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00:12.29barbaraim getting wifi drops with RTL8723BE is there a special firmware i need to use other than firmware-realtek?
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03:14.27DocScrutinizer05barbara: you generally need the exact firmware for the particular chip
03:15.32DocScrutinizer05realtek sounds way too familar to believe they had hust one firmware and that fits the RTL8723BE
03:15.38DocScrutinizer05just*
03:16.23DocScrutinizer05I guess firmware-realtek must be a package with quite a number of firmwares in it
03:17.11DocScrutinizer05otoh it's not really plausible the chip would accept a wrong firmware
03:21.36gnarfaceit's more likely there is a bug in the firmware
03:21.51DocScrutinizer05yeo
03:21.54gnarfaceor it's outright missing from that package version
03:21.58DocScrutinizer05https://www.ixquick.com/do/search?q=RTL8723BE+is+there+a+special+firmware+i+need+to+use+other+than+firmware-realtek
03:22.56gnarfacethere were some common ones floating around i know from laptops only a few years old that were missing from a firmware package in jessie but present in the version in ascii, but i could have sworn that was the intel one...
03:25.02gnarfacewith realtek stuff though, often they have partial functionality available without firmware
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06:05.54bozoniusgnarface:  any ideas why my logwatch stopped sending mail?   I've tried tracing the program directly, and it appears to be generating the report, but it does not mail it tome
06:05.58bozoniusto me.
06:06.08bozoniusIt was working until about 5 or 6 days ago
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06:24.38gnarfacebozonius: did you perhaps remove or change the configuration of the local mailserver (exim4 by default)
06:25.49gnarfacebozonius: running out of space on the partition holding the mail spool could be a problem too.   you checked your own user and root's mail, right?  did you look to see if it makes it into the mail spool or the mail logs?
06:28.58gnarfacebozonius: i can think of too many things that could sabotage it to narrow it down with so little information about your system.  for example if you had your own user aliased to root to receive root's mail and the logwatch report was actually going to root, then you destroy that user to recreate it with a change to the spelling of the username, i doubt the mail system is smart enough to track that change automatically
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06:31.27gnarfacebozonius: if it gets as far as trying to actually mail it, i'd expect some mention of either success or failure in the logs unless it's a full partition issue and the logs are on the same partition as the mail spool (which is common actually)
06:32.44gnarfacebozonius: if the /var partition is not full though, and there's no complaint in the mail logs, i'd expect something must be sabotaging logwatch's ability to even attempt to mail the generated report - like perhaps the report generation itself dies partway through maybe due to a permissions issue, like failure to save it to a temp directory before mailing or something...
06:32.51bozoniusI installed dovecot on Jun 29; I never installed postfix
06:33.03gnarfacehmm
06:33.30bozoniusmy /var is at 22% full
06:33.36bozoniusthis is a pretty new install
06:33.40bozoniusof devuan
06:34.04gnarfacehmmm
06:34.18bozoniusexim4 is running
06:34.38gnarfacecould have something to do with the dovecot install changing some system users or permissions? i'm not using that or postfix, not familiar with them
06:34.58bozoniuswell, if that were the case though, why did logwatch work until Jul 11?
06:35.17bozonius(about 2 weeks w/o incident)
06:35.23gnarfacesomething restarted it?
06:35.46bozoniusI do have my own user aliased to pick up root's mail -- that has always worked.  In fact, I ran a test just now, and it is still working
06:35.53gnarfaceok
06:36.06gnarfaceand there's no stale mail in the mail spool for the root user or the mail user?
06:36.13bozoniusfrom my regular user, "echo test mail from user | mail root" and "user" gets the mail
06:36.27bozoniushow can I tell?
