Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-07 Thread Soren Hansen
or post-down), but if you add or remove things, you need to remember this caveat when "restarting networking". Depending on how helpful I feel when people ask this on #ubuntu-server, I either explain this or just tell them to reboot. *shrug* -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ub

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-03 Thread Soren Hansen
ore possible ways Ubuntu Server could stand out. I can just say that historically the Ubuntu Server community has by far preferred that Ubuntu Server remain a minimal install. It's been a while since this discussion has last been active, though. Would you care to start this discussion

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-19 Thread Soren Hansen
in a net loss in usability on account of more questions asked, just trying to get something constructive out of this thread) -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-de

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Soren Hansen
that their build > scripts are not static and forces them to verify that all the package > dependencies are listed in the package. It also runs lintian, to > verify that the packages follow Debian/Ubuntu policy to the "t". debuild also runs lintian. sbuild does not. -- Sor

Re: Bug: python2.5-minimal

2010-03-18 Thread Soren Hansen
unty/Karmic system or have you perhaps changed /usr/bin/python to point to python2.5? -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or u

Re: man 2 write - clarification

2010-03-18 Thread Soren Hansen
mar for well over 10 years. The Intarweb[1] does seem to support my argument, though. [1]: A search for "comma before which" yields a lot of promosing references. http://wire.rutgers.edu/p_grammar_comma2.html for one looks credible to me. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu De

Re: launchpad bug reports

2009-09-22 Thread Soren Hansen
as recorded and now). To track bugs in older series, we use bug tasks. I tried to find a useful link on the wiki, but to no avail. Perhaps someone with stronger wiki-fu og Google-fu than I can help with that. [1]: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid are all "series". The d

Re: freeradius + tls/peap support

2009-08-07 Thread Soren Hansen
ong as we never have them in the archive, we're in the clear, no? [1]: Since all our packages are built on buildd's, whereas Debian uses binary builds from developers. -- Soren Hansen | Lead virtualisation engineer | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | ht

Re: Properly identifying applications

2009-06-09 Thread Soren Hansen
ocuments, you use a document viewer. If we change the default document viewer at some point, the user's experience shouldn't change. They shouldn't have to know that we've replaced Evince with FooPDFViewer. They should just keep using "Document Viewer" and have the best pos

Re: lib file ist missing in iptables by jaunty

2009-05-15 Thread Soren Hansen
iptables -A INPUT -j f8to0" on a command line will give the above error message. I'm guessing you have a firewall script of some sort that is massed up and tries to jump to a made up target. "sudo grep -r f8to0 /etc/rc?.d" should give you a hint. -- Soren Hansen

Re: Valgrind itself SIGSEGVs on ubuntu x64

2008-10-21 Thread Soren Hansen
debhelper (actually, only the ones using dh_strip). This is the vast majority of packages, though. valgrind does indeed use debhelper, but doesn't call dh_strip. Hence, it doesn't generate ddeb's. -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu S

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

2008-08-20 Thread Soren Hansen
discussing if I'm not mistaken. Right. Although, the idea of reporting this data for all of the worlds Ubuntu systems to give the owners of identical devices an early warning if others people's are starting to fail is interesting, but an entirely different discussion. -- Soren Ha

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

2008-08-20 Thread Soren Hansen
dicate of impending failure. The conclusion of the study was that if SMART says that he drive is about to go bust, it's very likely to be true. However, if SMART says everything is fine, that's not necessarily true. -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Serve

Re: What is "terranova"?

2008-03-14 Thread Soren Hansen
en libc6 was broken, so I wouldn't be suprised if it had quite a few oddities. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Soren Hansen
to excuse you from being pointlessly difficult towards others when they've exercised their humanity in an unfortunate way. -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital s

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Soren Hansen
d applying your logic, since I've been a core-dev longer than you, my opinion is better than yours, right? -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ub

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Soren Hansen
me doko because Cory's a developer? Interesting. -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.

Re: Accepted: ubuntu-vm-builder 0.2 (source)

2008-02-22 Thread Soren Hansen
ier, and checked for an appropriate bug, I found > nothing. Why? Because I was more interested in fixing the bug than doing paperwork. -- Soren Hansen Virtualisation specialist Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss ma

Re: Accepted: ubuntu-vm-builder 0.2 (source)

2008-02-21 Thread Soren Hansen
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:35:14AM -, Soren Hansen wrote: >* New release. Sorry, that was a little.. um.. terse :) This is a bugfix release that fixes a few typos (well, several instances of the same typo, really), and fixes a call to qemu-img that breaks because I added more san

Re: update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-15 Thread Soren Hansen
not very easily discoverable. If one were to find mention of it in a magazine or on IRC or whatever, it /is/ only a quick apt-get away. IMO, nuke it. IME the utility is never really used, and the daily(?) updatedb run is annoying and confusing to users who haven't asked for it. -- So

Re: Better Remote Upgrade Capabilities - Ideas?

2007-09-14 Thread Soren Hansen
the "Start the install > process, and remote the screen to a VNC client listening elsewhere to > actually perform the upgrade." The part about upgrades *I* like is the part between where I type "do-release-upgrade" and the part where I get my prompt back. I usually spend tha

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-30 Thread Soren Hansen
e already do this. Last I checked the unpacked LiveCD filesystem were a couple of gigabytes and it's squashed onto a 700MB CD. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@li

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-28 Thread Soren Hansen
ike to install an Ubuntu Server [ ] If we could, we would. :) There would simply not be space enough on the CD for all the software. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Soren Hansen
file, does so, and then proceeds to open the file with (O_WRONLY | O_BINARY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC) unless you pass it '-k', in which case O_TRUNC is replaced with O_EXCL. -- | Soren Hansen| Linux2Go | http://Linux2Go.dk/ | | Seniorkonsulent | Lindholmsvej 42, 2. TH| +45 46

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

2007-05-09 Thread Soren Hansen
; > operation." > how does that even remotely relate to your complaint ? the package > itself just uses the default system paths and obviously doesnt *rely* > on anything in /usr/local apparently ... No, but it *does* rely on the *absence* of a b0rken perl interpret

Re: Open Port Indicator?

2007-03-20 Thread Soren Hansen
rly object to keeping the option around by way of gconf. The UI should just not allow it. -- | Soren Hansen| Linux2Go | http://Linux2Go.dk/ | | Seniorkonsulent | Lindholmsvej 42, 2. TH| +45 46 90 26 42 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 9400 Norresundby, Denmark | GPG key: E8BDA

Re: Open Port Indicator?

2007-03-15 Thread Soren Hansen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:37:03PM +0900, Arwyn Hainsworth wrote: > On 15/03/07, Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:23:32AM +0900, Arwyn Hainsworth wrote: > >> >I've always thought that the option of just giving any user access

Re: Open Port Indicator?

2007-03-15 Thread Soren Hansen
One allows command line access, the other graphical > access. I always connect to vino by way of: $ xtightvncviewer -via myhomemachine :0 Works great. > A notification area icon or applet indicating the current connections > made is a nice idea though. Sure, I have no problem wi

Re: Open Port Indicator?

2007-03-14 Thread Soren Hansen
iving any user access without authentication is broken and should be removed. Something like what happened to this user was bound to happen sooner or later and I can't think up a use case that justifies its presence. Can any of you? -- | Soren Hansen| Linux2Go |