Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote: > Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that. > > I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these things. Hopefully others > will read the wiki. :D For those like me that followed the news article's instructions fi

[arch-general] systemd-readahead

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hello all, Does anyone know if system-readahead is supposed to work in our current package? For me, there is an error message during boot (something about an event being too large to process), and there is no /.readahead file created. systemctl also reports a non-zero exit status, but no log

Re: [arch-general] systemd-readahead

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 22 Aug 2012 11:48:08 John K Pate wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:27:07 +0100 > I do, set up in the completely straightforward way: > > # systemctl enable systemd-readahead-collect.service > # systemctl enable systemd-readahead-replay.service > > I didn't do anything special, and it w

Re: [arch-general] systemd native files in etc

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 16:14:26 Qadri wrote: > Is there a package that provides these /etc files, like hostname, > vconsole.conf, locale.conf? It feels weird creating untracked files in > /etc. Is there interest in an aur package (e.g. systemd_etc_files) that I > could make with all the many comme

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 21:47:14 Norbert Zeh wrote: > I tried to keep my mouth shut but can't resist to reply here because I > simply don't understand how you think the world works. Do you want to see > proof that every piece of open-source software is ready to be used? That's > ridiculous. Open-

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 29 Aug 2012 14:18:48 gt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 10:07 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > > Sorry for this second post, but I forgot [arch-general] in subject > > > > You don't need to add [arch-general] to the subjec

Re: [arch-general] How to align partitions?

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 31 Aug 2012 01:45:40 Stayvoid wrote: > > Recent versions of fdiks, parted, gdisk do it for you. > > I use parted. > AFAICT it can tell that partitions aren't aligned, but there is no > option to do it automatically. > > Could you help me to do the math? All these bytes give me a headach

Re: [arch-general] How to align partitions?

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 03 Sep 2012 23:34:34 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:19 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > Yuk! :-) I'd only change the unit setting: > > > > u mib > > > > ... much simpler than bytes, and then +1 and -1 are always aligned (and > > appropriate for MBR) > > > > I s

[arch-general] Postgresql with Systemd

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
I'm having some trouble getting postgresql working with systemd. The unit originally would fail to start, until I realised that the script it uses to start assume that the variables in /etc/conf.d/postgresql will be defined, and in my setup they were commented out. Once I'd uncommented them, t

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql with Systemd

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 16:10:21 you wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting postgresql working with systemd. The unit > originally would fail to start, until I realised that the script it uses to > start assume that the variables in /etc/conf.d/postgresql will be defined, > and in my setup they w

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql with Systemd

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 16:13:32 you wrote: > The socket is being created fine, but phpPgAdmin still won't connect, even > though pgsql is fine, and I'm not sure why. I now think this is something to do with php-fpm.service having PrivateTmp=true, but I haven't had any luck even after commenting o

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql with Systemd

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 18:36:04 D. Can Celasun wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 16:13:32 you wrote: > > > The socket is being created fine, but phpPgAdmin still won't connect, > > > > even > >

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql with Systemd

2012-09-06 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 06 Sep 2012 01:58:29 Simon Perry wrote: > On 05/09/12, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > | :: Checking configuration [DONE] > | :: Starting php-fpm[BUSY] > | > | /etc/rc.d/php-fpm: line 55: 31083 Segmentation faul

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql with Systemd

2012-09-06 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 06 Sep 2012 09:37:51 you wrote: > Yeah, I spotted that too, and this is probably related, but I'm not getting > a hang. After the segfault, php-fpm actually continues to work (maybe just > the worker dies and a new one is spawned?), and phpMyAdmin works with MySQL > just fine, but phpP

[arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-09-28 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
I'm having an issue updating a system that boots over NFS. Attempting to upgrade the iputils package results in the following: ---8<--- (1/1) upgrading iputils [###] 100% Failed to set capabilities on file `usr/bin

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 28 Sep 2012 16:32:09 Bryan Schumaker wrote: > > I suspect this is something to do with NFS not supporting the capabilities > > that setcap is trying to use, but I admit I haven't encountered > > capabilities before I ran into this issue, so it's just a guess. > > > > Has anyone else seen

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 01 Oct 2012 11:09:05 Thomas Bächler wrote: > The lack of capability support on NFS is a shame. In general, we should > probably fall back to setuid-root whenever setcap fails and silence this > error message. > > In my opinion, capabilities should be used much more widely and replace > s

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 01 Oct 2012 14:22:41 Thomas Bächler wrote: > IMO, root file systems on NFS are a failure by design anyway - I worked > in such a scenario for years and it is a bad bad bad idea. While we > should fix easy problems such as this one, we should not spend too much > time on making this work.