06:36.50gnarfacelook in /var/spool/mail
06:37.12bozoniusjust fyi, I don't recall changing my regular login user name... though I DID do that on a differnt system
06:37.27bozoniusbut not on this one
06:37.53bozoniusI even tried removing and re-installing logwatch, to no avail
06:38.25bozoniusonly 1 file in /var/spool/mail and that is my regular user
06:38.37bozoniusthe regular user can read its mail
06:38.45gnarfaceand it doesn't have any unreceived system messages sitting in it?
06:38.50bozoniususing, say, mail(1)
06:39.10gnarfacealso check /var/log/mail.* and /var/log/exim4/*
06:39.21bozoniuswell, there are a lot of messages sitting in it... I have my thunderbird configured to keep old messages for a month or so
06:39.26gnarfaceany successful or failed delivery should be mentioned in one of those mail logs
06:39.32bozoniusok
06:39.51gnarfaceby unreceived messages sitting in the mail spool, i just mean verify that there aren't any you haven't seen
06:39.54bozoniusbut if there are failures, it stands to reason they might not make it to the inbox!
06:40.18bozoniusoh, I read them every day, pretty much.  I try to keep on top of this stuff
06:40.26gnarfaceyea but if the failures aren't even logged, then something is failing before the mail even gets sent
06:40.37bozonius(right)
06:40.54gnarfaceat which point i'd be looking for syntax errors in the cron jobs
06:40.54bozoniuslet me look at those log files...
06:41.52gnarfacesyntax errors in the cron jobs should show up in uh... /var/log/syslog or /var/log/daemon.log i think
06:45.55bozoniusbut we don't need to go so far as cron even.   If I run "logwatch --output mail" from the command line, no mail is sent
06:46.08bozonius(that's how it is invoked in the cron script)
06:46.13gnarfacethough there are certainly exceptions, excluding hardware failure this type of thing usually does keep working on it's own until a human interferes.  so go back in your mind to the days leading up to the first failure.  try to think of anything you might have changed, even if it wasn't apparent it would be related
06:46.31bozoniusI've actually done that.
06:46.53gnarfacedovecot sounds like the smoking gun to me but i agree that the timing is a bit of a stretch
06:46.56bozoniusIn fact, on the 12th, there was no mail from logwatch and I did look around and try to recall what I might have changed
06:47.47bozoniuswell, the only issue I can see with dovecot is a failure on a dot lock file, but the problem is that that error has been showing up since i installed dovecot.  Dovecot is an imap server anyway; we'd want to look at postfix or exim I think.
06:48.02gnarfaceit's possible at least in theory for something to break that doesn't show up until some normal log rotation restarts a daemon that only then incidentally picks up the broken config
06:48.43bozoniusdo you know if exim4 has been updated recently?
06:49.08bozoniusnvm
06:49.20bozoniusmine was last updated Jun 27, long before any of this
06:49.49gnarfacedovecot is an imap server but might concievably share some users/filesystem permissions
06:50.06gnarfaceit has to be able to write to the same maildir as exim to do it's job
06:50.18gnarfaceactually i'm not sure what dovecot is
06:50.25gnarfacei'm using courier-imap from the dovecot project without dovecot
06:51.49gnarfaceoh
06:51.53gnarfacehostname changes?
06:51.59bozoniusah!
06:52.02bozoniusthat could be.
06:52.13bozoniusI may have added the domain name
06:52.17bozoniushuh
06:52.20bozoniusok
06:53.04gnarfacemaybe in adding another ip or domain, you inadvertently changed the one that the host sees as it's "default" or canonical name?
06:53.15gnarfacethat could choke a mail config for sure
06:53.24bozoniusoops
06:53.43bozoniusdang
06:53.50bozonius"/etc/hostname"
06:53.55gnarfacealso the hostname gets inserted literally into dozens of mail related configs.  you might have to update it by hand or dpkg-reconfigure those packages owning those configs at least
06:53.59gnarfacehah
06:54.01bozoniusdamn leading slashes
06:54.04gnarfaceor just /etc/hostname
06:54.20bozoniusbut the basename, the hostname itself, did not change
06:54.24bozoniuswould not have changed
06:54.38gnarface<PROTECTED>
06:54.43bozoniussure
06:55.13gnarfaceif you're relying on dhcp it might matter the order it starts up
06:55.22bozoniusNo dhcp here
06:55.36bozoniusand /etc/hosts was last updated Jun 30...
