No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: wooledg:~$ ip link 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether a0:8c:fd:c3:89:e0 brd

obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-27 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: Gene's copy/paste was crude, but his point was essentially valid: No, it was not. I remind you of xyr point which was: Gene Heskett: So if you call it widely publicized it fails that definition AFAIAC. That I pointed to 9 different copies, including copies on Debian's ow

obsolete wiki (was: no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-27 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Felix Miata: The problem with software documentation wikis is the people in best position to know what they should contain have no incentive to do the update work. To write useful docs requires knowledge what should be in them. That knowledge is mostly possessed by those writing and changing

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 21 August 2017 09:06:27 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:35:09PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > Debian 7 has those very manual pages: > > > > > > * https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/upstart/inittab.5.en.html > > Gene's copy/paste was crude, but his point w

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:35:09PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Debian 7 has those very manual pages: > > > * https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/upstart/inittab.5.en.html Gene's copy/paste was crude, but his point was essentially valid: the inittab(5) page on a *real* wheezy system

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-19 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:59:46 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 10:53:01 (+0100), Jonathan de Boyne Pollard > wrote: > > Joe: [ in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg00700.html ] > > >Stretch? Systemd was default init for Jessie, the previous stable. > > >Worse, a

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 10:53:01 (+0100), Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Joe: [ in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg00700.html ] > > >Stretch? Systemd was default init for Jessie, the previous stable. > >Worse, an upgrade of Wheezy to Jessie would actually change the > >init syste

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 15:05:51 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [Lots and lots of brutal snipping] > === > > > * https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/systemd-sysv/runlevel.8.en.html > > Which is even older with a 1997 origin date. > > I won't waste the bandwidth

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 August 2017 13:35:09 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: > > Furthermore: In this *particular* regard, the developer-provided > > doco actually *is* clear. The upstart manual page for inittab has > > been warning that the file is obsolete for over ten years

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: Furthermore: In this *particular* regard, the developer-provided doco actually *is* clear. The upstart manual page for inittab has been warning that the file is obsolete for over ten years, and that manual page is copied all over the WWW making it fairly easy to come

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 August 2017 05:32:25 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Felix Miata: > > What's needed is incentive for code creators to simultaneously > > document, with ample examples that man pages usually omit, even if > > it's only in formal, non-wikified docs that wikis can point to. That wo

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: The systemd people have not explicitly documented inittab, as the upstart people did, although they have explicitly documented run levels as "obsolete" in the systemd manual page for runlevel. This, too, has been copied around the WWW, albe

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-19 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Joe: Stretch? Systemd was default init for Jessie, the previous stable. Worse, an upgrade of Wheezy to Jessie would actually change the init system used, thus breaking almost every Debian server in the world. Nicolas George: I must be lucky, none of the servers that I handle broke because

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Felix Miata: What's needed is incentive for code creators to simultaneously document, with ample examples that man pages usually omit, even if it's only in formal, non-wikified docs that wikis can point to. Gene Heskett: It should be an iron-clad rule that a developer submitting his itch

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-19 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Pierre Frenkiel: I discovered recently, after re-installing my system with the Debian 9.1 kde live dvd, that the /etc/inittab is no more present, although all the documentation I found still mentions it, Have a frequently given answer that tells you otherwise. (-: * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/i

Re: Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Much less was I trying to criticize you, Oh I didn't think you were :-) > Just trying to raise awareness about (the few) shell variation idiosyncracies > I know about, to help making people's lives easier. Sounds good to me. -- Cheers, Clive

Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 02:56:01PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > The "declare", OTOH, is pretty Bashist. But it can be replaced by > > a simple "echo": > > True. It was just a convenient way of showing that the variable hadn't > absorbed any

Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
> The "declare", OTOH, is pretty Bashist. But it can be replaced by > a simple "echo": True. It was just a convenient way of showing that the variable hadn't absorbed any white space. Besides, I was just picking up the "Bash can't do it" gauntlet. I'd often prefer awk in such a situation (like

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:58:06AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=': '; ip -o link | while read num interface other; > do echo "$interface"; done; IFS="$oldIFS" ip -o link | while IFS=' :' read -r _ i _; do echo "<$i>"; done There's no need to set IFS globally and then

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:58:24AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 August 2017 03:28:43 Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=': '; ip -o link | while read num interface other; > > do declare -p interface; done; IFS="$oldIFS"

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 August 2017 03:28:43 Clive Standbridge wrote: > oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=': '; ip -o link | while read num interface other; > do declare -p interface; done; IFS="$oldIFS" Now thats an interesting bit of bashism, and deeper into it than I have waded. But for this local network, I know w

