Re: [DNG] Lennart now working for Microsoft

On July 13, 2022 3:31:37 PM CDT, Syeed Ali wrote: :: Microsoft has a great interest in embracing Linux via WSL with the :: intent to obsolete the need to dual boot. With many critical :: distributions and software requiring systemd, it only makes sense to :: make sure that WSL has complete

Re: [DNG] Microsoft azure and devuan

On May 20, 2022 1:50:54 PM CDT, Steve Litt wrote: ::* * :: \ o / :: \|/ :: | Y O U R O C K ! :: / \ _ :: / \/ ::/ :: - :: :: Tell me what Free Software looks like: :: :: THIS is what Free Software looks like!

Re: [DNG] vdev in chimaera

On 2/7/22 01:35, aitor wrote: Hi, On 7/2/22 8:29, aitor wrote: Next step will be to write a runit script for ifupdown that intend to solve the problem of the still remaining (at least booting with vdev) long delayed boot time when using "allow-hotplug " stanzas in /etc/network/interfaces.

Re: [DNG] Barrier on Devuan?

On 2/5/22 05:16, hal wrote: I'm trying to setup a Barrier server on my Devuan Beowulf host but it never seems to actually get to a listening on a network port. The debug log just keeps printing the output below. I am in the process of building the Github version but not sure that's going

[DNG] Barrier on Devuan?

I'm trying to setup a Barrier server on my Devuan Beowulf host but it never seems to actually get to a listening on a network port. The debug log just keeps printing the output below. I am in the process of building the Github version but not sure that's going to work. Anyone have any

Re: [DNG] openjdk-17 ?

On 12/24/21 16:52, Kim Hawtin wrote: Have been running Cornetto OpenJDK recently, they have a v8,11,17 repos with .debs; https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ Regards, Kim Thanks! I like this because the link to 'latest' can be scripted for a cron job. If

Re: [DNG] openjdk-17 ?

On 12/24/21 14:31, d...@d404.nl wrote: On 24-12-2021 21:22, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 24 December 2021 at 21:00:10, hal wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to play Minecraft v1.18.1 but it needs java v17. It looks like v11 is the only available version for Beowulf. I'd rather not download

[DNG] openjdk-17 ?

Hi All, I'm trying to play Minecraft v1.18.1 but it needs java v17. It looks like v11 is the only available version for Beowulf. I'd rather not download the Debian .deb from oracle. Anyone know of a repo I can add for Beowulf? Tried both Debian (buster) and Ubuntu (bionic) but the buster repo

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio

On 12/15/21 10:22, ael via Dng wrote: I also think there can be an over reaction to Redhat. I know someone who works for them, and distrusts systemd as much as anyone on this list, and I gather that he is not alone in that view within redhat. It goes so much deeper than that. systemd isn't

Re: [DNG] new firefox-esr buggy?

On 12/16/21 09:00, Haines Brown wrote: The behavior is hard to describe. When I scoll text up or down by using the arrow keys, the lines of text begin to break up and become unreadable until they settle about one second after the I'd give memtest86+ a run and see if it finds anything buggy

[DNG] [OT] Debian 10 init now listens as portmapper

I was logged into a Debian 10 system this morning and was looking to see if an Areca console was running. Noticed "init" listening on port 111 where RPC used to be. Seems like a dangerous move but at this point, not surprised. tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::*

Re: [DNG] system administration of non-systemd distros and releases

On 11/19/21 05:29, Peter Duffy wrote: I'd be grateful for thoughts and comments. Welp, I've been a nix admin long enough that I still have some Redhat 5.1 CDs around here somewhere.. back from when Redhat wasn't such a corporate pr#ck. I see Devuan in the exact same place Linux was all

Re: [DNG] WAY OFFTOPIC: Idiot electricians: was: Is it dead yet?

