Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-29 Thread Bruno Schneider
imagination I'm afraid. 😀 Ok, what I really mean is that it shouldn't be failing consistently. > If I were you I'd be looking at how often it fails compared to how often > it is run. Are there files left behind in /var/log for every invocation > for example. Ok, that is ha

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-29 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM Andy Smith wrote: > However, if popularity-contest experiences a problem during submit then > it does leave behind a file named like /var/log/popularity-contest.12345 > (and possibly another with .gpg on the end) where "12345" was the > pro

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-29 Thread Andy Smith
;m afraid. 😀 > I don't know how else I could look into why popularity-contest > consistently fails. If I were you I'd be looking at how often it fails compared to how often it is run. Are there files left behind in /var/log for every invocation for example. I'd probably a

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-25, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:54:58PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: >> I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with >> "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. >> They seem to be dat

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:54:58PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with > "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. > They seem to be data that popularity-contest sends away. popularity

Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-25 Thread Bruno Schneider
I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. They seem to be data that popularity-contest sends away. Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a bug? It seems they are in the wrong place or, at l

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread John Covici
ode 0755 $Umask 0022 # # Where to place spool and state files # $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog # # Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/ # $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf ### RULES ### # # Log anything besides private authentication messages to a

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread Dan Ritter
atch to work > properly. rsyslogd.conf controls what logfiles rsyslogd would generate: *.* -/var/log/syslog auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.*,local7.* -/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/lo

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread fxkl47BF
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, John Covici wrote: > hmmm, I looked at the release notes, but it does not say how to > restore the old behavior, it just says many files are no longer > necessary and lists them. I am using logwatch and that program seems > to be effected, I would be OK, if I could get logwat

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
eb John Covici: > > > Hi. I am using bookworm with latest updates and /var/log/syslog is > > > empty, even though rsyslog is runniing. I am also using logwatch and > > > not getting at least some responses I should get such as fail2ban. > > > These may be sepa

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread Marco Moock
Am 21.11.2023 um 05:15:24 Uhr schrieb John Covici: > hmmm, I looked at the release notes, but it does not say how to > restore the old behavior, it just says many files are no longer > necessary and lists them. Please post you syslog configuration.

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread John Covici
:35 -0500, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > [1 ] > Am Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 05:01:50PM -0500 schrieb John Covici: > > Hi. I am using bookworm with latest updates and /var/log/syslog is > > empty, even though rsyslog is runniing. I am also using logwatch and > > not gettin

Re: in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-21 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 05:01:50PM -0500 schrieb John Covici: > Hi. I am using bookworm with latest updates and /var/log/syslog is > empty, even though rsyslog is runniing. I am also using logwatch and > not getting at least some responses I should get such as fail2ban. > These may

in Debian bookworm /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-11-20 Thread John Covici
Hi. I am using bookworm with latest updates and /var/log/syslog is empty, even though rsyslog is runniing. I am also using logwatch and not getting at least some responses I should get such as fail2ban. These may be separate problems, but any help on those would be appreciated. I saw a previous

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 1:09 PM David Mehler wrote: > > [...] > > "2. "I noticed that when I change UsePAM yes to UsePAM no then this > issue is resolved." > > BINGO! I flipped that UsePAM setting to no and the problem has gone away. If you need a datapoint about UsePAM... I've been setting it

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-15 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 15 Jul 2023, at 17:52, David Mehler wrote: [...] > Regarding the original issue of the systemd upgrade and the invalid > attributes [...] here is the output that I've got: > [...] > Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to > incompati

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-15 Thread David Mehler
d (on the ssh server machine) also affected by authentication delays?  This apparently suggests a PAM issue." In answer yes su on the ssh machine also has these delays. It is looking like a pam issue. "1.  "I found that PAM was reading the file /var/log/btmp, which had become

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-15 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 15 Jul 2023, at 13:09, Gareth Evans wrote: > > 2. "I noticed that when I change UsePAM yes to UsePAM no then this > issue is resolved." > > There may be security (or other) issues with (2). See, for example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/673153/sshd-what-are-the-practical-e

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-15 Thread Gareth Evans
u ssh from the other machine? Don't forget to specify target port (with -p1234) If PAM-related, then answers at the above link suggest: 1. "I found that PAM was reading the file /var/log/btmp, which had become huge as a result of people trying to brute-force my server. This was lead

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-12 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 12 Jul 2023, at 15:12, David Mehler wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running Debian 12 on a vps. I just upgraded it and am now > apparently running the latest systemd version 252.12-1. I saw an error > about invalid attributes on /var/log/journal then it said ignorin

latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-12 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I'm running Debian 12 on a vps. I just upgraded it and am now apparently running the latest systemd version 252.12-1. I saw an error about invalid attributes on /var/log/journal then it said ignoring. I've seen others with this error but only in reference as far as I can tell to

Re: /var/log/journal/ size question

2022-04-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2022-04-21 10:08:04+0800, Henrik S. wrote: > The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. > why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? User can control log sizes with /etc/systemd/journald.conf file but systemd manages them automatically quite intelligently

Re: /var/log/journal/ size question

2022-04-20 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Apr 21 2022 at 10:08:04 AM, Henrik S wrote: > The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. > why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? > That's the storage for the logs maintained by journald. You can manage these logs by editin

/var/log/journal/ size question

2022-04-20 Thread Henrik S
The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? Thanks.

