Which Debian category am I located?

2014-11-15 Thread Clarence
There are tons of categories on Debian Mailing-List? I forgot which one am I located, when I tried to search the archive. -- 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

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Marty wrote: On 11/15/2014 07:45 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > >>On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >>> >>>There are no functional differen

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Marty
On 11/15/2014 07:45 PM, Ludovic Meyer wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > >>On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >>> >>>There are no functional differences between an

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/15/2014 7:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not > >>> mine) ini

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Marty
On 11/15/2014 06:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: On 11/14/2014 05:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: Jumping in here as myself, not Joel's tag-team member. :) >"Debian" as an entity doesn't really do much. There are

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:05:49PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Le 15/11/2014 20:24, Brian a écrit : > > On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Brian wrote: > >>> On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 11:37:14AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > >>>By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > >>>equivalent modular alt

Systemd

2014-11-15 Thread Frank
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Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:26:26AM -0500, Marty wrote: > On 11/11/2014 02:16 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 12:36:14 -0500, Marty wrote: > > > >>On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >>> > >>>There are no functional differences between an installation with > >>>sysvinit-cor

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/15/2014 at 07:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2014_1807+0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >> There are no functional differences between an installation with >> sysvinit-core out of the box or an install where sysvinit-core is >> installed later, this is a fact. > > Theory tells us this

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Martin Read
On 16/11/14 00:21, Paul E Condon wrote: It should be possible to install systemd on a system that already has some other init system installed on it. This should be tested, but how? The obvious way is to upgrade a wheezy system, following the "upgrade to jessie while keeping sysvinit as the in

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Martin Read
On 15/11/14 23:04, Paul E Condon wrote: If one could absolutely rely on apt-get always getting it right, then "apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" could always be used to remove systemd even from a system that has been booted into systemd and running, and not just in the context of a pre-seed. Ri

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2014_1807+0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:42:33 -0500, > Tanstaafl a écrit : > > > On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > > >> Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in > > >> such

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/15/2014 at 06:37 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I suggest that the word 'default' not be used any more in this > discussion. It serves only to obfuscate the nature of the problem. The word "default" is used in the discussion because the initial decision made by the Debian project in regard to t

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2014_1200-0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/11/2014 11:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > Other people subscribe to a meaning of "default" which, e.g., assumes > > only that systemd will get installed as PID 1 unless some action is > > taken to prevent it from getting so installed. That seems like

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 19:24:49 +, Brian wrote: > Upgrading > - > >After changing sources.list and an 'apt-get update' do > > apt-get install sysvinit-core systemd-shim > >Then proceed with an upgrade and dist-upgrade. > > New Install > --- > >Use the apt-g

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2014_0733-0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Tue 11 Nov 2014 at 02:02:07 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > >>Am 11.11.2014 um 01:58 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > >> > >>>Michael Biebl wrote: > Sorry, but that is not what I asked for. I asked for "specifics". > Your answer d

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

2014-11-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 15 November 2014 20:38:42 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:15:05 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Hello Lisi, > > >Sorry, Brad. You are assuming too much functioning brain power. H264 > >has only always and never. Flash has all three, but once I have set it > > You're right;

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates equivalent modular alternati

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/11/2014 20:24, Brian a écrit : > On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Brian wrote: >>> On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain.

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

2014-11-15 Thread lee
Patrick Ouellette writes: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 08:52:58PM +0100, lee wrote: >> >> Fortunately, downtime isn't an issue. I also have a 32GB USB stick, and >> all the LVs are smaller than 32GB. >> >> Since there seems to be some agreement that it would be best to use >> pvmove, I think I co

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/15/2014 7:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not >>> mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there >>> are

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

2014-11-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:15:05 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >Sorry, Brad. You are assuming too much functioning brain power. H264 >has only always and never. Flash has all three, but once I have set it You're right; I'd not noticed that before. Sorry. >to ask to activate, where is the

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 11:37:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > >>>By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > >>>equivalent modular altern

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 15-11-2014 16:59, Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 15:22:06 +0200, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: On 15-11-2014 14:17, Brian wrote: >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: >>> >>> By the same token systemd is a major waste

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/15/2014 08:51 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors of the slothful and the ignorant

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates equivalent modular alternatives, and also requires unnecessary effort to repair damage from excessive co

