Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
isting entirely of Windows(basics), PowerPoint, Word and Excel; but that's another story), and *of course* all usernames have been normalized to lowercase ASCII. I’m quite sure I have never seen an Asian Windows where you had to use ASCII for your username. Stephan

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
a chance to do it. I don’t need non-ASCII for my name but I would never use a system that would forces me to rewrite my name in ASCII because it is so utterly broken in 2024. I bet there is no problem on Windows systems. Stephan -- | Stephan SeitzE-Mail: s...@root

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Do, Dez 05, 2024 at 17:05:29 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: Neither adduser nor useradd are setuid. To be fair, passwd is setuid. And I’m sure you are using it to set the password. So it has to survive an unicode user name. Stephan -- |If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot

Re: Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Do, Dez 05, 2024 at 14:34:21 +0100 schrieb Alejandro Colomar: The best mitigation for those attacks is to ban the names altogether. IMO, setuid programs should not accept Unicode. Today, not many people want to live in the past and accept simply ASCII if there name needs a bigger character

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Di, Jul 16, 2024 at 13:14:44 +0200 schrieb Lukas Märdian: On 16.07.24 11:24, Stephan Seitz wrote: None of my servers are using WLAN. They all work very well with ifupdown including bonding/vlans. This might not be your usecase, but I regularly see setups of "embedded boards", like

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Di, Jul 16, 2024 at 10:54:47 +0200 schrieb Lukas Märdian: * Netplan PLUS NetworkManager(desktop/laptop) All my desktops have only LAN and are working very well with ifupdown since the beginning. My Laptops are mostly in a LAN either. So NM is onlay needed for the rare cases I’m in a WLAN.

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Di, Jul 09, 2024 at 20:03:52 +0200 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: Well, I've been apt-purging ifupdown for almost a decade by now and didn't yet miss any of it. I would never purge ifupdown. I like the nice configuration in one file that you can find no matter if it is an old or new Debian insta

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Di, Apr 02, 2024 at 13:30:43 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber: from being vulnerable to the current xz-based attack. Just having to dump an ALL: ALL into /etc/hosts.deny is vastly easier than having to maintain a packet filter. Stupid question, but if you put „ALL: ALL” into hosts.deny, couldn’t you

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am So, Dez 24, 2023 at 10:06:09 +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci: After the installation there would be no /usr/bin/gpg. Once the user installs, say, ggp-is-gnupg then /usr/bin/gpg will point to /usr/bin/gpg-gnupg. Users (and scripts) are still free to install the And if you want to change it,

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Mi, Sep 14, 2022 at 08:41:32 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Bicha: I believe you are significantly overstating the consequences of this switch. It is just a dependency swap in meta-gnome3. The vast majority Maybe, but I remember when pulseaudio was forced upon us, even when it was not really ready be

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Mi, Jan 19, 2022 at 13:34:13 -0600 schrieb Richard Laager: For people that want something more than systemd-timesyncd, e.g. to get NTS, I think either are acceptable choices. It seems that the consensus Well, most people will use the default NTP server of the package and don’t have a NTP s

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Di, Jan 18, 2022 at 23:16:46 +0100 schrieb Marco d'Itri: I have no objections if somebody wants to work on packaging ntpsec, but I do not think that either ntp or ntpsec should be promoted over chrony nowadays. Besides from the fact that ntpsec is already packaged: Does chrony support NTS?

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Di, Mär 30, 2021 at 12:15:54 +0200 schrieb Stephan Lachnit: It's supposed to represent everyone who fights for a future where You will never be able to represent everyone. Calling for RMS to step back, and everyone who was involved in that decision, really has nothing to do with cancel cul

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2021-01-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Sa, Dez 12, 2020 at 20:27:16 + schrieb Steve McIntyre: It's still quite new, but we have a package in the archive for this now: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader Well, yes, but it is only in unstable. I tried to install it but apt wanted to replace many packages. Using

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Sa, Dez 12, 2020 at 18:09:02 +0200 schrieb Adrian Bunk: 4. People who wrongly installed i386 on amd64-capable hardware. Well, some releases ago befor multi-arch I used to install i386 even on am64-capable hardware if ram was quite low (=< 8GB) and if the chance wasn’t that low that you nee

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-09 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Okt 08, 2020 at 22:54:32 -0400, calumlikesapple...@gmail.com wrote: is probably very handy. Even more handy is the fact that you don't really need to learn the command name of your image viewer and your pdf viewer and your html viewer and you .dia viewer and your .mp3 player and every oth

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Feb 06, 2020 at 13:25:06 +0100, Ansgar wrote: Given you wrote earlier that you moved all but one of your machines away from Debian, whatever Debian installs by default doesn't affect you anyway. Well, I still use Debian. In Testing you have elogind now as a complete systemd replacement.

