Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 04/07/17 03:52, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:45:29AM -0500, dev wrote: On 07/03/2017 10:40 AM, Evilham wrote: That's the thing, we can do that :-) probably should, but the "right way" (from a standards point of view) would be to actually allow those names ^^ not to disa

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 03/07/17 18:23, Joachim Fahrner wrote: Am 2017-07-03 17:34, schrieb dev: useradd and adduser work differently. One allows it, the other does not. Just thought 'why not make them work the same?'. That's all. That's right, that's a bug. They should work the same, and they should follow POSI

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-03 22:27, schrieb Gregory Nowak: I'm not seeing this here, and the A record for tupac2.dyne.org resolves correctly. Could there be a DNS issue on your end perhaps? Normally name resolution works fine, and tupac2.dyne.org is the only server with such errors in my postfix log. I'm u

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-04 09:39, schrieb Joachim Fahrner: Could it be that dyne.org name servers have temporary connection problems? When checking dns for tupac2.dyne.org I get 1 error and 3 warnings: https://mxtoolbox.com/domain/tupac2.dns.org/ E https dns.org The Certificate has a name

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 04/07/17 09:23, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: the flag will only disable the check against NAME_REGEX defined in /etc/adduser.conf. The flag will not permit to create usernames starting with dash or containing invalid characters (ie not in [-0-9a-z_]) . for the sake of not spreading false info

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-04 09:51, schrieb Joachim Fahrner: Am 2017-07-04 09:39, schrieb Joachim Fahrner: Could it be that dyne.org name servers have temporary connection problems? When checking dns for tupac2.dyne.org I get 1 error and 3 warnings: https://mxtoolbox.com/domain/tupac2.dns.org/ E https

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 01:13:47AM +0200, Gionni FireGarden wrote: > hi all! > by now we don't have a place like packages.debian.org or packages.ubuntu.com > so i create with a friend a PoC for that. > We work on this idea just two nights, after work: it's really a primitive > Proof of Concept so p

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Jaromil
many thanks to Firegarden and your hacker friend at Viral DS! I see it already as a prototype, more than a POC, as I assume the underlying code doesn't needs to be rewritten Q: Do you share the python parser code with parazyd's amprolla3? On Mon, 03 Jul 2017, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > IMO, it

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 09:59:36AM +0200, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > On 04/07/17 09:23, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > the flag will only disable the check against NAME_REGEX defined in > > /etc/adduser.conf. The flag will not permit to create usernames starting > > with dash or containing invalid

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 at 13:06:41 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > > > On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 at 17:51:48 -0700 > > Rick Moen wrote: > > > > > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > > > > > >> It cannot work if what you need to do is fe

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 12:18:19PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: [cut] > > didn't involve a right > > reserved under copyright in the first place, > > Let me remind you GPL is a licence, and that it prohibits linking > proprietary code with free code in the same binary file. > Sorry, but th

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 at 09:38:36 +0200 Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > > On 03/07/17 18:23, Joachim Fahrner wrote: >> Am 2017-07-03 17:34, schrieb dev: >>> useradd and adduser work differently. One allows it, the other does not. >>> Just thought 'why not make them work the same?'. That's all. >> >> T

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 at 11:41:05 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 12:18:19PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > [cut] > > > > didn't involve a right > > > reserved under copyright in the first place, > > > > Let me remind you GPL is a licence, and that it prohibits linking > > pr

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-04 12:46, schrieb Alessandro Selli: I still think it's a bug that systemd runs a process as root when adduser is configured to prevent creation of a user with a given name but such a user does exist. Next step probably will be to supersede unix user management and integrate it int

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, Evilham writes: > Hi there, > > Am 03/07/2017 um 16:08 schrieb dev: >> Sounds like a "won't fix", too: >> >> "So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here." >>- Poettering >> >> Not sure what's more troubling here[1]; the lack of concern, the >> digression from POSIX,

