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[arch-general] Lighttpd and passphrase protected SSL certificate
by Audric Schiltknecht 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Hi guys, I just have switched my webserver from debian to arch. However, I ran into some tricks with one of my sites which uses a passphrase protected SSL certificate. Indeed, because of the way lighttpd is currently started, it is not possible to enter the passphrase for such certificates. For the moment, I have to start lighttd without using its rc script, which saddens me a little. Do you guys think this is worth opening a request feature in the arch bugtracker ? Thanks, Audric

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[arch-general] Mouse C&P not working
by Peter Nikolic 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Hi folks another little glitch i use an "Logitech Marble Mouse" Trackball but since installing Arch i have been unable to get the C&P working at all well , the only way i can get anything like is to copy to the clipboard switch app then paste from clipboard . I am used to just grabing with the mouse and pasting straight to the relevent place without the un wanted extra steps i believe it need an mouse section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d but cant find any info on creating one any help please .. # Pete .

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] backup strategy for our servers
by Myra Nelson 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 18:06, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 15/01/12 06:05, Ionut Biru wrote: > > > > For that we need at least to rent a new server just for this job, maybe > > an atom server with lots of space. > > > > Don't we have an unused server tagged for backups already? > > Allan > > Since I'm unable to post to the dev list I'll put this here. Before you rent an atom server I have an MSI atom (IIRC it's an atom 270) board with 1 gig of memory, dual lan ports, dvi, vga, and 4 usb ports. It doesn't have any hard drives but would hold 5 hard drives. I'll have to check my power supply stock to see what I've got and test the board. It's been sitting in the closet for a while. If you're interested I'll check it out and the price is right -- trust me. Working as it sits with no power or drives paying for the shipping will get the box. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp
by Madhurya Kakati 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Hi, I am trying to send and receive emaisl using mutt. I am using offlineimap to download and store all my emails from two of my gmail accounts. I have followed the following two guides [1] [2] to setup my configuration. My problem is that when I try to compose an email, mutt automatically chooses my second email account to send mails from whereas I want my first account to be the one from which mails are sent by default. In my config files I have named my first email account for both imap and smtp as well as for my local mail dir "mkakati" and my second one "papul". So mutt chooses papul account to send mails from everytime i compose an email. Basically what I want is that I want the mkakati account to be the one from which emails are sent. Also I would like to be able to choose from which email account I wantr to send mails. I have folder-hooks setup so that it changes to from field according to the folder (i.e account) I am in. But that doesn't seem to be working properly. have provided links to my offlineimaprc, muttrc, msmtprc and some other files below. offlineimaprc http://codepad.org/6Sptj5DE msmtp.rc http://codepad.org/wFuRZOKM muttrc http://codepad.org/Rn7plSRp mkakati.muttrc http://codepad.org/KvQn3Gri papul.muttrc http://codepad.org/ppYti2KS [1] http://pbrisbin.com/posts/two_accounts_in_mutt [2] http://pbrisbin.com/posts/mutt_gmail_offlineimap

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[arch-general] RME HDSPe AIO no audio out
by Ralf Madorf 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Hi :) there's no audio output by a HDSPe AIO, neither for $ pulseaudio --kill, nor for $ pulseaudio --start. Maybe I miss the forest for the trees. I'm not working on my Arch Linux at the moment, I just tried to get some sound on the quick from YouTube and then speaker-test. A test tone from the mixing console to the RME stereo input is shown by the HDSP Mixer's meters. Audio in seems to be ok, just audio out seems to be disabled. $ uname -a Linux archlinux 3.1.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 4 08:11:16 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux $ groups lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users $ pacman -Qs alsa local/alsa-firmware 1.0.24.1-1 ALSA firmware package local/alsa-lib 1.0.24.1-1 An alternative implementation of Linux sound support local/alsa-plugins 1.0.24-3 Extra alsa plugins local/alsa-tools 1.0.24.1-1 ALSA tools package local/alsa-utils 1.0.24.2-3 An alternative implementation of Linux sound support local/pulseaudio-alsa 1-2 (pulseaudio-gnome) ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Default [RME AIO_579bcc], device 0: RME AIO [RME AIO] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: EWX2496 [TerraTec EWX24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712 multi] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: EWX2496_1 [TerraTec EWX24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712 multi] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 $ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t snd_ice1712 59678 4 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 2436 1 snd_ice1712 snd_ak4xxx_adda 9125 2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_cs8427 6969 1 snd_ice1712 snd_ac97_codec 114391 1 snd_ice1712 snd_hdspm 58424 0 snd_pcm 74368 3 snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hdspm snd_timer 19544 1 snd_pcm snd_i2c 4065 2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427 snd_mpu401_uart 6011 1 snd_ice1712 snd_rawmidi 19458 2 snd_hdspm,snd_mpu401_uart snd_page_alloc 7153 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 5300 1 snd_rawmidi snd_hwdep 6357 1 snd_hdspm snd 58362 20 snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hdspm,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep $ hdspmixer HDSPMixer 1.6 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas(a)undata.org> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details Looking for RME cards : Card 0 : RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdbf0000, irq 18 RME AIO found ! Card 1 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20 Card 2 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21 1 RME cards card found. Restoring last presets used I used this preset with Debian, so I can't miss something muted, anyway I muted and unmuted, resp. changed settings. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Just thinking out loud...
by Clive Cooper 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