Re: migration from cron.daily to systemd timers

2020-01-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:57:51 -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: visible to administrators. IMO the migration to systemd timers can be done more smoothly, so it's still preferable. Well, since you need to support non-systemd systems as well (like mine) the cron script is still needed (I don’t thi

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
hoose from grub. So installing a newer kernel from backports won’t delete the kernel from the stable release. This won’t work for systemd. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | |If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.|

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit

2019-08-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:00:03 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Unprivileged access to port < 1024. The socket-activated services can start as user since the port binding is done by the systemd, not the daemon. If the daemon supports different platforms, it needs a wrapper to bind to a port < 1024

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-30 Thread Stephan Seitz
is not part of Debian, but I managed to use it. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it. |

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:32:31 +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: # iptables-translate -A INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -p tcp --dport 587 -j DROP nft add rule ip filter INPUT ip saddr 1.2.3.4 tcp dport 587 counter drop Ah, thank you very much! Stephan -- | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~sts

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:23:43 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 11:07:15 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: as you may know, Debian 10 buster includes the iptables-nft utility by default, which is an iptables flavor that uses the nf_tables kernel subsystem. Is intended to he

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:05:02 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: I personally don't care about usrmerge, but if it is useful to a relevant minority, we should not reject it. Who says we should reject the usrmerge package? The minority who wishes for it can install it for years. But I don’t wa

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of merged-/usr would be minor. There are no benefits of a merged /usr for users who don’t want to export /usr via NFS or want to use clusters/docker images/etc. And this

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:24:40 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: usrmerge is in the archive for 3+ years now. What seems to be needed now is for a lot of us to actually _try_ it, find and report bugs, and get this through. Why, if it was intended as an optional package for people who want a

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:14:44 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: There are always unforseen issues to be expected when upgrading. And Of course, and since a dist-upgrade will bring newer software you may already have to fix configuration files. at the moment, the only issues that are known whe

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:02:00 +0100, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 23. November 2018, 14:47:28 CET schrieb Stephan Seitz: And how do you revert this change? As far as I have understand you can’t remove the usrmerge package and have your system in the old state again. Making an image of the whole

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:04:05 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: If there are actual issues encountered, we can always revert a change And how do you revert this change? As far as I have understand you can’t remove the usrmerge package and have your system in the old state again. As others in t

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Nov 21, 2018 at 01:09:47 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Debian, is, btw, also losing quickly for not keeping pace with the world around it. Or maybe it scares people away with its bullshit decisions. Stephan -- | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s D

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 01:59:08 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10: I don’t understand the problem. No one forces anyone to keep the package in Debian. Upstream made clear it isn’t interested in changing the names. The point is that it currently is in Debian

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 09:32:34 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Adam Borowski - 26.07.18, 03:09: I for one don't protest inclusion of the Bible in Debian, despite that text having been the cause of 100M deaths, nor Quran with its 75M. I That text did not *directly* cause anything. It were sti

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jul 25, 2018 at 09:25:11 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest of the world) already if needed. Rememver iceweasel or icedove? Yes, I do. And I remember the problems with this renaming. And do you remember the reason? This wa

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:19:35 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: Stephan Seitz writes: He certainly should NOT rename any parts of the package without upstream consent. Why not? I can see an argument about not confusing users (though transitional packages / a weboob-offensive could be made for

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:49:55 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: accept that they are authoritative in this regard. Therefore, you should rename the offensive parts of this package. He certainly should NOT rename any parts of the package without upstream consent. If upstream doesn’t approve (and i

