Re: Google Chrome can share but Chromium cannot share screen

2022-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2022-09-11 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Bardet wrote: > Hi, > > Le 2022-09-11 07:39, Pankaj Jangid a écrit : > > For a few work related meetings, I have to use Google Meet. But the > > screensharing doesn't work in the Chromium installed from stable APT > > repository. Clicking on the share-sc

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:41:21 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to > > > systemd,

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 > >> Liam Proven wrote: > >> > >>> A blog post explaining why it

Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it still work in Jessie? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
KISS distro. That's why a lot of us migrated to it. Wheezy *is* a KISS distro. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:11:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:17:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > In default new-installed Jessie, does the kernel still hand off to > > the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something > > else? &

Re: msg from tornow....

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
e, doesn't mean one > > doesn't care and won't make the according choice. And calling > > people who are worried about systemd trolls (and/or haters), > > worried because they *do* care about Debian, sure won't convince > > them to stay. LOL, they *

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
'd need to go to Lua or Luajit to get a faster "interpreter". One of the first things I do when writing software is figure what the bottleneck is. If the bottleneck is the user's molassas slow 140 word per minute typing, I'll use an interpreter every time so I'm not

What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
s the kernel still hand off to the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something else? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
I thank Ian Jackson for doing the right thing, in spite of the difficulties it created for him, personally. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
; > Using systemd since 2014-08-09 with no issues. Good for you. Let's see if you have no issues 2016-08-09, if Red Hat wins its war against Linux. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
I were you, I'd rephrase it thusly... === Check out the outstanding progress that fsmithred and dzz are making with a systemd-free Refracta. I think that similar construction can greatly benefit Debian: === S

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
t to another repository (hopefully a trusted one), so that people could add that repository and thus install uselessd on Jessie? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:17 +0200 Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to > &g

Re: LSB headers and other junk, how do you hack a quick init script in debian these days?

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
under perfect control, and controlling them is zombie-simple. If you want, I can even tell you how to control which order daemontools starts its stuff up in, although that would be a kludge and it would start looking a little like sysvinit scripts. SteveT Steve Litt* http://w

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
have missed the memo : > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014101801-beware-of-trolls---do-not-feed.html > The subject of the preceding article link hasn't posted in several days. I know that because, no matter what name he uses, his posts are immediately recognizeable. So wh

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
ppen to believe that in the long run the entanglement isn't worth the benefits you mention, but that's just a difference of opinion between us, rather than the "your opinion doesn't count" type of thing. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, what's your impression of the relative b

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
27;s systemd juggernaut came along, and then all of a sudden we just couldn't wait? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Remember when men were men and wrote their own init scripts? =)

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
nute, Debian has the last clear chance to avoid the "Poettering Vision", which is really the Red Hat strategy for Linux monopolization, which means destruction of the operating system we currently use. At this point, the technical issues are a minor thing. The big news is how huma

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
e can do it on the offtopic list is an insult to our intelligence. You know it, and we know it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
's my DE. :D An afficienado would argue with you that it's a DE only if the apps can all interact. Me, I'd prefer all my apps mind their own business, but hey, that's just me. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training *

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
at and convert to a simple C program, call gcc to make it into an executable. Rapid Application Development, Army Surplus style, which of course makes me a pariah in the eyes of "real" programmers. Life's tough. Thanks so much for cluing me into this! SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
d > of being controlled by my computer. Quoted For Truth!!! Steve Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
> [Oh and BTW about 6 months or so back gdm stopped working and Ive > switched to startx > ] There's a certain irony. First, IMHO startx is better than booting directly to GUI. Secondly, now that stopping X gets you to the command prompt, you can type whatever

Re: Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
e that wpa_supplicant is a daemon that's begging to be managed by daemontools instead of the unfathomable shellscripts it's now managed by. I spoze one could also make a point for managing it with systemd, but I can't afford the price of that ticket. SteveT Steve Litt* h