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 01 Oct 2012 15:34:41 Thomas Bächler wrote: > We have a 100MBit/s network, which may or may not be the bottleneck > Loading a modern desktop environment like KDE over NFS just takes too > long. A user needs to wait up to 5 minutes after login, starting > applications isn't instant, everyth

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-10-02 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 01 Oct 2012 17:19:40 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 01.10.2012 15:50, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Makes sense. I would certainly think twice for something as complex as a > > full interactive desktop setup. I hold by NFS for this cluster, though. > If you don't

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-10-02 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 02 Oct 2012 13:15:21 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 02.10.2012 12:00, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Thanks. I'm not sure what sysupgrade you're referring to? Sysupgrade > > seems to be a BSD thing. It seems like this stuff needs to happen in the > > initrd,

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 22 Oct 2012 10:34:48 Mauro Santos wrote: > Or better yet, use UUID, I've been using UUIDs for a long time and they > never failed me, while every once in a while I see people with problem > when using /dev/sd*, I don't recall seeing people with problems when > using lvm though, maybe thos

[arch-general] shorewall-init

2012-11-01 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hi all, Does anyone know if the shorewall-init feature of shorewall (to deal better with interfaces going up and down) has been packaged somehow? I'm not seeing any indication of the associated configuration files, although the shorewall- init manpage exists. See the following for more info: h

Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 22 Nov 2012 01:07:22 Martín Cigorraga wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe < > > sudaraka.wijesin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Problem is that it's too quiet now and even suppressing the possible > > error messages. > > This is something I'm looking for too, I wo

[arch-general] NFS close-to-open

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
I've been learning about the close-to-open policy of NFS, which causes each file to be flushed to the server as it's closed, to ensure consistency across clients. This is a big performance hit when trying to upgrade the system, because of the numerous writes to small files. I know about the "a

Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Dec 2012 09:26:51 Bryan Schumaker wrote: > On 12/10/2012 08:11 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea why "nocto" doesn't have the effect I was hoping > > it would? The "async" option works as expected, but it's more

[arch-general] Diskless Booting Wiki Help

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hi guys, I'm not sure who's actually in charge of oversight on the Wiki, but I'd appreciate a little input from anyone, really. I've recently been trying to ensure the accuracy of the wiki with regards to diskless booting. I run a cluster at work, and I've spent quite some time looking into g

Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012 09:07:12 Bryan Schumaker wrote: > After thinking on this some more and going through the code again, I think > that the "nocto" only affects writing and fetching attributes for a file > (the man page mentions using a heuristic to determine if files have changed > on the serve

[arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hello all, I'm migrating a diskless cluster from initscripts to systemd. The problem I have is that the nodes each need to mount their own separate /var (identified by hostname) from the NFS server when they boot. With initscripts, I used a sysinit_end hook to do the job, which worked pretty

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 00:40:43 Tom Gundersen wrote: > Sockets in /var should automatically be ordered After=var.mount, so > this should in theory just work. How are you mounting /var? I assume > an fstab entry would not do in your setting, so I guess you somehow > generate a custom var.mount fil

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 14:17:34 Tom Gundersen wrote: > I'm not able to reproduce this problem. I don't see the need for > sockets-pre.target. It should be possible to simply specify your mount > in /etc/fstab (obviously this only works in this test case, as the > hostname will be hardcoded), and

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 08:05:26 Dave Reisner wrote: > > That's what I hoped too. I've tried several approaches. I'm trying a > > mount unit here, because I was hoping there might be a bit more magic to > > it. However, it does mean that I had to hardcode the mount path (%H > > doesn't seem to w

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 15:03:47 you wrote: > I wasn't aware of the bootup manpage. That's incredibly helpful; thank you. > I'll try ordering before a few more of those targets and see if I get > anywhere. However, based on the bootchart, none of the targets appear > before the first socket unit

