antiX-25-full-beta2 for public testing

[Brian MasinickModerator]

anticapitalista wrote:

Here’s another one to think about.

Should ufw be set to on or off by default?

That’s another one that I’m open to either side. I do think that having ufw available is wise; I turned on ufw the other day but I haven’t otherwise done anything recently with it.

As with the other matter, a simple tool to enable or disable UFW would be ideal. I completely understand @anticapitalista, if you’ve had more than enough with writing one, then ten, then twenty, then one hundred tools; that’s why I’m recommending a few of the people who have shown an aptitude for writing clean, efficient tools to step up and volunteer for any new handy tools, keeping them in line with our principles of being lean and efficient.

I’m well past those days myself; adding a few lines to a .bashrc script is about the extent of my scripting since I’ve been retired!

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[enigma9o7Member]

anticapitalista wrote:

Should ufw be set to on or off by default?

Off for sure. Very few people connect their machines directly to the internet these days, and every ISP provided router includes a firewall, and anyone who configures their own router should know enough to use a firewall somewhere themselves.

edit: to be clear, I mean preinstalled but not enabled, such that something like “sudo ufw enable” turns it on.

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[DaveForum Admin]

Expand / adapt disable to make 2 boot options?

1) default: everything for services enabled just as the default desktop zzz-icewm has it.
2) option: every service disabled that can be without crashing the system (ie boot to a min-desktop) were services can be started as desired.

There is also the option already to save a selected boot setup which can be a customized middle ground.

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[ProwlerGrMember]

anticapitalista wrote:

Here’s another one to think about.

Should ufw be set to on or off by default?

ufw : disabled but installed
haveged : not installed (I saw this active in the antiX-26-net test build)

For what its worth, this is what I’ve also seen on a couple of other distros that come with ufw preinstalled

[WallonMember]

Subject: Cron is running on SysVinit but no default log is created

Hello antiX team,

I’m testing weekly fstrim on my antiX 25 beta 2 installation (SysVinit). I can confirm that:

-> The cron service is enabled and running at startup (service cron status shows active).
-> Running a weekly cron job manually works as expected (sudo /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim-root successfully trims my / partition).

However, I noticed that there is no default system log recording cron jobs. Checking /var/log/syslog or dmesg does not show any cron activity, which makes it difficult to verify that cron jobs have run automatically.

To work around this, I modified my weekly fstrim script to explicitly log output to /var/log/fstrim.log with a timestamp:

#!/bin/sh
# Log fstrim output with timestamp
echo "=== $(date) ===" >> /var/log/fstrim.log
/sbin/fstrim -v / >> /var/log/fstrim.log 2>&1

After running it, the log correctly records each execution with timestamps.

Best,
Wallon

[anticapitalistaForum Admin]

Thanks @Wallon – very useful.

I wonder if (auto)cron has ever worked with runit?

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[ProwlerGrMember]

anticapitalista wrote:

I wonder if (auto)cron has ever worked with runit?

I wonder the same thing (I haven’t really set-up manual cronjobs).
I believe anacron (somebody correct me if I’m wrong) is the actual service that looks after cronjobs on non 24/7 server systems.

A quick look at
cat /etc/cron.d/anacron
looks like it is configured for systemd & sysvinit only.

I’ve seen mentions of snooze as a valid replacement for cronjobs using runit & alternative inits.
Cronie may be another one.

@Wallon perhaps test your cronjobs using snooze (your feedback would be greatly appreciated)

[Brian MasinickModerator]

anticapitalista wrote:

Thanks @Wallon – very useful.

I wonder if (auto)cron has ever worked with runit?

I checked it out a few years ago when we first put anacron in place. It CAN be configured to work, but unless cron is also present, I recall problems. To be honest with you, I do not understand the incremental value of anacron, though cron can be helpful for scheduling regular backups and other background activities; the at command is also useful for scheduling background tasks that are not part of a regular schedule, usually stuff like some big file activity.

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[ProwlerGrMember]

@Wallon
In case you are wondering how to test:

Indicative runit scripts for snooze can be found here
https://github.com/leahneukirchen/snooze/tree/master/sv

sudo apt install snooze
to get it on your system

[WallonMember]

Subject: [BETA BUG] antiX 25b2-runit: snooze command execution never triggers

Bonjour,

System Information:
OS: antiX-25-b2_x64-full (Stephen Kapos, 17 Dec 2025)
Init: runit
Kernel: 6.6.101-antix.1-amd64-smp
Hardware: MSI H170M PRO-VDH / Intel i5-6400
Package: snooze 0.5-1 (from Debian trixie)

Description:
I tested snooze as a potential replacement for cron to automate fstrim on antiX 25 beta 2 with runit.
While snooze correctly parses and displays scheduled times, any attempt to execute a command never triggers and remains waiting indefinitely.

Tests performed:
All commands below result in a blinking cursor with no payload execution, even after waiting several minutes:

– snooze -s 10 — echo “snooze OK”
– snooze -M 1 — echo “test”
– snooze 5 — sh -c ‘echo “AVANT”; date; echo “APRES”‘

Notes:
– which snooze → /usr/bin/snooze
– snooze -n -w 1 -H 03 -M 00 correctly displays future scheduled dates
– The issue affects both relative and absolute scheduling modes

Best,
Wallon

[olsztynMember]

Question:
I was just trying to re-download antiX 25 beta2 386 (32 bit) but it appears that antiX ISOs are no longer at the download site pointed to in the first post of this thread…
Is there a place it can still be downloaded? Either Beta2 or an updated ISO would be appreciated…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
http://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[anticapitalistaForum Admin]

olsztyn wrote:

Question:
I was just trying to re-download antiX 25 beta2 386 (32 bit) but it appears that antiX ISOs are no longer at the download site pointed to in the first post of this thread…
Is there a place it can still be downloaded? Either Beta2 or an updated ISO would be appreciated…

There will be updated iso files coming very soon.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[olsztynMember]

anticapitalista wrote:

There will be updated iso files coming very soon.

Thanks very much! Looking forward…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
http://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[rokytnjiForum Admin]

harry@antix1:~
$ sudo apt -f install
Summary:                        
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Space needed: 0 B / 104 GB available

Setting up runit-service-acpi-support (0.0.2.0antix1) ...
runit is running as the system's init system - starting acpi-fakekeyd
fail: /etc/sv/acpi-fakekeyd: unable to change to service directory: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing package runit-service-acpi-support (--configure):
 installed runit-service-acpi-support package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 runit-service-acpi-support
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Looks like I am locked up when updating,

harry@antix1:~
$ apt-cache policy runit-service-acpi-support
runit-service-acpi-support:
  Installed: 0.0.2.0antix1
  Candidate: 0.0.2.0antix1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.2.0antix1 500
        500 http://repo.antixlinux.com/trixie trixie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://repo.antixlinux.com/trixie trixie/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
harry@antix1:~
$ apt-cache policy runit-service-acpi-support
runit-service-acpi-support:
  Installed: 0.0.2.0antix1
  Candidate: 0.0.2.0antix1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.2.0antix1 500
        500 http://repo.antixlinux.com/trixie trixie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://repo.antixlinux.com/trixie trixie/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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[anticapitalistaForum Admin]

@rokytnji – purge runit-service-acpi-support

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