Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
Debian was not created as a doacracy of package maintainers, that is a falsehood that the coupists keep repeating. Debian was created as a universal operating system for the users. Just as the Free Software movement itself was created NOT for the developers and package maintainers of the software o

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
The mailing list operator has threatened to ban me from the mailing list because I posted systemd critical opinions which explain precisely what has occured in debian. This is the debian coup's modus operandi. They see criticism and then silence it. People keep sending mails to the list but they ne

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
Club or not, common law criminal fraud applies. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/25/2014 02:25 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > I would say that systemd takeover of major Linux distributions >> and of Debian in particular would be a perfect subject >> for Groklaw. >> > > How so

Re: 2 fork or ~2 fork

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
First: I hope you are correct. Indeed, it doesn't have solely to do with init, but this init change to systemd is the straw that brings everything to the fore. There is the disregard of the users of debian (who are not just users but programmers in various free software projects), a betrayal of th

Re: Systemd resources

2014-09-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/09/2014 23:11, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:38:07, James Allsopp wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm really cynical about the Systemd concept, but if it looks like it's >> happening anyway, could we start making a list of recommended tutorials on >> using it. It would help if people recom

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/09/2014 23:39, Nate Bargmann a écrit : > Good tips all around. Only thing is that I stopped using screen in > favor of tmux a few years ago. The biggest aggravation is the loss of > translation of keys, such as Ctl-left, Ctl-right, etc. (connecting from > another Debian system is fine). Pe

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/25/2014 11:34 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) ffm

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/14 07:34, lee wrote: > Darac Marjal writes: > >>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:04:24PM +0200, lee wrote: >>> Systemd can handle the boot process from head to toe, without needing to use any of the existing shell scripts. >>> >>> That's how systemd makes the boot process cryptic a

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: > I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes > still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. > > I have set: > > # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) > ffmpeg_cap_new on > > and > > # Gap

Re: scim does not work in chromium, firefox, and midori

2014-09-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
How I fixed it: I noticed that all the packages with the problem depended on libgtk2.0-0 whilst none of the ones without the problem did. And indeed an aptitude reinstall libgtk2.0-0 fixed it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Linux Dave
The way I see it, Debian is a "do-ocracy" in the sense that if you want some sort of functionality of the software Debian offers, then you can write the code and change things. I think what the OP intends by this thread is that the everyday users of Debian should have been given more of a say in th

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/25/2014 at 06:09 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > But dependency creep is unfortunately nothing new ever since we > declared next year the Year of Linux of the Desktop and forgot > that the Universal Operating System should also cater to > non-de

Re: security camera software

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/14 01:48, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Scott Ferguson" >> >> I've been using motion for a few years and highly recommend it. >> Lightweight[*1], simple, and reliable. >> >> Minimal configuration required (snapshot mode):- Point your camera >> at the zone t

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/09/14 03:43, Brian wrote: > On Wed 24 Sep 2014 at 12:33:35 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Look at it this way: If GNU wanted to stick stuff into their compiler >> to reduce the utility of Linux, they would have done so years ago. They >> never have. Redhat just did, bigtime. > > This is the

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/25/2014 06:46 PM, John Hasler wrote: Ric Moore writes: You are free to boot Debian and use it... You are also free to copy it, modify it in any way you wish, and start your own distribution based on it. There ya go! You can do as you please. It is, after all, a club. :) Ric -- My fa

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:01:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2014 19:04:07 Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: even after 2/3 of active Debian users in this list ask for it? They haven't. A few of you have. Nothing like two thirds. Just to put some numbers behind thi

Re: Question about the driver of wifi-card

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:52:52PM +0800, corvuscorax wrote: > Hello! I have trouble in installing driver of my wifi card.. > (My computer is "DELL Inpiron 14 5000 Series", the Os is debian 3.16.2. The > wifi card should be Intel AC 3160..I think) > > I can't see my wifi card by using "lspci ", >

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: >> Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2014, 01:45:50 schrieb lee: >> >> Fedora does already depend on systemd --- and I would say completely. >> Or do you see a choice here? > > And exactly *how* is this relevant to Debian? It is an example for how a distribution can or will

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-25 Thread lee
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 02:40:31PM +0200, lee wrote: >> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to start >> when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has started. > > What init system are you using? the default init system of Wheez

