On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:47 PM songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
> Kenneth Parker wrote: > > songbird wrote: > ... > >> i only use a few commands regularly and have them either > >> aliased or stuck in history for me in my .bashrc > >> (i start every session by history -c to get rid of > >> anything and then use history -s "command" so pretty > >> much my routine when signing on in the morning is to > >> do !1 and then !2, !3 if i need to do a dist-upgrade. > >> > >> !1 is apt-get update & fetchnews > >> > > > > I opened a possible Hornet's Nest (at least in my understanding) on a > > Public Server that I administer. I had not seen "fetchnews" before and, > > thinking it might give info on Upgradeable Packages, tried it, getting a > > message about "leafnode" not found. > > i think that would be apt-listchanges (i think). Bingo! That's what I thought you were doing! I installed that also, right now, and now have a tool, to display changes > i don't use > it i just use the apt-get update or apt-get dist-upgrade output > to see what is potentially being changed and make sure there's > nothing in there too scary before i answer Y to the download > and update prompt. > > > > Fair enough. So, "apt-get install leafnode", which starts asking me when > > it's supposed to Fetch this News. Finally smelling something fishy, I > > clicked on "none", and am examining what I just did to a "Debian-Like" > > Ubuntu 16.04 Server. > > > > Obviously, I am partly to blame, as the "&" means multiple commands on > one > > Command Line. It only "seemed" to be related to the "Apt-get update" > > command. > > oops sorry! > I didn't finish configuring it, so No Problem! > So, Mr. Songbird, are we talking nntp here? (That takes me back several years!) > > yes! :) it is how i read this group and write back > via gmane. it is much faster way to read LKML and a > bunch of other lists too than via a web interface. i can > skim a few thousand posts in just a few moments and > pick out the stuff that interests me. mark the rest all > read and it's done. > > > > On Topic for here, is to make sure others don't make my error. Off Topic > > (and feel free to personal reply me, Songbird) is my curiosity on, what > > remains of our nntp News System. Are there still good Servers out there? > > (Last time I checked, I found a smelly batch of Spam, mixed with Make > Money > > Fast and Porn, which caused me to back off!) > > check out eternal-september.org :) no binaries. just > text. that is all i want to read anyways. > Thanks! Name Servers couldn't find it without the "www" in front. I am investigating it now. Not likely to get too far down the nntp "Rabbit Hole" tonight, but will look closer at what's there. Could you please ship me a personal email, on how you configured gmane and LKML to read debian-user? Thank you and best regards, Kenneth Parker
