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| bio | website | jmtd.net |
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| location | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom | |
| age | 29 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years, 11 months |
| seen | Mar 8 at 15:23 | |
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Manager of computing support people, including sysadmin stuff (mostly UNIX). Formerly a UNIX sysadmin. Programmer by hobby. Debian developer.
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Feb 6 |
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How do I kill processes older than “t”? I think this is one of the more robust solutions, especially in terms of your use of ps, but I'd fold the multiple greps into the single awk, and for safety restrict the pattern matches to particular columns (to rule out e.g. a command name matching builder, etc.) |
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Feb 6 |
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Find (and kill) old processes also why mtime not ctime if you're looking for the creation date of the dir? the dir could theoretically be modified if an additional child was created, which I wouldn't rule out (perhaps a newly loaded kernel module would extend sysfs in some way) |
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Jan 12 |
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Using clonezilla - how long should it take? Lots of non-open-source programs do not handle failure gracefully, too :-) |
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Jan 9 |
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Odd behavior of apt-get with post-inst instructions, and .desktop files I'm glad you're sorted, cheers for the bounty :-) |
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Jan 8 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 6 |
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Odd behavior of apt-get with post-inst instructions, and .desktop files If you put the desktop file into /usr/share/applications, you don't need the postinst at all (or the equivalent prerm snippet) — please try that. |
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Jan 6 |
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Odd behavior of apt-get with post-inst instructions, and .desktop files Urgh. I really hope now there's a good reason for doing it this way, the kludges keep getting more horrid :-) |
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Jan 6 |
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Odd behavior of apt-get with post-inst instructions, and .desktop files I posted this before the latest edit (at time of writing) which supplied the postinst. That seems to suggest I've guessed correctly. Still no idea why the postinst does is that way, but please try and see whether you can rearrange things as I've described, to see if it solves your problems. |
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Jan 6 |
answered | Odd behavior of apt-get with post-inst instructions, and .desktop files |
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Jan 6 |
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Odd behavior of apt-get with post-inst instructions, and .desktop files Would you be able to provide a copy of your postinst? |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 6 |
answered | How do I prevent puppet interfering with manual server changes |
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Jun 20 |
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iptables: change policy or use catch-all rule? It is a matter of preference. I'd prefer the latter, as it's a theoretical risk rather than an actual service-impacting issue. |
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Jun 2 |
answered | Sending mail from a server without being “spam” |
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May 20 |
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linux apache cron-job - check file first Good answer. If the server at the other end is not behaving properly, it might return a success status code, but a bogus file. If you split the logic out into another script (as you suggest), you could perform further sanity checks: is the resulting file a sensible length (starting with 'not 0 bytes' and perhaps moving onto something more sophisticated like 'not more than N bytes different to the original'), is the new file's contents of the right format, etc. |
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May 20 |
answered | How to get the mount point of flash drive by using uuid? |
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May 20 |
answered | iptables: change policy or use catch-all rule? |
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May 9 |
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How to block everything with IPTABLES? I'd also suggest replacing the last line with iptables -A INPUT -j DROP or even iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited instead of -P DROP. In practice, setting the INPUT chain default policy to "DROP" is a sure-fire way to lock yourself out of the machine if you flush the rules by accident (easy to do when experimenting and setting up your firewall -- including if you run iptables -F as suggested earlier :)) |
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May 9 |
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How to block everything with IPTABLES? If you are on a Redhat-based machine, run service iptables save after the above steps to make the rules persistent (survive reboot etc.) |
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Mar 15 |
answered | What is the best distro to host a KVM virtualization solution |
