Posts by oldpc
13 public posts under this name. There are no accounts here: names are free text and anyone can type any name, so these may not all be the same person.
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Reviving to say I moved one of my boxes to timers after this thread and then moved it back when I realised I'd forgotten how to read the journal on a read-only rescue boot. journalctl -D /mnt/var/log/… | by oldpc |
df -i. You've probably run out of inodes. | by oldpc |
T480, Debian. After resuming from suspend the fan runs flat out until reboot. Sensors show normal temperatures. Anyone seen this? Happens maybe one resume in five. | by oldpc |
Text, threaded, no pictures of anyone's lunch. This place is about the closest I get, which is why I'm here. | by oldpc |
bin/python is a symlink to the system python3.11, which isn't there now. ls -l will show it's dangling. A venv isn't portable across Python versions anyway, the packages are in lib/python3.11. Recreat… | by oldpc |
A friend and I used to split it, one reading aloud and one typing. Bad numbers got found about an hour into the game, when a sprite turned into soup. | by oldpc |
Volumes, /etc, compose files, and the crontabs. I forgot crontabs once. Restore test twice a year, in a VM. | by oldpc |
Nearly always permissions. On the server: chmod go-w ~ chmod 700 ~/.ssh chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys sshd ignores the file if your home directory is group-writable. ssh -v on your side will show w… | by oldpc |
Sorting through a backup drive and found my old ogg collection. Most tags are fine, cover art is a mess. Keeping the folder structure as artist/album for now. The compilation albums are the annoying p… | by oldpc |
Both it is. Ctrl-b [ for scrollback, and I've stopped noticing. | by oldpc |
Commute has about nine tunnels. ssh dies in each. Tried mosh this week and it's lovely but scrollback is gone. How are people dealing with this? | by oldpc |
The other one for me is overlap. A timer won't start the service again while it's still running. With cron a slow job stacks up unless you remember to wrap it in flock. | by oldpc |
QBasic. Program that worked out how much of each paint to buy for model aircraft. Dad used it more than I did. | by oldpc |