On 10/27/21 20:37, Jason Martin via Dng wrote: Since the mid 1980's, I learned it pays to have a: Electrical Receptacle Wall Plug AC Outlet Ground Tester You can pick one up for under $20. You can cannot always guarantee it was wired right or has not been damaged. I have seen lot of

[DNG] [OT] Jörg Schilling has passed away

Just thought I'd mention it. There was a time when Jörg's software was the only way to burn a CD on Solaris. I was grateful for his contributions as it saved me a lot of time moving things to tape. RIP Jörg, and thanks for all the fish. https://lwn.net/Articles/872489/rss

Re: [DNG] [OT] motherboard with "wifi-enabled"

On September 22, 2021 6:31:43 AM CDT, Haines Brown wrote: :: :: Thanks for the help. sure! :: :: In the past I looked on line to see whether folks had luck with a :: motherboard, but the Gigabyte Z-590 is too new. There are only hints :: it might work but also a problem or two has shown

Re: [DNG] [OT] motherboard with "wifi-enabled"

On 9/21/21 16:34, Haines Brown wrote: I'm looking at a Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Elite motherboard. One version of this motherbard (designated Ax) is "wifi-enabled". It also supports bluetooth I suppose this means that the NIC is on the board. I have no reason to think this would be useful under

Re: [DNG] [OT] Video cards on Linux (was Re: Information request re: wayland)

On 9/6/21 06:47, o1bigtenor wrote: Reading the file the first couple things that caught my attention also described the why and wherefore for the differences. 1. you are running the proprietary drivers not nouveau 2. you are running the latest production brach driver series     (which I

Re: [DNG] [OT] Video cards on Linux (was Re: Information request re: wayland)

On 9/5/21 14:42, o1bigtenor wrote: https://pastebin.com/NvUtaCnQ Hmmm - - - - the page shows for about 1/2 a second and then goes blank. tried clicking on the individual sections - - - still no joy. So I destroyed the pastebin cookies in the browser and

Re: [DNG] Firefox, sudo and apulse (was Re: Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio)

On September 4, 2021 4:40:34 AM CDT, g4sra via Dng wrote: :: On Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 at 7:41 PM, hal wrote :: > On 8/31/21 11:02, g4sra via Dng wrote: :: > :: > > > ctl.!default { :: > > > type hw :: > > > card 0 :: > > > } :: > > &g

Re: [DNG] Information request re: wayland

On 9/4/21 03:17, Steve Litt wrote: Bruce Perens via Dng said on Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:30:06 -0700 Unfortunately there isn't really a good display solution for Linux that does not make use of "direct rendering", in which user-mode code talks directly to the display hardware I'm reminded of

Re: [DNG] [OT] Video cards on Linux (was Re: Information request re: wayland)

On 9/3/21 06:24, o1bigtenor wrote: How did you get your 1050 Ti working under nouveau? How many monitors/sizes are you driving off of it? This is the card that I'm fighting!! Trying to drive 2 - 1920x1080 and 1 - 4k. Its the 4k monitor that seems to cause the issues!! (Please pretty please

Re: [DNG] [OT] Video cards on Linux (was Re: Information request re: wayland)

On 9/3/21 06:24, o1bigtenor wrote: How did you get your 1050 Ti working under nouveau? How many monitors/sizes are you driving off of it? This is the card that I'm fighting!! Trying to drive 2 - 1920x1080 and 1 - 4k. Its the 4k monitor that seems to cause the issues!! (Please pretty

Re: [DNG] Firefox, sudo and apulse (was Re: Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio)

On 8/31/21 11:02, g4sra via Dng wrote: In case you are unaware To simplify the GUI side, use 'xauth' get user_one's cookie: user_one# xauth -n list localhost/unix:0 localhost/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 83c12a394ac0c5afe1fee0a973b9e49g then give the cookie to user_two: user_two# xauth

[DNG] [OT] Video cards on Linux (was Re: Information request re: wayland)

On 9/3/21 02:09, Steve Litt wrote: spiralofhope said on Thu, 2 Sep 2021 20:33:35 -0700 On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:16:58 -0500 o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: He was of the opinion that Wayland - - - whatever its exact function, was really not worth running. I've been interested in it because of

Re: [DNG] Firefox, sudo and apulse (was Re: Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio)

On 8/31/21 11:02, g4sra via Dng wrote: ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } Check to make sure you do not have a ~/.asoundrc overriding /etc/asound.conf Good thought, and have checked this. Especially relevant with the multi-user situation. I will check on the other enlightening ALSA

Re: [DNG] Awkishness [Was: Re: Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio

On 8/24/21 00:25, dva...@internode.on.net wrote:   I hope that interests someone. It's not often that an opportunity   to espouse the original text Swiss army knife presents itself. It is, thanks for the awk info! I first encountered awk on Solaris in the late 90s in a mixed environment of

Re: [DNG] Firefox, sudo and apulse (was Re: Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio)

On 8/31/21 10:46, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: apulse works here like a charm. But my /etc/asound.conf is different (I use soundcard 2 aka index 1 as default): defaults.pcm.card 1 defaults.ctl.card 1 defaults.timer.card 1 Ahh, ok. So something with my config. Thank you for the input!