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 sep 21, 07:05:37, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > What does it look like? > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-10-01 Thread Kushal Kumaran
t;> > > What does it look like? >> > > >> > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal >> > >> > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log >> > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / >> > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:35:35PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Would it be sensible for the message to actually mention ownership, > or can it apply to very different circumstances (beyond permissions, > that is)? I've failed to find any other cause, but see a lot of > people messing up their owne

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread Nils
; > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > > > What does it look like? > > > > > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > > > > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log > > > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / &g

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > From: Greg Wooledge > > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > > What does it look like? > > > > > &g

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:01:00 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > root@joule:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > #deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ bullseye main > deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free > deb-src http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-fr

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. APPEARS SOLVED.

2021-09-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 02:35:10PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I can't explain why / was owned by me. According to the above it > happened in the release upgrade two days ago. No, that's not what that timestamp says. The timestamp in "ls -ld" is the modification time (mtime) on the direct

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. APPEARS SOLVED.

2021-09-29 Thread peter
-ld / /var /etc /usr /var/lib /var/log drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / drwxr-xr-x 132 root root 12288 Sep 29 09:34 /etc drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 11 2020 /usr drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 2020 /var drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 Sep 27 19:28 /var/lib drw

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > What does it look like? > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log > drwx

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread peter
From: Nils Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:16:30 + > Are you sure you still need these journals? I don't know. > ... my way to work around it would be to just delete those logs. Did that and rebooted. System behaviour is unchanged. plymouth-label was the last package reported unconfigu

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > What does it look like? > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 2020 /var drwxr-xr-x 10 r

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
same post-inst scripts again, and produce the same errors again. 2) With systemd in a possibly messed-up state, rebooting is risky. I would focus on fixing the underlying issue, starting with looking at the things that it complained about. ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the > following transcript. > > This page appears relevant. > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the > following transcript. > > This page appears relevant. > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Nils
Tuxifan Am 28. September 2021 17:55:59 MESZ schrieb pe...@easthope.ca: >Hi, >Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the >following transcript. > >This page appears relevant. >https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html > &

Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread peter
Hi, Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the following transcript. This page appears relevant. https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html /var/log/journal exists here. The command "systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /va

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
I think this is some kind of parsing bug from the response from solr. The number of pairs of errors returned is the same number of hits received during the search. So if I do a search with 7 results turned up, I get 7 pairs of errors. Fixed with the following: 1) simplified config file by re

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
The bug I patched also threw a similar kind of error. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970692. But this error is cropping up for every user on the system. A google search turns up nothing on a uid other than '0'. I don't know if this is another debian issue or a misconfig

Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm running debian bullseye. I've had issues running solr on debian in the past due to some kind of bug. I was able to get solr working with dovecot by upgrading the os. After the upgrade, everything works perfectly fine and the search feature in my client using solr now works. However, I get

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi David > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 10:27 AM > From: "David Wright" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages > > It's just a home-grown program that's started from .xsession. >

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 04 Jun 2021 at 02:05:52 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > > > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 5:12 AM > > From: "David Wright" > > > > My own monitoring program logs the temperature (and battery) > > every six seconds. > > > I'm curious: what's the name of your monitoring program? Is it ava

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi David > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 5:12 AM > From: "David Wright" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages > > > My own monitoring program logs the temperature (and battery) > every

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Jun 2021 at 18:34:41 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 12:19 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-06-03 11:27 a.m., Marc Auslander wrote: > > > On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > > On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 12:19 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-03 11:27 a.m., Marc Auslander wrote: > > On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > I check the temperature regularly with sensors

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-03 11:27 a.m., Marc Auslander wrote: > On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> I check the temperature regularly with sensors and it's usually >> between 42 and 52 C. >> >> >> Problem is I can't check the temperat

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Marc Auslander
On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I check the temperature regularly with sensors and it's usually between 42 and 52 C. Problem is I can't check the temperature while it's freezing. You might run a background job that keep

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-03 4:17 a.m., Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 03 iun 21, 08:51:06, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> >> $ sudo inxi -FzCDMm >> System: >> Host: e130 Kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 >> Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie > > Can you reproduce the issue on Debian? > > Do

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 iun 21, 08:51:06, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > $ sudo inxi -FzCDMm > System: > Host: e130 Kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 > Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie Can you reproduce the issue on Debian? Do CapsLock / NumLed or similar LEDs react (provided there are any)?

