On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
> How to find out which physical NIC is for example eth0 ?
>
> If I have 2 NICs in the box, for example one e1000 and one from 3com,
> how to find out which one is eth0 ?
>
> I looked up /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules where
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James wrote:
>
> I just added a new drive to an existing system
> using an ext4 (journaled) file system.
>
> I was not sure about using the -j option
> so I did it anyway. Correct assumption?
> Irrelevant? no examples to ponder.
>
> comments or observations on the
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 10/13/2017 11:05 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried to boot the systems with the "disable_ipv6=1" kernel
>> parameter?
>
> I just tried this, and it doesn't seem to help.
>
> # cat /proc/cmdline
> disable_ipv6=1 root=/dev/m
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:28 AM, john wrote:
>
> I have set up some containers with LXD which have been running fine up
> to about a week ago.
>
> cgmanager no longer works as it crashes out and when I connect to
> containers:-
>
> systemctl
> Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
>
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, wrote:
>
> I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which
> has the extension "*.AppImage".
>
> What is that?
>
> Is it possible to "unpack" that into something more common?
> How to handle that?
Does it use this spec?
https://appimage.org/
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:11 AM, wrote:
> On 11/05 06:29, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, wrote:
>>>
>>> I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which
>>> has the extension "*.AppImage".
>>>
>>> What is t
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> I was genuinely annoyed with grub2 due to its update and massive config
> files, so I never upgraded to it. I usually had multiple kernel versions and
> grub2 helpfully labeled them all "Linux" so I couldn't tell them apart.
>
> I figured out
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 09:02:24PM +, Wols Lists wrote
>> On 10/12/17 10:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>
>>> I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal
>>> process of choice and selection that other successful packages
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 18:56:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> This may come as a surprise to some, but some things you hear on
>> t'internet are not true...
>>
>> For example, the http server is there to allow access to logs from
>> anot
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> "journalctl" is just the same as "less /var/log/messages" so here's
> not much to learn unless you want to use the search features. Reading
> the log from a remote machine is easy, using either SSH or HTTP,
> whichever you prefer. My one co
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote:
>
> I've got a fresh Gentoo installation that does not boot. I just end up in
> the Grub2 shell.
>
> However when there if I do 'set root=(md/0)' and 'configfile /grub/grub.cfg'
> I do get to the Grub2 menu where Gentoo boots just fine.
>
>
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm.
>
> I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and
> login as root.
>
> I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up
> /etc/sshd_config whil
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote:
>>>
>>> I've got a fresh Gentoo installation that does not boot. I just end up in
>>> the Grub2 shell.
>>>
>>> However when there if I do 'set root=(md/0)' and 'configfile /grub/grub.cfg'
>>> I do get to the Grub2 menu where Gentoo boots just
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Magnus Johansson wrote:
> 2018-02-07 18:50 GMT+01:00 Steven Lembark :
>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 22:00:39 +0100
>> Magnus Johansson wrote:
>>
>> From my grub.cfg:
>>
>> insmod gzio
>> insmod part_msdos
>> insmod diskfilter
>> insmod mdraid1x
>> ins
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote:
>> [ I assume that "46488b259685a3b9c52b7449d592dc80" is the UUID that's
>> displayed as "UUID" or "Array UUID" when you use "mdadm -D ..." or
>> "mdadm -E ..." respectively ]
>
> Almost, mdadm says 46488b25:9685a3b9:c52b7449:d592dc80
OK;
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:21 PM, wrote:
>
> you need to include the punctuation, specifically the ":"s, which
> usually are a "-", mac addresses use the ":" but unless the syntax has
> changed/broadened you have to have the "-" for seperating the fields
> in a uuid. The punctuation is part of t
Wonderful off-list message...
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From:
Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:40 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem
To: Tom H
Please FUCK OFF. if you must make noise, please do it off list.
Please also learn what a moderator is, and the fact
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to configure grub 2.02 so that no menu is
> displayed and it will boot immediately to the default unless shift is
> held down during boot -- in which case it displays the menu and waits
> indefinitely for a choi
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> It's been a while since I've done this, but I thought the hotkey was ESC
> not shift?
