[arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

2010-09-06 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Got the sudo update with the new sudoers file, Noticed new %sudo group designation along with the traditional %wheel: ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL Any reason that we would want a sudo group instead of using wheel? -- Dav

[arch-general] Unable to stop/restart network daemon if NETWORK_PERSIST=yes

2010-09-06 Thread Konor John
Hello! If NETWORK_PERSIST=yes (in /etc/rc.conf) i can't stop/restart network daemon: :: Skipping Network Shutdown against :: Stopping Network It's seems not good

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/06/2010 05:20 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: Sorry to double post but as you can see my reply clearly does not apply to the invisible scan but to deleted/blocked detection, my mistake. However it may be possible that invisible detection may stop working reliably in the future too. No problem. T

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/06/2010 11:17 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > Mind you that since some time ago it seems this "feature" is not > reliable anymore. > > The are msn clients that had this functionality built-in and things have > gone south when it started to malfunction and reporting some users as > being blocked or

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Santos
Mind you that since some time ago it seems this "feature" is not reliable anymore. The are msn clients that had this functionality built-in and things have gone south when it started to malfunction and reporting some users as being blocked or deleted when in fact they are not. As far as I know no

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/28/2010 12:24 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners Dunno, don't use either, but I was curious enough to take a look and see what the heck it was anyway. Here is the article that gave me the best background on at least what the visible/invisible debate was about.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1

2010-09-06 Thread jwbirdsong
On 09/06/2010 01:47 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.09.2010 21:30, schrieb jwbirdsong: >> On 09/06/2010 11:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> Upstream update, please sign off. >>> >> >> Can still boot to my LVM root so signoff x86_64. > > Did you recreate your initramfs for the test? > Yes I did,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1

2010-09-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.09.2010 21:30, schrieb jwbirdsong: > On 09/06/2010 11:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Upstream update, please sign off. >> > > Can still boot to my LVM root so signoff x86_64. Did you recreate your initramfs for the test? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1

2010-09-06 Thread jwbirdsong
On 09/06/2010 11:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Upstream update, please sign off. > Can still boot to my LVM root so signoff x86_64.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dbus-core 1.2.24-2

2010-09-06 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 6 September 2010 19:35, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.09.2010 14:09, schrieb Jan de Groot: >> Please signoff for both architectures. This release should fix the >> threading issues that crashes KDE a lot. >> >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20604 > > Looking good so far, although I didn't have

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta-7

2010-09-06 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 6 September 2010 19:57, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > So, here is another xz release. The upstream change from pkgrel=6 that > actually changes relevant code among some translation fixes is "xz: Use > an array instead of pointer for stdin_filename." > > Please sign off, > > Pierre > > -- > Pierre Sch

[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1

2010-09-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Upstream update, please sign off. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [Packages] [dbus-core] DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs wiki needs update

2010-09-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I feel the package should be ported to core. I'm using it from testing since 2-3 days and dolphin problem has been solved. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:44 -0300, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > Em 06-09-2010 08:45, Mike Sampson escreveu: > > > If the OP went with a wireless > > keyboard with properly implemented encryption it could actually be > > more secure than a wired keyboard. > > > > [1] > > http://www.pcworld.com

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Armando M. Baratti
Em 06-09-2010 08:45, Mike Sampson escreveu: If the OP went with a wireless keyboard with properly implemented encryption it could actually be more secure than a wired keyboard. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/161166/a_way_to_sniff_keystrokes_from_thin_air.html [2] http://lasecwww.epfl.

