Steve Litt a écrit : 1) /etc isn't read only     /etc has to be r/w for root if package management is to function! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Service directory location

2018-10-21 Thread g4sra
On 21/10/2018 16:19, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > The runit (or daemontools or s6) service directory is the directory > which is scanned for symlinks of runit directories. The Debian runit > package sets it to /etc/service, the Void package sets it > to /var/service, and both djb and runit

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread g4sra
> selling point was th[at] systemd is faster, SystemD has certainly been touted that way, I personally have not found it so in practice across a variety of hardware. There is a catch, one that *any* init system needs to take into consideration. Whilst a modern CPU can cope with multi-tasking

[DNG] Service directory location

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, The runit (or daemontools or s6) service directory is the directory which is scanned for symlinks of runit directories. The Debian runit package sets it to /etc/service, the Void package sets it to /var/service, and both djb and runit author G. Pape recommend setting it to /service, which

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 10:04:22 -0400 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Sounds good. So the runit package would wrap the directory with > > boilerplate packageing info, including an installation-time shutdown > > of the sysvinit script. >

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:59:12 -0400, Steve wrote in message <20181021085912.69aef...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > This is why I asked the question about permanently shutting down a > sysvinit /etc/init.d/rc5.d script. If, at the same time you or a > package fired up a runit supervisor for the daemon,

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 10:04:22 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Sounds good. So the runit package would wrap the directory with > boilerplate packageing info, including an installation-time shutdown > of the sysvinit script. I don't understand a word of the preceding paragraph, which is part of the

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 08:59:12AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:48:14 -0400 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Or make one package for each daemon's runit directory and make that > > package depend on the daemon's own package. > > That's a lot of work. I'd need considerable

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 08:50:40AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:25:04 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:52:53PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > On 10/20/18 11:18 PM, J. Fahrner wrote: > > > > Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: > > > > > In

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 21.10.18 08:18, J. Fahrner wrote: > Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: > > In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from > > starting a daemon. > > man update-rc.d > > You can remove or disable a service. And e.g. "view /etc/rc2.d/README" recites chapter and verse,

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/10/18 21:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > I first noticed it while testing Stretch, I run a multimedia setup > no problem with Jessie without systemd or wheezy, I was running a > intel laptop HDMI to a big screen smart tv, the screen would go >

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:48:14 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Or make one package for each daemon's runit directory and make that > package depend on the daemon's own package. That's a lot of work. I'd need considerable help. > > If several daemons are together in one package one could combine >

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:25:04 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:52:53PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > On 10/20/18 11:18 PM, J. Fahrner wrote: > > > Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: > > > > In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit > > > > from

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:25:24 +0200, Martin wrote in message <14421440.MIaJRJDx6e@merkaba>: > Adam Borowski - 20.10.18, 22:54: > > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip. > > It is also used by LibreOffice (or under-maintained OpenOffice). > > […] > > * 7z is similar but

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:17:24AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 07:19:49 +0200 > KatolaZ wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, pointing to a bunch of scripts is not enough: > > It's a starting point. Power-user individuals can start using runit > today, with no action by any

Re: [DNG] Daemon names for runit

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Steve. Steve Litt - 21.10.18, 07:52: > Please view > http://troubleshooters.com/linux/init/runit_daemon_list.htm and if > you use any daemons not on that list, please email me with the daemon > name(s) so I can get run scripts for them. - quasselcore - rsyslog - syslog-ng Whoa, there even is

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 20/10/2018 à 22:54, Adam Borowski a écrit : bzip2 is drastically slower (esp. at decompression) than xz and zstd; it needs to die.     There's a version of bzip2 which can parallellize the compression while producing a compatible format. When compression has been parallellized,

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:52:53PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/20/18 11:18 PM, J. Fahrner wrote: > > Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: > > > In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from > > > starting a daemon. > > > > man update-rc.d > > > > You can remove

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 4:15 AM, m712 wrote: This is not related to systemd. It sounds more like Xrandr and pulseaudio/alsa favoring your HDMI more than your laptop. The Linux kernel doesn't "know" about avahi daemon in the sense that there is no code for it in the Linux source tree. Did you ever log

Re: [DNG] Daemon names for runit

2018-10-21 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 01:52:23 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Please view > http://troubleshooters.com/linux/init/runit_daemon_list.htm and if > you use any daemons not on that list, please email me with the daemon > name(s) so I can get run scripts for them. > > Thanks, > > SteveT

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Adam Borowski - 20.10.18, 22:54: > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip. It is also used by LibreOffice (or under-maintained OpenOffice). […] > * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather than a > pure compressor. There can be benefits of container

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 3:33 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: KatolaZ - 21.10.18, 11:21: On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:43:42AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: […] Dear Jimmy, unfortunately the world is not divided into "good" vs "bad" at all times. A world divided into "good" versus "bad" would be like "black"

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread m712
This is not related to systemd. It sounds more like Xrandr and pulseaudio/alsa favoring your HDMI more than your laptop. The Linux kernel doesn't "know" about avahi daemon in the sense that there is no code for it in the Linux source tree. Did you ever log those HTTP requests by chance? On

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with (was: Re: Stop the madness!)