>
> All I had to do was use:
>
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
> GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=5
>
> Grub will wait for the escape key to be pressed for 5 seconds, if no
> keypress,
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Is there something besides iptables? It seems to be like
> systemd/perl/python, continuously expanding its scope. And no, I'm not
> looking for an "easy-peasy front-end gui" that'll probably pull in 90%
> of QT as dependancies. I fondly remem
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:22 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote:
>
> Is there a windows style application layer firewall? I get that it doesn't
> stop truly malicious programs but I am simply wanting to stop random
> programs doing connections without my consent which due to the lennart
> potterings's of t
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2018-02-28, taii...@gmx.com wrote:
>
>> Is there a windows style application layer firewall?
>
> Can you describe what that means? (For the benefit of those of us that
> aren't familiar with Windows.)
I don't use Windows but on macOS it
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 12:58:44PM -0500, Tom H wrote
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there something besides iptables? It seems to be like
>>> systemd/perl/python, cont
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:40:37PM -0700, Grant Taylor wrote
>> On 02/28/2018 02:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there something besides iptables?
>>
>> nftables
>
> Assuming I just want filtering, could I emerge nftables and unmerge
> ipta
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:47 AM, wrote:
> is there a way to download the archive (or how is it called in the
> world of Ubuntu ?) of a program, from which I only know the apt-get
> and apt-install commands?
A "deb" file, which you can expand with "ar" (no need to install "dpkg").
> And how ca
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:36 AM, wrote:
> On 03/25 10:02, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:47 AM, wrote:
>>
>>
>>> is there a way to download the archive (or how is it called in the
>>> world of Ubuntu ?) of a program, from which I only know t
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote:
>
> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and...
> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory
Isn't "/run/initctl" a Debianism?!
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote:
>>
>> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and...
>> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory
>
> See bug 651990. https://bugs.gentoo.org/651990
>
> Either upgrade to sysvi
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:54 PM, wrote:
> On 03/30/2018 11:10 AM, Bas Zoutendijk wrote:
>> On Fri 30 Mar 2018 at 10:33:45 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm using a scrip to log-in/boot strap the system over NFS
>>>
>>> -
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>> HOST=${0##*/}
>>> HOST=${HOST#*-}
>
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> So, again, I went off half-cocked (sorry about the noise). The problem is that
> the NFS mount in the chroot picks different ports each time, so the client's
> firewall drops all NFS packets.
>
> Now I just have to find out why that happen
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS
> clients and servers?
You have to use NIS, NIS+Kerberos, or LDAP+Kerberos.
I've never tried it but "/etc/idmapd.conf" has a "[Static]" section in
which you can set up a
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:39 PM gevisz wrote:
> 2018-07-03 16:22 GMT+03:00 Mart Raudsepp :
>> If you use su, you should be using "su -" (or "su -l" or "su --login"),
>> not "su".
>
> I have used only "su" for already 3 years, since switched to Gentoo
> from Ubuntu and never had any problems with
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:43 PM gevisz wrote:
>
> but it "shot" only after sourcing /etc/profile.
Which is what "su -l" does.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:20 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Adam Carter wrote:
>>
>> For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki
>> still does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on
>> a system whose other filesystems are
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:54 PM Dale wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong here, it used to be that grub, the original
> version not the current bloated one, had to have ext2.
The upstream version. Various distributions added ext4 support to
grub1 (circa 2009, IIRC). None of the patches were upstrea
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:57 AM, lee wrote:
> Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't even read them on a working system.
>>
>> If that's true (which I highly doubt, more probably you don't know how to
>> read them), then it's a bug and should be
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:13 PM, walt wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 06:32 AM, Mick wrote:
>>
>> Did you also enable CONFIG_MEMCG & MEMCG_KMEM in your kernel?
