Problem: In syslog you find a line like this: But when you check with “smartctl -a” you find a reallocated sector count of zero: Discussion: The harddisk had actually no reallocated sectors, but Smartctrl (Smartmontools) reported a wrong error, because when it was started a different harddisk with errors was found as /dev/sda, but with …
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Problem: When pasting commandos to the shell, the shell no longer executes the command but shows the pasted text highlighted and shows the line feed but does not process it. Discussion: Devuan4 and Debian11 upgraded the readline library with a new default “feature” that should prevent noobs from accidentally pasting commands into the shell. But …
Admins who prefer a Unix style operation systems and don’t like the centralized “one tool doing it all” approach of systemd, switch to Devuan. This mostly improves uptime over boot time. Admins of servers don’t care about boot time and prefer uptime. This list keeps track of the related versions of Devuan and Debian. Debian …
DHCP relaying is used to forward DHCP requests to a DHCP server if the client and the server are not on the same network. One standard implementation of this is isc-dhcp-relay which is part of the isc-dhcp package. Problem: The dhcrelay is forwarding the dhcp request to the dhcp server and the dhcp server is …
After Devuan 3 update ls output showed characters, that are not really in the directory listing. The reason is that “ls” draws quotes around filenames with spaces. This is a bug from my point of view, ls should never change the actual filenames. If a filename has quotes or double quotes it’s even weirder . …
After updating to Devuan 3 the date command shows 12hours am/pm but my days have 24 hours. The locale was always en_US.UTF8 to keep sane command and error output. Debian 10 thinks they had to fix the correct hour display to the complicated one. Therefor all sysadmins like me have to apply the following workaround, …
Problem: after updating from Debian 8 to Devuan 2 the overlay live-boot failes with “no such device” Discussion: I use a bootable USB stick combined with live-boot. In this case the USB stick partition 3 is a normal ext4 file system used as read only “plainroot” filesystem. Live-boot overlays this with an ramfs.As I don’t …
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Problem: when debian goes from “testing” to “stable” to “oldstable” the package sources change. eg. jessie-updates are remove, same happened to jessie-backports The current file /etc/apt/sources.list for jessie (currently oldstable) could look like this deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-freedeb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
If you want to configure WLAN settings on a Linux machine statically you can use the normal /etc/network/interfaces configuration method of Debian. For WPA-PSK you can use this 3 steps: Install the “wpasupplicant” package Generate a psk line with “wpa_passphrase” and copy the hex string after “psk=” root@server:~# wpa_passphrase WLANNAME# reading passphrase from stdinthepasswordnetwork={ ssid=”WLANNAME” …
I bought a new notebook, and installed a minimal Linux distribution on it. While setting everything up, I put together a collection of configuration files and scripts, and compiled them in this github repository: https://github.com/alexte/mate-book-pro-x-linux-config