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: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
th the -i option, I found it a great locker for *any* wm/de. http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm#locking_your_screen HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
eliminate ghosts of operating systems past. 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? Contac

Re: How to make more space available for /

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
home/ /scratch/oldbox/home/ 7. Back up the machine. 8. Over time, copy relevant data from the /scratch/oldbox/home tree to the /home tree. Please remember, a lot of what's in /home is old config that would harm your new installation, so be picky: Copy only real data that you produce

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 > > Yes. I'm a huge believer in wiping and reinstalling major versions. > > It's like spring clea

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:55:32 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 23:50:45 schrieb Chris Bannister: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 > > > > > > Ric Moore w

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
t; Debian, I now have to include systemd init scripts (or the > > packagers do). > > > > Sure, it's "voluntary" - but not really. > > Oh, the same way I could say: > > I am forced to write init scripts for a package. As I recently just >

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
ing a desktop to do lots of non-IT things, that's just too much maintenance time. I'm working on an experimental with PC-BSD sometimes, late at night. A little slow, but pretty good. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Hu

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
, it's made from modules" argument. Here's my take on that... http://troubleshooters.com/linux/systemd/lol_systemd.htm SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:57:12 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 11:18:22 schrieb Steve Litt: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:02:35 +0200 > > > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 14:51:01 schrieb Miles Fidel

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:10:52 -0500 green wrote: > Jonathan Dowland wrote at 2014-09-28 13:05 -0500: > > The more and more I read people objecting to the modularity of > > systemd, the more I am reminded of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate re > > microkernels. > > It does seem to be related, though

Re: Bluetooth mouse? (Solved)

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
ear you got it fixed. What's the benefit of a bluetooth mouse over an RF mouse like the Logitech 310? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:45:13 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:29:22AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > &

Re: apt-get errors

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
u can get to debian.gtisc.gatech.edu, and then rerun your original commands. 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&

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
e managed to squeeze onto a 128Mb machine (but it could hardly run more than one or two GUI programs simultaneously, using Xfce). SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:13:10 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:58:30AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Me, I'm personally going to continue fresh installing, because I > > enjoy the spring-cleaning aspect of it, and the fact that I'm > > st

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
27;s that pretty much guarantee you can run any app you want. Why don't you convert your Debian server to OpenBSD running as a guest of xen? If you already know and use xen, you have the easiest escape hatch in the world. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Tr

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
ble to assume its former role, and as a matter of fact, the way things are going, that can be said for all of Linux. So actually, I hope I'm wrong. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
t free software window manager/desktop environments exist. Like probably about 20 or more excellent ones. LXDE and Xfce are two of the best. I *always* have LXDE on my laptops, so that when my IQ drops 30 points before giving a presentation, I can get my laptop and projector

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
people would be right at home with Arch, Gentoo, Funtoo or Slack. So if I had an uber-Geek in the family, that's what I'd give him or her. I understand the benefit of using one distro and learning it in and out, but I think in the long run that won't work for some

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
x27;s a done deal" or the ever disengenous "so make your own distro". Just for the record, my objection is the monolithic entanglement of systemd. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To U

xen: was Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
, NetBSD has a xen kernel available. Unless I'm vastly misinformed, once your dom0 xen is installed, you can now install domU hosts of any type you want, with or without systemd, and use them to your heart's content. Am I understanding the situation right? SteveT Steve Litt* h

Re: xen bootcamp (was: xen: was Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd) upstream

2014-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 12:20:31 +0400 Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi Reco, This is outstanding information. Thank you! > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:16:41PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:57:41 +0400 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Ok, ok. We all got

Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
re I have might be able to handle chroots, but it won't do > > VMs. Too old. > > LXC is worth a look. Thanks Jonathan. I use Docker from time to time, but never knew about LXC. If I use LXC experimentally, what's a good, simple, proof of concept use case? Th

Re: Throw clarity to the world

2014-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
desktop (AKA workspace). Cool! I think fvwm had that in the 20th century! That snap feature to tile your windows actually looks pretty good. Anyone know of an equivalent command for Openbox? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Trainin

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
er name? > > Please, ban anyone whose "discussion" descends to this low level. > > Lisi Yeah, go ahead. And then three more will pop up for each one you silence. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System"

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
egory, and maybe 10 more people, and your hearing about systemd would decrease by a factor of four. Additionally, your continuing protestations couldn't be used as a recruiting tool for the anti-systemd folks. But nooo! What am I missing? SteveT Steve Litt* http://ww

Re: (Song) Fk SystemD

2014-10-05 Thread Steve Litt
#x27;t do this. It hurts the credibility of the entire group who agrees with you 100% on the issues. There are enough *facts* about systemd, Poettering, Sievers and Redhat to logically and completely make your point. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshoot

Re: [Startubuntu] Throw clarity to the world

2014-10-05 Thread Steve Litt
What do you mean by "fully flat graphics?" If you mean no 3D, Linux has had that forever: Don't install Compiz, and use Xfce, LXDE, Openbox, or a host of other desktops. Stay away from Unity :-) On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:23:02 -0300 Felipe de Andrade Neves Lavratti wrote: > It seems to be fully flat

Re: Wifi works again. Should I post bug reports?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
upgrade that there will be a permissions > problem, and what to do about it. Only a month or two there appeared > to be no problem with permissions. At this point, you haven't enough evidence to deduce whether or not it's a permissions problem. You should re-try the original progra

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
I use Openbox on my desktop, and LXDE on all my laptops. 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". T