Re: [DNG] Thank you, Devuan

On 8/30/21 18:47, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: So thank you Devuan team and community! +1 As an end user (and Linux admin!), we don't say enough how much we appreciate your efforts. What has happened to the Linux ecosystem over the past few years has been simply dreadful. I'm not able to

[DNG] Firefox, sudo and apulse (was Re: Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio)

On 8/28/21 13:24, g4sra via Dng wrote: Install 'apulse' which are a sort of pulseaudio compatability libraries. apulse hasn't been working for me with Firefox for at least a year now. I don't know if I messed it up or if it was some software change, but it just stopped working once. Firefox

Re: [DNG] Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio

On 8/23/21 19:40, terryc wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:20:27 -0500 hal wrote: Thanks, I finally got this working yesterday. Care to share your set up? Sure, glad to. I made a pastebin for it here since it would become unreadable posted to the list: https://pastebin.com/XrXtAfPX My

Re: [DNG] Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio

On 7/3/21 09:59, g4sra via Dng wrote: 'dmix' is part of Alsa. RT? FM? Read The Fine Manual ~ go to the Alsa website and read up on the 'dmix' plugin, then google for example Alsa configurations for sharing devices. Thanks, I finally got this working yesterday.

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?

On 7/30/21 20:25, yami...@cock.li wrote: Currently I'm between Xen and Qemu, but I'm open to other options. Which would be the best option in this case, and is this even a good idea? I've been running KVM/QEMU/Virt-Manager on Devuan for many years with 3-4 VMs and haven't had any issues

[DNG] Steam, Mumble, Valheim, Alsa and shared audio

Hi, I have Alsa installed on Beowulf along with Steam and I guess there is some Pulse stuff installed too. I also use Mumble to chat during game play. When I'm playing Valheim, I can get sound in the game, but Mumble doesn't work. Is this just a mis-configuration on my end, or does Also not

Re: [DNG] A way of holding telephone-conferences with DEVUAN?

On April 4, 2020 5:07:56 AM CDT, Raul Claro wrote: :: Dear Devlers, :: ::     is there a way of holding a video- or an audioconference with :: Firefox (or Vivaldi) on Devuan?  The ones I have come in contact :: with. :: such als /https://global.gotomeeting.com/, /work only with Windows or ::

Re: [DNG] download image ISO of beowulf

On February 2, 2020 2:35:38 PM CST, Aitor wrote: :: Hi, :: :: On 2/2/20 14:10, Aitor wrote: :: > :: > Hi Ismael, :: > :: > On 1/2/20 17:42, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: :: >> Thanks for the information, I download and try it :: >> -- :: >> Ismael :: > :: > :: > Today i did some improvements in

[DNG] Devuan /etc/os-relase - no VERSION info?

Hi, I'm in the middle of patching a bunch of systems (Ubuntu, Devuan and Debian flavors) and noticed Devuan's /etc/os-release file doesn't contain any VERSION tags. This file comes in handy for parsing from shell scripts when lsb_release isn't installed or /etc/issue has been customized.

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

On 11/24/19 10:48 AM, Andreas Messer wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 07:14:48AM -0600, hal wrote: [...] I've commented out all of these lines. Presumably elogind-user is absolutely pointless on a Devuan system anyway? a) either run "/usr/sbin/pam-auth-update" and unmark elo

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

On 11/24/19 4:57 AM, Andreas Messer wrote: Sorry, did not read your E-Mail before. Did you check /etc/pam.d/cron for elogind references? (Including the includes) cron should not produce any elogind output since it uses /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive by default. elogind should be

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

On 11/23/19 2:17 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: But there's no earthly need for cron, if you run fetchmail as a daemon. Mine polls the hosts nominated in ~/.fetchmailrc each 600 seconds, delivering to port 25. Postfix then invokes procmail for message delivery sorting. (Probably don't need

Re: [DNG] OT: KVM/QEMU incremental backups?

On 11/20/19 3:58 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Sorry, but I have left out a small but maybe important detail: The servers run FreeBSD, since ZFS on linux bit me when I was not able to access my data after a kernel upgrade - that was ~ a year ago ... Ahh yes. Small but very pertinent xD

Re: [DNG] OT: KVM/QEMU incremental backups?