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 17:53:23 Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Is syslog.socket giving you problems? Could you paste the unit file? > On my system the socket is located at /run/systemd/journal/syslog, so > After=-.mount is correc

Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open

2012-12-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Dec 2012 15:53:32 Bryan wrote: > I double checked with Trond and he agrees that we shouldn't defer the flush > because that would cause us to hold the file open for longer than we really > should (and it would make NFS sillyrenames more difficult, too). I thought that's why the "noc

Re: [arch-general] need advices for the perfect web toolbox

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 14 Dec 2012 12:51:20 arnaud gaboury wrote: > currently following the Sun certified web component developer course, > I want to set up a http web server @ home to practice. > I plan to virtualize a Arch server on my Arch box. Personally, I wouldn't bother virtualising. Certainly not just

Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 14 Dec 2012 11:09:59 you wrote: > I'm sorry, but I think you are misunderstanding the mount option. "nocto" > is used to cut down on getattrs when deciding if a file has changed, and > has nothing to do with when writes are sent to the server. That seems to be the case for the Linux NFS

Re: [arch-general] need advices for the perfect web toolbox

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 17 Dec 2012 12:34:42 arnaud gaboury wrote: > Now my issue is to connect guest host to its domain naime. Did register > public static IP to my domain naime seller. > I am looking to avoid web - - > router ––> host ––> http guest server. I > am scratching my head to figure out how to avoi

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Dec 2012 10:51:02 you wrote: > That's a very good point; probably all of these sockets will end up in /run > rather than /var (as they once did). Maybe the issues I'm seeing after boot > are not related to sockets being masked as I assumed. I have no idea what > else it could be, t

Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open

2012-12-18 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 17 Dec 2012 14:35:45 you wrote: > This code was written before I joined up, so at this point I can only make > guesses about why it was implemented this way. I think I'm the only NFS > developer using Arch, so you might get better information asking on > linux-...@vger.kernel.org. Thank

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 20:23:39 Mike Cloaked wrote: > I am building a machine which has an EFI capable boot on the motherboard > together with an mSATA drive for the root and boot partitions and an SSD > for the /opt and swap partitions, and just a single arch x86_64 install > when it is built - n

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside > installation, there is very few noticeable difference between BIOS and > UEFI. I have insisted to use it just because I had a MB capable of UEFI. > > If you wa

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 09:38:58 Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > > > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside > > > inst

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 10:55:46 Mike Cloaked wrote: > If I can boot a freedos bootable usbkey under uefi and do the firmware > update flash that way it would be great! I will try that as it will be > around the first thing I need to do before partitioning the drives and then > installing arch

Re: [arch-general] newbie: looking for docs

2013-01-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 16 Jan 2013 18:02:26 Buce wrote: > > I am very new to archlinux (as of late last week, and I am struggling to > > find any documentation on how to create new archlinux packages, and how to > > setup a local repository for my packages prior to contributing them to the > > AUR. > > Mayb

Re: [arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

2013-01-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 23 Jan 2013 10:10:17 arnaud gaboury wrote: > Good morning guys, > > Let me clarify a few things. > 1- I didn't correctly understand the post from Allan about toolchain, thus > my brocken update when #pacman - S filesystem > 2- As a newbye, I usually pay lots attention to upgrades an

Re: [arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 10:21:12 arnaud gaboury wrote: > I am always scare each time I run #pacman -Syu, as I know it could be > tricky. I usually pay very much attention, and this particular upgrade was > my first real issue leaving me with a broken system. > I may think breaking/fixing our system

Re: [arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Accidentally sent this too soon; keyboard-shortcut-fail! On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 10:37:55 you wrote: > I'm pretty confident I could tackle breakage, but I still avoid [testing] > because I use my system for work, and troubleshooting these problems will > usually take time that I can't justify. Br

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 11:05:22 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > +1 to drop vi. I cannot imagine why someone would want to use this crap ... > > We already have nano in [core], so I think that vim could stay in > [extra] (do we really need 2 text editors in [core] ?). Vi is the standard UNIX text-ed

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 25 Jan 2013 00:14:14 Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > There is nothing stopping us dropping vi completely and just putting vim > > on the install media... > > I'd favor that (as a vim user who always gets confused by vi on the > install med