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

2018-05-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Mai 04, 2018 at 09:12:39 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Same as all previous extension breakages incurred by ESR transitions; not at all. Apart from enigmail those are all not updated along in stable, this doesn't scale at all. If you want your extensions to be kept compatible, get them f

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-25 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Apr 25, 2018 at 07:30:15 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: The simple, obvious means of installing Python in Debian - either manually, or as a dependency of another package - is via the package named 'python'. At present, in current testing, doing this will pull in I don’t think you can see it

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:00:37 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: But being human I prefer names over numbers, even if it's just for aesthetic reason - "buster" is just more comfortable than "debian10". No, it’s not. I know that my systems are running Debian 8 or 9, but I always have to think if s

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:52:25 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:14:50AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: specifically, what locale sorts english words differently than LANG=C? Estonian (et_EE) sorts z between s and t. Boah, thanks for all the examples. I didn’t know you could

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-18 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:14:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: specifically, what locale sorts english words differently than LANG=C? Since English words (or texts) can have 8bit characters you may get a different sorting in in different locales. If you mean ASCII words I don’t know of any sort

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-18 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 02:47:11 +, Holger Levsen wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:23:29AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: really? there's more than one alphabetical order for english words? yes, sorting depends on the locale... :) Can you please give an example for the sorting difference in

Re: OpenSSL disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1

2017-08-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mo, Aug 07, 2017 at 08:52:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: I think that I live in a real enough world (commercial web hosting), and my customers have been asking for a while to disable at least TLS 1.0 Well, if I understand it correctly, apache/openssl in SLES11 SP4 only support TLSv1. Long

Re: OpenSSL disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1

2017-08-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mo, Aug 07, 2017 at 11:18:38 -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote: Is there an actual need for the removal of TLS v1.{0,1}? Are either considered broken or unsupported by upstream? If not, I'd be much more That’s I like to know as well. Doing a quick check on my appliances I could find the follow

Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things [and 1 more messages]

2017-01-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: [Letsencrypt-devel] Certbot in Debian Stretch

2016-11-25 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:34:32 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: FWIW certbot from jessie-backports has been working fine for me in several contexts. Yes, here as well. The only problem was the renaming from letsencrypt to certbot. Many greetings, Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:31:28 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: ChaCha20 is hardly obscure: if it is to you then I fear that your opinion on this issue is not informed enough to be useful. It doesn’t matter in the end. If no one wants to delay the next release until all applications support OpenSS

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
e I knew that I wanted to have grml in /boot are having enough space. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
d the grml images yourself and you need the space to save the images in /boot/grml. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: vlan support en* or br*?

2016-01-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
interfaces. You can do this with the ip command but you have to do everything manually. The same goes for the ifenslave package. So, yes, someone can file a bug. Greetings, Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http

Re: pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
twork/interfaces in an easy way. The packages vlan and ifenslave are working very well. That said I think it would be very cool if I could configure VLANs and bonds with the Debian installer. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootslan

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-03 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
here. SLES is using some strange interface names like em1 or p1p2, but I hate it. I prefer my eth0 name. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:00:42PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Stephan Seitz wrote: Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian changed the default syslog. Note that syslog-ng was not the default, but sysklogd (which was) wasn’t replaced either

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
the files should be moved backed to /etc. In the second case changed defaults should be documented in the changelog or readme. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html

Re: free choice in installer?

2014-11-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
generalised statements about "people" by assuming that all people are thinking like you. If you don’t want choices you can stay with Windows. There is no reason to make Linux like Windows. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.roo

Re: Migration from cron to cron-daemon?

2014-10-18 Thread Stephan Seitz
is now the correct expression for cron? cron-daemon|cron? Is this a release critical bug? As a testing user I now have problems using bcron. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse

Migration from cron to cron-daemon?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! I sent the attached message to debian-release, but I was told to ask in debian-devel. So here is the mail. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | --- Begin Message

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
software to replace systemd? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
switched to dependency-based boot. Which did cause We still have init scripts without LSB headers in our environment. No one is planning to fix them. There is even new third party software shipping init scripts without LSB headers. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:13:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 04 avril 2014 à 15:25 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : and modern hardware. This is no longer a requirement in jessie, at least on x86 where llvmpipe is now accepted as a GL engine. Ah, thank you. The default

