Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:06:28 AM Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:55:15 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > > * No mechanism for process monitoring and restarting beyond inittab. > : > :-) Maybe start your processes with Daemontools. > > I'm serious. If a process is that important that it need

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:16:43PM +0100, Brian wrote: > [1] I am allowed to hate curl because I do not use it and do not > understand what it does. Sounds more like fear. To hate something you must at least be familiar with what it is and does, and preferrably know how and why. Cheers, Tom --

Re: Video files conversions - was - Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:46:02 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Do you happen to know whether such a conversion, would work to > convert .qs files to .avi files, and, if so, whether that would > overcome the problems that I have experienced with some .qs files, > when being viewed using vlc? Nope, but if

Video files conversions - was - Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > About MTS trouble, vlc doesn't claim to support it: > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=video > a common troubleshooter is to convert it to AVI (or MOV, > or whatever container supported by vlc) with avidemux > (use 'copy', don't transcode). > Do you

Re: Help on using Debian

2014-07-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/07/2014, Dreamon Dreamon wrote: > > -- > Hi, I need help on whether debian operating > system is compatible with Lenovo Thinkpad e431 > tech specification as follows: Display Size > (inches): 14.0 > Hard Disk (GB): 500 > CPU Speed (GHz): 2.40 > Processor Type: Intel > Operating System: Free

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-08 Thread Weaver
On Mon, July 7, 2014 10:07 pm, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a > pixel map? Conversion should apply on text, tables, images > and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. > > rsvg restricts the source to SVG. What I want is similar > to a screen grab of ice

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks i found the book too. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:31 AM, B wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:00:30 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > i have five server creating different format files for backup on > > daily basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all > > the old f

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Steve, I will take care. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:00:30 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > i have five server creating different format files for backup on daily > > basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all the ol

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:57:51 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 > > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> > >> I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, > >> to avoid tricks like the double fo

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:55:15 -0400 Tom H wrote: > If we're going to the effort of > replacing init systems and changing our startup scripts, a bare > minimum requirement for me is that we at least address the known > weaknesses of the sysvinit mechanism, namely: > > * Lack of integration with ker

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread KS
On 08/07/14 09:43 PM, KS wrote: > On 08/07/14 09:37 PM, KS wrote: >> >> Over the last couple of days I have tried to run the trim command a few >> times and it seems to trim lots of bytes. 1) is that normal? 2) does >> that matter if I forget it, and 3) is it better to run a cron >> daily/hourly to

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread KS
On 08/07/14 09:37 PM, KS wrote: > > Over the last couple of days I have tried to run the trim command a few > times and it seems to trim lots of bytes. 1) is that normal? 2) does > that matter if I forget it, and 3) is it better to run a cron > daily/hourly to do that for me *if needed*? > Oops,

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread KS
On 08/07/14 05:18 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > KS wrote on 07/06/2014 17:29: > >> What I want to know at this point is: >> Is there anything else that is recommended? >> The section on RAMDISK options on tmpfs, does that help? > > > If you are going with /tmp on tmpfs and are using a graphical

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/8/2014 5:42 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 7/7/2014 4:47 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Balint wrote: On 05/07/2014 18:14, Tom H wrote: > > Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this >

Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-08 Thread Stephen Allen
For some time these bugs have existed in SID: critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu grave bugs of isc-dhcp-client (4.2.4-7 → 4.3.0+dfsg-1) #749410 - isc-dhcp-client: shutdown/reboot hangs after K03rsyslog Any idea when

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ric Moore wrote: On 07/08/2014 05:18 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm kind of reminded of spending two days to figure out that udev had changed the device numbering associated with a new ethernet card - which blew all of our network configurations out of the water. The hairs on the back of my neck

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/08/2014 05:18 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm kind of reminded of spending two days to figure out that udev had changed the device numbering associated with a new ethernet card - which blew all of our network configurations out of the water. The hairs on the back of my neck are warning me th

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >> >> I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, to >> avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a better control on >> zombie processes. Don't

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:03:53 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> Change is difficult and there will be problems. On the other hand >> systemd is used by a lot of distros already and the alternatives either >> bitrot (sysv-init) or aren't rea

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 7/7/2014 4:47 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Balint wrote: >>> On 05/07/2014 18:14, Tom H wrote: Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this nonsense simultaneously? >>> >>> because I

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:12:26 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I can't, but I want to ask some questions about that problem you describe. I just realized why I'm skeptical about what I've heard about systemd. My first car was a 1959 Plymouth with a 3 speed manual and

error on sid laptop: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493.....085 does not exist.