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 01:08:24PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: [cut] > > Right, which brings up the issue that you cannot produce a distibution > without an initramfs because, among the other problems, some of the drivers > it comes with, some of which are needed to mount the root filesyste

Re: [DNG] Error updating ascii today

2017-07-04 Thread Vincent Bentley
I was using a 100MB tmpfs for /tmp which worked on Jessie. I increased it to 500MB and it still didn't allow apt to update on Ascii. So, to answer your question I put /tmp on another file system with 6GB free and the update worked. I didn't have enough free space on /tmp after all. Reading the man

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 at 13:22:47 +0200 Joachim Fahrner wrote: > Am 2017-07-04 12:46, schrieb Alessandro Selli: >> I still think it's a bug that systemd runs a process as root when >> adduser is >> configured to prevent creation of a user with a given name but such a >> user >> does exist. > > Ne

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Jul 04, 2017 at 12:44:34 +0100, KatolaZ wrote: Uh? Which are those proprietary drivers needed to mount the root filesystem? AFAICT, Linux-libre is able to mount almost any filesystem, from almost any existing storage device, without requiring any proprietary binary blob at all. There ar

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 at 12:44:34 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 01:08:24PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > [cut] > >> >> Right, which brings up the issue that you cannot produce a distibution >> without an initramfs because, among the other problems, some of the >> drivers it

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Ismael L. Donis Garcia
First of all, excuse my little knowledge of the subject. The next site is not what you are asking for? http://packages.devuan.gatuno.mx/ Warm greetings -- Ismael Devuan User : http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan - Original Message - From: Gionni FireGarden To: dng

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 at 14:12:09 +0200 Alessandro Selli wrote: [...] > They are advanced, mostly SAS and FC controllers, maybe some iSCSI > device too. Mostly Enterprise hardware, not consumer-PC. I did a quick search, all (or at least most) devices on the first page were hardware RAID control

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Ismael L. Donis Garcia
First of all, excuse my little knowledge of the subject. The next site is not what you are asking for? http://packages.devuan.gatuno.mx/ Greetings -- Ismael Devuan User : http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan - Original Message - From: Gionni FireGarden To: dng@list

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 at 09:51:55 +0200 Joachim Fahrner wrote: > Am 2017-07-04 09:39, schrieb Joachim Fahrner: > >> Could it be that dyne.org name servers have temporary connection >> problems? > > When checking dns for tupac2.dyne.org I get 1 error and 3 warnings: > > https://mxtoolbox.com/domai

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 08:17:14 -0400, Ismael wrote in message : > First of all, excuse my little knowledge of the subject. > > The next site is not what you are asking for? > http://packages.devuan.gatuno.mx/ ..you would need to drop the Debian graphics and use ours, and, our jessie is "jessie (1

[DNG] space needed for upgrades

2017-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 12:51:23PM +0100, Vincent Bentley wrote: > I was using a 100MB tmpfs for /tmp which worked on Jessie. I increased > it to 500MB and it still didn't allow apt to update on Ascii. So, to > answer your question I put /tmp on another file system with 6GB free and > the update wo

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-04 15:37, schrieb Alessandro Selli: I really wonder what did mxtoolbox.com check, as I cannot see what dns.org and shockmedia.com have to do with dyne.org: That's strange. Something in my test changed dyne.org magically to dns.org. But that was not me, I used cut&paste ;-) T

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Gionni FireGarden
yes! we are improving that! i'm updating the testing website every 12 hours so you can see all improving. I will add other release and after that i go through your list here. today: Free search added, with counts of package for section, and release [by now only jessie], navigation by release or s

Re: [DNG] space needed for upgrades

2017-07-04 Thread Vincent Bentley
The actual upgrade process from Jessie to Ascii worked with 100MB /tmp. After rebooting on Ascii, regular updates wouldn't work with 500MB /tmp. I created a 6GB file system on a USB flash drive to see if it would be enough, and it was. It's easy enough to try a smaller partition size to find what t