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
n 6 with Gnome 2. I don’t know if I will ever update this system. Gnome 3 is not a solution, and I’m not interested in teaching XFCE. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html |

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
ong. [stse@osgiliath]: file /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object… If I do a „chmod u+s check_procs” it works. But I think capabilities are a safer solution than s-bit. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
I've forwarded a patch upstream. I did a „setcap cap_sys_ptrace+eip /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs”, but a normal user can’t still check for running programs of another user. What did I wrong? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.roo

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
tivated. /etc/init.d/ is always working with auto completion. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: FFmpeg vs. libav packaging

2014-02-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
And how is this problem solved? The library which most software can use or the library which has a maintainer? I’m using the Multimedia repository anyway because I want MythTV which is only available there. So I have ffmpeg. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
many setups to find bugs. Users (at least users from Debian Stable) are not beta testers. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
cessary it takes less than 10 seconds to reconfigure the sound device in the application. So why should I use pulseaudio? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | sig

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
answer from a judge in the end. Or do we need to ask different lawyers in different countries? Is the answer in one country enough? This may affect mirror operators. Merry christmas! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
others. There are no features in systemd that I would dump the well known sysvinit. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
to include XEN 4.2 in Wheezy? Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: can we (fully) release-goal decommissioning of trolls

2012-08-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
one has to use it. And I would wish those people would go away to Windows. There they can play with shiny new software which doesn’t really work. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html |

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: Stephan Seitz writes: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:08:53PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: Never mind wireless lan where you've got a well defined kernel API. Try to configure a modern 3G/LTE modem using ifupdown, and you will see th

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
0 and do a „pon umts”. No need for NM and Co. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
a WAN connection running. And if it has, it doesn’t mean you can reach the keyserver. So you can use something like „fping -q ”, if the keyserver is pingeable. Any other check is not really usefull. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: h

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
if it works for you, you can ignore NM. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-07-01 Thread Stephan Seitz
running at the end of the boot process), but for now I still don’t see any reason to change. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:43:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:46:16PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: So most of your Debian systems have several users working at the same time on the same system? Okay, then you have a different user base. "webserver".

SSDs and discard (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

2012-06-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
s mean you shouldn’t use discard in fstab, but you need the option in crypttab and lvm.conf (or TRIM requests are filtered)? Or don’t you need any discard options in any layer to get fstrim to work? Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
But this discussion is not about /var, it's about /tmp. Yes, it is, but if tmpfs is seen as an advantage because /tmp can’t block the system anymore and prevent DOS attacks (among others), this doesn’t sound so good anymore if you can as easily block the system by filling /var/tmp or /var/l

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
roblem. And /var/tmp exists as well for everyone writeable. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
temporary directory they belong today. Besides if you set TMPDIR to /home/tmp, you don’t need /tmp at all, no matter if tmpfs or not. If you want a system tmp create one and set TMPDIR for these system services. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
d temporary files to use /tmpfs instead in Debian. But by default we should not give up disk based /tmp for a default installation. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description:

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
k is cleaned according to the setting of TMPTIME. You need tmpreaper to clean /tmp on systems which rarely reboot. And then you have the same problem with tmpfs. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~sts

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
s a security warning and „man mount” says, this option is not sufficiently tested yet. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:28:59AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system uses the swap partition. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Stephan Seitz Will Wheezy support SSDs out of the box with all trimming functions, even if your SSD partition is using LUKS and LVM? Depends on what you mean by out of the box. I suspect you still need to turn on discard

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
h LVM without problems as well. Both things are nothing a standard desktop user can do by its own, but the standard desktop user will certainly have more disk space than RAM, so I’m glad this tmpfs for tmp crap is off by default. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
, can set their own TMPDIR. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Stephan Seitz writes: Don’t you think this is getting quite ridiculous? Big temporary files belong in your $HOME, but small temporary files in /tmp? Only to switch /tmp from disk to RAM? No, I just don't consider a 4

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-02 Thread Stephan Seitz
files (and so getting problems with databases or logs), /var/tmp is always a link to /tmp. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cry

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-02 Thread Stephan Seitz
admin wishes to change the setting to keep files in /tmp even after reboot, you can’t use tmpfs, even if you don’t have enough space left. You can only print a warning message but not ignore the local configuration. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Ma

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