... I wonder how much work would be involved in compiling ArchLinux to run on a Raspberry PI? Clive -- Infinity: A concept for those who cannot comprehend the big picture. () Arch Linux - For movers and shakers. ()

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[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] support for /usr on a separate partition
by Dave Reisner 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi all, With the release of mkinitcpio 0.8.2, we've added support for mounting /usr from early userspace when it exists as a separate partition. This has been something people have been asking about for a little while, so I figured I'd make a call out for the feature. There's two requirements to make sure this works: 1) Include the shutdown hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. This copies the contents of the initramfs to /run/initramfs during bootstrap and additionally adds a small script (cleverly called shutdown). On shutdown, initscripts will bind mount the API filesystems into /run/initramfs, pivot into this new root, and then unmount the real filesystems from top to bottom. For the time being, this is a fairly dumb process. We don't break down stacked filesystems like LVM or close crypt mappings. I may aim to do for the next release. 2) Include the fsck hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. This needs to go _before_ autodetect if your /usr is a different FS from your root. Neglecting to add the fsck hook will result in bad things. I expect this to change next release and the fsck hook will be smart enough to grab binaries for only root and usr. The fsck hook is highly recommended for everyone, not just those with a separate /usr. Running fsck in early userspace means the device can be checked before it's even mounting -- any and all repairs can be performed without the need for a reboot. With systemd, this pretty much all works the same. The shutdown script is honored, and your root will not be re-fsck'd due to a tell-tale file dropped in /run/initramfs. Happy testing! dave

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1.9-2
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.1.9 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ - includes fix against correct libarchive This will move to [core] directly, because 3.2.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ChangeLog usage ..
by Lukas Fleischer 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:49:39AM -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote: > Hi, > > For some packages that i've been maintaining over months I have to > keep a ChangeLog .. since it's supported with pacman, and give us > (devs and tus) some resume, also this resume give to our users the > idea of what is being applied in this release/version of a package. > > I usually do that on critical packages, and packages that have a > previous ChangeLog file. > > So, a good practice is, if you're doing the favour to other dev to > maintain or rebuild his package, and this guy added a ChangeLog .. the > correct way to proceed is to write something in it, maybe this can > sound you like zomfg this is not kiss! .. but stuff like this bring us > quality IMHO. For example, I have been busy those months, and maybe i > will continue to be busy a few months more, but trust me, in my real > spare time, i dedicate sometime to the project, and when I saw that my > packages were updated I would like to know who and what change he did > instead to diff + look at the bugtracker + look at the rebuilds + look > at the mailing list .. as i've said, sometimes the free time is like 2 > hours or less per day, so i loose some much time just seing commit > logs and checking the bug tracker, having the changelog that I've been > using will help me for sure. > > Again, i'm not criticizing anybody, i'm just in favour of start doing > the things better and better, and i've had several packages that were > updated by someother devs/tus (and I am grateful with them) but, they > miss the part to fill the ChangeLog which makes me wonder what they > did on the packages (for sure, i've read a lot and now i'm confident > of what they did, but this makes me waste a whole morning reading > mails, bugtracker, and reading the logs of the svn). I'm all for writing useful (and detailed, if necessary) commit messages instead of writing ChangeLog entries. We use a VCS for some reason. Using proper commit messages makes changes damn easy to follow without having to maintain these inconvenient ChangeLog files. > > That said, Have a nice weekend, i will try to smash bugs and update > some of my packages in order to be up to date the next week. P.S.: You should probably CC mails to aur-general if they affect TUs as well. > > > -- > Angel Velásquez > angvp @ irc.freenode.net > Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User > Linux Counter: #359909 > http://www.angvp.com

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[arch-general] Kmail2 and spam
by Peter Nikolic 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Hi folks well main machine now sporting Arch Linux and seems nice Now i have battled with kmail2 akanodi ect and got things working reasonably well but i cant get the anti Spam wizzard to pick up any spam detection software , i have spam assassin installed but it fails to find it what have i not done as i can find nothing telling me where i have failed . Pete .

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