Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:27:07 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:18:33 +0200 schrieb Heiko Baums : And, btw., what's about the licenses? fcron is GPL, cronie has a custom license called ISC. I don't know this ISC but this should be checked before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC

Re: [arch-general] Unannounced syslog config move

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:04:11 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: You would have got a message about a pacsave file being created. Which I responded to with a "mv /etc/sylog-ng.conf.pacsave /etc/syslog-ng.conf" because there was no indication that the conf file is now at another place. Sebastian -- Th

[arch-general] Unannounced syslog config move

Hi, who had the glorious idea to move the syslog-ng.conf from /etc/ to /etc/syslog-ng/ without telling anyone? I lost about 1 weeks of log entries because of this. I understand why it was moved but what happenend to announcing such changes? I think a message in post_upgrade() is not to much to ask

Re: [arch-general] gnome-keyring and ssh without login manager

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:57:44AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On a newly-set-up "promiscuous USB" system, I've chosen to skip a DE, > and ultimately also forewent a login manager. Normally, I'd be happy > with an askpass client, but I've noticed that I cannot do without > nm-applet on this installa

Re: [arch-general] Problems with ifplugd and net-auto-wired

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 06:04:24AM +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Intel and via sound chips have a tendency to make noise in some > conditions like acpi wakeup, or sudden power drop in weak laptops. > Try to blacklist your sound driver and load it after whatever causes the > noise. > Never read ab

Re: [arch-general] Problems with ifplugd and net-auto-wired

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:57:36AM +0100, Sebastian Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > I've two problems with ifplugd and net-auto-wired. When ifplugd is > started during boot my speakers make a weird and very loud "moep" > sound. When started from a console after boot no such

[arch-general] Problems with ifplugd and net-auto-wired

Hi, I've two problems with ifplugd and net-auto-wired. When ifplugd is started during boot my speakers make a weird and very loud "moep" sound. When started from a console after boot no such sound occurs. The second problem I have is if net-auto-wired starts during boot time it will not detect an

Re: [arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:04:01PM +0100, RedShift wrote: > Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is > able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than apache > and preferably even smaller than l

Re: [arch-general] Question about the mailman package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan McRae wrote: > Of course, a working and fixed PKGBUILD always helps speed things along. Actually I'm working on a PKGBUILD right now :) But I'm not sure if the whole program should be installed in /opt or if the program should be splitted to /

[arch-general] Question about the mailman package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just tried to install the mailman package but I'm wondering if there is a good reason why this package installs all its content into /home/ ? Wouldn't /opt/ be a better place for a program like mailman? According to [1] the /home/ directory is

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

Roman Kyrylych wrote: > Okay, then suggest some good German-speaking VPS hostings. > So far only http://goekal-it.de/ was proposed. in addition to goekal i know signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

Roman Kyrylych wrote: > Please suggest some german providers with English site & control panel. Unfortunately all providers I know of providing arch vps don't have english websites. > I would prefer a hosting in Europe to any hosting in USA. It always depends on what you want to host :) sig

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

Roman Kyrylych wrote: > Will definitely use some more advanced (and less cheap) > hosting in the future. > Linode, SliceHost and VPS.net both look as good candidates. > (VPS.net does not have Arch template, > but is possible to create custom template once installed). > You should check out some

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

Roman Kyrylych wrote: > LOL! How could I forget about this one? :-) Actually I think it's kinda stupid that udev now needs 2.6.24 while the official arch xen domu kernel in the "xen" package still is 2.6.18... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

Roman Kyrylych wrote: > And yesterday I started getting errors about inability to allocate PTY > when trying to login via ssh, so I cannot login anymore. > Though I'm not sure it the problem is on their side, > or it's somehow caused by Arch update (udev, maybe?). My vps runs on xen and this ud