>
> When I use the search function in "make menuconfig" I don't see any mention
> of MEMCG, so I suspect that particular config item must be enable
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:19 PM, walt wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 02:38 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:13 PM, walt wrote:
>>> On 05/22/2015 06:32 AM, Mick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Did you also enable CONFIG_MEMCG & MEMCG_KMEM in your kernel?
&
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 22 May 2015 23:13:06 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 May 2015 17:04:49 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> I also save the config with the same version part as the kernel, that
>>> way I know which config goes with which kernel. Everyone has their
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:29:40 +0100, Mick wrote:
>>>
>>> make install does it exactly the way you are doing it, but faster and
>>> less prone to error.
>>
>> Hmm ... I may have used it the wrong way quite a few years ago, but it
>> would only
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:27:14 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
>>
>> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition
>> and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the MBR which is
>> unacceptab
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal
>>>
>>> I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a
>>> partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insist
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal wrote:
>>>
>>> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition
>>> and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:50 PM, wrote:
>
> The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like
> Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control of
> the PC. Who those morons think they are to tell me what I should use to boot
> Operating systems on my c
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
wrote:
>
> You do need a manager like efibootmgr unless you have a really good "bios"
> menu
> where you can manage your entries. Only removable media is autodetected on all
> EFI boxes I've seen. I use GRUB2 because my efi firmware (like most)
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski
wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:19:29 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a
>>> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy.
>>
>>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Michel Catudal wrote:
>
> The language toward us is not much nicer. There is some arrogance from the
> other side of the issue.
> We've been fighting this for years. It is a lie to say that it cannot
> install on a partition. What makes it not install is the instal
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal wrote:
> Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
>>
>> Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like
>> FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on
>> whatever the fuck they want. The pr
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:14 PM, James wrote:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # A basic stateful firewall for a workstation or laptop that isn't running any
> # network services like a web server, SMTP server, ftp server, etc.
>
> if [ "$1" = "start" ]
> then
> echo "Starting firewall..."
> iptab
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Jarry wrote:
>> On 08-Nov-15 17:58, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jarry wrote:
I noted one strange thing today: It seems one of my servers lost "/"!
vs5-dns ~ #
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Jarry wrote:
> On 10-Nov-15 14:22, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you try replacing /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts to
>>> see if it makes any difference? T
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, wrote:
>
> I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in
> a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards.
> The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable
> for me, but I did want to keep
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
>>
>> There are several problems with your idea. First, the configured
>>
>> namservers in resolv.conf are caching servers, not authoritative
>> servers. You never configure an auth server to act as a cache. Yes, it
>> can be done. No, it's an aw
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>>
>> Solution: obey best practice. Never run auth and cache on the same
>> address. On the same machine is fine, they are different daemons.
>
> Which one listens on port 53?
# ss -nt
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:16:27PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Miroslav Rovis
>> wrote:
>>> It's been discussed over and over again. Lots of people are firm in
>>> their understanding that Lennart is an a
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 12/17/2016 12:53 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:55:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
>>> Again, the average home user is being jerked around for
>>> a corporate agenda.
>>
>> Yes, it is disgusting that developers add t
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>
> I didn't ask for a howto for installing Gentoo on a Pi, I asked for a
> howto for getting rid of systemd on recent versions of Arch Linux,
> Debian, Raspbian, Ubuntu, Fedora etc. You said it's possible and I'm
> not forced to use systemd, so
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2016-12-17, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> But the VMS I like most are the FreeBSD ones; they run good
>> old-fashioned rc.
>
> It's been a while since I ran VMS, but it had little very resemblance
> to FreeBSD[1] and the init system was noth
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Mick wrote:
>
> I've grep-ped the whole of /etc, no mention of "Knoppix" there.
>
> I've also looked in /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-enp6s8.conf to see what
> hostname NetworkManager sends to dhclient. No trace of "Knoppix" in there
> either.
>
> What else coul
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> When people compare systemd unit files to init scripts, they usually
> mean *raw* (LSB?) sysvinit scripts (as IIUC Debian use{s,d}), with all
> of their ridiculous amounts of boilerplate.