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:34:41 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:27:30, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > There is always that possibility. It's one of the reasons for the > > old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen Kaizen means "good change"

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread lee
Darac Marjal writes: >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:04:24PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> > Systemd can handle the boot process from head to toe, without needing >> > to use any of the existing shell scripts. >> >> That's how systemd makes the boot process cryptic and non-debuggable. > > If you can un

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-25 Thread lee
Brian writes: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 21:01:17 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 14:40:31 +0200, lee wrote: >> > >> >> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to start >> >> when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has star

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-25 Thread lee
Sven Hartge writes: > lee wrote: >> Sven Hartge writes: >>> lee wrote: > what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has started. >>> >>> Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not res

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:15:36PM -0700, koanhead wrote: > can't use. > > I brought this up once on #offtopic and was told that sysvinit doesn't > work on bsds (that's a paraphrase using the same words, not a quote) and > then ridiculed. It's not that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds, it might, it

Re: chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Alex Andreotti
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:45:24PM +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:33:50PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch > > > i386? (unstable

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd

2014-09-25 Thread agronomo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/2014 02:01 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 14:28:19, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: >> I hope you all can realize how much I do NOT want to open yet >> again another issue on #NotSystemd topic. > > No. > >> Seeing that the issue is st

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread John Hasler
Ric Moore writes: > You are free to boot Debian and use it... You are also free to copy it, modify it in any way you wish, and start your own distribution based on it. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.09.2014 um 22:46 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 18:30:53, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 25.09.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Steve Litt: >>> Disable lightdm and you'll start seeing the messages. The right way is >>> to put an exit command early in the lightdm config file. The easy way >> >>

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 20:48:59 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in > >LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's > >an X thing, plain and simple. > > There are st

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread koanhead
On 09/25/2014 03:30 AM, martin f krafft wrote: ... > the Universal Operating System should also cater to non-desktops. > And not only to other-than-desktop, but also to ports and architectures other than i386/amd64. I don't have a problem with systemd per se. I have used it before on Fedora cont

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:27:30, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> There is always that possibility. It's one of the reasons for the old >> adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen Sigh. Andrei, I would be the last

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:59PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in > >LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's > >an X thing, plain and simple. > > There are

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen Allen wrote: > Deservedly so, in my opinion. I'm sure the silent majority are as sick > as I am of several people beating this dead horse to death. Most Linux > distributions are DoCractic, those that do the work, make the rules. Not to mention drive-by attacks on development communication

Re: Systemd resources

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 00:11:04 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:38:07, James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm really cynical about the Systemd concept, but if it looks like it's > > happening anyway, could we start making a list of recommended tutorials on > > using it. It would h

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:01:03PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/25/2014 02:25 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > >I would say that systemd takeover of major Linux distributions > >and of Debian in particular would be a perfect subject > >for Groklaw. > > How so?? Legally, Debian has the legal stance of

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:13:11AM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > But still, since systemd was the default, a tendency in choosing the > default plays such a major role that you may even not realize. A systematic > research involving default effect is here: > Isaac Dinner et. al., 2011, Partition

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
Good tips all around. Only thing is that I stopped using screen in favor of tmux a few years ago. The biggest aggravation is the loss of translation of keys, such as Ctl-left, Ctl-right, etc. (connecting from another Debian system is fine). Perhaps that is a PuTTY issue or I don't have tmux conf

2 fork or ~2 fork

2014-09-25 Thread Richard Owlett
I suspect that historians will say fork has already occurred. I suspect it will have little to do with init this versus init that. Owl *DUCKS* 4 cover ;/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream (fraud)

2014-09-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/25/2014 12:56 PM, Gregory Smith wrote: The debian developers did NOT select systemd. 4 people decided on systemd in a technical committee, a split decision, which happened to be decided by a vote from a chairman. There was no general resolution. Bringing this non technical issue to the tech

Re: Systemd resources

2014-09-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:38:07, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm really cynical about the Systemd concept, but if it looks like it's > happening anyway, could we start making a list of recommended tutorials on > using it. It would help if people recommending the tutorials had > successfully followed th