2014-07-08 Thread Nick Lidakis
I've recently been unable to boot into my thinkpad x200s because of this error: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493085b does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Most of the Google results are of users changin out disks or partitions and the UUID get messed up. I haven't switched any disks or messed with

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with > alignment as all par

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:53 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > That's interesting to me to hear you say this. Dealing > with a variety of video formats, I find mpv (based on > mplayer) to be much more tolerant of video formats. > > Most recently, I observed the VLC won't handle MTS format > videos copied

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:12:26 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I can't, but I want to ask some questions about that problem you > describe. > Are remote desktop the majority of linux uses? > Do you really need remote capabilities when you use your own computer? > What is the need of re

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:12:26 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 08.07.2014 00:46, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > On Lu, 07 iul 14, 23:41:59, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > > If you find a way to solve this by using only traditional Unix > > groups I'm sure a lot of people would like to

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:39:02 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > However, the storage format it uses "adorns" the output with extra > information (I would imagine things like timing, possibly which stream > the text belongs to and I believe there's also a checksum to avoid > tampering/corruption). Times

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:00:30 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have five server creating different format files for backup on > daily basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all > the old files prior to 1 month. and i have to do it manually. i > want this to be automated. i have

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:06:25PM +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:48:37 +0300 > Rares Aioanei wrote: > > > In my experience, indeed vlc has the option, but it fails to work > > most of the time, > > Sooo, you have plenty of failures you'd like to share > with us! As an every day us

Help on using Debian

2014-07-08 Thread Dreamon Dreamon
-- Hi, I need help on whether debian operating system is compatible with Lenovo Thinkpad e431 tech specification as follows: Display Size (inches): 14.0 Hard Disk (GB): 500 CPU Speed (GHz): 2.40 Processor Type: Intel Operating System: Free DOS Highlights: Screen Size: 14" Processor: 2.4Ghz Intel

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:00:30 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have five server creating different format files for backup on daily > basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all the old > files prior to 1 month. and i have to do it manually. i want this to > be automated. i have

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:26:55 +0200 Johann Klammer wrote: > open a terminal, and enter > xset -dpms s off For whatever reason, I've needed to put the preceding in a loop that fires every 30 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training *

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.07.2014 20:07, schrieb Chris Bannister: > apt-cache policy systemd-sysv > systemd-sysv: > Installed: 204-8 > Candidate: 204-8 > [...] > > and yet: > > # grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > 28 > > # ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > 58 > > And yet it still boots fast. Oh, that is just a mis

Re: Help on using Debian

2014-07-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Jul 2014 at 19:50:45 +0100, Dreamon Dreamon wrote: > Hi, I need help on whether debian operating > system is compatible with Lenovo Thinkpad e431 > tech specification as follows: Display Size > (inches): 14.0 > Hard Disk (GB): 500 > CPU Speed (GHz): 2.40 > Processor Type: Intel > Operati

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages > 403 Forbidden > ... > Any suggestions as to what's wrong here? Do you have any other apt config settings such as for a proxy server that would get in the middle? Look in /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/ap

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Does The Gimp do what you need? > > Should work by command line. I hadn't considered it. > > Reco wrote: > > ... cutycapt ... > > Probably the simplest package for the task. I will also throw ImageMagick's "import" command in there too

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB bou

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment > >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by > >> most of the tools anyway. > > > > Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later >

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Jul 2014 at 13:00:24 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Why should desktops and end-user applications have to depend on > systemd's parts? For mpd, for example. Ok, it's started as daemon by > default, but users can run instances of it for themselves if they > want, and mpd is

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:49:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 27 > > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 75 > > Yup, the boot speed improveme

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-08 Thread peter
* From: gianuberto.la...@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) * Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:08:11 +0200 > Does The Gimp do what you need? Should work by command line. I hadn't considered it. * From: Reco * Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:32:37 +0400 > ... cutycapt ... Probably the simpl

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Steve B
On 07/07/2014 11:08 PM, François Patte wrote: 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the menu "configuration": choosing the startup mode! I had a similar bug with XFCE and VLC causing a "partial" full scre

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/07/14 19:04, Pol Hallen wrote: > Does elinks http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian run on your system? or you > see "403 forbidden?" > Thanks for the reply, Pol. I don't have elinks (and can't install it using apt-get), but wget resolves fine. >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/deb

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Pol Hallen
Does elinks http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian run on your system? or you see "403 forbidden?" W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 403 Forbidden E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used i

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org napísal: > > > Le 08.07.2014 08:58, Kushal Kumaran a écrit : > > Neal Murphy writes: > > > >> On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > >>> > To prove my

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Jul 2014 at 23:22:36 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 19:01:38 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > >> You had the time on similar dubious grounds to doubt the veracity of the > >> information you were given. > > > > It is possible th

apt-get update fails

2014-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I'm trying to update my VPS via SSH, but am drawing a blank: root@shell2:~# apt-get update Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org wheezy-update

Re: behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Dom
On 08/07/14 15:42, Harry Putnam wrote: I must be miss-understanding the usage of sudo's option `-E' (preserve users env). One would think that tools found along user path would then be available to `sudo' Here is what puzzles me: Note: --- --- ---=--- --- --

