ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, We are using ntp for a long time in our product, everything was fine till Debian 10 but starting from Debian 11 - it does not allow me to install ntp or ntpsec in headless way (same behaviour for both). Excerpts of log from /var/log/installer/syslog: --

Re: Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

2022-02-07 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 12:45 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security > fixes on using command line as per below: > > $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o > Dpkg::Options

Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

2022-02-06 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security fixes on using command line as per below: $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allow- unauthenticated above command line with APT configuration is suppose

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 4:22 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Jun 2021 at 14:34:12 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > I wonder whether using dpkg-divert(1) would help in preserving your > modified file? > > Yes, this option was intentionally avoided by me because of scripting the mainta

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:34 PM Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > In debian 9.13 server, i'm using custom configuration (locally modified) > file /etc/samba/smb.conf , I do not want to upgrade this file and retain > the old configuration file without prompting during automati

Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, In debian 9.13 server, i'm using custom configuration (locally modified) file /etc/samba/smb.conf , I do not want to upgrade this file and retain the old configuration file without prompting during automatic upgrades but it is still giving me the prompt even after specifying on command line :

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-24 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:36 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > This really sounds like you're trying to test out a scenario in > a situation where it can't possibly work. > > Don't do that. Test it in as close a simulation to reality as > possible. Thanks Dan for insights, it worked - I humbly appreciate you

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-24 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 12:47 AM deloptes wrote: > But this is exactly what he has to do - connect two wired network interfaces > to a managed switch. Then configure LAGG (LACP) on the switch for the two > ports and LAGG (LACP) on the PC/server. Right :) For my tests on Cisco switch at office (wi

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-22 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
ult on this same. Both interfaces are on the same network. Thanks. ** Sent again, as i missed to add debian user list in these two mails , sorry. thanks. On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 8:16 PM Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > > > hrmm... I just went back to the original post; I missed this bit the > >

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-22 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
es that are much > worse than just connecting it to the wired ethernet and leaving > it alone. Sure, will look into more detail into /etc/network/interfaces/ ** earlier mail missed adding debian user list. sorry. Thanks. On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 8:20 PM Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > > On Sat, Au

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-22 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 9:30 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > You don't want a bond, you want a bridge. > > Bonding takes two interfaces that talk to the same switch on the > other side, and makes them into one bond nic. You need support > on the switch, too, which is unlikely in a D-Link 8-port unless > it

Re: In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-21 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 9:30 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > You don't want a bond, you want a bridge. > > Bonding takes two interfaces that talk to the same switch on the > other side, and makes them into one bond nic. You need support > on the switch, too, which is unlikely in a D-Link 8-port unless >

In network bonding second nic (eth1) is not pingable while first one (eth0) is always pingable"

2020-08-21 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi folks, I'm using Debian 10 (point release 5) and i've set up the bonding for eth0 and eth1 in 'active-backup' mode, i'm using virtualbox VM for testing it, if i disconnect cable (virtually from first ethernet - eth0) ping to bond0 IP stops and if i disconnect it from eth1 and reconnect on eth0

Local mirror creation fails using aptly it says HTTP 404 (some packages not found) using mirror 'http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian'

2019-06-07 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi Team, I'm using 'aptly' to create a local mirror from 'http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian' but it fails by throwing the below error, does it mean that some mirrors are incomplete as it says packages not found? I've also tried two to three other debian mirrors too but found the same issue with t

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
>I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears >to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. As stated by others; certainly old kernel is not removed after upgrade, you might be doing something tricky.. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Kenneth

Re: Run a small script at shutdown/reboot

2014-02-18 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi Jon, On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Jon Danniken wrote: > Hello list, I have a small script (foobar.sh) which I would like to run > at shutdown or reboot: > > >So what am I missing here? I'm guessing that using update-rc.d is > >probably more heavy duty/involved than I need for this littl

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >Somehow I am looking for the opposite tool of dpkg-genchanges: >given a .changes file, I would like to check whether the associated files (source files + debballs) >are the correct one. I have not met such tool in debian which does this. Probab

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Can you mention as to what you want to achieve? Probably, *man dpkg-genchanges* would give your more hints. --Jaikumar

Re: Issue with VirtualBox + netinst

2013-04-21 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Attila-Mihaly Balazs wrote: > the installer detects/configures the network normally, however when it comes to mirror selection it reports that the "release might not be supported by this mirror" for every mirror > the solution which worked for me: change the adapte

Re: dpkg

2013-04-19 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > On my client debian (stable release) in the sources.list I've also > debian-backports. > Now I need show only installed packages from that repository. What do you mean by *show_only_installed_packages* ? You may probably mean and want to know wh

Re: Equivalent of --append-to-version for deb-pkg ?

2013-04-16 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Laurent Debian wrote: > testing solutions for a kernel bug I have recompiled several times > the same version of the kernel. I like the command deb-pkg but I didn't > find a easy way to change the name of each compiled version instead of > erasing the previous

Re: slow ssh prompt

2013-04-11 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:15 PM, binary dreamer wrote: > >Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow > response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the > prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after >that > everything is fine. is the