Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Linas
Seems my message didn't get through. It was just doing rc() { /etc/rc.d/$*; } And to get completion, complete -o filenames -W "$(cd /etc/rc.d/ && echo *)" rc That requires a relogin / sourcing the profile again to update the completion (could be avoided with another function) but it's neat and s

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/13/2010 02:58 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; > done > That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou > /etc/bash.bashrc (global) > Yes, But that leaves me updating multiple .bashrc files (root, da

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/13/2010 02:36 PM, Frank Thieme wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 21:22, David C. Rankin > wrote: >>One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and >> stopping >> processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse >> did >> was to creat

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/13/2010 02:34 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010 12:52:43 am David C. Rankin wrote: > > I wrote a similar bash function, which I placed my ~/.bashrc. Sharing it here: > > start() > { > for arg in $*; do > sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg start > done > } > It works as > $ st

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/13/2010 03:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention

Re: [arch-general] Emerald crashing on theme change or edit in Gnome

2010-04-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/13/2010 04:03 PM, Firmicus wrote: >>> Happens also without compiz, just latest gnome with metacity: starting >>> "gnome-appearance-properties" yields >>> "Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0." >>> and X crashes. Not yet sure what's causing this. >>> >>> F >>> >>>

Re: [arch-general] Emerald crashing on theme change or edit in Gnome

2010-04-13 Thread Firmicus
On 13/04/2010 22:30, David C. Rankin wrote: On 04/12/2010 04:46 PM, Firmicus wrote: On 12/04/2010 02:04, Alexander Lam wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, For some reason, emerald has started crashing when changing themes in Gnom

Re: [arch-general] Emerald crashing on theme change or edit in Gnome

2010-04-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/12/2010 04:46 PM, Firmicus wrote: > On 12/04/2010 02:04, Alexander Lam wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM, David C. Rankin >> wrote: >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> For some reason, emerald has started crashing when changing >>> themes in Gnome. It >>> changes the theme just fine, bu

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; > done > That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou > /etc/bash.bashrc (global) That has a problem. It is evaluated when you log in (or when you so

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Flavio Costa
What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; done That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou /etc/bash.bashrc (global) On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: > > Guys, >

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Kazuo Teramoto
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and > stopping > processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse > did > was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... wit

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Frank Thieme
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 21:22, David C. Rankin wrote: >        One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and > stopping > processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse > did > was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming c

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010 12:52:43 am David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and > stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For > example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... > with

[arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of rc. So, for example, instead of having to typ

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-13 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am just trying to figure out that best solution for installing > VirtualBox (PUEL) but if I have to, I can even deal with using the > less-featured version (Open Source Edition) if it was available via > Pacman... > > Thanks for any help /

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-13 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am just trying to figure out that best solution for installing > VirtualBox (PUEL) but if I have to, I can even deal with using the > less-featured version (Open Source Edition) if it was available via > Pacman... The PUEL is on AUR. Have

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/13/2010 02:51 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: I am really needing to install VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) on my Arch 64-bit machine. I noticed that there is obviously no official download for Arch specifically on their site. I then checked Pacman and it appears ther

[arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-13 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am really needing to install VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) on my Arch 64-bit machine. I noticed that there is obviously no official download for Arch specifically on their site. I then checked Pacman and it appears there is only a OSE (Open Source Addition) available

[arch-general] [PATCH] add checksums for mirrors

2010-04-13 Thread Florian Pritz
Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz --- db-update |6 ++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/db-update b/db-update index 418c680..6ee6232 100755 --- a/db-update +++ b/db-update @@ -238,6 +238,12 @@ for current_arch in ${arch...@]}; do fi

[arch-general] Repo mirrors

2010-04-13 Thread Florian Pritz
I've changed the mirror script from the wiki so mirror admins can run it every minute without huge additional load. This will help a lot to reduce update delays now and even further when we have multiple tiers (don't know how mucht that works already). I've already described it somewhere, but f

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.62-1

2010-04-13 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 12.04.2010 03:09, schrieb Eric Bélanger: >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Eric Bélanger >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>  lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.62-1 are now in testing: >>> >>> - minor upstream update (ChangeLogs below) >>> - license fix:

Re: [arch-general] How to get permanent network devices?

2010-04-13 Thread Tavian Barnes
On 13 April 2010 12:03, Dominik Schips wrote: > Hello, > > I have three network devices (eth0, eth1 and eth2) in my system. > > Currently I use the networkmanager (Gnome) to configure my LAN > connection. It is working good. > > My problem is that every reboot the device names are changing so > so

[arch-general] How to get permanent network devices?

2010-04-13 Thread Dominik Schips
Hello, I have three network devices (eth0, eth1 and eth2) in my system. Currently I use the networkmanager (Gnome) to configure my LAN connection. It is working good. My problem is that every reboot the device names are changing so somtimes my LAN device is eth0 next reboot it is eth2 . I t

Re: [arch-general] erlang emacs

2010-04-13 Thread Juan Diego
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 08:35:23 Juan Diego wrote: >> Good day, >> >> I'm trying to run erlang-mode in emacs and I'm getting the following error: >> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" >> "erlang-skels") >> I