| jeremieh | Fox: logrotate is a package? |
| Fox | jeremieh: yes jeremieh: it rotates your log files, will move access.log into access.log.1 and touch access.log |
| jeremieh | and this is all done auto by the system? Fox: the two are of diff file type. |
| arrrk | Caitriona: that's what I use. And how will I now tell it: "make sure these services are deactivated" easily? either I make my own muck around with rc.d script (adding one more crappy one to solve a stupid problem) or I script interaction with rcconf blargh |
| Caitriona | arrrk: update-rc.d I think. |
| arrrk | Caitriona: and then I lose information about ordering when I do want to bring back the service how will I know what numbers to assign it? this is just broken by design in debian imho, there's no standard way to deactivate a service |
| Fox | jeremieh: this is all auto, but it's no diff file |
| jeremieh | Fox: thks, read the man, thought of starting a logrotate now, but not easy, got to set a config file first. |
| arrrk | anyway, sorry for rant and thanks for help :) |
| Fox | jeremieh: look at the logrotate files you already have on your system, it's a good start |
| jeremieh | Fox: where to look for those files? |
| arrrk | sysv-rc-conf seems to be able to do this, even though all these script solve the problem the long way around which is keeping some database of links, ordering and what not. This instead of just having the script provide an on/off switch |
| Fox | arrrk: to add a service to the default runlevels use update-rc.d <basename> defaults |
| arrrk | Fox: I'm aware of that, thanks. But the ordering is actually important for some services |
| Fox | sure |
| arrrk | I don't to do an ntp sync before I sync from hw clock and debian simply provides no standard way to deactivate a service I've seen services on our network starting in the wrong order because someone went around update-rc.d removing and adding them to defaults fortunately some init.d script do look at a file in defaults to see if the daemon should be started or not but whether they do this or not is not standardized |
| SmokeyD | hey people, the only way not to recieve email form cron but make it log to a file is by piping the output of the individual commands to a logfile? Or does cron have other log facilities? |
| cybermad | yahoo messenger is undefeatable :( i look the server configuration of Yahoo Messenger in Gaim, then i block the scs.msg.yahoo.com and cs.yahoo.co.jp as define in Gaim configuration (Yahoo Messenger) |
| alexIdoia | hi, I am using evolution under X and I am lokking to add a new dictionnary; I should do a dpkg-reconfigure locales , right ? anyone ? |
| unlink | my system is high latency when kernel-mode processes are using the CPU. i have a preemptible kernel, but it's still slow. how can i tweak this? (the main effect is that when i start a new process, it can take 15 seconds to appear) (with a relatively small load average) |
| SmokeyD | alexIdoia, I don't really know. You mean spell checking dictionary? You probably have to install the correct language package for evolution (or whichever package is used by evolution for spell checking) |
| ebw | Where can I read about setuid and sticky and all those bits? |
| unlink | /msg dpkg permissions |
| buscon | Hi, how can I extract a .sit archive? |
| ebw | unlink: I have read somewhere that setting setuid to a directory causes all files created in the directory to have same permissions as the directory, but the info file tells me: setuid no affect on directory? What shall I believe? |
| thegve | Good morning, I am trying to use xenman for administrating a new server, I get a lot of "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file |