Re: [arch-general] Configure a console font without initrd

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 20 Feb 2013 23:28:46 Martín Cigorraga wrote: > [Unit] > Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility > ConditionPathExists=/etc/rc.local > > [Service] > Type=forking > ExecStart=/etc/rc.local > > [Install] > WantedBy=default.target > Alias=rc-local.service Wouldn't Type=oneshot (+ option

Re: [arch-general] Zsh, tmux, and paths

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 14 Mar 2013 08:25:35 Manolo Martínez wrote: > I had read the wiki, but before my path woes, and failed to put two and > two together. Thanks for the info. If I may ask, what's the rationale > for overwriting the path? I suspect this is because the intention is for a login session to be

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-26 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 26 Mar 2013 13:50:13 Mike Cloaked wrote: > So does any expert know whether a mysql_upgrade is necessary for KDE and if > so how does one go about doing that upgrade? I also use KDE. I went ahead with the switch. I stopped akonadi first, though: # akonadictl stop # akonadictl start

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 11:05:12 An Nguyen wrote: > Akonadi is using MySQL. You can disable Akonadi (personally I found it > useless). > > $ nano .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc > StartServer=false Bear in mind that all things PIM rely on Akonadi; specifically, most of Kontact. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 11:21:45 Mike Cloaked wrote: > The question remains as to whether any action is necessary after moving > from mysql to mariadb for any user who is using Kontact and other KDE > components that rely on mariadb after the change? > > Presumably there will be some people who k

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 12:22:51 Mike Cloaked wrote: > Thanks - my experience was that although I had ensured that the mysqld > service was stopped at the time of installing mariadb, it was also the case > that since there was no mention of KDE that I could see in the original > announcement I sim

[arch-general] journalctl equivalent for /var/log/kernel.log

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hello all, This should have been easy to find, but I haven't had any luck. What's the systemd equivalent to "tail -f /var/log/kernel.log"? I'm trying to slowly start using journalctl instead of syslog... Paul

Re: [arch-general] journalctl equivalent for /var/log/kernel.log

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 23 Apr 2013 15:14:41 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 23.04.2013 15:08, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Hello all, > > > > This should have been easy to find, but I haven't had any luck. What's > > the > > systemd equivalent to "tail -f /var/

Re: [arch-general] Building packages from AUR/ABS

2013-05-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 May 2013 13:34:41 Joaquin Villanova wrote: > Hi, I've built Firefox 21 using Firefox 20 PKGBUILD, changing versions > and reading the README notes on the source tarball, just for try. Should > i expect any issue when installing? Is this a good method for a general > purpose upgrading

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Finishing the /usr move

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 29 May 2013 18:13:01 Allan McRae wrote: > Yes - /sbin, /usr/sbin and /bin will all point at /usr/bin. So > hardcoded paths will not matter. Only file locations will. Just a little curious: does someone know what the reason is that we're moving everything to /usr/bin instead of /bi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Finishing the /usr move

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 29 May 2013 10:39:45 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > This has been discussed many times in the past. All you had to do was > make a simple search before putting your question to this list... > > https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=archlinux+/usr/bin+move My apologies, and thanks for t

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux on servers?

2013-07-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 09 Jul 2013 11:13:08 M Saunders wrote: > I'm writing a feature about Arch for Linux Format, a UK-based newsstand > Linux magazine. I've been using Arch myself for a while for testing new > app releases, and it's brilliant for that purpose. > > I'm still left wondering though: who uses i

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux on servers?

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 13:59:07 Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > 3) Use a versioned kernel > One of the most wanted expectation on a server is to avoid reboot. > Arch official kernel is too often updated for a server _and_ cannot be > installed without breaking the running kernel (modules mismatch).

[arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hi guys, I run a couple of Arch servers, and I'm trying to teach someone how to go about maintaining it (for when I'm not around). The difficulty is that when it comes to package updates that require merging .pacnew files, I always use Vim to merge changes. That's quite a steep learning curve

Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 14:26:31 phanisvara wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 09:43:02 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > Does anyone know of > > any good & simple(ish) alternative for merging files over SSH? > > nano, or mc with it's in-built editor. They don't have a diffing/merging mode, do they? Paul

Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 10:58:21 Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-07-30 09:43, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > I run a couple of Arch servers, and I'm trying to teach someone how to go > > about maintaining it (for when I'm not around). The difficulty is that > > when i

