ad said they used (a script which
ultimately uses) debootstrap.
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apt does not try to install gksu, whereas
OP's does. So clarification is pending from OP on this matter.
The phrasing of the question has I think led to some unfortunate
diversions.
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Hi Jimmy,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:15:28AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >>On 05/26/2019 11:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >>>There doesn't seem to be any point in interacting further.
> >>
&g
Hello,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 05/26/2019 11:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >There doesn't seem to be any point in interacting further.
>
> Andy that's the most helpful thing you've said,
I guess you missed the response where the very fi
Hello,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:41:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 26 May 2019 10:09:49 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 11:25:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > No Andy, it didn't drink my last beer (Murphy does that), or kill
> > > any
Hello,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 08:12:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 27 mai 19, 02:15:49, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > Glenn, and Andrei, do you do anything out of the ordinary to
> > install?
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/amp-guest/pine64/blob/master/pine6
I think that is a
bug in whatever method of install you have used.
Glenn, and Andrei, do you do anything out of the ordinary to
install?
Myself I have seen this happen when untarring the operating system
as by default tar does not store or re-apply such capabilities.
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Hello,
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 11:25:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 25 May 2019 07:33:01 am Andy Smith wrote:
> > My recollection was that none of that was ever established in any of
> > the threads you posted here, so that is a really weird thing to keep
> >
in ipv6.
My recollection was that none of that was ever established in any of
the threads you posted here, so that is a really weird thing to keep
stating. Did IPv6 use all your toilet paper and kick your dog or
something?
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causing problems then show us those problems and I'm
sure they can be fixed, but you haven't demonstrated any, so it's
highly likely that this is a result of a misunderstanding.
> Please advise, we are still in jurrasic park here in WV.
Fortunately the Linux kernel and network stack is not.
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kernel+module on there before you do the final
reboot into your new install.
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st one or two machines, though
it does of course come into its own with much larger numbers of
machines. Just from the documentation and reproduction angles I find
it worth it.
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really used and had only got the impression from another
thread that it was having some issues with running under Wayland as
it is a GUI app that wants to do things as root. Good to hear that
it uses some privilege separation and isn't in fact running the
whole app as root.
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 01:15:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I don't have seamonkey installed so haven't tried myself, but does
> > it even run as root?
> >
> I don't use SeaMonkey either, but I'm pretty su
t later with the package manager?
Perhaps I have misunderstood, but if I haven't, which DE do you
think should be the new default? Would it be Mate as you use now, or
some other?
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t maybe I am not giving it enough credit; perhaps it drops
privileges before continuing, or something.
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of a pin, but in this case both the pin and the
angels are extremely easy to quantify as they come with spec sheets
and SMART attributes. Perhaps it is an attempt to exhaust our
brains' collective write endurance.
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hers I've found it uses units of 1MiB (2²⁰ bytes), 25MiB or 1GiB!
You can test by writing a known quantity of data to the device (say,
with dd) and then checking out with smartctl how much the counters
altered. Here's a blog post where I did this with some flash devices
to determine the 241 unit:
Hi Abhishek,
The Debian Indian Community may also be able to provide more local
knowledge. - may even be some of them at your institution.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia
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hon and required modules atop a normal Debian
stable.
https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/basics/how-to-use-python-virtualenv
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now you don't have to test your memory,
power supply, etc etc!
If you can reproduce that i think it would be worth a bug report,
because it's really not nice to see "bus error".
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nately the
only explicit official announcement of the removal I saw was at:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg6.html
which is probably not a mailing list that too many users subscribe
to.
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n.org/
> Here is what I put in the sources.list file:
Looks correct except remove the "jessie-updates" lines.
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want you could look at Debian's popcon to compare how many reported
installations there are of each of them:
https://popcon.debian.org/
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nce was
here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/10/msg00096.html
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d connections.
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d-simple-perl. I am sure
there are options for whatever language you like.
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specific to Debian and tell you
Debian-specific things that you need to know.
But apparently you know best so I'm sorry for wasting your time.
Andy
> > On Mar 2, 2019, at 9:17 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 05:14:25PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 05:14:25PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Having a read through the release notes at:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/
>
> is often worthwile even for those more familiar with Debian.
Oh, and The Debian Administrator's Hand
-notes/
is often worthwile even for those more familiar with Debian.
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ost to the partitions on such a thing as block
devices can be enabled by using kpartx (or fiddling with offsets in
losetup, but life is too short!).
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bz2 versions?
http://security-cdn.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
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> I'd be interested to hear any (even two word) reviews of their sofas…
Provides seating.— Andy Davidson
s list server to detect that with no prior
information seems a bit much.
Certainly as you suggest people could contact listmaster@ with a pointer
to this thread and ask for future mail from corrlinks.com to be rejected
though, as it would seem such mail would never be relevant.
