Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

2025-02-17 Thread jman
Andy Smith writes: Several syslog daemons are packaged in Debian and some of them, particularly rsyslog and syslog-ng, do things that journald does not do. So no, not really, no "encouragement". The simple fact is that most users don't have complex logging needs and journald which is already

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread jman
en host and and guest VM and usually get into the VM via SSH. I created a script to automate creating a Debian VM. I use a Debian preseed installer to provision the VM. https://git.sr.ht/~jman/debian-kvm-template A good piece of advice is setting up your virtual machines as a user and not as root.

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread jman
George at Clug writes: I would also recommend the free version of VMware Workstation. While not FOSS, it is an excellent product, while it is made available for personal use. Don't want to spread fear but it's worth reminding that relying on software owned by Oracle, even when distributed fo

Re: Succint changelogs for Debian packages

2024-12-01 Thread jman
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: Usually if the upstream provides a list of changes, it is included in /usr/share/. But there isn't a standard for its name (and much less for its contents), so look for names like NEWS, Changelog, etc. Often it is gzipped. The path you probably mean is /usr/share/

Succint changelogs for Debian packages

2024-12-01 Thread jman
Hi, I've been using Debian for years and one of the question I've always been afraid to ask is: why are Debian changelogs always so succint? For example, I've just upgraded the package file-roller from 44.3 to 44.4 on my testing (trixie) and apt changelog says "New upstream release". In rea

Re: Debugging systemd-tmpfiles

2024-11-28 Thread jman
Erwan David writes: However, those directories are not cleaned. What should I check ? I've not yet used systemd-tmpfiles but the first thing that comes to my mind, if I had to use it, would to be very careful and mindful of the "purge" command, which can have surprising effects: https://www.