06:56.03gnarfacehow about dns servers?
06:56.04bozoniusI suppose I could completely re-installed exim4
06:56.13bozoniuslike dnsmasq
06:56.20gnarfaceyou probably don't have to do that.  try dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
06:57.08bozoniusok, but as far as dnsmasq, none.  I have my devuan config'd to use a local dns server.  and there are no known problems there
06:57.24bozoniusI can find all my other machines, and they can find my devuan machine
07:00.57bozoniusnot sure what kind of config for exim4.   It's mostly local mail; dovecot serves other machines on my network for imap from this machine.  and any smtp (sending mail) from thunderbird is handled by t-bird's own config
07:00.57gnarfacedid you mention a stale lockfile issue with dovecot?
07:01.12bozoniusno, no stale  lockfile.
07:02.07bozoniusMy gut is telling me this is a logwatch issue.
07:02.18gnarfaceexim4 is only asking about SMTP here.  if you're not receiving or sending mail from/to remote machiens over SMTP, then it's local mail
07:02.29bozoniusI was able to get a report from it sent to my inbox a while ago, but I can't remember what I did...
07:02.30gnarfaceexim4 doesn't touch imap
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07:03.58gnarfaceone thing i've had go wrong on me is ipv6 related - with ipv6 disabled some update re-added the default ipv6 loopback device to the exim4 config on one of my machines (may have been my fault for not paying attention)
07:04.35gnarfaceexim4 will fail to do a damned thing if it's configured to look for ::1 on a system that has ipv6 disabled
07:04.49bozoniuswell here it is:  If I run "logwatch --range yesterday --output mail" from the cmd line, it sends the report to regular user's inbox
07:04.51gnarface(simple to fix by removing it while running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config though)
07:05.07gnarfaceit'll only run yesterday's report?
07:05.43gnarfacethat's odd... is it possible this could be could be caused by clock drift?
07:05.50gnarfaceor a timezone shift?
07:06.04bozoniusbut logwatch is not invoked that way in the cron script:  "logwatch --output mail"
07:06.20bozonius(but maybe "yesterday" is the default)
07:06.38gnarfacebut you said calling it without "--range yesterday" didn't work?
07:06.42bozoniusright
07:06.45bozoniusodd?
07:06.51gnarfaceyea
07:06.57bozonius--range today doesn't work either
07:07.21gnarfacedo you have tzdata installed, is your timezone correct, and is the system time correct?
07:07.25bozoniusbut why would that affect whether it sends mail or not...
07:07.32gnarfacei don't know, honestly
07:07.53gnarfaceeasier to verify than find out why
07:08.02gnarfaceeasier to fix if true
07:08.02bozoniusso far as I know, yes. But as far as drift... i did notice a little while ago, hours ago actually, that my time was slightly off
07:08.49bozoniusand also, I did not have my ntp pointed to my local timeserver, so I corrected that.
07:08.51gnarfaceif it drifts backwards and something sees files that are timestamped from the future, i've known that to cause certain types of cron jobs to fail
07:08.58bozoniusbut this has been happening for days
07:09.10bozoniusah good point
07:09.22gnarfacethat definitely hoses logrotation actually, now that i think of it
07:09.49bozoniusI think it was off by 6 seconds
07:10.04bozonius-6 seconds
07:10.07gnarfacehmmm.  that doesn't seem like enough to be a big deal.
