Bug#1051401: general: PATH variable definition in debian 12

2023-09-14 Thread Timo Lindfors
On 9/7/23 14:59, robin hodges wrote: Had a problem when I installed debian 12 onto my PC. As root the reboot and shutdown commands wouldnt work. I have solved this on my PC by including the following into the root .bashrc file export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin Did you

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-26 Thread Timo Lindfors
On 5/24/22 21:34, Paul Gevers wrote: https://bugs.debian.org/1011268 (but apparently my first assumption was wrong and it's another bug, most likely Simon was right. Thanks for the link. I was quite puzzled this morning when I saw several removals messages. I guess I should just wait and

Re: /usr/bin/ld.so as a symbolic link for the dynamic loader

2021-12-03 Thread Timo Lindfors
Hi, On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, Florian Weimer wrote: No objects to /usr/bin/ld.so then? Just a random thought: If you have configured a restricted shell (e.g. rbash) that only lets you execute commands in PATH, will this make it possible to bypass the restriction with "ld.so

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-18 Thread Timo Lindfors
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Marc Haber wrote: My understanding is that the live images are primarily intended for the typical "live system" use-case descended from things like Knoppix (boot machine from USB stick or optical media; use machine with OS from RAM, USB stick or optical media; shut down

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-17 Thread Timo Lindfors
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Marc Haber wrote: Absolutely. The Installation Experience is one of the first contacts with the distribution for most people¹, and since we all know that the Yep. I think using the live environment for installation could be more user-friendly as the user is already

Re: isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.

2020-06-28 Thread Timo Lindfors
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, Jaime wrote: Given that this is guaranteed to fail, isn't it worth "not doing"? Is there anyway that I can get dhclient to wait for a successful connection *before* sending out any DHCPDISCOVERs? (In the wired world, it doesn't make sense to issue a DHCPDISCOVER before

Re: Is an init required to obey policy-rc.d during boot ?

2020-04-23 Thread Timo Lindfors
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Thomas Goirand wrote: doesn't exist but will proceed) - apt install foo (shipping a foo.service) → foo.service will not be started Good to know, thanks! Is https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.preset.html perhaps something that could help here?

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-31 Thread Timo Lindfors
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Adam Borowski wrote: A network firewall is useful. But why would someone want a _host_ firewall for on any sane operating system? If a daemon is not supposed to listen on Are libvirt and network-manager using firewalld to setup network sharing and virtual networks? Or