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stephen Powell: > > In another post a couple of months ago (see > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/07/msg00592.html) I gave some > recommendations for optimal PuTTY settings for use with Debian hosts. > I'd like to follow up on that based on recent discoveries that I have made. … > I hop

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/25/2014 02:25 PM, Joel Roth wrote: I would say that systemd takeover of major Linux distributions and of Debian in particular would be a perfect subject for Groklaw. How so?? Legally, Debian has the legal stance of a "Club". It is not a for-profit with Corporate Responsibilities towards

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:01:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2014 19:04:07 Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > > even after 2/3 of active > > Debian users in this list ask for it? > > They haven't. A few of you have. Nothing like two thirds. Just to put some numbers behind this: according to

Re: chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Alex Andreotti
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:17:54PM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:33:50PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch > >>> i386? (unstable/sid

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 23:46:15 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 sep 14, 18:30:53, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 25.09.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Steve Litt: > > > Disable lightdm and you'll start seeing the messages. The right way is > > > to put an exit command early in the lightdm config file.

Systemd resources

2014-09-25 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm really cynical about the Systemd concept, but if it looks like it's happening anyway, could we start making a list of recommended tutorials on using it. It would help if people recommending the tutorials had successfully followed them themselves. Yes, I could use Google, but it's a bit lac

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 sep 14, 18:30:53, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 25.09.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Steve Litt: > > Disable lightdm and you'll start seeing the messages. The right way is > > to put an exit command early in the lightdm config file. The easy way > > That's actually entirely the wrong way to disable a

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread James Allsopp
Your posts were massively over the top, so I not surprised you got banned. Thanks for flagging up that debian forum, it's gone beneath my radar up to now! On 25 September 2014 20:46, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote: > > I was just banned from

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:27:30, Joel Rees wrote: > > There is always that possibility. It's one of the reasons for the old > adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Deb

Re: chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Bob Weber
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:33:50PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch >>> i386? (unstable/sid) >>> (if need to be built it is ok if there's a debian/rules) >> Since t

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 September 2014 19:04:07 Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > even after 2/3 of active > Debian users in this list ask for it? They haven't. A few of you have. Nothing like two thirds. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote: > I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message. > > I posted the message found here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html > > It was deleted twice and then: > > You have been *per

Re: Cognitively friendly systemd components graphic

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Am calling this a "cognitive friendly" systemd graphic because it is for me: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemd_components.svg > > It and any similar I find soon will be what I primarily lean on to > follow conver

Re: chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Alex Andreotti
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:33:50PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch > > i386? (unstable/sid) > > (if need to be built it is ok if there's a debian/rules) > > Since

Re: chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: > Hello, > > is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch > i386? (unstable/sid) > (if need to be built it is ok if there's a debian/rules) Since the package FTBFS on the buildd, your only chance is to build from source. Whic

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread golinux
On Thu, 9/25/14, Gregory Smith wrote: Subject: Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message. To: "row...@ptd.net" Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Thursday, September 25, 2014, 11:51 AM I was just banned from debian forum for

chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Alex Andreotti
Hello, is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch i386? (unstable/sid) (if need to be built it is ok if there's a debian/rules) The cpu is an amd64 (with sse2 support) but I've the system installed as i386. Thanks in advance Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread John Hasler
Hörmetjan Yiltiz writes: > So what you mean, is the decision was a result of "coup", and do not > believe that another vote could be possible, even after 2/3 of active > Debian users in this list ask for it? No, the decision was not the result of a "coup" and yes, a GR could overturn it. Since th

Re: Re: Re: Has the Bash vulnerability been fixed on Jessie yet?

2014-09-25 Thread Paul Anzel
Indeed it is. Thanks for the notice! Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5424632d.1070...@caltech.edu

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:52:33AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote: > And the answer is no! > Of course. > > The debian founding documents state that debian was created for the benefit > of the user. > (The premise of the whole free software movement is the rights of the user: > the developers rights a

Re: Re: Has the Bash vulnerability been fixed on Jessie yet?

