Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-17 Thread Clarke Sideroad via Dng
On 2019-03-17 6:05 p.m., Jaromil wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, goli...@dyne.org wrote: On 2019-03-14 03:48, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): I just wonder whether your nice solution is enough for a wider audience used to have things popping up around all the time. I gue

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-17 Thread Jaromil
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2019-03-14 03:48, Rick Moen wrote: > > Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > > > > > I just wonder whether your nice solution is enough for a wider > > > audience used to have things popping up around all the time. I guess > > > it's not, as m

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:10:12 -0400, Steve wrote in message <20190315011012.14cfc...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:45:08 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:43:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > > > > > > By the way, how did you detect inser

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:45:08 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:43:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > By the way, how did you detect insertion? Were you using dmesg > > --follow ? > > > > Much easier than that: since I am normally the only person who inserts >

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:48:07 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > I'm quoting the above in order to express appreciation for it -- in > context. Like Steve Litt, I favour the smallest possible entanglement > with Freedesktop.org 'desktop' components [snip] > I would not have supported that commitment, pe

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:45:08AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:43:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > By the way, how did you detect insertion? Were you using dmesg > > --follow ? > > > > Much easier than that: since I am normally the only person who insert

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread golinux
On 2019-03-14 03:48, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): I just wonder whether your nice solution is enough for a wider audience used to have things popping up around all the time. I guess it's not, as much as setnet is not a solution to manage networks palatable to a wider

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread karl
SteveT: ... > By the way, how did you detect insertion? Were you using dmesg > --follow ? ... I usually detect insertion via my nervous system connecting to the tip of my fingers, they detect the end stop or click that usually uccurs when the device is fully inserted. This detection system the

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:43:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > By the way, how did you detect insertion? Were you using dmesg > --follow ? > Much easier than that: since I am normally the only person who inserts a stick in my computer, and I don't have any 100 meters long USB cable runn

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > I just wonder whether your nice solution is enough for a wider > audience used to have things popping up around all the time. I guess > it's not, as much as setnet is not a solution to manage networks > palatable to a wider audience, as much as apt-get is

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:24:47 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:10:54AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:54:34 +0100 > > KatolaZ wrote: > > > > > Ask those who *absolutely* *needed* usb sticks to be > > > immediately automounted irrespective whatever DE they

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:15:00 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: >     It is not obvious which of these functionalites Dbus and/or > Gnome (eg gvfs) are mandatory for. But I bet most  don't need them at > all. Ranting against Dbus and Gnome - which I easily do (-: - doesn't > help much. What really help

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:10:54AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:54:34 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > > > Ask those who *absolutely* *needed* usb sticks to be > > immediately automounted irrespective whatever DE they were using, and > > wanted the icon on the panel as soon as the dr

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:54:34 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > Ask those who *absolutely* *needed* usb sticks to be > immediately automounted irrespective whatever DE they were using, and > wanted the icon on the panel as soon as the drive was up. I and another guy on the DNG list solved that one a couple

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-13 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 12/03/2019 à 22:54, KatolaZ a écrit : On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:54:02PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: What *is* that "desktop integration" that those users want? Ask them. Ask those who complained for months before ascii got to beta stage because they could not click on a button and suspend

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Harald Arnesen via Dng
KatolaZ [12/03/2019 22.54]: > I am not saying these are not valid complaints, quite the opposite. I > am just saying that I accepted years ago that the way I use Linux is > not the same other users use it, and I have to keep this in mind if I > want to contribute to Devuan. Well said. Having used

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:54:02PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:40:02AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > Then, you won't have any > > "desktop integration" which seems to be a "must" for many users today, > > but I can assure that life goes on either way. > > What *is* that "de

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:40:02AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > Then, you won't have any > "desktop integration" which seems to be a "must" for many users today, > but I can assure that life goes on either way. What *is* that "desktop integration" that those users want? -- hendrik > > We can only fe

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:07:07PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:04:23 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message > <20190312160423.c62sssfcgc4b6...@katolaz.homeunix.net>: > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Jaromil wrote: > > > > > > dear Didier, > > > > > > thanks for t

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:04:23 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <20190312160423.c62sssfcgc4b6...@katolaz.homeunix.net>: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Jaromil wrote: > > > > dear Didier, > > > > thanks for this quick C monitoring tool using the inotify API > > > > I think this may be

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: [cut] > > In order to contact your preferred DE's interface to select the printer > > when you hit CTRL+P, just to make one example out of several dozens? > > >     Is dbus really necessary for that? When printing from Palemoon, the sa

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 12/03/2019 à 10:40, KatolaZ a écrit : On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:48:11AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 11/03/2019 à 19:33, KatolaZ a écrit : guys, anything using dbus will most probably (indirectly) access /var/lib/dbus/machine-id at some point in time, since that file is read when attemp

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread golinux
On 2019-03-12 11:04, KatolaZ wrote: Then I closed it, created a /etc/machine-id with: # head -c 4 /dev/random | md5sum | cut -d " " -f 1 > /etc/machine-id and restarted it. It worked. Then I changed the machine-id and restarted it several time, and it worked. Then I put /etc/machine-id equal