Re: behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-08 16:53 +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 07/08/2014 04:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> However, in that case I do not understand this behavior below: >> >> sudo -E which enw >> >> {no output} >> >> sudo -E enw >> >> sudo: enw: command not found > > I do not understand it either.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Read
On 08/07/14 12:00, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.07.2014 08:58, Kushal Kumaran a écrit : Neal Murphy writes: On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few service

Re: behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/08/2014 04:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I must be miss-understanding the usage of sudo's option `-E' (preserve users > env). > > One would think that tools found along user path would then be > available to `sudo' > > Here is what puzzles me: [...] > --- --- ---=---

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): >> $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l >> 27 >> $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l >> 75 > > Yup, the boot speed improvements come from d

behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I must be miss-understanding the usage of sudo's option `-E' (preserve users env). One would think that tools found along user path would then be available to `sudo' Here is what puzzles me: Note: --- --- ---=--- --- --- ls -l /merb/dv/home/harry/script

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 19:01:38 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> You had the time on similar dubious grounds to doubt the veracity of the >> information you were given. > > It is possible the last mail did not fully or clearly address your major > concern. > >

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/08 5:48 "Neal Murphy" : > > On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > > > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > > 27 > > > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l

Re: how to obtain pkg not available for my version (jessie)

2014-07-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 15:45, Harry Putnam a écrit : How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie? It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is available for wheezy. https://packages.debian.org/stable/encfs So how to get to it, wi

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:48:37 +0300 Rares Aioanei wrote: > In my experience, indeed vlc has the option, but it fails to work > most of the time, Sooo, you have plenty of failures you'd like to share with us! As an every day user on multiple machines and platforms, I'm dying to here from you - esp

Re: how to obtain pkg not available for my version (jessie)

2014-07-08 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2014 09:45 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available > to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie? > > It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is available for wheezy. > > https:/

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment > >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by > >> most of the tools anyway. > > > > Agreed. No need t

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:26:55 +0200 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 07/07/2014 11:30 PM, B wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 > > François Patte wrote: > > > >> 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. > >> without any visible xfce panels. There are only one opt

how to obtain pkg not available for my version (jessie)

2014-07-08 Thread Harry Putnam
How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie? It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is available for wheezy. https://packages.debian.org/stable/encfs So how to get to it, without jacking up my sources.list or some other

Re: is this sensible?

2014-07-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 01:12, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Lu, 30 iun 14, 12:35:37, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: One of the first things I do when using aptitude on a new computer is disabling the "auto-repair feature" What feature would that be? The name is not the correct one, because I h

HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-08 Thread orang Aumori Jepun
Oops, resend to the list. > Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a > pixel map?  Conversion should apply on text, tables, images > and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. > > Thanks,              ... Peter E. CasperJS might help you with the proper useragent setting. http://docs.ca

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:00:24PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > [cut] > > Indeed, since starting programs is the exact goal of the first PID process. > Plus, stuff from systemd is far easier to understand for a beginner (systemd > beginner and sysvinit beginner, I insists on t

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 00:46, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Lu, 07 iul 14, 23:41:59, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: Regarding reboot and shutdown, it's possible to handle this giving regular users sudo permission to use /sbin/shutdown (or halt/reboot), isn't it? Regarding automounting, I thought that it's usua

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 08:58, Kushal Kumaran a écrit : Neal Murphy writes: On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > 27 > $ ls /e

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:00:30PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >i have five server creating different format files for backup on daily >basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all the old files >prior to 1 month. and i have to do it manually. i want this to be >

copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have five server creating different format files for backup on daily basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all the old files prior to 1 month. and i have to do it manually. i want this to be automated. i have created a script which is working fine but i need backup softwares like

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:15:48AM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > dpkg-buildpackage definitely doesn't have (at least, I don't see it in the > manpage) anything as simple and straightforward as sbuild's "--binNMU" > option. But I'd be interested in hearing recipes for doing this with > dpkg-buildpac

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for you help Tom On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> for some reason i need to as

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Johann Klammer
On 07/07/2014 11:30 PM, B wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 François Patte wrote: 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the menu "configuration": choosing the startup mode! AFAIK, kaffeine h

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.07.2014 23:58, Brian a écrit : On Mon 07 Jul 2014 at 16:14:25 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, to > avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a be

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
KS wrote on 07/06/2014 17:29: > What I want to know at this point is: > Is there anything else that is recommended? > The section on RAMDISK options on tmpfs, does that help? If you are going with /tmp on tmpfs and are using a graphical desktop (X), I recommend to set something like (sh syntax)

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-08 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:08:32 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: > > > So I would have to install/learn "sbuild". > > If you just want to rebuild packages locally, this is not really > necessary. Are you saying there's another way to do what I want to do?

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-08 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:39:06 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:51:40PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > > So I would have to install/learn "sbuild". > > sbuild can be used to do it, but you don't need sbuild. I think > dpkg-buildpackage would be sufficient, dpkg-buildpackag

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by >> most of the tools anyway. > > Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later >

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Neal Murphy writes: > On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): >> > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l >> > 27 >> > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l >> > 75 >> >> Yu