Re: Jared Mauch

2014-10-23 Thread James Bensley
Congratulations Jared and well done with the hard work :) Cheers, James.

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Systemd Blackhole is a very apt term as I am discovering. I was once a linuxfromscratch "superuser" 10 years back, in a sense that if anyone asked me the location of a lib.so and how to resolve a version mismatch, I could fix it in a matter of minutes even if woken up at 4am in the morning. Likew

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Matt Palmer
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > To achieve the level of integration that timedated has with the rest > of systemd would require more than just putting code into timedatectl > to write out /etc/ntpd.conf and starting a service. timedated talks > to networkd (that >

anyone from vodafone(.nl) around?

2014-10-23 Thread David Hofstee
Hi, Is anyone from Vodafone around? We are having connectivity loss with smtp.vodafone.nl and the helpdesk is not cooperating... David Hofstee Deliverability Management MailPlus B.V. Netherlands (ESP)

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Robert Kisteleki
On 2014-10-23 9:15, Matt Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> To achieve the level of integration that timedated has with the rest >> of systemd would require more than just putting code into timedatectl >> to write out /etc/ntpd.conf and starting a serv

Yahoo Postmaster

2014-10-23 Thread Zachery Peres
Looking for a Yahoo Postmaster to contact me offlist. Thank You --Zach P. JMZ Corporation

Re: anyone from vodafone(.nl) around?

2014-10-23 Thread Seth Mos
David Hofstee schreef op 23-10-2014 11:02: > Hi, > > Is anyone from Vodafone around? We are having connectivity loss with > smtp.vodafone.nl and the helpdesk is not cooperating... I've had good succes getting a out of date bogon filter issue for all Vodafone NL customers resolved after contactin

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread nanog
When I'm talking about "hardware initialization", I'm talking about the huge part that appends *before* the kernel boots. For example, hard-based RAID. On my server, when I push the start button, bios start-up, do a lot of awesome things (irony), start the raid (sloowly), and then, after 5min, pop

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Joe Loiacono
"NANOG" wrote on 10/22/2014 10:47:46 PM: > The arguments against systemd that I've seen so far: > > 1) It's different so it's bad. > 2) There's a lot of code, there must be some really bad security > problems just waiting to happen, so it's bad. > 3) It doesn't do things the way we've always don

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:59:44PM +0100, Tom Hill wrote: > It's Gentoo: "You should write your own" is the most likely answer. Not if you ask nicely :) -- Eray Aslan

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread *
On 10/21/2014 05:20 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > The all-in-one approach of systemd might have a place on some > specialized desktop distros, but outside that niche its' IMO a > terrible idea. > > The proper fix is probably a go back to Upstart or SysVInit and > rewrite systemd, so all the pieces are

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On 10/22/14, 9:01 AM, "Jeffrey Ollie" wrote: >Bull. If you've been around the FOSS community even for a short >while, you'd know that systemd has become a religious topic akin to On 10/22/14, 10:41 AM, "Jeffrey Ollie" wrote: >sums up my thoughts on the "unix philosophy". It's not the >be-al

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Gregory Boyce
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> I think that Debian's plan to allow multiple init systems >> (irregardless of which one is default) is a bad plan. The non-default >> ones won't get any love - at some point they'll j

Re: NTT high packet loss from US and BR to AU?

2014-10-23 Thread Charles van Niman
Howdy all, I've been lurking for a long time, first time writing in. Please excuse my inexperience. Javier, can you provide full traces, and source/destination addresses? /Charles On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Javier J wrote: > Anyone else notice this? > > Or is this an AWS issue in

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Randy
I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now. So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require a full reboot: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300166 Is systemd really like a 2nd 'kernel' -- demanding mass reboots every time a security issue is discove

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:57 PM, * wrote: > Poettering's own blog for example even misleads on how systemd > and sysvinit work http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html Oh look... he's related to PulseAudio and Avahi . If you've ever tried above average audio on Linux, then you know all abo

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jamie Lawrence wrote: Some may see me as a "grumpy old man" for that. I see it as a technical conservatism for my production environments borne of having been burned by shiny-cool-new before one too many times, and a tired dislike of being paged out of bed over some chrome plated new hotness t

