Kenneth Parker wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>> i only use a few commands regularly and have them either
>> aliased or stuck in history for me in my .bashrc
>> (i start every session by history -c to get rid of
>> anything and then use history -s "command" so pretty
>> much my routine when signing on in the morning is to
>> do !1 and then !2, !3 if i need to do a dist-upgrade.
>>
>> !1 is apt-get update & fetchnews
>>
>
> I opened a possible Hornet's Nest (at least in my understanding) on a
> Public Server that I administer. I had not seen "fetchnews" before and,
> thinking it might give info on Upgradeable Packages, tried it, getting a
> message about "leafnode" not found.
i think that would be apt-listchanges (i think).
Bingo! That's what I thought you were doing! I installed that also, right now, and now have a tool, to display changes
i don't use
it i just use the apt-get update or apt-get dist-upgrade output
to see what is potentially being changed and make sure there's
nothing in there too scary before i answer Y to the download
and update prompt.
> Fair enough. So, "apt-get install leafnode", which starts asking me when
> it's supposed to Fetch this News. Finally smelling something fishy, I
> clicked on "none", and am examining what I just did to a "Debian-Like"
> Ubuntu 16.04 Server.
>
> Obviously, I am partly to blame, as the "&" means multiple commands on one
> Command Line. It only "seemed" to be related to the "Apt-get update"
> command.
oops sorry!
I didn't finish configuring it, so No Problem!
> So, Mr. Songbird, are we talking nntp here? (That takes me back several years!)
yes! :) it is how i read this group and write back
via gmane. it is much faster way to read LKML and a
bunch of other lists too than via a web interface. i can
skim a few thousand posts in just a few moments and
pick out the stuff that interests me. mark the rest all
read and it's done.
> On Topic for here, is to make sure others don't make my error. Off Topic
> (and feel free to personal reply me, Songbird) is my curiosity on, what
> remains of our nntp News System. Are there still good Servers out there?
> (Last time I checked, I found a smelly batch of Spam, mixed with Make Money
> Fast and Porn, which caused me to back off!)
check out eternal-september.org :) no binaries. just
text. that is all i want to read anyways.
Thanks! Name Servers couldn't find it without the "www" in front. I am investigating it now.
Not likely to get too far down the nntp "Rabbit Hole" tonight, but will look closer at what's there.
Could you please ship me a personal email, on how you configured gmane and LKML to read debian-user?
Thank you and best regards,
Kenneth Parker