On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:02:49PM +0100, Mark McRitchie wrote:
} Hi,
}
} > By saving the output of
} >
} > dpkg --get-selections
} >
} > and feeding it to
} >
} > dpkg --set-selections
} >
} > and running
} >
} > apt-get dselect-upgrade
}
} How does that handle a package which has its selec
Hi,
> By saving the output of
>
> dpkg --get-selections
>
> and feeding it to
>
> dpkg --set-selections
>
> and running
>
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
How does that handle a package which has its selection set to "hold"?
Regards,
Mark.
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Hello
Mark McRitchie (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good document to read specifically relating to
> Disaster Recovery/Planning of Debian systems?
>
> Any pointers on doing a reinstall of a server to get the packaging
> back to the state of the knackered server?
>
> I'm
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, stan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote:
--snip--
> > > So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot
> > > blocks?
> >
> > Once you've copied the data back ont
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:10:26PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote:
> > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine,
> > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataos
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote:
> > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine,
> > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic
> > disc failure (still in waranty it turns ou
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote:
> > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine,
> > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic
> > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out).
> >
> > The g
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote:
> Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine,
> when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic
> disc failure (still in waranty it turns out).
>
> The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I re
I kept digging; here's a script reporting modified .conf files.
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${conffiles}\n' | gawk '{print $2 " " $1}'
| md5sum -c
It's only a partial solution, but it helps and resolves (2) below.
Rich Johnson wrote:
Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd
Rich Johnson said:
> Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas
> between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster
use a system like CVS then ..
I've been meanin to start using cvs for config files but still haven't
gotten around to doing it.
Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas
between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster
recovery is my primary objective, the list of deltas can also be used
for other things, including:
- problem resolution - i.e. what's non-standard ab
hi ya
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Rich Johnson wrote:
> Hi folks--
...
> Is there a way to list the _non-default_, or modified, .conf files
> required to transferd/or restore a configuration?
> Files like:
> - krb5.conf;
> - httpd.conf
> - timezone
> - cron.d files
> - bind files
>
> I already mai
on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:52:50PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato
> system we are deploying at work.
>
> I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are doing about
> this.
>
> I'm thinking of m
hi ya stan
on the rescue disk ... replace its kernel with your kernel
on the boot disk mknod c /dev/st0 [ 9 0 ]
and you'd need to rebuld the rescue and root disks
or boot as is...
mknod c /dev/st0
insmod scsixxx for your tape drive
mt rewind /dev/st0 -- if it ma
I'll cp /etc. Its not just wiser...its easier.
Many thanks!
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alvin Oga wrote:
(sn ip)
> "for firewall duties"... there should NOT be ppp config setup...
> as ppp is insecure ( login/passwd in clear text ) and anybody
> can login from anywhere... ??
(snip)
PAP and CHAP are okay, aren't they?
-- Mark
hi ya patrick
you should copy the entire /etc directory its typically 50K in etc.tgz
format .. put it on floppy !
sicne there are other files ( /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow that you already
missed that you might wnt to keep...else you'd have to ask everybody
to recreate their passwds and us
On 15 Aug 2001 16:14:27 +0300, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If I need to do a complete reinstall, and get my little server back to its
> current working state, I need to have certain files backed up remotely. I
> have a list below of the ones I think I need.
>
> Are there any other essentia
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