Re: Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
> wooledg:~$ ip -o link | awk -F": " '{print $2}' > lo > eth0 > > The only other scripting language I know that can do splitting with > multi-character separators is perl. > > wooledg:~$ ip -o link | perl -ne '@x=split(/: /); print $x[1], "\n"' > lo > eth0 > > Bash and Tcl can't do it, at least

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 21:49:31 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 15:28:32 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:48:50 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote: > > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wr

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 15:46:15 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:53:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:19:37 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:24:56 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote:

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 15:28:32 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:48:50 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: >

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 15:23:44 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:48:50 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: > > > > > O

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:53:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:19:37 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:24:56 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote: > > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christi

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:48:50 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wr

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:48:50 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wro

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:19:37 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:24:56 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote: > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *n

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:01:28 Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > Nicolas: The nearest ipv6 address to me is likely 150 miles north, > > in Pittsburgh PA. Its all ipv4 here in WV AFAIK. > > You seem to be under the misapprehension that the polic

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 07:33:53 Nicolas George wrote:

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:24:56 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote: > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours. > > > > You said it: the only superiority of ifc

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > Nicolas: The nearest ipv6 address to me is likely 150 miles north, in > Pittsburgh PA. Its all ipv4 here in WV AFAIK. You seem to be under the misapprehension that the policy of Debian development revolves around your personal perceived ne

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 07:33:53 Nicolas George wrote: > > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christi

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 07:33:53 Nicolas George wrote: > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > > If it's no longer part of the base system, th

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours. > > You said it: the only superiority of ifconfig over iproute2 is > tradition and familiarity of long-time users. O

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 07:33:53 Nicolas George wrote: > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the system > > > is too base? > > > > Please ellab

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Aug 2017 at 13:10:44 (-0300), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:21:24 -0300 > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: > > > > up the courage to do the real thing. There was nothing funda

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Because ip is a pain in the ass to make it run, and still gives grossly > incomplete information? > > In 2 years, I have yet to get a full network report out of ip such as > ifconfig gives. How about fixing ip? Like 'ip --config'? Or just 'i

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 07:33:53 Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the system > > is too base? > > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system? > > Regards, Becau

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours. You said it: the only superiority of ifconfig over iproute2 is tradition and familiarity of long-time users. On the other hand, ifconfig is technically inferior on most if not a

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 15-08-17, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.08.17 15:03, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > And what exactly do you miss in ifconfig and net-tools package, that you > > can not do with ip, which is part of iproute2 package that comes as part > > of base system? > > Around 30 years of familiarity across many

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:14:02PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > Have you looked at "ip -s link"? It's not quite as easy to parse as "netstat > -in", but all the information's there. Actually, "ip -o link" is a step in the right direction: wooledg:~$ ip -o link 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue stat

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Felix Miata wrote: > >> > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system? Indeed. It shouldn't, and it doesn't anymore. Maybe net-tools should be part of the *standard* system, but it certainly does not belong to the *base* system anymore. *base* is "what

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:29:37AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: And what exactly do you miss in ifconfig and net-tools package, that you can not do with ip, which is part of iproute2 package that comes as part of base system? What ipr

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Felix Miata
Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-15 15:03 (UTC+0200): > Erik Christiansen wrote: >> Nicolas George wrote: >> > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system? >> With pleasure. It is the most basic and useful *nix networking tool, >> traditional since well back in the last mil

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.08.17 09:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > wooledg:~$ netstat -in > Kernel Interface table > Iface MTURX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVRTX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg > eth0 1500 8254258 0 0 0 7682795 0 0 0 > BMRU > lo 65536 579959 0 0 0

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > And what exactly do you miss in ifconfig and net-tools package, that you > can not do with ip, which is part of iproute2 package that comes as part > of base system? What iproute2 and net-tools are BOTH missing is a sane, script-friend

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.08.17 15:03, Dejan Jocic wrote: > And what exactly do you miss in ifconfig and net-tools package, that you > can not do with ip, which is part of iproute2 package that comes as part > of base system? Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours. If the package builders are more f

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 15-08-17, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.08.17 13:33, Nicolas George wrote: > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the system is > > > too base? > > > > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of th

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.08.17 13:33, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the system is > > too base? > > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system? With pleasure. It is the most basi

Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the system is > too base? Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system? Regards, -- Nicolas George

No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]

2017-08-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.08.17 16:23, deloptes wrote: > Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > Now, if that brings back ifconfig as well, I won't have to rummage about > > finding which package that might be in. > > > > $ dpkg -S /sbin/ifconfig > net-tools: /sbin/ifconfig > > should be installed manually as it is no long

Re: obsolete wiki (was: no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 August 2017 16:33:40 Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2017-08-14 20:22 (UTC+0100): > > So - what should be done about the wiki? Surely, that is the thrust > > of the OP's question. Altering the wiki page is relatively > > straightforward. A single user (or group of users) trying

