Hi Hendrik,
Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 02:24:12PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>
>> Ceres is the unstable branch and changes on a daily basis. There is no
>> installer for it (that I know of). If you want to create a Ceres VM,
>> start with an A
Hi Miroslav,
Miroslav Skoric writes:
> On 10/23/18 1:49 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>>
>> For access to other Linux boxen you may have to convince their sshd to
>> do X11 forwarding (probably enabled by default) but once that's working
>> you should have no problem
Hi Didier,
Didier Kryn writes:
> Le 24/10/2018 à 13:34, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit:
>> Of these, rsyslog is installed by default, at least on ascii. If you
>> could assume rsyslog is always installed, binding the daemon's stdout
>> and stderr to /dev/log would work fine too.
to view it.
# I never understand why folks use an editor to just look at a file.
BTW, I use lv as my default pager. It does on-the-fly decompression,
encoding detection (I get a lot of Shift_JIS files ...) and allows you
to cycle through supported encodings (useful you have to deal with files
debootstrap reproducible go belly-up.
>
> Hi Irrwhan,
>
> you are right. Working on it. Update soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.
FTR, my Devuan Docker image builds[1] on 2018-11-03 went just fine.
Those are the first successful builds since 2018-07-04.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/pad
;
> by
>
> dh $@ --parallel --with autotools_dev
>
> in debian/rules.
If ./configure cannot find the necessary systemd API, the integration is
automatically disabled. Not installing libsystemd-dev is a good way to
achieve this.
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Hi aitor,
aitor writes:
> Hi Olaf,
>
> On 4/11/18 10:11, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> SANE has absolutely nothing to offer for printers. It is for scanners
>> and some other raster image acquistion devices only.
>
> You are right, i was thinking on scanners. For printer
ry.gitlab.com/paddy-hack/devuan:ceres
This image is basically the result of running debootstrap for ceres.
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o problem is seen, can just /etc/init.d/docker start
The fact that you have to do that is the issue ;-/
On Ascii, I did the same and things are working smoothly.
> I hope this is useful info, not sure I'm missing the point here.
> In any case thanks for opening the issue Olaf, I've s
Steve Litt writes:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:13:16 +0900
> Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>> [ ... docker-ce upgrade fails to restart daemon on Devuan ... ]
>> [ ... same upgrade restarted daemon just fine on Debian ... ]
>> [ ... suspecting docker-ce to only cater to sy
Hi Dan,
Daniel Reurich writes:
> On 13/11/18 00:57, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> Steve Litt writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:13:16 +0900
>>> Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>>
>>>> [ ... docker-ce upgrade fails to restart daemon on Devuan ..
stretch stable edge
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Hi Nik,
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp writes:
> Hi Olaf!
>
> Am Samstag, 17. November 2018 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
>> Hi Nik,
>>
>> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp writes:
>>
>> > [...] The initrams tool provide a handy way to inspect/modify/rebuild
>> > initr
Hi KatolaZ,
KatolaZ writes:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 09:14:06PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
>>
>> # Those are a non-serious suggestion and a rethorical question, in case
>> # that didn't come across.
>>
>> So, I'm against a *forced*
ere other than begging, borrowing, or
> buying a Windows system?
It's an SD card, right? Asking a friendly neighbour to rename the
file(s) in question may be the quickest way out of your conundrum.
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ve of FAT12/FAT16, the second of VFAT.
Seriously suspect that the directory entry got whacked in the head and
is corrupted.
You may find
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/fs/fat/fat-1.html
useful if you go the route of hexediting that directory entry.
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Hi Steve,
Steve Litt writes:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:38:42 -0800
> Rick Moen wrote:
>
>> Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (paddy-h...@member.fsf.org):
>>
>> > On any Unix-like system I've come across the '/' (and '\0') are
>> > about the only char
tream log says
* Ignore link state when bringing up hotplug interfaces at boot.
Closes: #814785, #834820
As for the 'auto eth0' and 'allow-hotplug eth0', I get by with only the
latter but I still have to integrate my wireless setup. I got into a
habit of doing 'Ctrl-R wlan0' in a term
d.
>
> So why do they they look different than the rest of the site? Well, an
> version of these pages was prepared last spring for inclusion on the
> ASCII isos that use the debian-installer and it was just easier to keep
> them in that format.
>
> 3) Finally, an explanation of non-f
e a file using just its inode.
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eakage.
> It could possible be changed into an un-usrmerge-program if we want.
Looks like your script is ignoring any symlinks in /bin and /sbin that
point to stuff in /usr ...
Or elsewhere not on the partition that holds / ...
:-/
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option in the installer.