The latest Debian init.d skeleton uses "#!/lib/init/in
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> It is even more frustrating that these so-called predictable network
> names actually can change on a reboot, it's happened to me more than
> once when multiple network cards are detected in a different order.
>From Kay Sievers in [1]:
Btw
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am 20.12.2016 um 05:23 schrieb Andrej Rode:
>>
>> Yeah they make life easier. From your talk you never had a problem
>> with eth<0,10> switching names after boot. Everyone who had them
>> appreciates predictable network interfaces.
>
> Everyon
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>>
>> You don't need to be convinced. It's sufficient that I know systemd
>> pretty well from the beginning when the Poettering fanboys of Arch Linux
>> forced this crap onto the Arch Linu
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 12/19/2016 01:09 PM, Andrej Rode wrote:
>>
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
>
> It could be I found a bug. After a reboot it went from the normal
> enp0s1 (or whatever) to eno1677789 or s
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:04 PM, lee wrote:
> Andrej Rode writes:
>>
>>> Or can you explain how unrecognisable names make things easier?
>>
>> Yeah they make life easier. From your talk you never had a problem
>> with eth<0,10> switching names after boot. Everyone who had them
>> appreciates pred
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Corbin Bird wrote:
>
> ( PulseAudio is also being merged into systemd. Think about it. )
Unless the systemd developers have decided to stop targeting the
non-desktop use-case, this is pure delirium.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 04:15:50 +0100, lee wrote:
>>
>> The perceived advantage lies in being able to refer to network ports
>> in a more reliable way, and I don't see how using unrecognisable
>> names instead of recognisable ones would make any
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 04:52:41 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>
>> All of this whining about predictable NIC names would be more or less
>> OK if there wasn't an easy way to override them in
>> "/{lib,etc}/systemd/netwo
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> I don't use grub on UEFI systems, but I use the systemd bootloader, so I
> thought I'd keep quiet about that ;-)
I'm also a heretic who uses the systemd bootloader no matter what pid1
is in charge.
It's the best thing that the systemd dev
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 12/21/2016 10:53 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>>
>>> It could be I found a bug. After a reboot it went from the normal
>>> enp0s1 (or whatever) to eno16
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:57 PM, lee wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> [1] There's no need to learn/use the udev rules syntax. I use the
>> following in "/etc/systemd/network/" on a Debian 8 system with
>> sysvinit-as-pid1:
>>
>> [Match]
>> MACAdd
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM, lee wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>>
>>> It is even more frustrating that these so-called predictable network
>>> names actually can change on a reboot, it's happened to me
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 02:26:05 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't use grub on UEFI systems, but I use the systemd bootloader,
>>> so I thought I'd keep quiet about that ;-)
>>
>> I'm
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 02:26:05 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> It's the best thing that the systemd developers have produced!
>>
>> Exc
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:35 PM, lee wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM, lee wrote:
>>>
>>> How is that more reliable?
>>
>> It's more reliable than using the kernel's names because the names
>> won't change UNL
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:01 PM, lee wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> AFAIK, you have three possibilities.
>>
>> 1) If you're renaming a NIC via its MAC address, you have to edit the
>> config file thatlinks the NIC's names and its MAC address.
>>
>>
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM, lee wrote:
> Neil Bothwick writes:
>>
>> There is nothing wrong with wanting things to work as you do, but it
>> requires input to do so. It you have to start editing files to make
>> it work properly, there is little point in making it the default.
>
> Right, and
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Miroslav Rovis
wrote:
> On 161229-05:13-0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM, lee wrote:
>> > Neil Bothwick writes:
>>>>
>> There are two ways to ensure that you always have the kernel's names:
>>
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
> The strange C.UTF-8 , which was suggested by one of the devolopers of
> media-gfx/darktable, did cause the problems. The error messages were
> strange and misleading.