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your actual use case is there are many other reasons
why this may not be suitable.
If I had 50TB of valuable personal data I'd also be worrying about how
it's backed up.
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but failing that you really must set
the block layer timeout high enough.
The smartctl and /sys/block settings above don't survive a power cycle
so would need to be set at every boot.
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year warranty covers
other factors too.
It all depends on use case, as clearly there are uses that are
write-intensive which would burn through 17TB in a matter of hours. I do
not put swap on these devices. Measuring is still essential in my view,
but things are indeed a lot easier than they we
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:14:36PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> A swap partition is faster than a swap file.
Has something changed in this regard since kernel version 2.6 then?
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.0/1690.html
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 03:49:00PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/10/2019 03:26 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >So what changes are you making and how are you checking for them?
I note you have neglected to explain what changes you are making, which
would be essential for us to help you
wrong, or your
system is very broken.
So what changes are you making and how are you checking for them?
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s "drawable is not a native X11 window" then stop
}
Restart rsyslog afterwards:
# systemctl restart rsyslog
But probably it would be better to report the bug in
quadrapassel if it hasn't already been reported.
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with dpkg.
All of this is mentioned in the advisory.
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porary
packages from that time. Perhaps that can save you from downloading
the entire install media.
Keeping these obsolete installs around and in use however, is a bad
idea as others have mentioned.
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worth changing.
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Hello,
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2019 17:15:48 Andy Smith wrote:
> > For bonus points investigate ways to back up the config files of
> > your whole computer.
>
> I hate to spoil your attempt at levity, but amand
against disk failure.
For bonus points investigate ways to back up the config files of
your whole computer.
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Hi Dennis,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger
> device but I think I need to run grub to actually make the
> disk boot.
# dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
will normally take care of that.
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a different kind of tracing like BPF will
be more appropriate. That's beyond me at that point, though.
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alias (RFC 2181 §10.3)¹. Your examples included
"mail" and "ns1" which often feature in MX and NS records.
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¹ Thought they often end up working anyway, contrary to RFCs.
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ion-table
>
> One HUGE problem with that page. Its not printable!
One can obtain a plain text copy of the source of a Stack Exchange
answer by clicking on the date of the answer and then clicking on
the "source" link.
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/revisions/f5dc1641-0ca8-4
, Stephen, you need to focus on finding useless things in / and
either removing them or moving them elsewhere. If it's just data
then it looks like somewhere under /home would be a good choice as
it has 292G available.
Ask before deleting anything you don't fully understand.
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system. But, you could do:
$ dpkg -l | less
to get a list of all packages installed through the package manager,
to see if there is anything that stands out to you.
My hunch though is that you will have a lot of downloaded files in
/root or some big apps from outside the package manager installed in
/opt.
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:27:30PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > Then ask your sysadmin.
>
> > I have no sysadmin.
>
> Then you are not "only a user", you are a sysadmin, and you are trying
> to be one without acquiring the required knowledge.
I Have No Sysadmin And I Must Sudo
make us guess? Just say "check for equality" or
something if that is what you mean. :)
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ll you'll be doing is the
equivalent of a very minimal Debian install. Of course it depends
how much space the actual application that you want to run needs.
schroot will make things a bit simpler for you:
https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot
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ldstable
etc. without any of these concerns.
Or, your developer should deliver only portable source to you, and
you compile that yourself.
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n putting /home on a different disk (actually an
LVM LV), from the installer, for at least 10 years now, I think you
might be mistaken here.
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a sysadmin than just seeing an LPI certification on your resume. Or
an RHCE for that matter.
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servers? I'm not aware that Fastmail does that.
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ure the services again, possibly referring to (but not
simply bulk-overwriting existing directory trees with) my backups
- Copy my data back into place from the backups
It's not as quick as "press a button, there, it's re-imaged", but it
avoids introducing new problems.
Cheer
You can manually set the mirror in the installer, or preseed it.
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ou get stuck with it?
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Hello,
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 06:18:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/04/2018 07:34 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >I don't think the login shell setting has anything to do with it.
>
> You obviously could not be bothered trying it!
I don't run any of the same software as
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >
> >On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >>Why don't you include
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Hello,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> Why don't you include the swap in LVM ?
I don't see the point as it will never change in size.
But in the case where encryption is used, it would have to be
all set of self-contained concepts
that are very well supported by the Debian installer so to me it's
well worth getting to grips with. It will provide you with a lot of
flexibility throughout the life of the system.
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¹ Something like:
# lvresize -r -L+5g /dev/my_vg/home_lv
The
ouble working out how,
I would suggest posting your specific requirement and I'm sure
someone can supply a correct invocation.
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roke
here, perhaps you could build your own kernel packages and "git
bisect" until you find the culprit?