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 07:55:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: Note that there seems to be an ongoing issue with whether or not the installer will issue a warning before a package dependency leads to an automatic change to systemd. See bugs 765803 and 762194. "installer

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Rees
2014/11/15 22:57 "Andrei POPESCU" : > > On Sb, 15 nov 14, 22:05:58, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > > [(clipping too much, I now realize)] > > > The transition plan[5] has been posted on -devel since July with no > > > objections. > > > > > > [5]

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:51:44 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > >> Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? > > Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? > Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical > errors of the slothful and the ignorant, convert h

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 15:22:06 +0200, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: > On 15-11-2014 14:17, Brian wrote: > >On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > >>> > >>> By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It >

Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 01:34:36PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > What I found shows both qsynth and fluidsynth depend on jackd, since I did > not have jackd installed and both refused to run, with the same error > message, to the effect that "jackd could not be found or started." > > It would seem t

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: >> >> Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? > > Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? > Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors of the slothful and the ignorant, convert html to text, ignor

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 nov 14, 22:05:58, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > [(clipping too much, I now realize)] > > The transition plan[5] has been posted on -devel since July with no > > objections. > > > > [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg0061

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 15-11-2014 14:17, Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > > By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > equivalent modular alternatives, and also requires unnecessary effort to > rep

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 22:53:36, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: >> > > [...] >> > [snip another wall of text about engineering principles] >> >> And

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [(clipping too much, I now realize)] > The transition plan[5] has been posted on -devel since July with no > objections. > > [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg00611.html My impression is that objections logged to that thr

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:45:11 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > > I don't mean to single out the poster of this comment, because it is > > something I've seen repeated by several Debian developers and some > > non-developers. Other forms of it are "If you want that fixed, please > > submit a patch", o

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not > > mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there > > are several a selection suddenly is needed. > > I d

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Nov 2014 at 13:49:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > > > > By the same token systemd is a major waste with no real gain. It duplicates > > equivalent modular alternatives, and also requires unnecessary effort to > > repair damage from excessive

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:49:18 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In my opinion the best "defence" against a monopoly[1] of any kind is to > develop competitive alternatives. We have seen how well that worked with MS Windows over the years... Cheers, Ron. -- Nada es tan peligroso

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 22:53:36, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > > > [...] > > [snip another wall of text about engineering principles] > > And, thus, once again, > > > > The engineering question keeps gett

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:04:00, Marty wrote: > On 11/14/2014 05:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > > > Jumping in here as myself, not Joel's tag-team member. :) > > >"Debian" as an entity doesn't really do much. There are only one or > >several volunteers

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 13:27:22, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > > And all this says nothing about big servers, which need some > magnitudes more of reliability, stability and scaling. E.g. not using > plain text files for logs causes problems in the long run and in daily > work. The default setting

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 nov 14, 07:55:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Note that there seems to be an ongoing issue with whether or not the > installer will issue a warning before a package dependency leads to an > automatic change to systemd. See bugs 765803 and 762194. "installer" usually means De

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-11, Rob Owens wrote: > > I don't mean to single out the poster of this comment, because it is > something I've seen repeated by several Debian developers and some > non-developers. Other forms of it are "If you want that fixed, please submit > a patch", or the response I got to bug

Re: Bash

2014-11-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > #!/bin/bash BTW: bash is fine as a login shell, but I would not use it as a programming language. Stick with /bin/sh if you can. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Latest iceweasel 31.2.0esr crashes X on wheezy 7.7

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-15, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 11/14/2014 at 07:32 PM, David wrote: > >> I run wheezy 7.7 on several 12" IBM X24 machines with 640k RAM. > > 640K?? I wouldn't expect iceweasel to even load without at least a few > hundred times that much. He means 640MB (it's a ThinkPad). -- To UNSU

Re: Bash

2014-11-15 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> > Your bash syntax, corrected: > > #! /bin/bash > > if [ "$COMMAND" = "220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Postfix" ]; then > echo "ok" > else > echo "bad" > fi Thanks to everyone @Wilko very thanks. its works. On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1

Re: Bash

2014-11-15 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > I want to conditionally output from the bash command. for example > > telnet localhost 25 > 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Postfix > > #! / bin / bash > COMMAND = `telnet localhost 25` > if ["$ COMMAND" == "220 localhost.localdomain