On 11/19/19 6:00 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: I do it on ZFS with snapshots. Works quite nice :) Nik Do you use the zfs-fuse package or must I build ZFS myself? Thank you ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] OT: KVM/QEMU incremental backups?

Is anyone doing QEMU/KVM incremental backups of a running VM? I'm trying to find some info on how best to accomplish the backup as well as a restore. What I want is to run my VM on a single SSD but take an incremental snapshot of the VM every few hours, saving it to SATA RAID. I only want to

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

On 11/13/19 4:43 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64972. [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64973 of user root. [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64973. That is 6 new root sessions in 2 seconds.

[DNG] disable elogind messages?

Hi, Any way to disable elogind from filling up the message logs? I think all these messages are happening because I have cron jobs running frequently. I could possibly tell rsyslog to file these in cron.log (if it is cron) but there is still the problem of excess logging taking up disk space.

Re: [DNG] Why is spamassasin compiling here?

On November 8, 2019 8:26:54 PM CST, tom wrote: :: On Wed, 06 Nov 2019 07:45:56 -0600 :: hal wrote: :: :: > The past few days I have been getting this message from my Devuan :: > ASCII mail host. Anyone know what's up with this? :: > :: > I've installed the libc6-dev-i386 pa

Re: [DNG] Why is spamassasin compiling here?

On 11/7/19 6:39 AM, Dimitris wrote: On 11/7/19 2:01 PM, hal wrote:    172609  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   31 Feb  6  2019 /usr/include/sys/types.h -> ../x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/types.h i think the problem is there.. symlink(?) to non-existent file.. in a debian stre

Re: [DNG] Why is spamassasin compiling here?

On 11/6/19 7:53 AM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: On 11/6/19 3:45 PM, hal wrote: I've installed the libc6-dev-i386 package to see if it solves it but then I wondered what is spamassasin doing compiling things anyway? https://packages.debian.org/stretch/sa-compile Thanks. I reinstalled

[DNG] Why is spamassasin compiling here?

The past few days I have been getting this message from my Devuan ASCII mail host. Anyone know what's up with this? I've installed the libc6-dev-i386 package to see if it solves it but then I wondered what is spamassasin doing compiling things anyway?

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

On October 21, 2019 11:00:01 PM CDT, ". fsmithred via Dng" wrote: :: The Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release has begun. The installer isos, :: desktop-live and minimal-live isos are currently available for :: download here: :: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/ :: Other images will be uploaded as

[DNG] OT: 50 years of Unix

Linux gets a mention, so somewhat relevant but sending OT anyway. Thought it was a great read. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/ ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

On 7/28/19 3:57 PM, hal wrote: Some searching says to add "core_freq=250" or "enable_uart=1" but so far still nothing. Any suggestions are appreciated. Hi, I got the serial port working. It's a bit of a task. Apparently the bluetooth integration messed up the serial p

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

On 7/17/19 3:50 PM, Andreas Messer wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:02:43PM -0500, hal wrote: Hello, Thank you. Here is the boot output from devuan_ascii_2.0.0_armel_raspi1.img.xz and setting emmc clock to 50Mhz in config.txt The same sdcard will boot my Raspi A+ fine so maybe it's hardware

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

On 7/11/19 3:02 PM, s@po wrote: If you had already tried, The best Option, would be to try to fix sdcard frequency to start with a fix *Default* speed and then try to Boot-Up.. This value bellow is the default( its what I have in my Board since the beguining... I am an Early Owner :) ) In

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

Hi, I don't think the sdcard is a problem as I can mount it on my desktop system fine. Sometimes I see weird things like this when there isn't enough power (< 1 amp) but I wonder now if my rasberry pi has just gone bad. On 7/6/19 10:08 PM, s@po wrote: Hello Again.. " [0.912573]

[DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

Hi, I'm trying to boot a Raspberry PI B+ on devuan_ascii_2.0.0_armhf_raspi2.img I'm getting a boot loop with this output: https://pastebin.com/ALTzdJxW Any thoughts? Should I be using the raspi1 image instead? Thanks ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Php 7.03 on ascii

/ You can get php7.3 from that repository for ascii. Just use the “stretch” equivalent name from debian. On 6 Jun 2019, at 00:53, hal <mailto:vmli...@charter.net>> wrote: Hi all, I happened to glance over at the supported PHP matrix[1] on php.net <http://php.net> yesterday a