>
> Urs wrote
>
>> You can generate a "fake" C.UTF-8 locale with locale
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Jonathan Callen wrote:
> On 01/08/2017 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>> Urs wrote
>>>
>>>> You can generate a "fake" C.UTF-8 locale with localedef:
>>>
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> GRUB2 counts partitions from 1, but drives from 0 (a brilliant
> decision) so these would be (hd1,6) and (hd1,7).
They should've changed hd0/hd1/... to hda/hdb/... when they changed
(hd0,msdos1) to correspond to /dev/sda1 [as opposed to (h
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> I notice some comments that menu.lst is "legacy GRUB", and GRUB2 has
> gone off the deep end with a ton of config files.
Unless you want to customize your grub menu in a way not desired or
anticipated by the grub2 developers, you just have
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
>
> The linux kernel stalls stone cold dead in either direct from firmware
> or pass through grub mode.
AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware, it has
to have the ".efi" suffix. But that doesn't explain why it would stall
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware, it has
>> to have the ".efi" suffix. But that doesn't explain why it would stall
>> when loaded from grub...
>>
>&g
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first
> impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently
> some users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size
> problem but the project has bee
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>
> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and
> more robust.
rEFIt or rEFInd?
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:
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> Had another learning experience with respect to how GPT disks work.,
> system is buttoned up and operating in GPT mode. In old systems, the
> boot sectors and bootstrap loaders were kinda consigned to a digital
> pergatory on the drive, now
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and
>>> more robust.
>>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Mick wrote:
>
> rEFInd is definitely a slick and useful boot manager for multibooting.
> On this occasion I did not install it, but decided to remain
> minimalist, because I do not want to interfere much with the AppleMac
> installation.
>
> So, I created /boot/EFI
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 14:44:45 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> [1] Apple's EFI firmware can read hfsplus and it boots (IIRC since OS
>> X 10.10) from a kernel on the Apple_Boot partition (disk0s3).
>
> Yes, Apple's firmware
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 30 Jan 2017 06:10:47 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK, since the advent of defaulting to CoreStorage (OS X 10.10? - OS
>> X's equivalent of LVM) and full-disk encryption (OS X 10.10?),
>> bootx64.efi/boot.efi cann
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to stop journald from writing errors all over my
> terminal?
>
> I've never seen this before. The error message shows up in dmesg as it's
> supposed to but it also writes it whereever the cursor happens to be
> which is ex
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 02/01/2017 05:57 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to stop journald from writing errors all over
>>> my terminal?
>>>
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Miroslav Rovis
wrote:
>
> Oh I meant SELinux, and pls. be the first to deny there were hooks
> planted in Linux by Linus via the LSM (the Linux Security Module, for
> the general audience), as per:
>
> Developer Raps Linux Security
> http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/3
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:13:22 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
but running: /etc/init.d/modules-load restart
does not restart the module.
>>>
>>> Does modprobe load it?
>>
>> Yes, it did; thank you.
>> modprobe it87 Worked.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Hogren wrote:
> On 22/03/2017 13:58, Hogren wrote:
>> On 22/03/2017 13:57, Hogren wrote:
>>> On 22/03/2017 13:42, Arthur Țițeică wrote:
În ziua de miercuri, 22 martie 2017, la 14:34:50 EET, Hogren a scris:
>
> Anybody knows why ~/.bashrc is not running
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:07 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:23:22 +0200
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> Or you could use Ubuntu.
>
> Can you please refrain from such phrases.
History with Alab G.
As an Ubuntu user, perhaps I should take offense! :)
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 09:44:27PM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote
>>
>> Someone raised the issue that the "time server" option in the date
>> and time applet was greyed out on their system. It turns out that
>> this occurs if neither ntpdate nor
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Dale wrote:
>
> I've installed Linux Mint with Mate.
Isn't Mate as heavy as Gnome on your low-powered box? Isn't it Gnome 3
with Gnome-shell replaced by the Mate interface?
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> I have this set to send text only for gentoo.org and kde.org. Someone
> replied making me think it is not doing as instructed, even tho settings
> says it is. Can someone tell me for sure and certain that this is
> sending as it should? Text only I
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