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Jaromil
dear Katolaz, On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, KatolaZ wrote: > We shall probably dig a deeper into this... indeed what is happening on my machine is hard to reproduce. What also complicates things is that I do aggressive isolation of different browser directories using firejail and my tool tinfoil (https:/

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Jaromil wrote: > > dear Didier, > > thanks for this quick C monitoring tool using the inotify API > > I think this may be useful also for /etc/machine-id - which may be a > different ID from dbus I believe? > > meanwhile an update on my adventures using

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Jaromil
dear Didier, thanks for this quick C monitoring tool using the inotify API I think this may be useful also for /etc/machine-id - which may be a different ID from dbus I believe? meanwhile an update on my adventures using chromium on Beowulf: it basically stopped working since I overwrote my mac

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread aitor_czr
Hi, On 12/3/19 9:25, KatolaZ wrote: Again, this is pretty pointless: just look for reverse-deps on libdbus and you'll find the answers you are looking for. /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is read by anyting that opens a dbus channel and/or sends/receives a message through dbus. It is not read by the

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:59:04AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Didier Kryn - 12.03.19, 09:48: > > Le 11/03/2019 à 19:33, KatolaZ a écrit : > > > guys, anything using dbus will most probably (indirectly) access > > > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id at some point in time, since that file is > > > rea

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:48:11AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 11/03/2019 à 19:33, KatolaZ a écrit : > > guys, anything using dbus will most probably (indirectly) access > > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id at some point in time, since that file is > > read when attempting to send a message via dbus. >

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Didier Kryn - 12.03.19, 09:48: > Le 11/03/2019 à 19:33, KatolaZ a écrit : > > guys, anything using dbus will most probably (indirectly) access > > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id at some point in time, since that file is > > read when attempting to send a message via dbus. > > It's most certainly as

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/03/2019 à 19:33, KatolaZ a écrit : guys, anything using dbus will most probably (indirectly) access /var/lib/dbus/machine-id at some point in time, since that file is read when attempting to send a message via dbus.     It's most certainly as simple as that.     The question is why the h

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:17:59AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2019 Mon, 11 Mar 19:16:13 +0100 > Didier Kryn scripsit: > >     First list of applications reading machine-id. > > > >     /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon > >     /usr/bin/dbus-launch > >     /usr/local/waterfox/wa

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2019 Mon, 11 Mar 19:16:13 +0100 Didier Kryn scripsit: >     First list of applications reading machine-id. > >     /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon >     /usr/bin/dbus-launch >     /usr/local/waterfox/waterfox > >     None of Palemoon, Firefox-ESR or Surf reads machine-id on my ASCI

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2019 Mon, 11 Mar 19:16:13 +0100 Didier Kryn scripsit: >     First list of applications reading machine-id. > >     /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon >     /usr/bin/dbus-launch >     /usr/local/waterfox/waterfox You can add "chromium". > >     None of Palemoon, Firefox-ESR or Surf r

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:43:45 +0100, Didier wrote in message : > Le 11/03/2019 à 17:22, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:47:57 +0100, Didier wrote in message > > : > > > >> Le 11/03/2019 à 15:32, Didier Kryn a écrit : > >>> The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is > >>> 'f

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 07:16:13PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >     First list of applications reading machine-id. > >     /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon >     /usr/bin/dbus-launch >     /usr/local/waterfox/waterfox > >     None of Palemoon, Firefox-ESR or Surf reads machine-id on my ASCII > laptop.

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Didier Kryn
    First list of applications reading machine-id.     /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon     /usr/bin/dbus-launch     /usr/local/waterfox/waterfox     None of Palemoon, Firefox-ESR or Surf reads machine-id on my ASCII laptop. I compiled Palemoon on Jessie maybe two years ago, and I think I compiled

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/03/2019 à 17:22, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:47:57 +0100, Didier wrote in message : Le 11/03/2019 à 15:32, Didier Kryn a écrit : The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch /var/lib/machine-id' Erratum: The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch /

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:47:57 +0100, Didier wrote in message : > Le 11/03/2019 à 15:32, Didier Kryn a écrit : > > The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is > > 'fawatch /var/lib/machine-id' > > Erratum: > > The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id'

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/03/2019 à 15:51, KatolaZ a écrit : On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:32:57PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:     Please find in atttachment a quickly hacked C program which writes a line on standard output everytime a process opens a given file.     The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatc

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:32:57PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >     Please find in atttachment a quickly hacked C program which writes a > line on standard output everytime a process opens a given file. > >     The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch > /var/lib/machine-id' Hi Didier

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/03/2019 à 15:32, Didier Kryn a écrit : The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch /var/lib/machine-id' Erratum: The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch /var/lib/dbus/machine-id' ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.o

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-11 Thread Didier Kryn
    Please find in atttachment a quickly hacked C program which writes a line on standard output everytime a process opens a given file.     The invocation syntax to watch machine-id is 'fawatch /var/lib/machine-id'     The program can be compiled with 'gcc -o fawatch fawatch.c'     You need