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
When you say "it freeze". How long have you waited before "pulling the plug" or considering other way of powering off ? Have you checked the temperature of your CPU after leaving it running for a while. Laptop end up with lot of dirt inside and this is not good for thermal conductivity. So they te

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 iun 21, 07:49:32, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Debian Buster here. My laptop is aging and has only 4BG Ram, however that > should be sufficient for a couple of instances of Firefox (no streaming, > etc) and an instance of Chromium. > > It has happened a few times in the last few days that the

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
e last few days that the system > becomes irresponsive, the screen is frozen, I can't shut X down nor go > into text mode. I can't hear any drive activity. The only way out is > to shut the laptop from the power button and reboot. I then check in > /var/log/messages and there i

Re: Ownerships in /var/log/.

2020-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 02:41:37PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > All of the files and most of the directories in /var/log/ are owned > by root. These are the exceptions. > > root@joule:/var/log# ls -ld {c*,ex*,s*}/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 _chrony _chrony 4096 Jul

Ownerships in /var/log/.

2020-10-11 Thread peter
All of the files and most of the directories in /var/log/ are owned by root. These are the exceptions. root@joule:/var/log# ls -ld {c*,ex*,s*}/ drwxr-xr-x 2 _chrony _chrony 4096 Jul 22 2017 chrony/ drwxr-s--- 2 Debian-exim adm 4096 Oct 11 00:00 exim4/ drwxr-xr-x 2 stunnel4

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, September 28, 2020 08:42:03 AM Richard Hector wrote: > On 29/09/20 12:40 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, September 28, 2020 01:28:01 AM Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: > >> > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read you

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Sep 2020 at 01:42:03 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > On 29/09/20 12:40 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, September 28, 2020 01:28:01 AM Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: > >> > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 29/09/20 12:40 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, September 28, 2020 01:28:01 AM Richard Hector wrote: >> On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: >> > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs >> > as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal >> >

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, September 28, 2020 01:28:01 AM Richard Hector wrote: > On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: > > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs > > as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal > > > > $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm > > > > replacin

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs > as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal > > $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm > > replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again > before the ad

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-26 Thread anthony gennard
-C can be useful if you do something like search for > a string in a huge file and want to interrupt it because it's > taking too long. > > > Greg, I was using less. > > What I did was:- Open a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1 > > `cd /var/log` then `ls` and I could see bo

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-25 Thread David Wright
less. > > >You get out of less by pressing p No, q, not p. You get out of less with q. But Ctrl-C can be useful if you do something like search for a string in a huge file and want to interrupt it because it's taking too long. > Greg, I was using less. > What I did was:- Open

Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-25 Thread anthony gennard
a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1 `cd /var/log` then `ls` and I could see boot.log amongst the list of files then I did `sudo less boot.log` and got the list of start ups. At this point I was stuck and asked the list for help. I was such a fool because I did not look up the man page for less. I we

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-25 Thread anthony gennard
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 10:40, anthony gennard wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 10:11, anthony gennard wrote: > >> Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I >> will revert as soon as I can. >> >> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 15:03, Hans wrote: >> >>> Am Donnerstag,

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-25 Thread anthony gennard
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 10:11, anthony gennard wrote: > Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I > will revert as soon as I can. > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 15:03, Hans wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020, 15:45:47 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: >> I believe,

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread anthony gennard
Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I will revert as soon as I can. On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 15:03, Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020, 15:45:47 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: > I believe, the op wants to look it as easy as possible. So I suggest > kwri

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020, 15:45:47 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: I believe, the op wants to look it as easy as possible. So I suggest kwrite (if he has plasma5 aka KDE installed). You must got the correct rights. Either you start plasma as root, then you can just start kwrite and open the

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread john doe
On 9/24/2020 10:59 AM, anthony gennard wrote: I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out of the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I cannot find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyone please help me. Also

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:59:57AM +0100, anthony gennard wrote: > I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out of > the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I > cannot > find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyo

Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread anthony gennard
I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out of the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I cannot find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyone please help me. Also is there any simple way to print out the last ru

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
t; pass the output of that into the 'aptitude purge' command. >>> >>>> Try: >>>> >>>> $ aptitude purge $(grep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk >>>> '{ print $4 }' | tr '\n' ' ') >

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
command. >> >>> Try: >>> >>> $ aptitude purge $(grep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk >>> '{ print $4 }' | tr '\n' ' ') >>> >>> and see what you get. >> >> Turns out that