Re: upgrade from 7 to testing no longer possible

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
th was about 40% of why I moved from Ubuntu to Debian. 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

Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
moderate a list is: A) Tell everyone it's a moderated list B) Send the poster a short reason why his post has been moderated. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:50:54 -0700 Go Linux wrote: > > > On Mon, 10/6/14, Steve Litt wrote: > > Subject: Moderated posts? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, October 6, 2014, 4:42 PM > > Hi all,

Suggested Openbox hotkey functions

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
Close Window 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

Action, inaction, and over-the-top

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
ing people is allowed)? Agreed. Too nasty and over the top. In my opinion systemd leaves enough room for mockery to make your point without swearwords or extreme incivility. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 21:43:37 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 06 Oct 16:45 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Several of my posts to lists.debian.org have not made it to the > > list, as defined by both my inbox and the list archive. These posts >

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:42:14 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Several of my posts to lists.debian.org have not made it to the list, > as defined by both my inbox and the list archive. I emailed listmas...@lists.debian.org, and although I didn't get a yes or no answe

Re: Suggested Openbox hotkey functions

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:22:04 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 06 oct 14, 18:08:22, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Everyone has a different way of working, so your hotkeys will > > probably be different than mine, but systemd here's a

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:59:30 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:23:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > 1) Don't respond to "obvious trolls". Although "obvious trolls" > > wasn't defined > > Sinc

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 23:10:32 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:59:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:23:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > 1) Don't respond to "obvious t

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:08:15 +0200 Peter Nieman wrote: > On 07/10/14 07:23, Steve Litt wrote: > > These are nowhere near a verbatim repeat of what the Listmaster > > said, but if these two things are what he meant, well, I can live > > with that, always assuming it

Re: pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
gt; > -Rob I've never been able to mount a USB stick with pcmanfm, on either Ubuntu or Debian (Wheezy). Only Thunar did it, and then only on Ubuntu. Fortunately, I installed something that automounts my thumb drives to /media/usb0, /media/usb1, etc, so I don't n

Re: Suggested Openbox hotkey functions

2014-10-07 Thread Steve Litt
sing Openbox by default, even though it > doesn't Depends on it (but it does on obconf ;) Here's the logic: a) Without client-list-combined menu functionality, I'd need a taskbar to prevent my getting lost. b) If I must have a taskbar, I might as well use LXDE, which

Re: Prolem with external monitor

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
ed with various laptop function keys. 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.

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
nded: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708 Read the first 10 messages. 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: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 21:48:10 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Mi, 08 oct 14, 11:41:05, Joel Rees wrote: > >> 2014/10/08 6:07 "Andrei POPESCU" : > >> > > >> > On Ma, 07 oct

Re: pcmanfm won't mount USB stick on Jessie

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:16:58 -0400 (EDT) Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Steve Litt" > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:57:07 -0400 (EDT) > > Rob Owens wrote: > > Fortunately, I installed something that automounts my thumb drives >

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:24:11 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/06/2014 05:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Personally, I think the right way to moderate a list is: > > > > A) Tell everyone it's a moderated list > > B) Send the poster a short reason why his post h

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
you're wasting my limited bandwidth. :/ Ric Having a bad year, Ric? Every time you post, you're in a bad mood. You know how to use procmail, why don't you just filter suject "Moderated posts?", or filter *me* out? As a matter of fact, that just gave me an idea. Thanks!

I'm sorry

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Five minutes ago I posted a mean, personal attack. Nobody needs that, especially these days. So I just procmailed that particular person to /dev/null, so I won't see his messages and respond to him. I apologize to the list and the person I personally attacked. SteveT Steve

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
ou can hope for is something like pfSense, but that's not all that simple either. 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 "un

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
did works for everybody when Jessie goes stable, you've just singlehandedly ended this whole argument. If you want to collaborate on this article, I'll throw an extra hard disk in my experimental box to tech edit your instructions. This just might be good news. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
ould replace sysvinit or the PID 1 portions of systemd or upstart with a daemontools superset. By the way, I just read on the nosh web page that they can provide "nosh-systemd-services_1.7_amd64.deb", which supposedly supports nosh in daemontools compatibility mode under systemd.

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:16:47 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/8/2014 10:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > If what you did works for everybody when Jessie goes stable, you've > > just singlehandedly ended this whole argument. > > Not really. > > Just because it can be

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:47:33 +0100 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > So if you've seen some of your posts not be posted, be aware that > ... > > I often see debian-user messages in Gmail's spam box (that are not

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:27:30 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Complexity is not a simple topic. :-\ Can I quote you on that? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

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

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
#x27;s predictable in its minimalism, look at OpenBSD. Every bit of configuration is easily done from an editor, and there's little complexity beyond the complexity of the original problem domain. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
r. LOL, the more people bust old features putting in new features, the more I kludge. 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 "un

How to network-install Jessie?

2014-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How does one network-install Jessie? I always network-install Wheezy, and love it that way, but I've never found a way to network-install Jessie/Testing. Is there any way that doesn't involve installing Wheezy and then upgrading? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

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

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
ists: 1) The messages come to you, you don't need to remember to go out to two dozen forums to find your conversations. 2) You don't need to log in to post a reply. I'm on several forums. But invariably, as time goes on, I forget their existence. The day's just too busy to walk a

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

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
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: 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: 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: 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
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
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: 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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 (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: 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: 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
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 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

2014-10-13 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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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 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: 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: 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

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