07:10.10bozoniusyeah
07:10.12gnarfacebut i'm not sure
07:10.36gnarfaceif logwatch is part of a cron script with other stuff, esp. log rotation, maybe check to see what's happening before it
07:10.52bozoniusnope.  logrotate is separate from logwatch
07:11.25bozoniusin fact, the only thing the logwatch script does is check to see if the script even exists then executes it
07:11.39bozoniusthere are some comment lines...  lol
07:11.48bozoniusnothing juicy though
07:12.25bozoniusyou know what... it's a perl script
07:12.34bozoniusthe actual program that gets called
07:12.43bozoniusand I think I installed a perl module!
07:13.16bozoniusthat was to support another script I run via cron also, but I wonder if maybe...
07:14.25gnarfaceah, cpan, the bane of perl reliability
07:14.30bozoniusyeah
07:14.35bozoniusStatistics::LineFit
07:14.47bozoniusmy other script won't run without it.
07:14.53gnarfacealot of the important stuff is actually packaged stably in the debian repos.  always check for a package of it before going to cpan
07:14.56bozoniusI mean, it could, but not effectively
07:15.19bozoniusI did.  I could not find that module.  But if YOU can find it, I'llsubstitute it
07:15.29bozoniusI'll substitute it
07:16.10gnarfacenah i got nothing, but does the timing on this module add line up?  that does seem like it could be sabotaging report generation for sure.  that would explain why it appears to start generating the report but fails to ever send it
07:17.21bozoniusotoh, my other script has been running since long before this stuff started; looks like the scripts were installed on this machine Jun 2
07:17.22gnarfaceperhaps there's an alternative you could use
07:17.29gnarfacehmmm
07:17.39bozoniusI mean, Jul 2
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07:18.11gnarfaceit could have maybe not run into issues until it had to generate a report where the data calls for the use of that module?  like a really long line or something?
07:18.11bozoniusmaybe, but it would mean doing some recoding etc.  That could take some time
07:18.34gnarfacethat's another thing that fits in with the failure to generate a report theory
07:18.52gnarfaceif somehow the problem is only excited by certain types of input data
07:18.55bozoniusbut it these are 2 entirely separate cron jobs, script sets
07:19.27gnarfacesure but the logwatch one maybe has coding for optional modules that weren't tested?
07:19.39bozoniuscould be
07:19.55gnarfaceit might be worth it to make sure it *can't* use Statistics::LineFit
07:20.05bozoniusthe LinFit module I added from cpan wuld haev to be explicitly referenced though
07:20.28gnarfacei think it's at least plausible it might be called from a fork but only "if present"
07:20.39bozoniusright.
07:20.45gnarfacewhen you added that module from cpan you didn't change perl versions did you?
07:21.03bozoniusbut there'd have to be a "use" statement somewhere deep in the bowels of logwatch or its own modules
07:21.41bozoniusI don't think so, no.  Again, I have only had this VM with devuan for about 2 or 3 weeks now.  I installed it as soon as I notice 1.0 was out
07:22.04gnarfaceoh it's a VM
07:22.15gnarfacethat puts a spotlight back on ipv6 support...
07:22.27bozoniusI have ipv6 disabled
07:22.53gnarfacetry this
07:22.54bozoniusI've never enabled it in my VMs.  I realize I probably should, but that's a different tale
07:23.18gnarfacetry this: cat /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf|grep '::'
07:23.49gnarfacedoes the line with dc_local_interfaces show up?
07:24.04bozoniusI get: dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
07:24.11gnarfacebingo
07:24.25bozoniusbingo
07:24.28bozoniusbingo?
07:24.36gnarfaceexim4 is trying to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 localhost
07:24.44gnarfacethat won't work in a VM that doesn't have ipv6 enabled
07:24.50gnarfaceit wouldn't ever have worked
07:24.55bozoniusbut it WAS working
07:24.58gnarfacesomething must have updated your config
07:25.06bozoniusmy VM config?
07:25.11gnarfaceyour exim4 config
07:25.14bozoniusoh
07:25.26bozoniuswell, I did not intentionally reconfig anything myself
07:25.31gnarfaceunless you used to have ipv6 enabled in the VM previously?