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 06 Aug 2013 10:09:33 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On the remote machines I have /etc/systemd/system/poweroff.timer > > > [Unit] > Description=Delayed poweroff > > [Timer] > OnActiveSec=5 > Unit=poweroff.target > > > and the script does > > ssh -t remote1 "sudo systemctl start p

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

2013-08-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 06 Aug 2013 15:18:39 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Thanks to all who suggested solutions. > > What difference should the '&& exit' make ? The ssh will terminate > anyway when poweroff returns. Problem is that by then it's too > late. > > I think the fundamental problem is that you just can'

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

2013-08-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 07 Aug 2013 14:50:53 Mike Cloaked wrote: > Would it be possible to delay the reboot command whilst connected in an ssh > session by using something like: > > # at now + 2 minutes systemctl reboot > > then exit the ssh session and wait until the remote machine has rebooted? > > I hav

Re: [arch-general] OpenNTPd not correcting time on boot

2013-08-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 08 Aug 2013 13:49:26 Joe Eaves wrote: > OpenNTPd seems not to support that option, so it didn't work. > > I tried switching to NTP, which does support 'iburst', and now it all works > how I want it to. > > NTP fails as well if I don't include the 'iburst' option, so it seems odd > to

[arch-general] Intel SNA artifacts in Firefox

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Since the xf86-video-intel update that enabled SNA by default, I've noticed that some areas of some web pages (mostly flat backgrounds) in Firefox suffer from heavy graphical corruption, as if those areas are being used as rendering buffers elsewhere: bits of web pages from other tabs, etc... I

Re: [arch-general] Git

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 30 Sep 2013 05:13:57 Sebastian Schwarz wrote: > On 2013-29-09, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > If we were to use git, we should have one git repository per > > package, and also provide one repository which includes all > > the packages as submodules. > > Why not use one branch per package and

Re: [arch-general] USB S-ATA Adapter

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 03 Jan 2014 15:02:20 Silvio Siefke wrote: > SDB is the HDD but i can not mount and fdisk give nothing out. Can you explain how you're trying to mount the drive, what the error message is, and give any output that appears in the kernel log (dmesg) as a result of attempting to mount?

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 03 Jan 2014 15:33:05 Martti Kühne wrote: > Because I have a strong opinion about this. Also to prevent people > from running into this who are not that experienced in making things > work. If someone makes more than a few packages, they will have encountered makepkg.conf, to at least s

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 03 Jan 2014 15:49:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: > If you are not "experienced", you should think about your operating > system choice. We are not a kindergarten, we are a distribution with a > target audience of experienced and advanced users.x I reckon plenty of Arch users weren't used to cu

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 03 Jan 2014 16:26:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Error and inexperience can occur while learning. If you upload to the > AUR, I expect you to have polished and finished material, not your first > draft. > > There's enough places with kind people who will look at your PKGBUILD > and point out

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-06 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Sunday 05 Jan 2014 23:03:23 Mark Lee wrote: > This all boils down to what does Arch consider a bug. If code that > cannot be compiled in parallel is a bug then Arch should make parallel > building the default (since these are bugs that upstream should fix). If > instead it is not a bug but is th

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Jan 2014 11:38:57 Alfredo Palhares wrote: > I agree with you, some ruby-packages just are a royal pain in the arse to > maintain. Sometimes i wish I just when with rbenv[1] and call it a day. I > still have some packages that use the old naming convention. > > But like you said the wo

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Jan 2014 13:17:13 Magnus Therning wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Simon Hanna wrote: > > Since ruby allready comes with a package manager (mentioned earlier), I > > never downloaded anything from the aur, but used rubygems instead. My > > question is, if we really need to h

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Jan 2014 12:59:28 Maxime Gauduin wrote: > IMHO, the reason why you would choose to use rubygem over pacman depends of > how extensive a ruby user you are. I like to have gems handled by pacman, > but I only use a few of them and don't need to have several versions of the > same gem. Ha

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Jan 2014 16:35:16 Maxime Gauduin wrote: > > For system-wide gems, I do "sudo gem install ". That works because > > I've restored > > /etc/gemrc so that it reads simply "gem:", instead of "gem: > > --user-install". I'm still not clear > > on why this configuration file is altered in t