Re: [arch-general] wireshark 1.4.0-2 crashes

2010-09-06 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 6 September 2010 17:25, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 09/06/2010 06:15 PM, mwnn wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I am running the x86 version of Arch. The recently updated wireshark >> segfaults on my machine. >> >> Here is the backtrace of the core file generated by gdb. >> >> (gdb) bt >> #0 0xb4e3731f in PyObjec

Re: [arch-general] wireshark 1.4.0-2 crashes

2010-09-06 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/06/2010 06:15 PM, mwnn wrote: Hi, I am running the x86 version of Arch. The recently updated wireshark segfaults on my machine. Here is the backtrace of the core file generated by gdb. (gdb) bt #0 0xb4e3731f in PyObject_IsInstance () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #1 0xb4e37bd7 in PySe

Re: [arch-general] wireshark 1.4.0-2 crashes

2010-09-06 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:15 AM, mwnn wrote: >  Hi, >    I am running the x86 version of Arch. The recently updated wireshark > segfaults on my machine. > > Here is the backtrace of the core file generated by gdb. > > (gdb) bt > #0  0xb4e3731f in PyObject_IsInstance () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.s

[arch-general] wireshark 1.4.0-2 crashes

2010-09-06 Thread mwnn
Hi, I am running the x86 version of Arch. The recently updated wireshark segfaults on my machine. Here is the backtrace of the core file generated by gdb. (gdb) bt #0 0xb4e3731f in PyObject_IsInstance () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #1 0xb4e37bd7 in PySequence_Check () from /usr/li

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 11:38 +0200, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > > > Recently I am looking for an ergonomic keyboard to replace my old > > samsung pleomax keyboard. I wanted to buy microsoft natural ergonomic > > keyboard 4000 but that is not in

Re: [arch-general] [Packages] [dbus-core] DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs wiki needs update

2010-09-06 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 22:34 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > So you are saying that everyone should be able to signoff? I think > the > main point is everyone can block a signoff by filing a bug report. The funny thing with this specific case is that I didn't even ask for signoff. I asked on the bu

Re: [arch-general] [Packages] [dbus-core] DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs wiki needs update

2010-09-06 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 05/09/10 22:52, Martín Cigorraga wrote: >> >> 2010/9/5 Allan McRae >> >>> On 05/09/10 22:14, Martín Cigorraga wrote: >>> Hi, I'm using dbus-core 1.2.24-2 from [testing] on x86_64 since yesterday [0] and it works really goo

Re: [arch-general] I'm testing packages

2010-09-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.09.2010 13:28, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: > Hi, > I've enabled testing & community-testing repos in pacman. > I'd like to join the package testing team. > How do I? 1) Report bugs about packages while they are still in [testing] or [community-testing]. We get way too few reports from users

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Mike Sampson
> On 09/06/2010 07:48 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > > Google searches do return some interesting results [2]. Although a > keyboard/receiver pair can claim to use encryption it may be poorly > implemented [1]. Logitech seems to use a proper encryption scheme [2] > but who knows if it has some flaw

Re: [arch-general] I'm testing packages

2010-09-06 Thread Filip Filipov
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 14:28, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > I've enabled testing & community-testing repos in pacman. > I'd like to join the package testing team. > How do I? > > "As such, users of the [testing] repository are strongly encouraged to subscribe to the arch-dev-public mailing l

[arch-general] I'm testing packages

2010-09-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, I've enabled testing & community-testing repos in pacman. I'd like to join the package testing team. How do I? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/v

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/06/2010 07:48 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > Recently I am looking for an ergonomic keyboard to replace my old > samsung pleomax keyboard. I wanted to buy microsoft natural ergonomic > keyboard 4000 but that is not in the market and the only other keyboard > I find is logitech ergonomic keyboa

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Cédric Girard
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > Recently I am looking for an ergonomic keyboard to replace my old > samsung pleomax keyboard. I wanted to buy microsoft natural ergonomic > keyboard 4000 but that is not in the market and the only other keyboard > I find is logitech ergono

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Johannes Held
Partha Chowdhury : > If others on the list are using wireless keyboard, what are your > experiences and recommendations? I'm using "Cherry Wireless"[1]. I love it's thin appearance. Imho the connection is encrypted. [1]: http://www.cherry.de/deutsch/produkte/wireless_desktops_eVolution_ORCA_Wirel