Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-17 Thread ralf
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012, at 16:59, Allan McRae wrote: > > > I'd consider using "#!/usr/bin/evn python" over "#!/usr/bin/python" a > feature and not a bug as it allows me to put a local version of python > earlier in my path to test bugfixes etc. So I would actually vote to > switch all the #! to

Re: [arch-general] The proper "home" directories for 'no-login' users

2012-04-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:39:46 +0900 Vladimir Lomov wrote: > (another question raises: why two > variants? why not just '/bin/false' or '/sbin/nologin'? Qmail uses true. nologin has some customisable functionality such as displaying a message. It mainly comes down to the source/maintainer.

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
On 04/17/2012 05:17 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > 2012/4/17 Bartłomiej Piotrowski : >> On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez >>> wrote: After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of font and size

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/17/12 at 05:17pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > 2012/4/17 Bartłomiej Piotrowski : > > On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez > >> wrote: > >>> After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of > >>> font > >>> an

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/17/12 at 05:14pm, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez > > wrote: > >> After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of > >> font > >> and size. I haven't had the time to loo

Re: [arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-17 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:49:21 +1000 Allan McRae wrote: > On 17/04/12 00:37, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:58:36 +0200 > > Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > > > >> (especially on 32bit). > > > > > > Slightly on 32bit and almost no difference on 64bit. OpenBSD uses PIEs > > everywhere a

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
2012/4/17 Bartłomiej Piotrowski : > On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez >> wrote: >>> After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of font >>> and size. I haven't had the time to look into it yet, just wanted to

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez > wrote: >> After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of font >> and size. I haven't had the time to look into it yet, just wanted to give the >> heads up. > > dmenu 4.5-2

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of font > and size. I haven't had the time to look into it yet, just wanted to give the > heads up. dmenu 4.5-2 uses the xft patch https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit

[arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of font and size. I haven't had the time to look into it yet, just wanted to give the heads up. Cheers, Manolo

Re: [arch-general] The proper "home" directories for 'no-login' users

2012-04-17 Thread Kwpolska
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Vladimir Lomov wrote: > Hello, > please, consider the following output of part of mine /etc/passwd: > > $ sudo grep ':/:' /etc/passwd > > cron:x:22:22::/:/bin/false > dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/bin/false > hal:x:82:82:HAL daemon:/:/bin/false > avahi:x:84:84

Re: [arch-general] archlinux-keyring & entropy

2012-04-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:37:29 +0200 Karol Blazewicz wrote: > seems to hang forever unless you run 'updtedb' or something so the > entropy problem should be covered, as suggested in [2]. Maybe something like haveged would fix that but the OpenBSD devs weren't that impressed with it. _

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] official systemd support

2012-04-17 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Apr 17, 2012 10:41 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > 3) packages are compiled with systemd support where it is available > > and does not cause regressions on non-systemd systems. > > > Should bugs be opened against packages w

[arch-general] archlinux-keyring & entropy

2012-04-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I'm not sure if [1] is the official announcement, but I'd like to point out that # pacman-key --init gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key... seems to hang forever unless you run 'updtedb' or somethin

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] official systemd support

2012-04-17 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi guys, > 3) packages are compiled with systemd support where it is available > and does not cause regressions on non-systemd systems. Should bugs be opened against packages where this is not yet the case? I have an old closed as WONTFIX

Re: [arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:49:21 +1000 Allan McRae wrote: > > Slightly on 32bit and almost no difference on 64bit. OpenBSD uses PIEs > > everywhere and my x86 users say everythings much quicker than Windows. > > > > Care to define "slightly"... I looked into this when we added some > hardening t