On 20150416_0100-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have installed various releases of debian many times. I have a local > proxy using approx that makes it very fast. > > After posting about a lockup of my desktop Jessie computer, I realized > that whatever advice I got would I got would surely be more
<snip> > to monitor me, and this message breaches global security because I > should not be allowed to know that I am being watch? > > Help, please. Tell me what to read. I've calmed down a bit, back to my usual level of volatility. I've found Chapter 5 of The Debian Reference. Unfortunately, it presumes that all desktop computers are operated as stand-alone hosts. For a variety of reasons, my basement computer system has not grown that way. Instead It has two other computers, also running Jessie, that serve as print server and a local mirror of Debian software, using approx. Plus a home grown system for taking daily backups of it all, automatically. All this had been tied together by ssh and rsync. And, I am coming to realize that the re-install, not upgrade, of Jessie from RC2 has done something that makes it ignore my /etc/hosts file and go its own way. I can't find the trick to make my desktop computer use the /etc/hosts that I have loaded onto it and to respond to messages from the two 'server' hosts whose demons try to query it. Is it there? or should I be looking in a different Chapter or a different document? The re-install using RC2 did go flawlessly. So my alarums about Jessie, post release are probably alarmist. I look forward to good things to come, if I could get my three computer to talk with each other again. When I went to spell check this, I discovered that the 'Spell check region' selection is grayed out in Emacs. Does anyone have any idea how I can get that back? (So not 'flawlessly', but close.) Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150417185441.ga16...@big.lan.gnu
