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[arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?
by Paul Gideon Dann 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi guys, I run a couple of Arch servers, and I'm trying to teach someone how to go about maintaining it (for when I'm not around). The difficulty is that when it comes to package updates that require merging .pacnew files, I always use Vim to merge changes. That's quite a steep learning curve to impose on someone who's not all that familiar with a UNIX environment yet. Does anyone know of any good & simple(ish) alternative for merging files over SSH? Paul

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[arch-general] Apache PID File not readable
by Stefan Tatschner 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I always get this message after restarting apache via systemctl: PID file /run/httpd/httpd.pid not readable (yet?) after start. I have already used google and I found this: http://serverfault.com/questions/501687/error-pid-file-run-httpd-httpd-pid-… https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32708 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16156761/error-pid-file-run-httpd-httpd-… Any ideas to avoid this message? I can chown the file, but after restarting apache it's the same problem. Apache seems to work fine but the restarting procedure needs a very long time...

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Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~
by John Briggs 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:51:41AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 18:08 +1200, Ross Hamblin wrote: > > Unless I have missed something I think one of the audio > > session-managers should help you on the audio side, not so sure about > > other apps though. > > Jack-session and ladish work well for me unless I have misunderstood. > > Non-session is also popular although I have not tried that myself yet. > > Hi, > > I've doubts that session managers are that comfortable as a script is. I > might be mistaken. > > I'm starting sessions by a script. I don't like to use jack dbus. > Do those session managers really take care about the configurations in > ~? AFAIK they automatically add changes I make during a session, even if > I make those changes only temporarily or by mistake. When I tested > ladish I was to stupid to use it without a learning curve and I don't > want to add something complicated to my sessions, I also won't something > to add that does need resources, CPU and/or RAM. Following the Linux > audio users mailing list I read a lot of whining about unsupported > applications, somebody lost a production, because he used jack-session > in a wrong way. So IIUC session managers aren't neither safe to use, nor > able to handle all applications. > > I don't want additional GUI stuff on the Desktop, I already avoid to use > even qjackctl and for sure I won't be forced to use patchage or > something similar confusingly. There should be as less Windows as > possible. Several apps should be automatically startet in a terminal > emulation, a script can do this, are session managers able to do this > too? This unfortunately is important, since I never run an audio session > were there wasn't the need to troubleshoot. > > Some audio apps are able to take care about the configurations (the user > can save and restore them giving a path), others e.g. Qtractor don't and > for some apps it's even hard to find the configuration files in ~. > > I don't need something to start the applications, a script can do this > very good, I also don't need something to load songs, samples etc., this > also can be done by a script, I just miss a way to find all hidden > config files in ~ and to safe them to a path were I store the > productions. > > My workaround is to save and restore ~ nearly completely, sure, without > touching e.g. emails. > > It also would be nice, even if it's not that important, if I could use > another configuration profile even for e.g. xfce4-terminal for audio > sessions. > > Regards, > Ralf > I am unaware of what applications you are using but most applications have the option to specify different configuration files than the default $HOME directory so it should be a simple matter of using this option to specify your configuration path. Regards John

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Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~
by Ralf Mardorf 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

-------- Cancelled posting -------- On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Applications have different means of finding out what the HOME directory > of a given user is. The HOME environment variable is just one of them. > Other popular ones include the function calls getpwuid() and getpwuid(); > they basically read the data from /etc/passwd so your only way to work > around that and pretend having a different home directory would be to > override those calls with LD_PRELOAD... Thank you Gaetan, but this fails too: $ LD_PRELOAD=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1/ /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1/' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Regards, Ralf -------- End of cancelled posting -------- Assumed I would be able to do it, then I need to write new calls that will replace those calls?

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[arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?
by Chris Moline 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi, I have 7 GiB of ram but I'm only using 300 MiB, so I thought I would put stuff into it to speed up my system. I installed anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. Is there a tool that can tell which dirs are being used the most? I'd rather not guess and benchmark, I don't have the patience for that. What are common dirs that would benefit from being in ram?

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Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~
by Ralf Mardorf 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 18:08 +1200, Ross Hamblin wrote: > session-managers Just for the record. No, session managers don't care about the config files. I ask at LAU: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2013-July/093769.html Regarding to the audio production apps I use, I'm using nearly all popular apps available for Linux and perhaps some less known apps, such as ardour 2, audacity, guitarix, harmonyseq, hexter, hydrogen, jack-rack, jackeq, jamin, jsynth, muse, qsampler, qsynth, qtractor, rakarrack, etc. pp.. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~
by Ralf Mardorf 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi, how can I safe configurations to another path, instead of using ~? I need this for audio applications, to restore different audio sessions and to get different profiles for some applications. If I run HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 xfce4-terminal --maximize by xfce4-terminal the path gets completely ignored, all settings still are stored to /home/rocketmouse and not to the path /home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1. If I run HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 xfce4-terminal --maximize by the Xfce panel launcher I get "Failed to execute child process "HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1" (No such file or directory)". If I run HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 gedit something is saved to /home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1, but it doesn't effect gedit. If I change settings, the settings are only used if I run gedit if I run HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 gedit gedit starts using it's defaults. The only good, t doesn't use the settings saved to /home/rocketmouse , as it does if I launch it by gedit. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Dns zone in ldap ?
by Olivier BATARD 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Hello, I'm wondering, after some googling, how is the best way in archlinux to manage dns zone and data in openldap directly ? I read about powerdns but the ldap part seems to be unmaintained. So, what is the best way to use ldap with dns on Arch ? Thanks by advance, Olivier.

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[arch-general] Can`t playback other sounds (ie flash, xmms) while on a skype call
by Victor Silva 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Folks seems skype and pulseaudio are blocking all other sound outputs while I`m on a call. When I turn off the skype call the other sounds start to work again. I could find no logs to provide you more info but I will happy to show them as long you point me out what you need. Regards, Victor

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[arch-general] Archlinux ISO signing
by Leonid Isaev 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi, One of the ways to verify an archlinux iso image is via its gpg signature. However, doing this on an atom/geode system with < 1GiB of RAM is definitely not fun. And I suppose it also takes noticeable time to sign, even on an opteron/xeon server. Is there a particular reason why the images themselves are signed as opposed to only their checksum files? For instance, Fedora provides sha256sums with inline sigs [1], and verifying image checksum + checksum file signature is _much_ less CPU and memory demanding than verifying signature of an entire image. Thanks, Leonid. [1] http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/19/Live/x86_64/Fedora-Live-x86_64… -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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