Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 12/22/18 10:00 PM, john doe wrote: On 12/22/2018 9:15 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/22/18 7:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Has Linux got tools that can run while a computer runs that can poll several sites and log internet outages?  I figure a minute down time is a failure and have experie

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread john doe
On 12/22/2018 9:15 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/22/18 7:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> Has Linux got tools that can run while a computer runs that can poll >> several sites and log internet outages?  I figure a minute down time is a >> failure and have experienced several of these where my

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 12/22/18 7:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Has Linux got tools that can run while a computer runs that can poll several sites and log internet outages? I figure a minute down time is a failure and have experienced several of these where my wifi connection had to be deactivated and reactivated to

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, john doe wrote: > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 13:32:57 > From: john doe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: internet outages > Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:33:16 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On 12/22/2018 6:21 PM, John Hasler wrote:

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday, December 22, 2018 11:34:27 AM EST Jude DaShiell wrote: > Thanks for the script and the tool recommendation. > Has Linux got a tool to check up on the router and find out if the > router is doing its job? > Before I mail logs into comcast, I want to make sure I've done all due > dillig

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
This. I have been very pleased with OpenWRT over the past several years. The WISP wanted to setup their Ubiquity Nanobridge CPE as a router and were willing to configure it as a bridge instead. That allows me remote SSH access through my OpenWRT router. This really is the way to do it to give y

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread john doe
On 12/22/2018 6:21 PM, John Hasler wrote: > mark writes: >> From your description of the problem, it sounds like it is the router >> that is not doing its job properly. > > This is a Comcast-supplied combination router-modem-ap? From everything > I've read and been told by people who know from ex

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-22 Thread aprekates
Yes, i noticed that w* will pass if there is no such file  in current dir. But still i cant understand the output so i submit bugreport  Bug#917098: Thanks all for the feedback. On 22/12/18 6:13 μ.μ., Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Dan Ritter writes: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 21 de dezembro de 2

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread John Hasler
mark writes: > From your description of the problem, it sounds like it is the router > that is not doing its job properly. This is a Comcast-supplied combination router-modem-ap? From everything I've read and been told by people who know from experience the firmware in those is always buggy and i

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-22 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Dan Ritter writes: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote: >> > In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 >> > >> > $ dpkg -l >> > >> > will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. >> > >> > But if i  run: >> > >> > $ dpkg -l w* >>

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 10:54:06 > From: m...@neidorff.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: internet outages > Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 15:54:23 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Saturday, December 22

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Dominik George
> >Here is a script that you can run from a cron job which will log >Internet status and store >the results into a file in your home folder called net-test.txt: > >#! /bin/bash > >date >> ~/net-test.txt >ping -c 1 google.com >> ~/net-test.txt > >#end of file smokeping is a tool made for this. -

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread mark
On Saturday, December 22, 2018 10:16:58 AM EST Jude DaShiell wrote: > Has Linux got tools that can run while a computer runs that can poll > several sites and log internet outages? I figure a minute down time is a > failure and have experienced several of these where my wifi connection had > to be

Re: Running lighttpd as different user: /run/lighttpd still gets created with www-data user and group

2018-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-12-22 15:10 +0100, Manuel Wagesreither wrote: > I'm running an minbase installation of Debian Stretch and have > configured lighttpd to run as a different, non-www-data user. However, > when booting, lighttpd does not start successfully, as /run/lighttpd > is still owned by www-data. Only

internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has Linux got tools that can run while a computer runs that can poll several sites and log internet outages? I figure a minute down time is a failure and have experienced several of these where my wifi connection had to be deactivated and reactivated to have the internet connection restored. This

Running lighttpd as different user: /run/lighttpd still gets created with www-data user and group

2018-12-22 Thread Manuel Wagesreither
Hello all, I'm running an minbase installation of Debian Stretch and have configured lighttpd to run as a different, non-www-data user. However, when booting, lighttpd does not start successfully, as /run/lighttpd is still owned by www-data. Only when I'm chowning it to the different user, ligh