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:25:36 -0400, Jim Popovitch said: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:57 PM, * wrote: > > Poettering's own blog for example even misleads on how systemd > > and sysvinit work http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html > > Oh look... he's related to PulseAudio and Avahi . And he

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Randy wrote: I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now. So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require a full reboot: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300166 Is systemd really like a 2nd 'kernel' -- demanding mass reboots every time a security is

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Mike.
On 10/23/2014 at 10:56 AM Randy wrote: |I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now. | |So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require a |full reboot: | |http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300166 | |Is systemd really like a 2nd 'kernel' -- demanding mass

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mike. wrote: > > > On 10/23/2014 at 10:56 AM Randy wrote: > > |I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now. > | > |So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require > a > |full reboot: > | > |http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/22/2014 03:51 PM, Barry Shein wrote: I wish I had a nickel for every time I started to implement something in bash/sh, used it a while, and quickly realized I needed something like perl and had to rewrite the whole thing. Barry, you've been around a long time, and these words are pearls o

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Zachary
This is a good point, but it is perfectly possible to have a sysvinit system not written in shell scripts. I had rewritten most of the init system in python at one point for example. And its only been made easier to do over time now that #! Interpertation was moved kernelside. A system like this

Paging someone at Savvis [AS 3561]

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Weiss
I'd like to talk to someone with clue about open NTPd on a router of yours. Normal support channels are totally failing me. -- Bill Weiss

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:43:03 -0400, Lamar Owen said: > Now, I've read the arguments, and I am squarely in the 'do one thing and > do it well' camp. But, let's turn that on its head, shall we? Why oh > why do we want every single package to implement its own initscript and > possibly do it poorly?

ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Danny McPherson
I think the routing system would be in a much happier [less bad] place if only had a minor amount of the energy and resources that USG (and RIRs) have been put towards RPKI and BGPSEC (i.e., IETF SIDR work) would have been redirected to lower hanging fruit and better recognizing / leveraging

Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Oct 23, 2014 2:27 PM, "Danny McPherson" wrote: > > > > I think the routing system would be in a much happier [less bad] place if only had a minor amount of the energy and resources that USG (and RIRs) have been put towards RPKI and BGPSEC (i.e., IETF SIDR work) would have been redirected to lo

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
On October 22, 2014 at 15:31 jfb...@gmail.com (Ricky Beam) wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:31:02 -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > Perhaps you don't remember the days when an fsck was > > basically mandatory and could take 15-20 minutes on a large disk. > > Journaling has all but done away with

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
On October 23, 2014 at 04:42 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > Barry Schein: Interesting you went to the trouble to add a 'c' to my name! You need better quoting tools. > > I'm reminded of the remark often attributed to DEC CEO Ken Olson, > > roughly: > > > > With VMS (their big comple

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
Going way off topic but what's still a disaster in log files is the lack of standardization of output. As another extreme OS/370 catalogued virtually (hah) every error msg, if you thought you had a new one you added it to the catalogue as you added it to an error msg in your program and it was li

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/23/2014 02:22 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:43:03 -0400, Lamar Owen said: Now, I've read the arguments, and I am squarely in the 'do one thing and do it well' camp. But, let's turn that on its head, shall we? Why oh why do we want every single package to imple

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 10/23/2014 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > Wouldn't it be more 'do one thing well' if you had a 'super' inetd > setup that can start services in a better way than with individually > packaged (by different packagers in most cases) shell scripts that are > going to run as root? inetd versus xine

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Matt Palmer
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mike. wrote: > > GNU/Linux is morphing into GNU/systemd > > Let's start calling it Systemd/Linux... that will get RMS on their > case real fast. :-) I don't think they've done anything to dese

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Matt Palmer
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:56:40AM -0400, Randy wrote: > I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now. > > So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require > a full reboot: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300166 > > Is systemd really like a 2nd 'kerne

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matt Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mike. wrote: GNU/Linux is morphing into GNU/systemd Let's start calling it Systemd/Linux... that will get RMS on their case real fast. :-) I don't think they've done anyth

Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Danny McPherson
On 2014-10-23 12:33, Christopher Morrow wrote: Sounds like you want to see the rirs make sure they get rpki work dine and widely available with the least encumbrances on the network operator community as possible. Or focus on more short/intermediate term returns like fortifying all the existi

inexpensive KVMoIP

2014-10-23 Thread Jared Mauch
Having recently encountered a problem with a machine, I’m looking for an inexpensive KVMoIP device to place within a facility to take VGA/USB Keyboard for a single host scale. Ideally something that can be properly placed on the internet, but that’s not a showstopper. If you’re willing to loan

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Matt Palmer
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:17:14PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Matt Palmer wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > >>On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mike. wrote: > >>>GNU/Linux is morphing into GNU/systemd > >>Let's start calling it Systemd/Linux... tha

Re: inexpensive KVMoIP

2014-10-23 Thread Job Snijders
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:54:17PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > Having recently encountered a problem with a machine, I’m looking for > an inexpensive KVMoIP device to place within a facility to take > VGA/USB Keyboard for a single host scale. Ideally something that can > be properly placed on the

RE: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Tony Hain
Randy wrote: > I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now. > > So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require a full > reboot: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300166 > > Is systemd really like a 2nd 'kernel' -- demanding mass reboots every time a

Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Sandra Murphy
> IRR usage, training, tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly validated > from resource certification from either RPKI You might be interested in the draft-ietf-sidr-rpsl-sig-05.txt, which suggests using RPKI to protect RPSL objects. That would help solve the trust problem in the current

Re: inexpensive KVMoIP

2014-10-23 Thread Steven Saner
On 10/23/2014 03:54 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > Having recently encountered a problem with a machine, I’m looking for an > inexpensive KVMoIP device to place within a facility to take VGA/USB Keyboard > for a single host scale. Ideally something that can be properly placed on > the internet, but t

Re: ARIN / RIR Pragmatism (WAS: Re: RADB)

2014-10-23 Thread Danny McPherson
On 2014-10-23 15:02, Sandra Murphy wrote: IRR usage, training, tools, and better hygiene, perhaps expressly validated from resource certification from either RPKI You might be interested in the draft-ietf-sidr-rpsl-sig-05.txt, which suggests using RPKI to protect RPSL objects. Yep, I'm aware

An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...

2014-10-23 Thread Warren Kumari
Those of y'all who were at NANOG62 may remember a presentation from the ICANN Internet Service Provider and Connectivity Providers Constituency (ISPCP). I feel somewhat bad because I misunderstood what they were sayingin, and kinda lost my cool during the preso. Anyway, the ISPCP met at ICANN 51

Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...

2014-10-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
some history. at the montevideo icann meeting (september, 2001), there were so few attendees to either the ispc (now ispcp) and the bc (still bc), that these two meetings merged. at the paris icann meeting (june, 2008) staff presented an analysis of the voting patters of the gnso constituencie

Re: inexpensive KVMoIP

2014-10-23 Thread Randy Bush
i can hand you a spider at ripe or ietf. or ship if you are desperate. randy

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Simon Lyall
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Stephen Satchell wrote: On 10/22/2014 08:20 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: And maybe, you should check out some of the upstream bug reports re. systemd interactions with NTP. If you think the current situation is all good then maybe you

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/23/2014 02:15, Matt Palmer wrote: This is the core problem with systemd, in my mind -- and what has gotten Linus, amongst other people, so thoroughly cheesed off with the systemd devs. They don't play well with other children. They don't appear particularly interested in reusing any exis

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/23/14 4:01 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Stephen Satchell wrote: On 10/22/2014 08:20 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: And maybe, you should check out some of the upstream bug reports re. systemd interactions with NTP. If you think the curr

A translation (was Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...)

2014-10-23 Thread David Conrad
Hi, While I'm sure most of the folks on NANOG are fully aware of the myriad of acronyms and Byzantine structures in the ICANN universe (:)), I thought some translation for those not inoculated with ICANNese may be helpful: On Oct 23, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > some histo

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
All those init.d scripts do about 95% the same thing, all hacked together in shell. Most of them are probably just slightly edited versions of some few paleo-scripts. Set the location of the pid file, set the path of the executable, set the command line flags/options, maybe change some flags/opti