Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-02 Thread Stephan Seitz
s and other packages. Happy eastern everyone! 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 ___ Dng ma

Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers

2015-06-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
work. 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 ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers

2015-06-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
cards then do so. I normally need the firmware for Broadcom network cards and don’t have problems copying it via USB stick. But it is still non-free firmware and so should be restricted to a bare minimum. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s

Re: [DNG] systemd in wheezy, was: Re: bummer

2015-07-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
could lead to race conditions (udev tried to rename ethX to ethY while the kernel want to name the next NIC ethY, then you got some nasty ethY_renamed interface). Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public

Re: [DNG] Claywand dosplay bananager

2016-03-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: [DNG] X forwarding over SSH over ADSL (Was: Claywand dosplay bananager)

2016-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
. 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 ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] X forwarding over SSH over ADSL

2016-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
Thanks for the clarification. 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 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
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 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists

Re: [DNG] How to stop udev from re-ordering devices

2016-06-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
ons if you let udev rename the interfaces with names from the kernel space. I have seen these race conditions more than once. So it is a good idea to use names that the kernel is not using. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net |

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
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Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-06-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:57:16 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Step 1. Compile a kernel that includes inline all key drivers including those needed to find the root filesystem. Step 2. Profit! That's the old-school method. Yes, and this will not work with new-school methods like disc encrypt

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-06-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jun 28, 2017 at 06:55:37 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Yes, and this will not work with new-school methods like disc encryption because something needs to ask you for the password. What exactly about LUKS is incompatible with use of a kernel compiled to include all key drivers including those t

Re: [DNG] some ASCII issues

2017-07-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
are professional network cards which require a non-free firmware, e.g. Broadcom. So if your rootfs is an iSCSI volume you would need the firmware. Besides that I don’t know any „normal” SATA/SAS controller requiring firmware. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz

Re: [DNG] Everyone OK for using the logger program for runit logging?

2018-10-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Okt 23, 2018 at 11:06:52 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:     syslog() is a member of the C library which allows any application to send messages to the system logging facility, through the socket /var/log/syslog and some lock mechanism (probably using a semaphore) to I think you mean /dev/lo

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Okt 23, 2018 at 08:16:51 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:27:25PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Make that: "there *was* a command, chkconfig:" It's no longer present in Debian stable (stretch) and later. You can still find it in oldstable (jessie) though. See ht

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??

2018-11-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:23:53 -0800, Rick Moen wrote: My view: I need the contents of /bin, /sbin, /lib, and /lib64 to be functional if /usr for any reason cannot be, or is not, mounted, because the role of those subtrees on my systems is to house tools the superuser might need for backup, rec

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??

2018-11-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sa, Nov 17, 2018 at 09:14:06 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: The idea of grouping certain classes of files in different directories makes it just so much easier for homo sapiens to keep a grip on things. Well, I can remember a time when you had a /usr/X11 directory. While this was mostly for

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-23 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:09:17 +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote:   I do get the reasons the merge proponents prefer this filesystem layout.  What I rant against is their choices being imposed on me. They are not imposed on you. No one is going to your desktop/server and is changing your disc lay

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:11:25 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:     IIUC, your argument boils down to "depending on /usr for early boot is a *bug*", while Roger told us why it has become a *feature* (~: You can discuss if this is a feature but the fact is that most distributions have given up suppor

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Nov 29, 2018 at 01:22:05 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: My understanding is that Devuan will ask in the fresh installer whether the user wants to merge or not, with the default being no merge. This is fine with me. Do you have a problem with it? Nope, but even Devuan will probably never suppor