Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Marco Möller wrote: > > In the fairly large number of posts in this thread I don't recall seeing > > file system snapshots suggested. My current preference is ZFS, which I > > know from experience to be up to what I understand to be the goal here. > > (...) > I understand the OP to be in search fo

Re: Buster install with UEFI boot not working

2020-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Kashif, Kashif wrote: > >I am trying to install a buster through PXE netbooting using UEFI boot. >The currents setup works for BIOS correctly. > >I changed dhcpd config file using 'option arch' to point to correct >filename and that bit is working as when booting with PXE, the server >manages

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Jun 2020 at 12:15:02 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: > On 01.06.20 04:41, emetib wrote: > > this has been an interesting topic, so what the hell, here's my two cents. > > > > for my vm's, i have a list off packages that i install as soon as the > > minimum/base install and reboot is done.

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 May 2020 at 18:43:46 (+0100), Michael Howard wrote: > On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Michael Howard wrote: > > > With linux (debian) you could just create an image (using dd for example) > > > of > > > the drive in order to restore it at a later date. > > If a backup shal

Re: exim4 stopped delivering local mail after upgrade (sid)

2020-06-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* m s [2020-06-02 15:28 -0400]: > I'm running sid and after upgrading packages today, exim stopped > working. It's keeping all my local mail in /var/spool/exim4/msglog and > not delivering it, and even when I type "runq" it won't deliver the > mail. > > # exim4 -qff -v > LOG: MAIN > Warning: N

OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread rhkramer
In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)". I don't know much about USB hubs, I guess all of the ports are two way. To clarify, if needed, I'd like to buy a 5 (or more) port USB (3.0) hub to con

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 computers, > 1 > printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)". > I don't know much about USB hubs, I guess all of the ports are two way. No. This is even enforced in the way the ca

RE: Target Audience & Geography?

2020-06-04 Thread Rachel Mora
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Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread Joe
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:46:50 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 > computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the > three PCs)". > > I don't know much about USB hubs, I guess all of the ports are two > way. > > To

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/4/20 02:45, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > Marco Möller wrote: >>> In the fairly large number of posts in this thread I don't recall seeing >>> file system snapshots suggested. My current preference is ZFS, which I >>> know from experience to be up to what I understand to be the goal here. >> >>

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 08:53:26PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 > > computers, 1 > > printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)". > > > I don't know much about USB hubs, I guess

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 computers, > 1 > printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)". > > I don't know much about USB hubs, I guess all of the ports are two way. > > To clarify, if needed, I'd like to bu

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-04 at 10:30, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 01 Jun 2020 at 12:15:02 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: >> The short answer to this thread is that unfortunately Debian is >> not prepared with a simple solution for this simple task, but >> sophisticated workarounds are needed. > > As has been

Re: Target Audience & Geography?

2020-06-04 Thread Peter Ehlert
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Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > That begs the question of what pristine means, because it has never > been defined even by the OP. I thought that we had learned that what he really wanted was to be able to identify packages that have not been used recently and remove them. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 June 2020 14:46:50 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 > computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the > three PCs)". > > I don't know much about USB hubs, I guess all of the ports are two > way. > > To cl

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

2020-06-04 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to all who replied! On Thursday, June 04, 2020 05:14:29 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2020 14:46:50 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > In a way, the subject covers most of it: " Using a USB hub with 3 > > computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the > > three

Re: Virtualbox vs qemu/virt-manager

2020-06-04 Thread Kamil Jońca
kjo...@gmail.com (Kamil Jońca) writes: [...] > Please do not treat this as flame or sth. > I used Virtualbox so far on my desktop box. > Virtual machines are generally Windows (10,8.1,7, and ever ancient NT 4.0 Unfortuanately it seems, that qemu is not able to stable run NT4. I forgot that I foun

Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have just installed Buster on a spare set of partitions using debootstrap, as documented in:     Appendix D.3 of the Installation Guide. When I got to configuring networking, I just copied /etc/networking/interfaces, /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and /etc/resolv.conf from my Stretch partition

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  > What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights: root:root 1777/drwxrwxrwt apt runs