Even more thanks for making the default *not* merged because
system-critical and system-non-critical really should be kept
in different "drawers", IMNSHO.
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Hi Stephan,
Stephan Seitz writes:
> On Sa, Nov 17, 2018 at 09:14:06 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>>About that not looking all bad, perhaps the merge should be in the other
>>direction, from /usr to / rather than from / to /usr. Or can we expect
>
> No, if you
in /boot.
Are you implying that even in my scenario the "full disk encryption"
myth goes out of my window?
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to take the possibility of no initramfs into account. Maybe it already
does? Don't know.
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didn't come across.
So, I'm against a *forced* /usr merge. I hope Debian does the right
thing but if necessary, I would like to see Devuan correct the wrong.
However, let's focus on init freedom (and beowulf) first!
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Hi KatolaZ,
KatolaZ writes:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 04:51:43PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
>>
>> ACK. Just like to point out that Devuan might run into packages that
>> have already moved programs that really ought to be in /bin or /sbin
>
On 2018-12-29 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> On 2018-11-12, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> When upgrading a package that provides a daemon, I expect the upgrade to
>> shut down the daemon provided by the old version and start the one from
>> the new versi
you can specify the BTS to report to
via the --bts or -B option.
So I think you can just use your Devuan system. If in doubt, just check
using apt-file and apt-cache like I did for any other utilities.
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On 2018-11-12, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> [...]
>
> When upgrading a package that provides a daemon, I expect the upgrade to
> shut down the daemon provided by the old version and start the one from
> the new version. I do not want anything to "muck" with that, be that
Hi KatolaZ,
KatolaZ writes:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 05:05:44PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> # Full well aware that this is still experimental but ...
>>
>> I just tried installing from the netboot/gtk/mini.iso downloaded from
>>
>&g
Hi KatolaZ,
KatolaZ writes:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:05:15PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> Hi KatolaZ,
>>
>> KatolaZ writes:
>>
>
> [cut]
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Olaf,
>> >
>> > I will rebuild the installer later toda
Hi Dan,
Daniel Reurich writes:
> I will kick off a rebuild of debian-installer now.
Thanks!
> Dan
>
>
> On 04/04/19 01:46, KatolaZ wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:05:15PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>> Hi KatolaZ,
>>>
>>> Katola
any kernel modules because
there is no 4.19.0-2-amd64 kernel image package in the Debian repos
anymore :-(
[1]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1036492/linux-41928-2-migrated-to-testing/
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Hi Nate,
Apologies for the belated follow-up.
Nate Bargmann writes:
> * On 2019 09 Mar 18:09 -0600, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> All the info I have seen on this topic in the thread is consistent with
>> hostid returning the "mangled" IP address belonging to the mach
s for a while and says
sudo: unable to resolve host yoda
$ hostid
007f0101
Please note that the hostname command does *not* modify the contents of
/etc/hostname. To persist changes across reboots you'll need to edit
/etc/hostname yourself.
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packages that are "leaking" information and then
>> publish an ongoing list of them and how they "phone home".
>>
>> golinux
>
> Good idea. Just like the evil bit. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
:-)
The evil bit of that RFC is in the publication da
Hi Katolaz,
Apologies for the delay.
KatolaZ writes:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:14:45PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
>> > It's in my todo-list, but I would be grateful of you would be so kind
>> > to please open a bug on bugs.devuan.org, so we
dn't happen on Debian courtesy of systemd. Can't seem to find
the bug report I filed way back when at the moment but it was rather
unceremoniously closed.
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Hi KatolaZ,
KatolaZ writes:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
>>
>> I'm using this on two Devuan machines at the office. Works fine for
>> me. Apart from running the `apt upgrade` it can also check for the need to
&
uot; and/or "rolling my own DE" types are not
affected by all of this.
Anyway, you can always tell apt to *not* install it
apt get install task-gnome-desktop unattended-upgrades-
and live without everything else that was not installed either as a
result of that :-)
Hope this helps,
icted "pain" by telling APT
# to not install recommended packages in the first place.
Your average KDE/GNOME desktop user might actually appreciate their
security upgrades getting applied "behind their backs" or "without user
intervention", depending on your po
be used. Perhaps it shouldn't and just try
to resolve on a per request basis, seeing as service availability may
come and go at any given time for a number of reasons.
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Hi Dan,
Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Daniel Reurich writes:
>
>> I will kick off a rebuild of debian-installer now.
>
> Thanks!
It's been 10 days since and I still haven't seen updated installers on
pkgmaster. Where should I look, if not at
https://pkgmaster
Don't know but I just successfully logged into my account via the web
interface and cloned a test repository over HTTPS without trouble.
# Haven't registered an SSH key (yet).
> Sorry if I tried crazy actions. I'm new to git.