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 17:07:02 +0200, Paul Anzel wrote: > Okay, got it. > > Any precautions I should take in the meantime? I have the "bash -> dash" > thing already, but the string test still marks me as vulnerable. It's probably in Jessie by now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-25 Thread Joe Loiacono
Brian wrote on 09/25/2014 02:08:15 PM: > From: Brian > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: 09/25/2014 02:08 PM > Subject: Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted > Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271) > > On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 13:59:40 -0400, Joe Loiacono wrote: > > >

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
So what you mean, is the decision was a result of "coup", and do not believe that another vote could be possible, even after 2/3 of active Debian users in this list ask for it? 祝好, He who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy to receive* all else* from you (an

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
But still, since systemd was the default, a tendency in choosing the default plays such a major role that you may even not realize. A systematic research involving default effect is here: Isaac Dinner et. al., 2011, Partitioning Default Effects: Why People Choose Not to Choose, J of Experimental Ps

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-25 Thread Mike McGinn
On Thursday, September 25, 2014 13:59:40 Joe Loiacono wrote: > By default I have seemingly assumed sysadmin duties for a host running > Debian 6.0.7 (squeeze). So (not having done a lot of this before) ... > > > 1) the system bash is vulnerable > > > env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 13:59:40 -0400, Joe Loiacono wrote: > By default I have seemingly assumed sysadmin duties for a host running > Debian 6.0.7 (squeeze). So (not having done a lot of this before) ... https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using https://wiki.debian.org/LTS https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/FAQ

Re: DNS Resolution and Short Names with Dots

2014-09-25 Thread Mark Kamichoff
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:30:43AM -0400, Mark Kamichoff wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 08:55:51AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Perhaps one of the recent libc upgrades have changed the default for > > 'ndots' ? > > > > If so, according to a quick scan of the resolv.conf(5) manual page you

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-25 Thread Joe Loiacono
By default I have seemingly assumed sysadmin duties for a host running Debian 6.0.7 (squeeze). So (not having done a lot of this before) ... 1) the system bash is vulnerable > env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test" vulnerable this is a test 2) bash is version 4.1.5 h

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's an X thing, plain and simple. There are still some configuration options I have missed that are needed to try L

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 25-09-14 19:20, Steve Litt schreef: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:08:42 +0200 > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> op 25-09-14 17:30, Steve Litt schreef: >>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:59 +0200 >>> Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>> Hello, I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:08:54 +0300 Lars Noodén wrote: > In XFCE4, on Jessie, I am getting a display resolution of 1400x1050 > instead of 1680x1050. If I go to the XFCE Menu -> Settings -> > Display, it gives me only a single choice, that of 1400x1050, not > higher or lower. > > xrandr seems to

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:08:42 +0200 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 25-09-14 17:30, Steve Litt schreef: > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:59 +0200 > > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from > >> starting services while booting, an

scim does not work in chromium, firefox, and midori

2014-09-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
On one of my machines scim does not work in chromium, firefox, and midori. Hitting CTRL+SPACE does nothing. It works in abiword, xterm and emacs though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream (fraud)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
The debian developers did NOT select systemd. 4 people decided on systemd in a technical committee, a split decision, which happened to be decided by a vote from a chairman. There was no general resolution. Bringing this non technical issue to the technical committee in the first place was an abuse

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message. I posted the message found here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html It was deleted twice and then: You have been *permanently* banned from this board. Please contact the Board Administrator for

XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Lars Noodén
In XFCE4, on Jessie, I am getting a display resolution of 1400x1050 instead of 1680x1050. If I go to the XFCE Menu -> Settings -> Display, it gives me only a single choice, that of 1400x1050, not higher or lower. xrandr seems to be able to see the maximum resolution: $ xrandr xrandr: Failed t

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Bob McGowan" > > On 9/25/14, 7:12 AM, "Rob Owens" wrote: > > >I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still > >shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. > > > >I have set: > > > ># Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg mov

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Cindy-Sue Causey" > > I can't help you with "motion" but I had a thought as I was reading > your predicament.. OpenShot will produce an mpeg video output of > multiple images if you find yourself up against a deadline or > something and need an alternative. >

About dependency creep (was: Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream)

2014-09-25 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2014, 12:09:20 schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach lee [2014-09-25 01:45 +0200]: > > Just one day they might wake up and find out that it was a very > > bad idea to depend on systemd, and then it'll be difficult to do > > without. > > That day was yesterday. I'll l

