All,
I just read http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Expert-Linux-capabilities-don-t-…
And it left me wondering if openSUSE has a plan related to
capabilities. Apparently some of the distros are moving to it rapidly
in an effort to eliminate SUID programs, but there may be security
holes in the new concept too, so it's pretty up in the air.
And my other question is where do project level design concepts like
this get discussed?
Thanks
Greg
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I'd like to ask for feedback. How do you treat your SSD running
openSUSE 11.3? By now it is recommended
(http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_discard_%28trim%29_support) to run
wiper.sh for discarding free space weekly. This is at least true as
long there's no native TRIM-support which is compatible to modern
SSDs.
openSUSE 11.3 is shipping with hdparm updated to version 9.36. The
script /sbin/wiper.sh is included there. Am I the only one
experiencing this error:
wiper.sh: Linux SATA SSD TRIM utility, version 3.1, by Mark Lord.
wiper.sh: This tool is DANGEROUS! Please read and understand
wiper.sh: /usr/share/doc/packages/hdparm/README.wiper
wiper.sh: before going any further.
/usr/sbin/rdev: needed but not found, aborting.
How do you deal with it? rdev (as far as I understand) doesn't come
with openSUSE anymore. Additionally it does only return the name of
the root device "/dev/sdXX".
Possible solution: Add the following two lines at line 260 of
/sbin/wiper.sh (in diff):
261,262d260
< elif [ "$RDEV" == "" -a `$GAWK '{if ($2 ~ /^\/$/) print $1}'
/etc/mtab` != "" ]; then
< rootdev=`$GAWK '{if ($2 ~ /^\/$/) print $1}' /etc/mtab` ## openSUSE
This will make the script reading root device from /etc/mtab.
I only tried to run the script in dry mode. Is there any harm with
that solution? Should I go real with it? I guess it's only a minor
issue. Btw if it's of any interested: I own a OCZ Vertex 2 Extended.
I tried to bring this upstream. But the bug tracker on
hdparm.sourceforge.net doesn't look like very much populated...
Greetings
Johannes
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>> Did wiper.sh from hdparm 9.28 work out of the box? Not for me:
>> "/usr/sbin/rdev: needed but not found, aborting."
>
> No, there is a online update patch that is needed to make it work. If
> you've run normal online updates you should have it.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635920
>
>From the bug report I can see that 9.30 is supporting my device (OCZ
Vertex 2 Extended). So I guess 9.36 should still support it. But what
about the script wiper.sh (which is comming with hdparm)?
I guess 9.30 is backported into
http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/hdparm-9.28-4.1.1.x86_6….
I tried wiper.sh in there but still complaining about
"/usr/sbin/rdev".
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2011/1/12 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com>:
> Mark,
>
> I just got a problem report about wiper.sh needing /usr/sbin/rdev.
>
> That seems to have been deprecated for a while. Googling
> "usr/sbin/rdev" I see the same issue raised for several distros.
>
> Are you working on a hdparm update / patch to address that?
>
> Thanks
> Greg
As far as I understand rdev is only needed to tell which is the root
device "/". If it's safe to extract this info from /etc/mtab I would
suggest to get it there.
Diff for /sbin/wiper.sh in hdparm 9.36:
261,262d260
< elif [ "$RDEV" == "" -a `$GAWK '{if ($2 ~ /^\/$/) print $1}'
/etc/mtab` != "" ]; then
< rootdev=`$GAWK '{if ($2 ~ /^\/$/) print $1}' /etc/mtab` ## openSUSE
This enables me to do a dry-run of wiper.sh on openSUSE 11.3 (didn't
try with --commit).
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Hi,
I read the platforms of all candidates, and I have a few questions :-)
I'd appreciate if you could take some time to answer them; it'll help me
vote in an informed way.
1) You described various issues you'd like to get fixed and goals you
want to achieve. Will you still work on (or help with) those tasks
if you're not on the board, or do you think you really need to be on
the board for some of those tasks?
2) How much time per week can you secure (approximately) for the board?
(I know it will be 0% of your time for some weeks, and much more
for some other weeks; I'm interested in the average)
3) Did you attend IRC board meetings already?
4) It's interesting that I see nearly no note about budget/money in
platforms. When (not if ;-)) we'll have the Foundation, the board
will have to work on a budget. So a few questions about this...
4a) Have you experience with creating/dealing with a budget?
4b) Where will we find money for the Foundation?
4c) What should we use the money for?
5) I do think it'd be useful to have some board-related meeting at
FOSDEM. That should help the newly-elected board members to know
faster what's happening, and how things work. Will you come to
FOSDEM? (I know some people, and that's most probably true for the
non-European, will likely not be able to attend; that's not an issue)
7) Do you care more about Free Software or Open Source? Just to be
clear: there's no wrong answer. But it helps understand why you
contribute to projects like openSUSE.
Questions to specific candidates, related to their platform:
Chuck: where do you think we could lead, instead of copying?
Sebas: what needs to be more transparent in openSUSE?
Kostas: do you have examples of "motives" we can give to people so they
participate in the project?
Peter: leaving you some more time for your platform :-)
Henne: not really a question related to your platform, but to your
experience on the board. What could be improved in the way the
board works as of today? (btw, it's not a way for me to try to
get the current board blamed in any way: we all know things can
always get improved, and time usually helps with that)
Also, can I get a dodo?
Sankar: some of your long-term tasks are partly technical (make
openSUSE an attractive development platform, make the distro
accessibility-friendly). How do you think the board can help
with that?
Nelson: can you develop a bit more on the 'anti burnout' campaign? What
would it consist of?
I wish you all the best for the election :-)
Thanks,
Vincent
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Hi,
right now all the teams spread their meeting results or news flashes to alot
of different places, blogs, mailinglists etc.
reports(a)suse.de seems to be some suse internal dedicated place to collect team
reports, something similar would be nice. IMHO an automatically archived list
is a good place, most teams already have some mailreadable form of results of
their meetings anyways and it makes it easier to collect that. Using the wiki
might not be future proof in case of layoutbreaks, can be seen pretty
impressivly here:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings
It is very easy to add an emailadress as cc instead of remembering which blog
to push it to as well, so the overhead is kept low.
Also it might start a form of competition for readable output of the teams, we
at kde for example usually try to summarize the topics outcome, most bugbot
reports just list topic changes, this carries roughly as much information as
the meeting announcement...
I assume the openSUSE news team might be interested to have something like
this, it allows for easier identifying hot spots etc.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Karsten
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Friends,
There is a page that shows all the candidates?
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Hi openSUSEans,
I have a quick question. Where do I vote for the election or for the
candidates ?
Cheers !
S
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Hi Geckos,
My openSUSE platform is available at:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2010_platform_psankar
Please read through it and let me know if you have any
questions/feedback/comments.
If my agenda is appealing to you, I ask you to vote for me.
Thanks.
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