Re: [DNG] Php 7.03 on ascii

On June 5, 2019 10:24:29 AM CDT, Dimitris via Dng wrote: :: On 6/5/19 5:53 PM, hal wrote: :: > , :: > I happened to glance over at the supported PHP matrix[1] on php.net :: yesterday and noticed 7.0x is EOL. This is the version bundled with :: Ascii. Do the debian backports cover securiy u

[DNG] Php 7.03 on ascii

Hi all, I happened to glance over at the supported PHP matrix[1] on php.net yesterday and noticed 7.0x is EOL. This is the version bundled with Ascii. Do the debian backports cover securiy updates to PHP 7.0x until the distro itself is EOL or should I have upgraded PHP already? Thanks [1]

Re: [DNG] Nvidia Oddities With Latest Patches

On 4/29/19 3:43 PM, hal wrote: Hi all, I recently applied updates on my Ascii box and for some reason my 1600x1200 dual monitor setup is back to a single monitor running 1280x1024. FWIW.. fixed with: aptitude install nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-libs-i386

[DNG] Nvidia Oddities With Latest Patches

Hi all, I recently applied updates on my Ascii box and for some reason my 1600x1200 dual monitor setup is back to a single monitor running 1280x1024. I applied some queued patches[1] on 4/27 which included some nvidia updates, as well as some[2] patches on 4/28 (also including some nvidia

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

On 4/1/19 1:30 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > There was no attack. There was no security incident. It was an April fool. We have clarified that several times. I have apologised for that. I am very sorry for the distress caused :\ I think it's noteworthy when a person steps up and owns a mistake.

Re: [DNG] tried testing elogind and libelogind0 241.1-1

On 3/12/19 11:40 AM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: On 3/12/19 6:32 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: And, by the way I do have a libsystemd0. "breaking" is about libsystemd0. # apt install elogind will ask for libsystemd0 removal, go ahead :) Pardon my ignorance but this will only work on Ceres (maybe

Re: [DNG] Installing Steam on Devuan

On 2/11/19 5:06 AM, hal wrote: ... glXChooseVisual failed glXChooseVisual failedMain.cpp (332) : Assertion Failed: Fatal Error: glXChooseVisual failed ... Just an update. Finally got around to this again. Got it running this way: aptitude purge steam-launcher aptitude purge nvidia

Re: [DNG] ..should we set up our own usage policy wizard script?, was: OpenSSH: delay on beowulf

On 2/10/19 3:44 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: The problem is that a number of unexpected programs call home. Possbily the Steam client as well. Note 'upload yes' in my crash dump output. This is typical for many games these days. $ steam ... crash_20190211045022_6.dmp[15237]: file

Re: [DNG] Installing Steam on Devuan

On 2/10/19 3:25 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: your box please "dpkg --add-architecture i386". Ahh, yes. It's there now. There's a number of reason why proprietary software is bad, but if you want to use it anyway, it's much better to use the packaged client which has been beaten to play nice

Re: [DNG] Installing Steam on Devuan

On 2/10/19 1:55 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote:   You can get it here: https://store.steampowered.com/about/ Thanks. I have the client software downloaded. I couldn't get the support libraries installed as they are i386. `aptitude search libgl | grep i386` wouldn't turn up anything until

Re: [DNG] Installing Steam on Devuan

In case anyone else runs into it... # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # aptitude install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libc6:i386 On 2/9/19 6:20 PM, hal wrote: Are there i386 devuan packages available?  I'm trying to get the Steam client running[1] on a recent Ascii upgrade. I suppose

Re: [DNG] OpenSSH: delay on beowulf

On 2/9/19 3:59 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: 1) starting OpenSSH takes ~ 10 seconds with or without network cable attached. I have not seen this on ascii. Seems like ssh delays are always DNS related but this could be something else. Maybe try starting the daemon by hand with all the

[DNG] Installing Steam on Devuan

Are there i386 devuan packages available? I'm trying to get the Steam client running[1] on a recent Ascii upgrade. I suppose I could pull in some Debian ones if not. [1] Steam needs to install these additional packages: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386, libc6:i386

Re: [DNG] nvidia driver?

On 1/31/19 9:46 AM, KatolaZ wrote: deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main contrib non-free Installing now.. and maybe also have a look at: https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list Actually did run across that page, but it didn't list "non-free" as an option so

Re: [DNG] nvidia driver?