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
The Wanderer writes: > On 2020-07-27 at 10:37, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What you want to do instead is to run this exact latter command, and >> pass the output of that into the 'aptitude purge' command. > >> Try: >> >> $ aptitude purge $(gre

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:42:31PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Must be so because >> >> $ zgrep "2018.*.install " /var/log/dpkg* >> >> gives no output and so with 2017, 2016 and 2015, whereas for 2019 and 2020 >> th

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:42:31PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Must be so because > > $ zgrep "2018.*.install " /var/log/dpkg* > > gives no output and so with 2017, 2016 and 2015, whereas for 2019 and 2020 > there is output... You can use ls -l to see the dates

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
3-dev:i386 >> 1.2.0-3 >> dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:13 status installed libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3 >> >> In the output there isn't any `install' item... How come...? > > Most likely, because your oldest logs have been removed already. Must be so because

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:06:47PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Just so simple. Now, I want to know when libiec61883-dev:i386 was installed > into my system. To do so, I did: > > $ zgrep libiec61883-dev:i386 dpkg.log* > dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:12 status unpacked libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Wright writes: > I don't know why you'd want to learn bash scripting at > root's command line, but if you insist, please add -s > after the word aptitude. No, certainly, my fault... I just did: $ zgrep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.log* | awk

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-27 at 10:37, The Wanderer wrote: > What you want to do instead is to run this exact latter command, and > pass the output of that into the 'aptitude purge' command. > Try: > > $ aptitude purge $(grep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread David Wright
92 not upgraded. > >> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 394 kB will be freed. > >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > >> > >> , so it's also important that appendix `:i386'. Now, I want to remove all > >> tha packages I installed on

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-27 at 10:25, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2020-07-27 at 09:56, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Now, I want to remove all >>> tha packages I installed on last july 23th. To do so, I do: >>> >>> $ grep "2015-

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
i386{u} >> libsratom-0-0:i386{u} >> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 192 not upgraded. >> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 394 kB will be freed. >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] >> >> , so it's also important t

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
0 B of archives. After unpacking 394 kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > , so it's also important that appendix `:i386'. Now, I want to remove all tha > packages I installed on last july 23th. To do so, I do: > > $ grep "2015-12-19.*.insta

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
true: # aptitude purge liblilv-0-0:i386 The following packages will be REMOVED: liblilv-0-0:i386{p} libserd-0-0:i386{u} libsord-0-0:i386{u} libsratom-0-0:i386{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 192 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 394 kB wi

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-27 at 08:53, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2020-07-27 at 08:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Thanks to you all. Then, e.g., >>> >>> 2020-07-23 08:02:37 install liblilv-0-0:i386 0.24.2~dfsg0-2 >>> >>> means that liblilv-0-0 has been installed or not on 2020-07-

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
The Wanderer writes: > On 2020-07-27 at 08:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> writes: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there. >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> Thanks, that puts it

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-27 at 08:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > writes: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option >>> there. >> >> :-) >> >> Thanks, that puts it to rest. >> >> As always, if everythi

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:15:37PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Thanks to you all. Then, e.g., > > 2020-07-23 08:02:37 install liblilv-0-0:i386 0.24.2~dfsg0-2 > > means that liblilv-0-0 has been installed or not on 2020-07-23? From dpkg > manpage, --log option, as I understand, the field wi

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
writes: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > [...] > >> It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there. > > :-) > > Thanks, that puts it to rest. > > As always, if everything else fails, read the instructions. Thanks to you all. Then, e.g.,

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-25 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: [...] > It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there. :-) Thanks, that puts it to rest. As always, if everything else fails, read the instructions. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-07-25 16:25 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Hi all... >>> >>> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/lo

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-25 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:50PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Hi all... > >> > >> Please what do those occurrences

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Hi all... >> >> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just >> on >> the right next to some (and some not) o

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-25 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all... > > Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on > the right next to some (and some not) of packages names? You mean like this: 2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:

About /var/log/dpgk.log

2020-07-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all... Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on the right next to some (and some not) of packages names? thanks for any help cheers rodolfo

Re: Missing /var/log/wtmp

2019-01-21 Thread Colleen Keegan
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Re: /var/log/mail.err log being spammed

2015-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
; > > > In pursuing an attempt to put dovecot to work as a local server, I > > find my /var/log/mail.err log is being spammed once for every > > incoming email. > > > > The log looks like this: > > > > Dec 3 10:38:34 coyote spamc[6292]: connect to spamd on

Re: /var/log/mail.err log being spammed

2015-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2015 10:50:35 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I am using procmail for my MTA which also attempts to run the incoming > stuff thru some filters, like spamc/spamd. > > In pursuing an attempt to put dovecot to work as a local server, I > find my

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