2018-10-21 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2018 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Steve Litt - 20.10.18, 03:55: > > Some folks are asking for automatic sysvinit init script generation, > > or else unit file to sysvinit init script converters. Some are asking > > Devuan's developers to prioritize their scarce programmer

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 21.10.18, 12:20: > It is entirely my choice to focus on helping to bring the healing > process along. And I will mediate and let go to also facilitate the meditate I meant here. Did not catch this while proof-reading my mail. > healing process between us as well. Cause

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
KatolaZ - 21.10.18, 11:21: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:43:42AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: […] > Dear Jimmy, > > unfortunately the world is not divided into "good" vs "bad" at all > times. A world divided into "good" versus "bad" would be like "black" and "white" to me. I am happy to be able

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Jimmy. I don't know where you have that anger and hatred towards me from, but I answer nonetheless: Jimmy Johnson - 21.10.18, 10:43: > On 10/21/18 12:25 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: [… most outrage and hatred towards me skipped …] > > None of the Devuan developers would let go of the important

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 2:50 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:33:33 -0700, Jimmy wrote in message : On 10/21/18 2:16 AM, m712 wrote: Nobody can help you if you don't explain your point. The only thing we got so far is your conspiracy theory of rkhunter masking "false"-false-positives for

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 21-10-18 12:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > Thanks for the post. > > I first noticed it while testing Stretch, I run a multimedia setup no > problem with Jessie without systemd or wheezy, I was running a intel > laptop HDMI to a big screen smart tv, the screen would go black and > the audio would

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 1:19 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Rick, On 21/10/18 14:42, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): Who remembers when rootkit hunter started showing problems and Debian said they where false positive

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:33:33 -0700, Jimmy wrote in message : > On 10/21/18 2:16 AM, m712 wrote: > > Nobody can help you if you don't explain your point. The only thing > > we got so far is your conspiracy theory of rkhunter masking > > "false"-false-positives for systemd and an incoherent claim

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 2:16 AM, m712 wrote: Nobody can help you if you don't explain your point. The only thing we got so far is your conspiracy theory of rkhunter masking "false"-false-positives for systemd and an incoherent claim of the Linux kernel doing HTTP requests to somewhere. What makes your

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with

2018-10-21 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:43:42AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [cut] > > > > So are you ready to just let go of it… and move on with whatever is > > really important to you? Are you ready to focus on what you self can do, > > instead of insisting to control how other people spend their time? >

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread m712
Nobody can help you if you don't explain your point. The only thing we got so far is your conspiracy theory of rkhunter masking "false"-false-positives for systemd and an incoherent claim of the Linux kernel doing HTTP requests to somewhere. On October 21, 2018 11:46:07 AM GMT+03:00, Jimmy

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 1:00 AM, m712 wrote: Why do you think people will help you if you can't give any specifics and keep shouting expletives at people? Let me know when someone is trying to help? :) -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 Current - KDE 4.14.38 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User

Re: [DNG] There is no madness to begin with

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 12:25 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: 1) In Debian sysvinit is basically unmaintained. To prevent that Debian removes sysvinit and maintainers of individual daemon packages probably remove init scripts then, it is important to have sysvinit maintained again, including updating it to

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Rick, On 21/10/18 14:42, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): > >> Who remembers when rootkit hunter started showing problems and >> Debian said they where false positive problems? I think it was >> sometime

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread m712
Why do you think people will help you if you can't give any specifics and keep shouting expletives at people? On October 21, 2018 10:55:18 AM GMT+03:00, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >On 10/21/18 12:35 AM, Rick Moen wrote: >> Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): >> >>> Who says you have

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 12:35 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): Who says you have to read my post You know, never mind. Much is now clearer. What's clearer Rick, how you can save Linux or you've found someone you can't F*** with? Are you a good guy or a bad

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): > Who says you have to read my post You know, never mind. Much is now clearer. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/18 12:06 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): Don't take this the wrong way but it sounds like you didn't read or recall the incident I remember. And you have nothing helpful to add? No, I really do not. And I'm not up for groping around in

[DNG] There is no madness to begin with (was: Re: Stop the madness!)

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Steve Litt - 20.10.18, 03:55: > Some folks are asking for automatic sysvinit init script generation, > or else unit file to sysvinit init script converters. Some are asking > Devuan's developers to prioritize their scarce programmer resources > to modifying sysvinit, which is over 30 years old.

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): > Don't take this the wrong way but it sounds like you didn't read or > recall the incident I remember. And you have nothing helpful to add? No, I really do not. And I'm not up for groping around in archives for an unspecified and apparently

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/20/18 11:18 PM, J. Fahrner wrote: Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting a daemon. man update-rc.d You can remove or disable a service. Jochen Can a person simple remove the 'exe' properties from the rc-*

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/20/18 11:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 07:50:48 +0200 "J. Fahrner" wrote: Am 2018-10-21 03:41, schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Pottering only selling point was the systemd is faster, my testings on many systems says that's a lie. I'm not saying it can't be faster, while using

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting a daemon. man update-rc.d You can remove or disable a service. Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting a daemon. Yeah, I know I could research this, but I don't need to become a sysvinit expert when so many such experts reside here. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness:

Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..

2018-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/20/18 8:42 PM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jimmy Johnson (field.engin...@gmail.com): Who remembers when rootkit hunter started showing problems and Debian said they where false positive problems? I think it was sometime during the development of Stretch. Well they fixed rootkit hunter to

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 07:50:48 +0200 "J. Fahrner" wrote: > Am 2018-10-21 03:41, schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > > Pottering only selling point was the systemd is faster, my testings > > on many systems says that's a lie. I'm not saying it can't be > > faster, while using systemd if I push and hold the