Re: slrn broke after power failure

Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found the solution thanks to songbird: > then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file > for that group and see if you can then get that message again. > i think a missing .overview file should be regenerated every time

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:57:38 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:02:26 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > As for laptops, > > I handle laptops a bit differently (that's Linux for you). My proxy > statement is in its own file in /etc/apt. When the laptop is home, > there's a sym

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 11:08 AM wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 04:44:36PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > > > I look from desktop perspective. OS (Linux) runs my desktop and manage > > > all programs [...] > > > Because not every machine that has the

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:15:36 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: ... Apt-cacher-ng (hereafter acng) also requires a change in client apt configurations. Put one line into apt.conf or a one-liner in apt.conf.d. I use the latter, 02proxy: Acquire::http::Proxy "http

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

I've tried many... apt-cache debmirror ftpsync I prefer debmirror You can also use aptly but it will be a non original mirror. On 2022-04-19 12:57, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:02:26 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > >> As for laptops, > > I handle laptops a bit differently (th

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:02:26 -0500 David Wright wrote: > As for laptops, I handle laptops a bit differently (that's Linux for you). My proxy statement is in its own file in /etc/apt. When the laptop is home, there's a symlink in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. The symlink gets removed or made by a script N

Re: slrn broke after power failure

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless that "server read failed" message is a red herring... So I got interested and went i

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 04:44:36PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, piorunz wrote: > > > > > I look from desktop perspective. OS (Linux) runs my desktop and manage > > all programs [...] > Because not every machine that has the linux kernel installed runs a > desktop [...] As I

Re: backing up backups

On Tue 19 Apr 2022 at 07:19:58 (+0200), DdB wrote: > So i came up with the idea to create a sort of inventory using a sparse > copy of empty files only (using mkdir, truncate + touch). The space > requirements are affordable (like 2.3M for an inventory representing > 3.5T of data). The effect bein

Re: slrn broke after power failure

On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless that "server read failed" message is a red herring... So I got interested and went investigating and I confess that I have abs

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

On Tue 19 Apr 2022 at 07:24:53 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 09:08:08PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:15:36 -0600 > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Apt-cacher-ng (hereafter acng) also requires a change in client apt > > > configuratio

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, piorunz wrote: I look from desktop perspective. OS (Linux) runs my desktop and manage all programs. When one programs eats too much memory, program gets killed. That is default behaviour or any mature operating system, even in Windows 2000 era we had this. I don't understan

Re: slrn broke after power failure

Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >> Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to >> be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless >> that "server read failed" message is a red herring... >> > > > > slrn --debug FILE > > Then look in FILE for po

Re: slrn broke after power failure

On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to > be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless > that "server read failed" message is a red herring... > slrn --debug FILE Then look in FILE for possible edification.