On Friday 02 June 2017 10:11:40 Michael Milliman wrote: > On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. > > I really enjoy troubleshooting problems, and am not afraid to do so. > Unfortunately, I simply do not have the time to do this on a regular > basis. I always learn a great deal when I do, and that is one of my > favorite things do do :) . I have always gotten very good information > here on the list when I have had to troubleshoot. > > > Let's say once a day, at the time you turn on your pc, you usually > > do updates and upgrades. What if you reverse the order of things. > > You read your list email, be forwarned of past 24hrs of trouble, > > then do and upgrade, then do an update which will not be in effect > > until you apply it the next day. The next day the cycle continues. > > This is an excellent idea. I already look through the proposed > upgrades and pick and choose what I allow on a package by package > basis, so I'm already implementing the most time consuming part of > this process. I also look pretty closely at what a particular package > upgrade brings with it (i.e. libraries that may have an affect on the > system as a whole) before I bring an upgrade in. That way I can > manage the risks involved. I'm not bork-proof, but I haven't borked > the system yet. > > > For me, I get really sad when there is nothing new to upgrade now, > > even if I am the first to face the trouble. But there is also a > > backup system which is not yet updated, so work can still be done. > > > > Sid is real debian to me, the rest is just debian too refined to be > > debian. > > > > On the other hand, resolv.conf is a package in even Jessie that > > needs "manual" configuration to work. Despite what you do it is > > still linux in its finest. No matter what you do each day you may > > never know what will you learn or have to learn to get things done > > by the next morning. Sleep is for windows morons.
Warning thread hijack... My machines are all still on either wheezy or jessie because of kernel pinning, its a realtime rtai patched kernel and my app, linuxcnc won't run without it. My home network is host based and all behind a dd-wrt based router. So rather than fixing resolv.conf by making it immutable in my latest pi install, since I had the u-sd card still in the reader, I went thru it looking for anything that might want to scribble my resolv.conf into a one liner stating it was created by such and such and otherwise empty, I removed the exec bits from the those files attributes. Then I fixed resolv.conf to do what its supposed to do. Neither fix generates any error messages to spam my logs. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>