07:25.51bozoniusnot likely at all
07:25.55bozoniushold on
07:26.02gnarfacewell it's easy to fix
07:26.45bozoniusactually, VBox does not manage that AFAIK
07:26.49bozoniusit's the guest OS
07:26.50gnarfaceyou can re-run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config or you can just change that file and re-run update-exim4.conf as root (then restart exim4)
07:27.17gnarfaceif you only have it set as dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
07:27.26gnarfacethen exim4 knows only to enable ipv4 networking
07:27.45bozoniuseven though I can somehow get a mailed report if I pass the yesterday option?
07:27.53gnarfacei'm using a different virtualization solution, but i have to set that in my guests too
07:28.05gnarfaceoh yea, that's right the yesterday option
07:28.13gnarfacethat's weird as hell
07:28.25gnarfacebut i also can't imagine this could have worked otherwise
07:28.38gnarfacehmmm
07:28.57gnarfaceand you didn't update to the backports perl version or anything weird like that, did you?
07:29.09bozoniusnot intentionally, as I recall
07:29.11gnarfacei'm running out of ideas here
07:29.17bozoniusit's OK
07:29.33bozoniusI'm wondering if a good old-fashioned Microsoft reboot might help here...
07:29.44gnarfaceget any other modules from CPAN perhaps?  maybe just accidentally upgraded stock ones?
07:30.02bozoniusDon't think so, unless LineFit might have hauled in a few itself
07:30.20gnarfaceit would help if you could see some error message about where/how exactly the logwatch report generation fails
07:30.56bozoniusyeah, that's my next step.  Go deep into the bowels of the script and see precisely what it is doing when it tries to send mail
07:31.10bozoniusand that means you won't see me for a while... LOL
07:32.17bozoniusit probably wouldn't hurt to see if your ipv6 idea could be it
07:32.27bozoniuswth
07:38.20gnarfacemaybe you simply added something that writes log files in a format it doesnt' like, or with permissions it chokes on
07:38.37gnarfacelog file *names* in a format it doesn't like, i meant to say
07:40.51gnarfacewell anything is possible
07:41.20gnarfaceif it's generating web reports it could even be a character set problem
07:44.04bozoniusI am viewing the debug output from logwatch now...
07:44.25bozoniuslooks like the "mailer" it uses is "sendmail," but sendmail is a link to exim4
07:44.56gnarfacethat's not unexpected
07:45.22gnarfaceexim4 explicitly includes command-line binary compatibility with sendmail for this purpose.  lots of stuff still calls it that way
07:45.35bozoniuswell, I just wanted to make sure we're not looking at something more peculiar.
07:45.50bozoniusother tools do the same; sendmail being so popular
07:45.52gnarfaceof course, it's important that it's working right and you should verify, but no, that's not peculiar.  that's the stock setup anywhere exim4 is in use.
07:46.13gnarfacei'm pretty sure php can't even send mail without it
07:47.13gnarfacesomewhere in the exim4 docs are a set of simple example commands you can run against it to test the mail queueing and delivery functionality
07:48.32gnarfaceon the clock issue - you verified the guest and host clocks are both matching, right?  i'm not sure it's possible for them not to match, but if they didn't, that could be an issue too
07:49.03gnarfacethis is grasping at straws though at this point
07:49.27bozoniusthey should be matching now
07:50.07bozoniussee, one of my VMs is a firewall (ipfire) and it is configured to be the local ntp timeserver.  It, in turn, gets its time signal from the internet somewhere
07:50.31bozoniuseven if the fw's idea of the correct time is off somehow, at least all the local machines will be in sync.
07:51.08gnarfaceah, ok
07:52.16bozoniusgood idea to do it this way, I think.   Plus then I'm not being a mooch on Internet NTP bandwidth
07:52.48bozoniusI'd like to think there is a NTP server mgr out there who smiles upon considerate NTP users...