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Jan 2014 17:58:59 Maxime Gauduin wrote: > I only use a few ruby packages. However, you said it yourself, ruby and > pacman both have different uses, my point was: do not change the content of > a dir managed by pacman, do so elsewhere. I'm not saying you shouldn't ever > use both. In t

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 13 Jan 2014 11:03:32 Bigby James wrote: > That was how I discovered the multi-version dependencies: As pacman will > only allow a single version of a package to be installed on the system at a > given time, I was frequently alerted to "updates" of dependency gems I had > installed. Middle

Re: [arch-general] Is out of source building still recommended with cmake in PKGBUILD scripts

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2014 23:17:53 Maxime Gauduin wrote: > It is indeed no longer required with VCS sources, and has never been with > tarballs since those are extracted every time you run makepkg so files you > might have changed are overwritten anyway. However I sometimes find useful > to keep doing

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 23 Jan 2014 21:59:06 Plonky Duby wrote: > You can use docker. http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ Thank you; I was not aware of Docker. It looks *awesome*. Paul

Re: [arch-general] journalctl and I/O errors

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 30 Jan 2014 11:46:38 Nowaker wrote: > > A couple months ago, I started getting I/O errors (see below) whenever > > I tried to do journalctl > > You are able to read all the journald files, aren't you? You are running > cp -r so it looks like so. `cp` would die with non-zero exit statu

Re: [arch-general] Linux container

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Feb 2014 21:00:54 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > You'll have to build a custom kernel. > > ah... > Another new step for me. > fine, I learn, I learn. That's what makes ArchLinux so awesome: once you're done, your understanding will be greatly expanded. As you move from project to pr

[arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hello all, Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail me when things happen (e.g. a process was restarted). Since switching to systemd, it's felt a bit s

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 13:35:59 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving > > notifications from systemd for unit state changes? I currently > > use Monit for the monitoring of many proces

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 14:21:36 ushi wrote: > Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Hello all, > > > > Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications > > from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the > >

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 13:41:21 Damien Churchill wrote: > You could use unit overrides[0] to add the OnFailure to provided > units. So should be able to set it up for any service you are > interested in receiving notifications for, I would assume. Yes, absolutely, but this only works for a subset

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 16:11:56 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.02.2014 16:05, schrieb Rodrigo Rivas: > > Ok... I'll take the chance to practice my DBus abilities... > > It is a bit long, but it kind of works. Just replace the print() call > > with your favourite sendmail function and you'll get a n

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 16:05:05 Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > Ok... I'll take the chance to practice my DBus abilities... > It is a bit long, but it kind of works. Just replace the print() call > with your favourite sendmail function and you'll get a notification > every time any of the units specified i

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 13:36:35 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > Yeah, though actually I'm just really surprised that, given the incredible > > administrative benefits of systemd, there isn't currently anyth

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 17:58:05 Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > Yeah, I think it's possible to get systemd to poll a script, or there's > > always cron (or a timer > > unit) that should allow us to manually inspect a process and restart it if > > necessary. But it > > would be cooler if there were

[arch-general] KDE breakage with glibc 2.19-2

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Is anyone else seeing breakage of KDE compositing with glibc 2.19-2? Large areas are unrendered: window contents and the plasma desktop are black, although my panel is visible. Seems OK when I turn of compositing. I've tried going back and forth, and it's definitely the glibc update that's

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

2014-03-06 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 14:03:54 arnaud gaboury wrote: > I am running a machine "hortensia" with a container "dahlia". As the > container will be a server, I want to have one IP for hortensia and > another one for dahlia. > > On hortensia, with dhcpcd.service and systemd-networkd both disabled, >

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

2014-03-06 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 16:14:19 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > This configuration make no sense whatsoever. > > > > 1) You create a bridge with no ports. What purpose does it serve? > > 2) If you want to add enp7s0 as a port, why do you have a configuration > > for enp7s0? If an interface is a bridge

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 23:01:30 arnaud gaboury wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:00 PM, arnaud gaboury > wrote: > >> 1) Two new virtual interfaces are create: one that is visible to the > >> container, and one that is visible to the host. The host now has two > >> interfaces, which may be bridge

Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn/systemd-networkd/

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 23:46:59 arnaud gaboury wrote: > I finally managed to boot the container with a working network and a > static IP. I only used netctl, as systemd-networkd is still a mistery > to me. [...] > It lacks in > fact a good example, from the container creation to the network setup.

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