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
s might need to write to. They need a predefined standard to write to, and I guess dbus is the standard being used. If I were in charge of standards, I might have used something simpler (like a fifo with a very simple data definition) exclusively for notifications (the official visual and audio hi

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
== Reading the preceding, it looks to me like it's used for some fairly arcane enhancements to the basics of Claws-Mail. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
er it actually got emailed to Debian. The process, the questions it asked, and the automatic collection of my computer's configuration made submitting the bug trivial. *Every* project should have one of these. Thanks so much for telling me about this. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:06:17 +0400 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:24:16 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > > > > But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are pe

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:53 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700 > > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > >>> On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Joh

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
x "isn't a real operating system". But here's the thing, Doug. Even if it were nothing more than your first two points, it would be a travesty. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBS

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
olith and a danger to computing. The time might come when I need to do the same with Gnome. Don't assume that users just bend over and take this entangled junk. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
, the world goes on, and systemd is a nonissue. I think within three or four years we'll know which of the above is true. If it's A, we'll take Linux back from Red Hat, and with any luck cause the demise of Red Hat via competition of a superior OS. If it's B, we won't e

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
les. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: how to boot in les than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
arting two of them, one by systemd and one elsewhere. Umm, err, blush, I recently had the exact same problem with daemontools! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:51:34 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I meant > > /etc/init.d/nmbd > /etc/init.d/smbd > > Kind regards, > Andrei LOL, same here (in my advice on troubleshooting to Pierre)_. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Tro

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:44:41 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > > are you all sure that the delay *does* happen during the shutdown of > > Samba? If it turns out not to be Samba, you've just needlessly > > chase

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
guard a > common good and he/she has her/himself interests in that good. Or, when his paycheck or bribe might cause him to vote a certain way. > > This thread is about the inability to accept a outcome of a democratic > process. Now they claim to own "the right debian"

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 lee wrote: > But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people buying > it? > > So how can we safely store large amounts of data? I thought Postgres was supposed to be powerful, stable, reliable, and great for lots of data. SteveT

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
usness of this case clearly overrides the > need to hit deadlines I agree. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
nd should have prioritized dbus-free software years ago. And from now on, when people laugh at my ugly, no-dependency, home grown solutions as "kludges", I'll have exactly two words to say to them: *Thank you*. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ T

Re: A Systemd Second Chance (Sorta)

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
right thing to do. Thank you Ian, win or lose. You do good work! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
(obviously rename the executables), and it works. Bang, another 0d program! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:38:12 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/17/2014 12:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:54:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Rusi Mody wrote: > > > >> On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: > >>> - Or

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
c/rcxx have been removed. How > is it done? This behavior is apparently consistent with a known Samba defect, but are you all sure that the delay *does* happen during the shutdown of Samba? If it turns out not to be Samba, you've just needlessly chased your tail for hours or days. Person

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
econders, and everyone who is speaking up for (what I call) sanity. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
). By the way, could somebody do me a favor and, on an installed (not upgraded) Jessie do "aptitude show gnumeric" to see if it depends on any systemd stuff? I'm also starting to list functionalities provided by the welded on systemd "tools" so that I can provide them in a

Re: how to shtdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
ven be pretty easy to write a shellscript to start them in the order you desire. Because by default daemontools logs are all sortably timestamped, it would be trivial to cat then datesort all daemontools lots to see who's hogging the shutdown time. This is more than a diagnostic test

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:28:50 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: POINT OF CLARIFICATION: Nothing written below is nosh specific. It could be used with nosh, or upstart, or sysvinit, or any other PID1 that's *only* a PID1. So how about it, who wants to join me in neutering systemd on Debian and pro

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
7;t have a problem with monolithic entanglement and vendor lock-in, just as long as they didn't have to pay money for their OS. As a matter of fact, regardless of what the DDs do, it just might be true that making either a systemd-free or systemd-neutered Debian might be mainly a documentati

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:33:38 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:12:51AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise > > of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am > > fre