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 08:14:40PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Evilham writes: > > Hi there, > > > > Am 03/07/2017 um 16:08 schrieb dev: > >> "So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here." > >>- Poettering > >> > >> Not sure what's more troubling here[1]; the lack of c

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 at 17:23:52 +0200 Joachim Fahrner wrote: > Am 2017-07-04 15:37, schrieb Alessandro Selli: > > > > > I really wonder what did mxtoolbox.com check, as I cannot see what > > dns.org > > and shockmedia.com have to do with dyne.org: > > That's strange. Something in my test ch

Re: [DNG] space needed for upgrades

2017-07-04 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:49:10 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > 6GB is a ridiculous amount of space. I wonder how much of it yo > really needed. Could some other people report how much /tmp space > they had available during successful or failed jessie->ascii upgrades? Out of curiosity, I temporarily

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-04 18:27, schrieb Alessandro Selli: I'm afraid this has to do with the DNS server you're using (;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1), that is), as I get these values: [alessandro@draco ~]$ dig tupac2.dyne.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u11-Debian <<>> tupac2.dyne.org ;; global options:

Re: [DNG] slashpackage?

2017-07-04 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Steve, On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:20:33PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Daniel J Bernstein, known as djb, created a package manager, called > slashpackage, that uses the Unix file hierarchy as the package > manager's database. As far as I can see, it has the following > (dis)advantage

Re: [DNG] slashpackage?

2017-07-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 04 Jul 13:17 -0500, Joel Roth wrote: > It's not a new idea that resources belonging to a program are more > easily managed when installed under a single directory. > GoboLinux has certainly gone into further detail.[1] > Nix is also relevant. As is Guix. I played with it for a time but

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Evilham
Am 04/07/2017 um 13:22 schrieb Joachim Fahrner: > > Next step probably will be to supersede unix user management and > integrate it into systemd :-D Ehem. There is no provision to delete users. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sysusers.html -- Evilham

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-04 18:27, schrieb Alessandro Selli: I'm afraid this has to do with the DNS server you're using (;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1), that is), as I get these values: Enter "dyne.org" here: http://www.dnsqueries.com/en/dns_lookup.php and select "ALL". That delivers the same resul

[DNG] Amprolla Network Outage

2017-07-04 Thread Linux O'Beardly
Dear Devuan Community, We are currently experiencing a network outage that has left amprolla.devuan.org unreachable. I've spoken to the ISP and they stated the issue should be resolved within the next 30 minutes, by 16:08 US EDT. Please feel free to reach out if the issue persists past this time.

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Simon Hobson
Joachim Fahrner wrote: > I get lots of those errors in my postfix log: > > Jul 3 18:09:16 server postfix/smtpd[2840]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > tupac2.dyne.org[178.62.188.7]: 450 4.7.1 : Helo command > rejected: Host not found; from= > to= proto=ESMTP helo= > > Is there some configuratio

[DNG] How to disable a service in sysvinit?

2017-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, What's the official way to disable a service in sysvinit? In this case I want to disable sshd so I can put it in runit. I know I could rename /etc/rc5.d/S02sshd to zS02sshd, but I seem to remember there's some more official way to do it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt November 2016 feature

Re: [DNG] How to disable a service in sysvinit?

2017-07-04 Thread Rowland Penny
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:39:03 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > What's the official way to disable a service in sysvinit? In this case > I want to disable sshd so I can put it in runit. > > I know I could rename /etc/rc5.d/S02sshd to zS02sshd, but I seem to > remember there's some more offici

Re: [DNG] How to disable a service in sysvinit?

2017-07-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 21:46 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:39:03 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > What's the official way to disable a service in sysvinit? In this > > case > > I want to disable sshd so I can put it in runit. > > > > I know I could rename /et

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 at 09:08:11 -0500 dev wrote: > Sounds like a "won't fix", too: > > "So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here." >- Poettering > > Not sure what's more troubling here[1]; the lack of concern, the > digression from POSIX, or the bug/backdoor itself.

