July 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] DNS and SSL Cert
by Matthew Monaco 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Two things are coming up here, and I just want to bring this > discussion up again. > > * DNS > > Our everydns account is going away. According to their site > (http://www.everydns.com/) we have 43-ish days to get everything moved > off. > > We have a handful of options, some free, some not. > > a) https://pointhq.com/ - I use this personally. Maybe not the > snappiest DNS servers in the world, but the interface is easy. > b) http://reflected.net/ could host our DNS, but we'd need to manually > contact people to change things > c) Use our registrar (godaddy) > d) Other? > > * SSL Cert > > Our StartCom cert is expiring. I need to reconfirm my identity with > them, but I can get to this as early as tomorrow. Have we had any > major issues with using a cert from these people? Now would be the > time to switch, if so. > > Cheers, > Aaron > I'm really happy with my dyndns service.

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Re: [arch-general] News draft for dropping tcp_wrappers
by Grigorios Bouzakis 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Dan McGee wrote: > Dropping tcp_wrappers support > > Due to upstream not having released a new version since April 1997, we > are dropping `tcp_wrappers` support from all packages and removing the > package from `[core]`. In addition, newer daemons and applications are > inconsistent in their support for libwrap, leading to confusion as to > whether an application supports the library. > > If you currently use `/etc/hosts.allow` or `/etc/hosts.deny` for > security or logging purposes, you will need to adjust accordingly and > use another tool such as `iptables`. > Why has this been announced since it hasnt happened yet? Isn't that the point of news? Announce something thats taken place. But this is still in testing which isnt a news worthy place. Greg -- () against html e-mail | usenet & email communication netiquette /\ www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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[arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

It would appear that on 2011-05-02, www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-1/ did say: > We now strongly discourage the use of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime", as this > may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no plans > to drop support for "localtime". And it would appear that /etc/rc.conf now does saith: > # HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result > # in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization) > # Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged. Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions. 1) just what "Known" bugs that this could lead to are "UNFIXABLE"??? 2) While putting something like 'HARDWARECLOCK="DoNotMessWithMyLocalTime"' would evidently result in the hardware clock not getting overwritten by the system time on shutdown, How would any value except 'HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"' tell Arch not to expect the hardware clock to be set to UTC on startup??? I guess I could install ntp and put ntpd -qg & in rc.local with the above non-standard rc.conf HARDWARECLOCK definition to nearly simulate the previous NON-NTP localtime behavior where the hardware clock was read {at start-up} AND written {at shutdown} BOTH with a conversion from/to local time... In that it while it would {I think} incorrectly initially set system time on boot by interpreting the hardware clock's value as UTC, it would then use ntp to correct itself to approximately the same time as was indicated by the local time value that was already in the hardware clock. And then go away. Then since HARDWARECLOCK wasn't set to either "UTC" nor "localtime" It shouldn't actually overwrite the hardware clocks localtime with UTC... My hardware clock may need to be manually reset a little more often But that's no big deal. The problem is if for some reason I should boot up when the internet isn't accessible, there would be no ntp server to correct Arch's misconception that the hardwareclock was already in UTC which would result in bogus timestamps on any files I modified during that time (not to mention bogus clock displays...) -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] anyone success with compilation of cyanogenmod7?
by dejfson 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hi All, has anyone success to compile CM7 under Archlinux? I'm new to Arch, before user of Gentoo, so I'm still in learning phase. In my case the issue seems to be missing perl's "Switch.pm" module. Looking for arch package on the web was of no success. Any help appreciated d.

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[arch-general] docs in Octave package?
by XeCycle 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hello, I read from the package database that Ronald van Haren maintains the package "octave", but I cannot contact him, so I'm asking here. I need the documents of octave, but it's not in the current octave package, so I need to compile it manually after each update. However the compilation is very time and power consuming, it can drive my CPU to 100 degrees --- which is not very fine for a laptop. Could you please build a separate "octave-docs" package? -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.86-1
by Eric Bélanger 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.86-1 are in testing for an upstream update. Please test and signoff. Signoff from users are welcomed. Eric

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[arch-general] Content of new text file
by Squall Lionheart 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New > Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify this behavior or can provide a link to a how to. My goal here is to simply create an empty file just like if you used *touch newfile.txt*. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.4-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, I have just released netcfg 2.6.4. As I think the amount of outstanding bugs inside is pretty negligible, I suggest starting a signoff thread for inclusion into [core]. Then I will start working on including pending new features for 2.7 release. Highlights of netcfg 2.6.4 are a shining new netcfg-profiles(5) man page, that gathers the (previously non-existent ethernet(5) and wireless(5) man pages). - The netcfg(8) man pages has been translated back to markdown/pandoc syntx for easier updates. - The netcfg-profiles(5) man page documents many options of the various available connection types, and should complement the provided examples. It should plug the usual criticism about netcfg's documentation being very hard to find. It is expected that the 2.6.4 release is the final one in the 2.6.x series. This release works for me in standard ethernet and WPA modes, using DHCP, so I sign it off. -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] bpython/bpython2 in community-testing
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I've renamed the current community/bpython to community-testing/bpython2. bpython is now the python3 version in community-testing. The reason for the wait is because of a crash that should be fixed in python 3.2.1: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23536 Please test and thanks for your time!

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[arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?
by Matthew Monaco 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. I've found that I have the following device: $ dmesg | grep Beep [ 10.594164] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input7 And that the following command will disable the beep: $ amixer -c0 set Beep 0% mute How should I go about making this persistent? I think avoiding that device would be best, can it be done by adding (or disabling) some udev config? Or, can I somehow make the 0% mute persistant in asound.conf? Thanks

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