On 1/31/19 9:27 AM, KatolaZ wrote: You don't need to add Stretch- non-free. Just ass ascii non-free if you must. Sweet! What should it be? The installer left this in sources.list but I don't have the CDROM in: # deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1]/ ascii main non-free Tried

Re: [DNG] nvidia driver?

On 1/31/19 8:44 AM, Antony Stone wrote: What happens if you try following that info? Do you run into some problem when the machine turns out to be running Devuan and not Debian? Yeah, my concern is that adding the Stretch "non-free" will pull in a bunch of dependencies for X (lord knows

[DNG] nvidia driver?

Is there an established way to get an Nvidia driver installed on Devuan? I've tried googling it but just end up getting debian info. Thanks. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

On 1/31/19 12:22 AM, Rick Moen wrote: As I'm (like you) an LWN.net subscriber, I can furnish a 'subscriber link' for the benefit of Dng readers. Enjoy. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/777595/c64f9542bdd40595/ Thanks, Rick. Interesting read. Regarding systemd..If it were as grand as the

Re: [DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

On 1/30/19 8:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: So I ask: Why should firefox need to access the net to look at the hard drive in the laptop. Using Devuan Ascii and the firefox it provides. All I can think of is Possibly a DNS query is waiting. Try running: tcpdump -nn -s0 -A -i

Re: [DNG] OT: Changing xfce4-terminal window frame color

On 1/30/19 4:53 AM, KatolaZ wrote: I personally decided years ago to stay sane by avoiding any theming (but I admit it's way easier for me, since I mainly see little more than tabbed+xterms in my workspaces...). Seems like every DE out there defaults to a

Re: [DNG] OT: Changing xfce4-terminal window frame color

On 1/27/19 5:20 PM, goli...@dyne.org wrote: The window borders are handled by the window theme so try a different one or modify the one you're using.  Could also be that the theme you're using is not compatible with GTK-3 or that you don't have all the needed libraries installed.  Have fun

[DNG] OT: Changing xfce4-terminal window frame color

Hi All, Anyone know how to change the silver color of the xfce4-terminal window frame to make my "dusk" theme?. I just installed Devuan Ascii on my primary desktop system and wondering if my old config files in $HOME are causing the issue. pic of what I have is here:

Re: [DNG] Well, this is interesting

On October 28, 2018 4:42:21 PM CDT, Steve Litt < :: To anyone who was in the business when MTV was new, this is scary as :: hell. :: :: SteveT :: What are the particulars? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Well, this is interesting

On October 28, 2018 3:58:47 PM CDT, Rowland Penny wrote: :: :: IBM is buying Red Hat. :: :: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat :: :: Rowland :: ___ :: Dng mailing list ::

Re: [DNG] GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

On September 17, 2018 5:16:21 PM CDT, observerofaffa...@redchan.it wrote: :: Regarding those who are ejected from the Linux Kernel Community after :: Who was ejected? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Implementing directory services/Kerberos

On September 2, 2018 7:34:50 PM CDT, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: :: I’m looking to setup some sort of directory services/network :: authentication for users on a small corporate network running Devuan :: Ascii. Is it recommended to use Kerberos+LDAP? :: :: Are there any good tutorials out there

[DNG] OT - LXDE themes and Palemoon widget coloring

I don't exactly know how GTK+ and Palemoon are tied together but I can't figure out how to get any dark LXDE themes working so there isn't some dark-fg on dark bg text going on. I've finally resorted to hacking up a custom theme based on "Mist" but HTML combo boxes are still messed up:

Re: [DNG] dnsmasq: junk found in command line

Irrwahn wrote on 07/09/2018 07:58 AM: > DNSMASQ_OPTS="$DNSMASQ_OPTS `mawk -- '{ printf " > --trust-anchor=.,%d,%d,%d,%s", $5, $6, $7, $8 }' $ROOT_DS`" A purge/install did no better so the line above indeed fixed it. # dnsmasq --version Dnsmasq version 2.72 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 Simon

Re: [DNG] who's tying up my port 80?