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 at 13:06:41 -0700 > Rick Moen wrote: > > > Your upthread hypothetical didn't mention Devuan at all. > > Of course it did. What you said, verbatim and without any qualifications, was 'It cannot work if what you need to d

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 at 20:33:32 +0200 Joachim Fahrner wrote: > Am 2017-07-04 18:27, schrieb Alessandro Selli: > > > I'm afraid this has to do with the DNS server you're using (;; > > SERVER: > > 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1), that is), as I get these values: > > > > Enter "dyne.org" here: http:

Re: [DNG] How to disable a service in sysvinit?

2017-07-04 Thread richard lucassen
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:39:03 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > What's the official way to disable a service in sysvinit? In this case > I want to disable sshd so I can put it in runit. > > I know I could rename /etc/rc5.d/S02sshd to zS02sshd, but I seem to > remember there's some more official way to do

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Joachim Fahrner (j...@fahrner.name): > Normally name resolution works fine, and tupac2.dyne.org is the only > server with such errors in my postfix log. I'm using unbound on > Devuan as a local caching recursive dns server. Good choice. > Could it be that dyne.org name servers have temp

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 at 14:41:28 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > >> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 at 13:06:41 -0700 >> Rick Moen wrote: >> >> > Your upthread hypothetical didn't mention Devuan at all. >> >> Of course it did. > > What you said, verbatim

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > You are still failing the easiest way to demonstrate your point: Non-sequitur argument noted in passing. > It's not just *my* experience, it's a long established fact. I also > provided with pointers to a relevant example... Sorry, th

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 at 15:33:57 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > >> You are still failing the easiest way to demonstrate your point: > > Non-sequitur argument noted in passing. You failed once more. You must be enjoining it. >> It's not j

[DNG] Testing network connectivity

2017-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In daemontools-inspired inits, you express dependencies via if statements in the run script. The best way I've found, so far, to do this in Devuan is to use the following script, called netup.sh: #!/bin/sh echo 'quit' | nc -w2 $1 $2 2>/dev/null

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 170704-17:40+0200, Gionni FireGarden wrote: ... > thanks all for the feedback! > > firegarden ... > > > you can find what we have done here > > > http://devuanpackages.viralds.it > > > > > > do you like the idea? and this primitive implementation? > > > if you have any hints or suggests or bad

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 23:22 +, Miroslav Rovis wrote: > On 170704-17:40+0200, Gionni FireGarden wrote: > Hi! > > Once these are done some day soon, it will contribute for Devuan > becoming such > fuzzy purple kind gentle and mighty beautiful beast... > And (I had this below and other build-an

Re: [DNG] Testing network connectivity

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > In daemontools-inspired inits, you express dependencies via if > statements in the run script. The best way I've found, so far, to do > this in Devuan is to use the following script, called netup.sh: It's pretty nice. I note without objection tha

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 04 Jul 13:27 -0500, Evilham wrote: > Am 04/07/2017 um 13:22 schrieb Joachim Fahrner: > > > > Next step probably will be to supersede unix user management and > > integrate it into systemd :-D > > Ehem. There is no provision to delete users. > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): [b43 firmware BLOB] > It goes there *after* is was extracted out of the proprietary driver. I'm of course aware of that -- but that's irrelevant to what I was saying, which is that it fails to qualify as an example of compiling a firmware B

Re: [DNG] Testing network connectivity

2017-07-04 Thread Florian Zieboll
Am 5. Juli 2017 01:07:21 MESZ schrieb Steve Litt : > echo 'quit' | nc -w2 $1 $2 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null For these kind of tests I use "nc -z $HOST $PORT". Like your suggestion, it not only proves the host to be up, but also the wanted service and times out after a couple of seconds, too -

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Nate Bargmann (n...@n0nb.us): > * On 2017 04 Jul 13:27 -0500, Evilham wrote: > > Well, it still doesn't read mail. > > Or does it? Well, it _does_ now include a shell interpretar (debug-shell.service), so it's a short step from there to (badly) reimplementing emacs and Gnus. ;-> __

Re: [DNG] slashpackage?