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect
When doing this I also find that using ccache avoids having to
recompile absolutely everything all the time.
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may want consider
duplicate finders that can make use of FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2.html
I know rmlint and duperemove can do this:
https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove
Maybe others.
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mation... Done*
>
> Here's what I get from similar command, why are you installing pkg with a
> wildcard on the end?
It just looks like an artefact of their mailer's attempt to generate
a text/plain version of their HTML email. Note the asterisks around
every line.
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r, if you are looking for a command line
partition editor.
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Hello,
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had thought I had created a partition table with Gparted.
Nowhere in your previously posted session did you show yourself
calling gparted or any other partitioning tool.
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Hello,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 16/09/2018 à 00:39, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >
> >The obvious problem there is an attacker who gets hold of the
> >initramfs in order to be able to use the credentials to request the
>
he password is then used to
unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can
continue booting normally."
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ed and our use case is what it's meant
to serve, so if it's not behaving that way for you then I think it
is a bug and should be reported upstream in the kernel bugzilla.
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Hi Martin,
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 03:58:36PM +0300, Martin T wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:55 AM Andy Smith wrote:
> > Back in 2011 this was a hard-won battle:
> >
> >
> > http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2011/09/04/linux-ipv6-router-advertisements-and
1.
Changing the values of either forwarding or accept_ra does not alter
the values of the other. Only the behaviour of the system.
Back in 2011 this was a hard-won battle:
http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2011/09/04/linux-ipv6-router-advertisements-and-forwarding/
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my btrfs experiment won't be going beyond my
home any time soon.
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/linux-load-averages.html>
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> into the "Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux" sub menu?
I've never actually tried setting the menu entry name alone, instead
have always specified the full path, like:
# grub-set-default 'Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux>Debian GNU/Linux,
with Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64'
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Hi,
In article <9e5cd72f3a49245a58b3263d5976f96e.squir...@swampthing.dk>,
Torben Schou Jensen wrote:
> Yep, I had same problem last night, lucky me I started by upgrading a test
> server before production server.
>
> I just see a workaround have been posted.
> This workaround work here
.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903767>
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; if AIDE does not allow this then I would
consider that a wishlist bug.
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ls", you will probably find that there is a better way to
be doing what you're trying to do. There are a lot of issues with
parsing "ls" output:
<http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs>
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-parse-ls>
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ut. We're not there yet and
information on how to do it seems quite scarce, which is why people
are currently paying for it.
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¹ At this point some may say, "well, if the users ran their services
in virtual machines then the VMs could be migrated to
already-patched hard
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:08:44AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> What is your actual question, here?
Welcome to an Owlett performance art "happening". Pull up a
comfortable seat; this show is going to last a while.
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se the problem isn't that the keys are missing,
it's that the keys are expired. All the above will do is get another
copy of the key, which is still expired.
If you need to use an EOL release, all you can do is ignore the
warnings about expired keys.
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Hello,
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:26:20PM +0100, Mike wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:43:50AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote:
> > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch betwee
el modules"
It's a bit odd that it says Ubuntu when you used a Debian netboot.
Use daily netboot image, pick a different mirror?
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mulator like minicom or screen on the end you
want to be the client. There are configuration details involved for
the server end to get it to send console output to this USB-serial,
and put a login prompt on it.
Ask which parts you need more info on. Please be specific. Please
don't make this harder than it needs to be!
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s-tool; however:
To be honest I'd probably be comfortable letting it remove it by
ignoring dependencies. As long as it's installable again right
after, nothing is going to break.
# dpkg --force-depends -r initramfs-tools
# apt install initramfs-tools
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t;, however, it also freezes before
> finishing configuration.
What happens if you use dpkg -r to remove initramfs-tools and try
installing it again with apt?
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f learning that pays dividends for the
whole rest of your time.
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s of
it after the fact?) so if there is a way to avoid the issue in the
first place then to me that is preferable.
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le bit less hassle. VPN is the best
solution for this but may be overkill for one developer and one
host. Once your setup becomes more complicated, a proper VPN is the
way to go.
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# lvresize -L2g /dev/myvg/my-only-swap
# mkswap /dev/myvg/my-only-swap
# swapon -a
Yet in the overwhelmingly common case for me, I never adjust the
size of swap so having it outside of LVM means it works even if I
somehow break LVM.
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pulating JSON data
>
> Says it's installed but where? Running "whereis" turns up nothing.
$ apt-file search libjansson.so.4
libjansson4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjansson.so.4
libjansson4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjansson.so.4.9.0
Also, for installed packages, "dpkg -L
re swap it can always be added later as devices or
swapfile.
As you can see I greatly value simplicity, which for me is a
hard-won lesson in the sysadmin trenches. Other people like a more
exciting life, so each to their own. :)
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e a bug.
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