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:10:47 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise > > of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am > > free to take significant time out of

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
those helper daemons that are now welded to systemd, or would I have to drop all the way back to wpa-supplicant to get rid of the need for those daemons? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSU

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:06:00 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/10/16 5:46 "Ric Moore" : > > > > On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company > >> Caldera became SCO (oversim

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:27:20 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > > > after systemd-logind came along. > > > > I rest my case. >

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
ed clever Rube Goldberg software creator Leonart Poettering to create something that works, but in the long term will be a house of cards only specialists (primarily Red Hat specialists, they hope) can work on. Well, that's certainly character assassination (and well deserved in my opinion), but

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:08:26 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > And how were they handling this task before systemd? > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > after systemd-logind came along. I rest my case.

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:11:10 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, > > surprise. > > Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:02:03 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 17:56:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Because you don't want to inextricably drag a giant monolith into > > your Desktop Environment just to do a few things. > > If you compare systemd wi

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:35:54 -0400 Marty wrote: > > http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-linux > > Say hello to our new bosses? Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, surprise. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:31:04, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Of course, then there's the matters of upstreams requiring > > systemd... > > As far as I understand none of the upstreams are actually requ

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
e change management books you'd recommend, especially in light of the fact that a lot of us want to change the PID1 software one way or another? I have a feeling such a book might make *me* more useful. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troublesho

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
s. That's true. > I have even publicly disagreed with him. > I continue to value his input. Same with me. > > > ... the whole project would be better off without you. > > *NO* Agreed. Andrei's OK. I know this impending systemd thing is bringing out the worst

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:35:34 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: > > So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in > > libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM > > functionalities run properly? &

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:37:30 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? > > > > PAM is enough for me, consid

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:51:09 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a > > minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. > > Prob

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
of our abilities, boycott (and be vocal about it) those who don't comply. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
the best thing for the community or other entity, but they also have a financial stake in which way the thing goes, they have a huge incentive to vote in a way detrimental to the community or other entity. This is why bribery is a crime. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troub

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
e. > > Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They could have made their PAM plug compatible with the old PAM, but nooo. Because interchangability is not only not their goal, it gets in the way of their goal. Ste

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
omething anyone can work with into something requiring Red Hat special sauce, has also moved from "paranoid conspiracy theory" to "yeah, it might happen." I think I said it a couple weeks ago: This systemd thing was once merely a technical disagreement, but i

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
g with a Red Hat owned and controlled Linux, and is tired of hearing from those of us who do. The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem solved. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troub

Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
t; When/if that happens, we should see the hard dependencies between > systemd and other stuff that has been absorbed by systemd disappear. > > The real problem is that Poettering and others over there have rather > indicated an unwillingness to do that. Three words: Fo

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
nstead of -offtopic. :s/off-topic/stuff that Andrei deems off-topic/ SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > Slackware springs to mind. Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I understand, they're proud that their package manager doesn't support dependencies. Sy whaaaat? SteveT Steve Litt

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
d better). > > > > Oh shit. If I were going to give up free software and go proprietary, I'd go Mac. Unfortunately, at this point I'm actually considering Mac as my final backstop. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Trainin

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
read the preceding paragraph. Ansgar made my anti-systemd argument perfectly. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
t a lot of stringent moderation, it's not going to work. > If not, where do I propose the creation of such a list? It already exists: http://www.freelists.org/archive/modular-debian/ You can subscribe at http://www.freelists.org/list/modular-debian Posting there does not preclude expres

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
mirabilos, Thank you for being one of the few who stood up and said "hey guys, let's not rush to judgement here." No matter how things turn out, I'll always respect the stance you took, and how long you maintained that stance in spite of people opposing you. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
idn't reach its 6 > seconds, 7 months ago, will lead to an incredibly bigger waste of > time, just when we're about to freeze testing. > > The GR train passed… So what do you suggest instead? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshootin