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.09.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Steve Litt: > Disable lightdm and you'll start seeing the messages. The right way is > to put an exit command early in the lightdm config file. The easy way That's actually entirely the wrong way to disable a (SysV) init script. Please use invoke-rc.d lightdm disabl

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 25-09-14 16:41, Sven Joachim schreef: > On 2014-09-25 13:04 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting >> services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. >> >> Can somebody explain me how this works? I have the idea t

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/25/14, Rob Owens wrote: > I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still > shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. > > I have set: > > # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) > ffmpeg_cap_new on > > and > > # Gap is the sec

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 25-09-14 17:30, Steve Litt schreef: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:59 +0200 > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting >> services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. >> >> Can somebody explain me how this wo

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:55:29 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 25/09/14 16:40, Steve Litt wrote: > > "Let's wait for a good alternative, and in the meantime keep > > sysvinit" is a lot different than "let's keep sysvinit > > (indefinitely)". > > Voting "let's keep sysvinit *in jessie*" says *exactly

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Bob McGowan
On 9/25/14, 7:12 AM, "Rob Owens" wrote: >I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still >shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. > >I have set: > ># Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) >ffmpeg_cap_new on > >and > ># Gap is th

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Martin Read
On 25/09/14 16:40, Steve Litt wrote: "Let's wait for a good alternative, and in the meantime keep sysvinit" is a lot different than "let's keep sysvinit (indefinitely)". Voting "let's keep sysvinit *in jessie*" says *exactly nothing* about the init system in jessie+1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:46:56 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2014, 01:45:50 schrieb lee: > > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > > Am Montag, 22. September 2014, 23:50:46 schrieb lee: > > >> Martin Steigerwald writes: > > >> > > >> Do you really think they will be abl

Re: security camera software

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Scott Ferguson" > > I've been using motion for a few years and highly recommend it. > Lightweight[*1], simple, and reliable. > > Minimal configuration required (snapshot mode):- > Point your camera at the zone to be monitored. > Take a picture. > Edit the pi

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:09:52 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: > > I agree that "let's wait until we have a good init to move to" > > should have been more seriously considered, but for some reason > > people were in a big hurry to make a move. > > The vote held was

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:59 +0200 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting > services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. > > Can somebody explain me how this works? I have the idea that I don't > see messages

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Martin Read" > > On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: > > I agree that "let's wait until we have a good init to move to" should have > > been more seriously considered, but for some reason people were in a big > > hurry to make a move. > > The vote held was "

Re: Re: Has the Bash vulnerability been fixed on Jessie yet?

2014-09-25 Thread Paul Anzel
Okay, got it. Any precautions I should take in the meantime? I have the "bash -> dash" thing already, but the string test still marks me as vulnerable. Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271)

2014-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/24/2014 at 04:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted > Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271) > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223 > > My current Debian setup is vulnerab

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Martin Read
On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: I agree that "let's wait until we have a good init to move to" should have been more seriously considered, but for some reason people were in a big hurry to make a move. The vote held was "What should the default init system *in jessie* be?". Given that as

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread Peter Nieman
On 25/09/14 12:09, martin f krafft wrote: But dependency creep is unfortunately nothing new ever since we declared next year the Year of Linux of the Desktop and forgot that the Universal Operating System should also cater to non-desktops. Exactly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Can't We Have Another Vote for Systemd (Coup)

2014-09-25 Thread Gregory Smith
And the answer is no! Of course. The debian founding documents state that debian was created for the benefit of the user. (The premise of the whole free software movement is the rights of the user: the developers rights are clearly best served by the standard proprietary copyright regime) We are t

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:42:58 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens napísal: > - Original Message - > > From: "Steve Litt" > > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT) > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > > > From: "The Wanderer" > > > > > > > > On 09/22/2014 a

Re: security camera software

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/09/14 23:43, Rob Owens wrote: > I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion > detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this > is expected to be only temporary. I want to only record when there > is motion, so I don't have hours of footage to

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Steve Litt" > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT) > Rob Owens wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "The Wanderer" > > > > > > On 09/22/2014 at 06:54 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > > > Those are votes for Debian, but not for syste

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-25 13:04 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting > services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. > > Can somebody explain me how this works? I have the idea that I don't see > messages on fast machines. Are

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