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
2017/08/15 1:05 "Brian" : > > On Mon 14 Aug 2017 at 13:22:45 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le septidi 27 thermidor, an CCXXV, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > > > I just wanted to know why the Debian wiki is not updated, 2 months after the Stretch release. > > > > Jessie also used systemd, so that

Re: obsolete wiki (was: no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 14 Aug 2017 at 16:33:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2017-08-14 20:22 (UTC+0100): > > > So - what should be done about the wiki? Surely, that is the thrust of > > the OP's question. Altering the wiki page is relatively straightforward. > > A single user (or group of users)

Re: obsolete wiki (was: no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-14 Thread Felix Miata
Brian composed on 2017-08-14 20:22 (UTC+0100): > So - what should be done about the wiki? Surely, that is the thrust of > the OP's question. Altering the wiki page is relatively straightforward. > A single user (or group of users) trying to alter the init system policy > is doomed to failure, no m

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 14 Aug 2017 at 20:54:24 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.08.17 11:43, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > hi everybody, > > I discovered recently, after re-installing my system with the Debian 9.1 kde > > live dvd, that the /etc/inittab is no more present, although > > all the documentation I

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Darac Marjal wrote: If we go with that idea, that would suggest that Google web pages (which, for argument's sake, we shall assume have a stable code base) would be dated from some months ago, based on when someone "wrote" the page. The date at which the google web results

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:21:24 -0300 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: > > > up the courage to do the real thing. There was nothing fundamentally > > > wrong, but a separate /usr really is a show-stopper with systemd, > > >

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 14 Aug 2017 at 13:22:45 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 27 thermidor, an CCXXV, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > > I just wanted to know why the Debian wiki is not updated, 2 months after > > the Stretch release. > > Jessie also used systemd, so that is more two years than two months

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:21:24 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: > > up the courage to do the real thing. There was nothing fundamentally > > wrong, but a separate /usr really is a show-stopper with systemd, > > and it's nice to have a working firewall...

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:25:21PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even car

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even carrying a date. I always thougth that it was a big error of Tim B

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread deloptes
Erik Christiansen wrote: > Now, if that brings back ifconfig as well, I won't have to rummage about > finding which package that might be in. > $ dpkg -S /sbin/ifconfig net-tools: /sbin/ifconfig should be installed manually as it is no longer part of the base system ... and I thought I learned

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: > up the courage to do the real thing. There was nothing fundamentally > wrong, but a separate /usr really is a show-stopper with systemd, and > it's nice to have a working firewall... The standard Debian initramfs is supposed to handle that, if it is not doing that

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even carrying a date. I always thougth that it was a big error of Tim Berners-Lee not oblige to date in a visible

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even carrying a date. I always thougth that it was a big error of Tim Berners-Lee not oblige to date in a visible way all web pages.

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:04:19 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 27 thermidor, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > > Stretch? Systemd was default init for Jessie, the previous stable. > > Worse, an upgrade of Wheezy to Jessie would actually change the init > > system used, thus breaking almost every D

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 thermidor, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > Stretch? Systemd was default init for Jessie, the previous stable. > Worse, an upgrade of Wheezy to Jessie would actually change the init > system used, thus breaking almost every Debian server in the world. I must be lucky, none of the servers th

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: What the *nix world *really* needs is a worm to locate all old documentation on the Net, and at the very least, mark it OBSOLETE in very big letters. I entirely agree, but if there is no available worm, it is a full-time job... best regards, -- Pierre Frenki

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:09:24 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > > > It's fine to add new stuff to *nix, but the user interface for > > existing stuff has to remain, or it's not worth a biscuit. (c.f. > > postfix, which provides a sendmail-s

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Nicolas George wrote: Jessie also used systemd, so that is more two years than two months. all the Jessie systems I know actually have /etc/iniitab and /etc/init.d/rc... The answer to that question is simple: it is a wiki, it has not been updated because you did not

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 thermidor, an CCXXV, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > thanks Erik for your explanations, but actually I see no good reason to > revert to sysinit. If you trust the Debian developers who made the choice to switch to systemd over random advice on the mailing-list, you indeed have no reason

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Erik Christiansen wrote: Yup, but it hasn't missed you. We no longer run Linux, but rather, Systemdix. In Debian, systemd is inexorably replacing swathes of traditional *nix functionality which we have over several decades learnt to use and rely on. With Systemdix, we not on

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.08.17 11:43, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi everybody, > I discovered recently, after re-installing my system with the Debian 9.1 kde > live dvd, that the /etc/inittab is no more present, although > all the documentation I found still mentions it, For example, from the Debian > wiki: > > The s

no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi everybody, I discovered recently, after re-installing my system with the Debian 9.1 kde live dvd, that the /etc/inittab is no more present, although all the documentation I found still mentions it, For example, from the Debian wiki: The system initialization process is handled by the init dae