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:18:57 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:48:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:02:08 +0100 Martin Read > > wrote: > > > On 12/10/14 18:13, John Hasler wrote: > > > > You have n

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:16:54 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > This essay practically screams out for somebody to write a C program > > that takes an argument of an arbitrary string, finds all files in a > > directory, and returns a l

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
ith other tools*. If I were to maintain his code, before reducing the 1800 line function, I'd do something about the function with 20 arguments, with each argument including a function call. I'd replace all of that with a struct pointer. But then again, as a user, his imple

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:07:01 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 oct 14, 21:40:49, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > From my viewpoint, shellscripts were never intended to be big, huge > > programs. To me, they just glue together commands, and have a few > > rudime

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:33:48 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 oct 14, 17:41:28, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:28:31 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > Really? How do you write an initscript that restarts your daemon >

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:06:11 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Hmm. Let's comment that for people newer to scripting than I am. > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > ### RUN THE DAEMON ### > > exec envuidgid slitt envdir ./env setuidgid slit

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
ss it to the C program, and then use the temporary string as a sure fire field separator. The C program could also take an option as to whether or not should find hidden files, and it could prepend "./" onto all relative paths not already beginning with "./". I might do that toni

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:05:59 +0200 lee wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > > pingaddr=8.8.8.8 > > pingaddr=192.168.100.96 > > Why is this is defined multiple times? Mistake! The 8.8.8.8 isn't needed. That's a test of Internet connectivity, when what I wanted w

Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:05:19 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 10/11/2014 05:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:21:14 +0300 > > Daemontools runscripts are incredibly simple shellscripts, that I'm > > sure you could write no sweat except in very wierd edge cases

In Poettering's own words: was question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
inquish, and at the time I thought he was over the top. But that's basically exactly what Poettering says in this 9:31 interview. Everybody should view this video! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
IX should be ignored under certain circumstances, and I mean a lot more circumstances than any Linux implementation currently ignores it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: implicit linkage

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
difications to the script. Does imapfilter run in the foreground, or does it have an option to run in the foreground? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
ssing something. If I needed multiple X servers, wouldn't I just CLI log into different users on Ctrl+Alt+F2 and Ctrl+Alt+F3, and run startx from each? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:21:14 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 oct 14, 13:40:08, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > sysvinit is an idea whose time has gone. sysvinit is a poor way to > > showcase the Unix Way. First of all, the whole idea of runlevels is > > bizarre, a

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
27;d just work around their silly BS. sudoers plus shellscripts plus one of those multi-launchers to call those shellscripts should do that job. And maybe submit a bug report to Xfce telling them their new master killed features you use every day. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubl

Re: implicit linkage (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
e other hand, when something gets big, like as big as systemd is trying to be, a monolithic solution, or even a modular solution with wide and detailed interfaces, is a constant bug risk, and disables smart people from making things with building blocks. > Is systemd going to change the

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
> You might want to check your facts: > > Linus Torvalds "only" created the Linux kernel, which is notoriously > monolithic[1]. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate This is very true, but the kernel knows its boundaries, and doesn

Re: How to do this ?

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
the encrypted disk as an exercise for the reader, but basically: To boot up, you boot up, ssh in, and run uppp.sh To shut down, you ssh in, run downnn.sh. If you sometimes need to reboot instead of powering off, you could remove the shutdown from downnn.sh and just do it manually while you

Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
for them. To me, that's why mailing lists are hugely superior to forums. That's also why most free software projects have mailing lists, not forums. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:01:15 +0300 softwatt wrote: > On 10/10/2014 05:58 PM, softwatt wrote: > > On 10/10/2014 05:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> > You missed the biggest 2 advantages of mailing lists: > > You missed my point entirely. > > Those two advan

Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:58:04 +0300 softwatt wrote: > On 10/10/2014 05:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > You missed the biggest 2 advantages of mailing lists: > > You missed my point entirely. > Those two advantages are reserved in my proposal. > OK then... As long as it co

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