o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> Please - - - anyone for a short writeup on how to
> install/start/whatever else to ntp without using systemd?
A full HOWTO page on what to do to fix this easily for your system is
this one line.
apt-get install ntp
Then best thing to do is to reboot so that
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I need to download a package to install on a machine that is currently
> air-gapped.
I know you have already solved your problem. But for the future you
might consider the apt-offline package.
$ apt-cache show apt-offline
Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> I have two Beowulf systems that should be identical. If I issue "df"
> one does report among mounted filesystems a /run/user/xxx, where xxx
> is the id number of the user I am connected with (via ssh) and the
> other doesn't. As uname -a they both report:
I also don't
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> . wrote:
> > > Looking for the gcc..g++ suite manpages, expected to find them in
> > > 'gcc-doc' but it's missing.
> > > Anybody point me in the right direction ?
> >
> > I found the answer in
> >
g4sra via Dng wrote:
> I opt to live dangerously..(shove an '-r' in there too if you feel like it)
> $ rm -i .* *
> this way you can delete illegitimate entries without hacking the filesystem.
That is definitely dangerous indeed. For example if for whatever
reason one happens to have "-f" as a
Antoine via Dng wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > With my /bin/sh (which I believe is dash) I had to change:
> >
> > function whatever {
> >
> > to
> >
> > whatever() {
> >
> > on all three function declarations.
>
> Yes, now that you mention it, that tends to vary between shells. I should
>
Peter Duffy wrote:
> I've recently been asked to recommend an upgrade route for a number of
> linux servers, and I proposed going to devuan. In response, I've had a
> concern raised which took me by surprise. It was suggested that in the
> future, it may not be possible to find staff who have the
Mike Tubby wrote:
> ... but if you run a nameserver you may well need:
>
> /var/cache/bind
>
> as that's where your zonefiles are ;-)
Sorry. No. I am curious what led you to that conclusion?
By default in the Debian packaged configuration only the cached zone
files downloaded on
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Until upgraded from ascii to beowulf, HTML messages were tolerable.
> Either they were obvious crap, in which case I just deeted them,
> or they seemed like they were worth viewing, in which case they were
> usually html attachments, and I could seen the list of attachments
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> ~/.muttrc:
>
> set mailcap_path="~/.mailcap"
Strange. This is not needed to be set for me. Does that setting
override the default use of /etc/mailcap?
> auto_view text/html
> ...
> Unfortunately it now prefers the .html version to the plaintext version.
> I presume I
onefang wrote:
> I've been using shorewall and fail2ban for a while now, but nftables is
> soon replacing iptables, so it's time to consider some options.
Fortunately through the current today's Unstable there is no problem
with the use of iptables. But I have also been wondering what I am
going
Alexander Bochmann wrote:
> ...on 2022-03-21 21:31:25, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote:
> > However AFAIK the /var/lock/subsys directory is a Red Hat specific
> > directory such as found on RHEL and Fedora for use for their init
> > scripts. It doesn't have a use by other sc
Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm running Cimaera and have procmail and spamassassin installed.
> I consructed a file ~/.procmailrc. In it ares the lines:
>
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> $HOME/mail/spam
>
> I created this spam directory and restarted spamassassin. Yet
> mail having the line
terryc wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > I'm running Chimaera and trying to play an old CDROM. I assume
> > simplest way is to install wine.
>
> IME, it is generally about the worst way and/or problematic. At best,
> it will only work until something is upgraded.
Indeed. That thought really made
Alexander Bochmann wrote:
> ...on 2022-03-21 23:33:41, Alexander Bochmann wrote:
> > I am running some software that expects the /var/lock/subsys directory
> > to exist. It seems that this (and a few other directories) are created
> > by /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf, which is owned by
Joel Roth wrote:
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Is there anything different in the dmesg(1) output for eth1 than
> > for your other interfaces?
>
> bingo:
>
> [467072.902423] e1000e :00:19.0 eth1: Hardware Error
>...
> This is a used Thinkpad pad, recently purchased.
> Fortunately usb-ethernet
Didier Kryn wrote:
> Hendrik Boom a ecrit :
> > > > software that isn't properly packaged as a .deb, but instead has an
> > > > "installer" that needs to be run as root.
Immediately I think of all of those script "installers" that request
the user do this and similar to install their software as
goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> Lars Noodén wrote:
> > What quality of display(s) and color calibration are required?
>
> In all the years I have been doing this, that question has never entered my
> mind and I have no idea how to even begin answering it. I do "eye" art not
> "machine" art. I can
Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote:
> Not fixed?
>
> Did anybody look at this.
Did you send a problem report to the mailing list owner?
There isn't much that us as users and participants of the mailing list
can do about hosting system problems. Although there might be a
subscriber who is active
Antony Stone wrote:
> o1bigtenor wrote:
> > I was trying to clean up my /usr/bin directory so was discarding older
> > versions of software.
>
> You should never manually delete binaries or library files which have been
> installed by a package management system. If you want to get rid of them
Antony Stone wrote:
> My definition of skipping releases would be:
>
> Ascii (skip Beowulf) -> Chimaera
>
> Stretch (skip Buster) -> Bullseye
>
> Stretch (skip Buster or Beowulf) -> Chimaera
Agreed. Those would be skipping releases. Not supported.
> I'm not asking about any
ael via Dng wrote:
> Isn't conv=sync needed to make sure that you are not just seeing buffer
> effects?
Better oflags=sync,direct rather than conv=sync though both are
similar in result.
Bob
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Haines Brown wrote:
> I still get "Unable to locate package chromium". It seems that when I
> did update/dist-upgrade after modifying sources.list to accommodate
> daedulus I did not get the no InRelease file error. The chimaera
> previously installed on this disk did not have chromium installed.
Haines Brown wrote:
> My message to the list seems to have gone amiss. This was it:
Your message did not go amiss. The mailing list saw it. I replied to
it. You have replied to my message therefore I know you saw my
message too. Unfortunately it seems that though we are seeing each
other's
Rowland Penny via Dng wrote:
> That is just a bandaid on something broken. If you have to stop
> something being changed, then there must be something trying to change
> it. You need to find what that 'something' is and stop that changing
> resolv.conf
+1! But I completely understand those that
Jim Murphy via Dng wrote:
> My wifi connection drops randomly. It can sometimes run for days.
> Other times it may drop within hours of a reboot. There seems to be
> no pattern to when. Initially rebooting seemed to be the only way to
> get the network back. Under xfce4 disabling the wifi and/or
Antony Stone wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > The size of the zip file is 164 Mb
>
> Just in case it's actually your mail service provider responding to your mail
> client trying to send such a large message, try the same thing but with a
> small zip file (such as 2Mb) to see whether that nakes
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