Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

EBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade -y is dangerous, what is the safe way of doing this? Won't just # apt-get upgrade end up biting me because of all the held-back packages with changed dependencies? Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

r dist-upgrade and deal with the potential "package breakage" - whatever that means... Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User level alternatives?

me thing yesterday, when I changed my default x-www-browser from konqueror to firefox. I second that this would be interesting. Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User level alternatives?

wo are both gnome apps), but apparently launch x-www-browser... Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com

Default mysql-server won't even start on etch+sid for 3 weeks due to known bug?

at the syslog. /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

d." Is the dpkg-divert "workable" or "dangerous"? Is it "the best" approach? Pitfalls? Do you know an approach that is better? Any comments? Even a "No, that can't be done. Put update-rc.d remove -d nessus in cron.daily" would be useful, or ev

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

time. And I want to keep them up to date... So imaging will get me started, but I'm still left with this problem to solve. Thanks for your post!! Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com