Re: [arch-general] Install problem

2013-01-02 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > * What is the purpose of halt.target ? It stops the system > but leaves power on. AFAICS, it's not possible to restart > without a power cycle... Under sysvinit halt and poweroff were the same. Under systemd 'halt' halts the machine, w

Re: [arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd

2013-01-02 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hi Gaetan, On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2013-01-02 11:07:01 +0200] Dimitrios Apostolou: Any ideas on how to instruct systemd to not kill it when terminating crond? Indeed, cron daemon services should use KillMode=process. I'll implement that for cronie and push it to [testing] ri

Re: [arch-general] Install problem

2013-01-02 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:22:24AM +0100, Dario wrote: > [FA] > >[ ] IP [] pacpi_set_dmamode+0x50/0xa0 [pata_acpi] > > I've blacklisted pata_acpi because of random boot failures. Maybe > it's your case. It was. Blacklisted pata_acpi, mkinitcpio, and the system boots. So now I have my

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.6.11-1

2013-01-02 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am 18.12.2012 14:47, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi guys, > please signoff 3.6.11 series for both arches. > package is not in testing, please grab it from here: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ > > This will move to [core] directly, because 3.7.1 is in [testing]. > > greetings > tpowa anyo

Re: [arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd

2013-01-02 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:07:01 +0200 (EET) Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello list, > > among various tasks, I also run "sysstat" for monitoring my server's > load. The way it runs by default is via the hourly cron, as a job > that lasts exactly one hour. Sometimes I need to stop crond > (systemctl

Re: [arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd

2013-01-02 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-01-02 11:07:01 +0200] Dimitrios Apostolou: > Any ideas on how to instruct systemd to not kill it > when terminating crond? Indeed, cron daemon services should use KillMode=process. I'll implement that for cronie and push it to [testing] right away. If you use another daemon, please create a

[arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd

2013-01-02 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hello list, among various tasks, I also run "sysstat" for monitoring my server's load. The way it runs by default is via the hourly cron, as a job that lasts exactly one hour. Sometimes I need to stop crond (systemctl stop dcron) to perform some short maintainance, and restart it a minute late