07:53.45bozoniusI'm going to rerun the test with higher debug value; I'm not seeing stuff about mailer
07:54.25gnarfaceremember it could have nothing to do with the mail; it might not be even finishing the report generation
07:54.51gnarfaceor it may... finish it and fail to save the tmp file ?
07:55.01gnarfacesay, you haven't recently moved /tmp to tmpfs have you?
07:55.07gnarfaceis your /tmp on tmpfs?
07:55.13bozoniusit removes the tmp directory automatically
07:55.26bozoniusthe temp dir is set to use /var/cache/logwatch
07:55.47gnarfacehmmm
07:55.49gnarfaceis it tmpfs?
07:55.58bozoniusactually, /var/cache/logwatch.<randomjunk>
07:56.24gnarfacebut
07:56.27gnarfaceis your /tmp tmpfs?
07:56.30bozoniusoh
07:56.34gnarfaceand is it out of space
07:56.35gnarface?
07:57.18bozoniusmy /tmp is a LVM volume formatted ext4 and mounted to /tmp; usage is at 1%
07:57.30bozoniusbut good to point that out
07:57.36gnarfaceoh, ok.  just making sure.  the common default tmpfs /tmp setting of 16MB isn't enough for all types of servers i've seen
07:57.47bozoniusI've gotten bitten by devoured disk space recently on a different system...
07:58.02gnarfacels
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07:58.04gnarfacewoops
07:58.05bozonius16MB?  That's a joke these days
07:58.06gnarfaceheh
07:58.23gnarfacei think you need 64MB in /tmp for some types of mysql config
07:58.37gnarfaceyou said you made a dns change?
07:58.53gnarfaceonly thing i could think of is if the new server refuses reverse lookups...
07:59.01gnarface?
07:59.23gnarfaceif you're parsing logs and doing reverse lookups on the ip addresses
07:59.54gnarfacehmmm... also makes me wonder if the script has an execution time limit
08:00.07gnarfaceor ram limit, that may be getting hit
08:00.14bozoniustime limit... hmmm
08:00.40bozoniusagain, even though this works... sometimes, with the right "karma" (options)
08:00.46bozoniuslol
08:00.48gnarfaceyou said you switched to a local dns through dnsmasq
08:00.50gnarfaceright?
08:01.04bozoniusnot on the VM where this bug is happening, no
08:01.17bozoniusbasically, my VBox host runs a dnsmasq server
08:01.20gnarfacejust one more thing to check anyway
08:01.32bozoniusI have all my guests pointing to the host as their DNS server
08:01.32gnarfacealso dnsmasq has like a 3 hour delay or something like that by default
08:01.57bozoniuswell, I think more than 3 hours have passed since this issue began...
08:02.02gnarfaceif you make changes to the dns server, you might want to restart dnsmasq
08:02.10gnarfacejust saying
08:02.21bozoniusI did, actually, when I created the new VM, but that was weeks ago
08:10.02bozoniusdefault range IS "yesterday" .... so then why does it only seem to work when I pass the range explicitly I wonder?
08:10.31bozoniusI see this will take some serious debugging.  And I'm tired.  I think I shall get some sleep for now.
08:10.43gnarfacemaybe just uh... fix the script, report a bug?
08:10.49gnarfacethat came stock from devuan jessie?
08:10.57bozoniusthank you for all your suggestions.
08:11.04gnarfaceor is it from a 3rd party repo?
08:11.19bozoniusyeah, If I figure this out, I will post a bug to Devuan and the logwatch dev
08:11.31bozoniusI believe it is in the devuan repos
08:12.00gnarfacehmmm, weird, seems odd we're just noticing this now
08:14.42bozoniusapt-cache showpkg logwatch says it comes from devuan repo
08:14.50bozoniusand why it is so flakey, too...