Harald Arnesen wrote on 07/09/2018 03:23 PM: > Why, oh why replace well-known, portable commands with Linux-only > commands that are no better? Can we blame SCO or Microsoft somehow? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] dnsmasq: junk found in command line

Hi, I am having a problem starting dnsmasq after latest update to my devuan VM. The error is when trying to start the init script: dnsmasq: junk found in command line I think I might be on old Devuan version[1] because /etc/issue says "1". Maybe this is the problem but I see a directory

Re: [DNG] Debian Devs using OSx? was Devuan in the German Wikipedia

Steve Litt wrote on 12/21/2017 07:42 PM: > And I can go in and change almost anything I > want about this machine. I've used a macbook, iMac and Mac Mini over the course of 10 years but could never quite acclimate to the environment. I always felt like I was driving a borrowed car.

Re: [DNG] Devuan, Firefox and Apulse

All, Thanks for all the great input. Happy to report I've ditched Chrom* in favor of Palemoon. Noscript and UBlock Origin plugins install fine. Youtube and ALSA working well. Thanks for all the tips! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

Didier Kryn wrote on 09/15/2017 02:58 AM: >     Hi Hal. > >     Seems you didn't logout since august 24. I admit that this accumulation > of ssh-agents is strange and deserves investigation, but simply ending the > session should kill them all. Didier, Thank you for that.

[DNG] PHP-7 on Devuan

Thinking about upgrading my Devuan web server to PHP Version 7. Found some docs for Debian/Ubuntu here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/705880/how-to-install-php-7 https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-php-7-on-debian-linux-8-jessie-wheezy-using-apt-get/ Any chance these would be close

Re: [DNG] apt-get update issues today

Ralph Ronnquist wrote on 05/07/2017 06:21 AM: > > You have managed to upll in the eudev implementation from experimental, and > unless it works for you, it's best to retract: > > # apt-get install udev=215-17+deb8u6 libudev1=215-17+deb8u6 > > the makedev package should be ok > > Note that

Re: [DNG] apt-get update issues today

Gregory Nowak wrote on 05/07/2017 01:37 AM: > What I suggest you do is apt-get install -f like the system > suggested. Next, > apt-get install linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 initramfs-tools udev Thank you, it appears now there is some problem with libudev1 and a package that was placed on hold.

Re: [DNG] apt-get update issues today

Florian Zieboll wrote on 05/07/2017 04:03 AM: > Hallo Hal, > > I just had a quick look at the pastebin and found this: > > | Get:1 http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ experimental/main libudev1 i386 > 220:3.2.2-4 [99.6 kB] > | Get:2 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ je

[DNG] apt-get update issues today

I tried apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade today and not sure what's going on. Some kind of issue with makedev or udev along with a warning about the kernel and initramfs-tools Can somone offer some insight on how to resolve the issues in this console output? https://pastebin.com/q55wVD1S

Re: [DNG] apulse in experimental

KatolaZ wrote on 04/18/2017 07:22 PM: > Dear Devuaners, > > just to let you know that a .deb package for apulse is now available > in experimental (except for armel: I am working on that). Just add the > repo: It's working great! Thank you sooo much!

Re: [DNG] Fwd: init system agnosticism [WAS: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system]

goli...@dyne.org wrote on 04/13/2017 12:51 PM: > How about Systemd OS running on a Linux kernel. > > golinux .. or more simply, SOL ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] The apulse FF solution

goli...@dyne.org wrote on 03/24/2017 10:52 AM: > Steve Pusser has come through once again!! > > See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=639579#p639579 > > "Adding apulse 0.1.9. This will fool Firefox 52 that you have pulseaudio > installed when you only have ALSA sound." > > Just add the

Re: [DNG] FF pulseaudio hard dependency is here

goli...@dyne.org wrote on 03/08/2017 11:33 AM: > "From Firefox 52 onwards, pulseaudio is a hard requirement for sound on > linux. Alsa is unsupported and alsa code will be removed in Firefox 54." > (from - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c ... 47056#c178 ) Seamonkey used to be a thing:

[DNG] logrotate "error creating output file"

Hi All, logrotate started tossing this error about a month ago. Anyone know how to fix it? Some googling said to try "minsize 1k" in /etc/logrotate.conf but it doesn't work. Thanks # logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf error: error creating output file /var/log/ConsoleKit/history.1.gz: File

Re: [DNG] Recommended location for iptables rules

KatolaZ wrote on 12/05/2016 04:14 PM: > > Hence, /var/lib/iptables/ seems indeed the perfect place to keep > (different possible sets of) iptables rules. > I would respectfully disagree here only because I've come to appreciate having the bulk of my configurable system knobs under /etc/.

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