2017-07-04 Thread Florian Zieboll
Am 4. Juli 2017 20:23:28 MESZ schrieb Nate Bargmann : >* On 2017 04 Jul 13:17 -0500, Joel Roth wrote: >> >> Nix is also relevant. > >As is Guix. I'd be really curious about some more first hand Guix impressions! Libre Grüße, Florian -- [message sent mobile] ___

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 04 Jul 18:59 -0500, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Nate Bargmann (n...@n0nb.us): > > > * On 2017 04 Jul 13:27 -0500, Evilham wrote: > > > > Well, it still doesn't read mail. > > > > Or does it? > > Well, it _does_ now include a shell interpretar (debug-shell.service), > so it's a short s

Re: [DNG] slashpackage?

2017-07-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 04 Jul 19:46 -0500, Florian Zieboll wrote: > Am 4. Juli 2017 20:23:28 MESZ schrieb Nate Bargmann : > >* On 2017 04 Jul 13:17 -0500, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> Nix is also relevant. > > > >As is Guix. > > > I'd be really curious about some more first hand Guix impressions! It has been

Re: [DNG] devuan packages explorer

2017-07-04 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 170705-01:42+0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 23:22 +, Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > On 170704-17:40+0200, Gionni FireGarden wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Once these are done some day soon, it will contribute for Devuan > > becoming such > > fuzzy purple kind gentle and mighty be

Re: [DNG] kernel drivers [WAS: How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii]

2017-07-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/07/2017 à 02:55, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit : Motorolla/Emerson used to provide VME drivers for free, but OOT despite the fact that the specs of the Tundra PCI-VME bridge were public. They didn't do it for all releases. Why didn't the work with the community to get everyth

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/07/2017 à 13:08, Alessandro Selli a écrit : Right, which brings up the issue that you cannot produce a distibution without an initramfs because, among the other problems, some of the drivers it comes with, some of which are needed to mount the root filesystem, do need a proprietary firmw

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 05/07/2017 at 01:52, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > > [b43 firmware BLOB] > >> It goes there *after* is was extracted out of the proprietary driver. > > I'm of course aware of that -- but that's irrelevant to what I was > saying, which is that it

Re: [DNG] systemd allows elevated access from unit files?

2017-07-04 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 05/07/2017 at 03:40, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2017 04 Jul 18:59 -0500, Rick Moen wrote: >> Quoting Nate Bargmann (n...@n0nb.us): >> >>> * On 2017 04 Jul 13:27 -0500, Evilham wrote: >>> >>> Well, it still doesn't read mail. >>> >>> Or does it? >> >> Well, it _does_ now include a shell interpre

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-05 00:18, schrieb Rick Moen: On a quick, broad check, dyne.org DNS seems robust. There are three network-diverse authoritative nameservers (refreshing to see after observing far too many domains attempting to get by with two, when RFCs require 3-7 auth nameservers[1]), all returning

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Joachim Fahrner (j...@fahrner.name): > By now it comes apparent that timeouts from the dns servers are the > problem: Well... hold that thought, please. > Can the short SOA EXPIRE be the cause? No. SOA EXPIRE is how long a secondary nameserver will still treat its copy of the zone dat

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > It is relevant in proving you cannot do that and *lawfully* distribute the > module, which is what I have kept saying. Indeed, you do keep trying to change the topic to distribution. But I already pointed that out. ;-> > I am not turni

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

2017-07-04 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-07-05 08:51, schrieb Rick Moen: I believe you said that you are running an instance of Unbound as a local recursive nameserver. If so, I hope you are listing it first in /etc/resolv.conf (perhaps by localhost IP). Anyway, that's where you should start looking, to find your problem. Th