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this version of the installer and the kernel
>> version available in the archive."
>>
>> Lastest available version of netboot.tar.gz is from 2018-07-17
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Hi all,
Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Daniel Reurich writes:
>>
>>> I will kick off a rebuild of debian-installer now.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> It's been 10 days since and I still haven
ent.browser
/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.extra
/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent
which makes sense because `gpg-agent` is started as part of my Xfce4
session.
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mor
> is doing?
Just thinking out loud,
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e automatically installed packages,
you may want to mark (some of) the ones you want to keep manual.
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,
something "evil" is going on, in that the telemetry stuff is using
elevated privileges, and it may be time to use nullfsvfs.
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> uninstallation problematic.
>
> In this case, the installer might force the use of ~/bin and ~/man
> and create them if they don't exist.
If I were you I would make the installation locations configurable, at
least at build time with an option to override at install tim
-image-amd64 to keep getting the latest
version.
Adjust for your architecture if necessary.
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t; while true; do kill -ILL 1 ; echo -n "." ; sleep 0.5 ; done
> [...]
>
> OMG, that's both sad and hilarious.
>
> The jokes about systemd being ILL almost tell themselves.
And the systemd fan-folk will be complaining about ILL will, no doubt.
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eryone know when there are mini isos and then installer
> isos to test.
... and am still waiting for an announcement of newer isos to test :-/
# I've even been checking pkgmaster.devuan.org about weekly for newer
# isos. No such luck ... yet :-(
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n a priori would spell it out first time around (with the
acronym in parentheses) *or* provide a link to a (wikipedia?) page
explaining the thing.
As per above.
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ards integration for org-mode.
Of course if you don't use Emacs already (or are hooked on vi/mutt) then
most or all of the above is of little use and concern.
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t; searchable by eye.
Aw, why not use your browser's search/find functionality?
Does Ctrl+F work?
# Still prone to eyebal searching myself but trying to improve ...
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er.
Besides amd64, there are also installers for armhf and i386 but I've not
tried those.
For documentation, refer to the Debian installer's docs. Things don't
seem to have changed much.
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nt?
Only if that user can also read the content of the directory in the
first place. For that it needs r-x on the directory.
# I vaguely remember that only --x is sufficient but am no longer sure
# (and too lazy to check ;-)
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se the question of commensurability.
# Guessing you imply EUR as units (seeing an .at domain) but
Definitly so if Zimbabwean dollar, LOL.
Even JPY, although these don't have fractional bits, anymore.
Just my 2 JPY,
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Gn
settings perhaps.
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info/dng>,
<mailto:dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org?subject=subscribe>
I suspect that the Dyne.org Webmail client is "helpfully" converting the
above List-*: header to the gunk you get to see.
Based on that gunk and a quick search on rcmail.command, I further
suspect that that Use
t; development.
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Hi Erik,
Erik Christiansen writes:
> On 10.01.20 20:18, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> # There's still no zpager, even after asking for it two decades ago :-O
>> #
>> # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=49942
>
> In the "less" manpage, u
, you get `more`.
Personally, I prefer `lv` as I have to deal with Japanese in various
encodings :-/ but it also does on the fly decompression. Great when
looking at a compressed /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.gz!
# There's still no zpager, even after asking for it two decades ago :-O
#
# https://bugs.
ough, not 2.0.0 as shown in the form.
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es either so far.
You did do a cold reboot after removing them, right?
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ou are referring to the mythical bird that rises
>>> from the ashes, it is 'Phoenix' in English. Anything else is not
>>> English.
>> Vous devez apprendre à parler la belle langue. Même certains Anglais
>> peuvent l'apprendre.
>>
> Why ? Everyone else seems to want
Hi,
Dimitris via Dng writes:
> On 1/10/20 1:32 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>>> Why ? Everyone else seems to want to learn English ;-)
>> Want to?
>>
>> I was forced to at the tender age of 12.
>> In addition to French.
>
> +1 ,
> and i think
s. Keep up the good work!
> Any talk of switching our base is premature.
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ASCII install w/o any
extra software worked fine for me. If one is going to upgrade right
after the ASCII install anyway, not installing extra software during
the initial install saves you lots of bandwidth.
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Gn
etro these days ;-) and seem to be using polkit with elogind. There
# are no consolekit packages on my system.
# Wait! I just noticed libck-connector0.
# Hmm, I see I have libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 installed but no
# libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0. Is that a/the problem?
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sk-console-productivity installed it might be a Devuan
specific issue. The brltty package is recommended there and there is no
such task in Debian AFAIK.
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Seeing every few seconds irrespective of triggers
is overkill, as you mentioned already.
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s._local
These have the second least significant bit of the first byte set to
one, so starting with 04 is NG. First byte values matching 0x#2, 0x#3,
0x#6, 0x#7, 0x#a, 0x#b, 0x#e and 0x#f, where # stands for an arbitrary
hexdigit, are fine.
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ifree.org/
> How difficult was it?
Not difficult at all but I'd been using Linux (Debian) as a software
developer and small-time sysadmin for two decades already.
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alid rule trigger the cascade of
errors you see.
I don't see the offending file in any of the Devuan/Debian packages so
assume you installed a Canon provided scanner driver. In that case
Canon really should be fixing this up but you could post the file (here
or over at the sane-devel list) so I
system installable from it
>
> do not contain the ifupdown package (nor other networking utilities besides
> busybox ip?).
>
> The resulting base installation remains offline.
I reported that in
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20200322.113542.8f9ac3d5.en.html
and there was ta
Hi,
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> On 2020-05-16 16:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?
>
> It's an analogy with a medical device used to help smokers with quitting.
I think in Europe it's better known as a nicotine patch.
Hope this helps
ay on all of my applications. In that
respect, fcitx comes pretty close (using Xfce).
> I am not sure why "a video-conferencing app" needs it though.
Writing meeting minutes and chat, perhaps?
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re with the Beowulf beta
ISO this no longer works :cry:
Off now to try with the amd64 server ISO (on non-UEFI hardware).
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Hi Mark,
Mark Hindley writes:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:05:18AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> goli...@devuan.org writes:
>>
>> > Dear dev1ers,
>> >
>> > The Devuan 3 Beowulf Beta release is now ready for review. The
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Hi,
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng writes:
> Hi,
>
> goli...@devuan.org writes:
>
>> Dear dev1ers,
>>
>> The Devuan 3 Beowulf Beta release is now ready for review. The
>> installer isos, desktop-live and minimal-live isos can be downloaded
>> from:
>
may be more of an issue as that package is completely useless by itself,
AFAICS at least.
BTW, the details on making it a Recommends: are in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=913116
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guess.
Doesn't this thread kind-a make working on systemd something worthwhile?
Wouldn't we be better off burying the thing and get on without? Not
just in Devuan but also on the list?
Just a thought,
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rs.
- /var? Eh, /var/spool/ may have mail and print jobs, at least for some
time. /var/log/ may contain sensitive stuff ...
That said, I generally agree that for _most_ of *my* purposes there is
no real need to have those trees encrypted. Still on the machine I am
now typing this mai
Hi Didier,
Didier Kryn writes:
> Le 17/09/2020 à 13:34, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng a écrit:
>> apt purge network-manager
>>
>> solved it for me ;-)
>>
>> Eh, perhaps I should mention that I also did a
>>
>> apt install netplug wpasupplicant ifupdown
r
solved it for me ;-)
Eh, perhaps I should mention that I also did a
apt install netplug wpasupplicant ifupdown
and tinkered a bit to get my interfaces(5) and wpa_supplicant.conf(5)
snippets in working order.
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t matter, per:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.en.html
Worked fine for my USB stick.
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Hi Ian,
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> On 2020-09-17 20:34, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>
>> apt install netplug wpasupplicant ifupdown
>
> I happen to dislike ifupdown almost as much as NetworkManager. It is a
> poorly documented opaque mess. The fact that it's a debi
Hi Steve,
Steve Litt writes:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:34:31 +0900
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hendrik Boom writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 02:11:57AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> >>
>> >> S
and the Poetterpuppies
> can all gloat that most distros use systemd, but, ummm, what about the
> #1 distro?
>
> SteveT
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Hi Dimitris,
Dimitris T. via Dng writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>>
>> Have a look at etckeeper.
>
> was using it for years, but not anymore..
> too much disk i/o, too many files, `git gc` never ran (only by hand),
> and it never really came handy during those
Hi Martin,
Martin Steigerwald writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET:
>> Hi Hendrik,
>>
>> Hendrik Boom writes:
>> > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision
>> > control. then we might even be able to have
he log for the machine I'm writing this on goes back all the way to its
initial install on 2017-01-11 of Devuan's Jessie Official Beta2 :-)
You may want to keep your sensitive /etc/ files out of the repository
though, depending on your level of paranoia.
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e and I guess that's why guake uses Shift+Ctrl-C.
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hing not in that domain is forwarded to the
corporate DNS servers. Works fine for me so I think dnsmasq can be
more than _just_ a forwarder (which is all I wanted to point out).
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g.
These files are rotated on a monthly basis, assuming you have logrotate
installed, so for older logs check the *.log.*.gz files.
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