08:16.38bozoniuswhat time zone are you in; I can look for you then
08:16.43bozoniusI'm Pacific Time here
08:17.26gnarfaceyou will never predict my arrival like that :)
08:17.31gnarfacei'm in pacific time too
08:17.32bozoniuslol
08:17.33bozoniusgotcha
08:17.38gnarfacehave a good one
08:17.59bozoniuswell, I'm going to sleep now.  night, and thanks a lot!  Really appreciate all your suggestions.
08:19.51gnarfaceit was no problem
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17:14.46eracc_lappyHey folks. I've been watching my logs a bit more closely since just switching to Devuan 1.0 this past week. I see this in the kernel log from yesterday: https://pastebin.com/raw/AGWwCkBx
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17:15.37eracc_lappyLooks like that may be a bug that has been around a while: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kernel%3A%5B57187.176352%5D+Uhhuh.+NMI+received+for+unknown+reason+2c+on+CPU+0&t=hu&atb=v72-7&ia=web
17:20.04eracc_lappyHeh, Red Hat suggests just ignoring the message: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538739#c16
17:20.07eracc_lappyNice.
17:30.20MinceRlol
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17:31.55muepdoesn't sound unreasonable to me if it is a difficult-to-reproduce warning related to some specific hardware
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17:42.43bozoniusgnarface:  logwatch has (mysteriously) started working again.
17:42.54bozoniusand no, I cannot explain it
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17:43.11golinuxgremlins
17:43.17eracc_lappy^^^
17:43.27bozoniusis that you doing it?
17:43.45bozoniusyou messin' with my system?
17:43.56bozoniusit is so weird.
17:44.16bozoniusI looked through my bash history to see if I could figure out what I might have done
17:44.27eracc_lappyProbably old gremlins from WWII. They are bored, so messing with Linux.
17:44.56bozoniusI'd think those would be dead by now.
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17:58.03bozoniusis there an inside joke here?   I am really curious why this happened.  I did not system re-config I can think of that would have caused this.
17:58.37bozoniusIf this really is a security hole of some kind, as I think you are implying, then I may need to drop Devuan and go with something else instead.
18:09.29KatolaZbozonius: ???
18:12.36bozoniuswell, KatolaZ, "gremlins" and such are not exactly the most technical explanation here
18:13.00bozoniusI did absolutely nothing to my system either prior or after this one-off issue
18:13.20bozoniusso if not "I" then what/whom?
18:17.38KatolaZo_O
18:17.53KatolaZso people from this channel would have got into your machine and solve the problem?
18:18.13KatolaZwithout you noticing it...
18:18.41KatolaZI like more the "gremlins" explanation, TBH
18:19.17KatolaZBTW, what was your problem about?
18:19.27bozoniuswhy does it have to be people from THIS channel, but I won't rule it out either.  Look, I think it unlikely, but at this point, there doesn't seem to be any rational explanation
18:19.38bozoniusgo back and read the log from last night
18:19.57bozoniuslogwatch stopped sending mail, even if I ran it from command line
18:20.30bozoniusif I explicitly passed an option, it would send mail, but no other way I could see.  Strangest part about that was that the option I passed is the default!
18:21.01bozoniusI browsed the web for any bugs like this, but I found no hits that explained MY situation.
18:21.09bozoniusspent a good 4 hours or so on this
18:21.34KatolaZbozonius: maybe you had some specific config which was not working?
18:23.19KatolaZbetween a non-working logwatch configuration and the alternative you proposes (that Devuan has a remote vulnerability which allowed somebody to remotely log into your system and solve the problem with logwatch)
18:23.27KatolaZI tend to prefer the first one...
18:23.35KatolaZjust Occam's razor, you know...
18:28.03bozoniusnon-working?  It is working now.  It was working before.  But it did not work for about 5 days.
18:28.15bozoniuswithout me changing anything in logwatch's config
18:28.44bozoniusI have a question:  Why is there a /lib/systemd on Devuan -- what is this used for?
18:29.01KatolaZuh?
18:29.13KatolaZbozonius: that's a folder
18:29.34bozoniusI ran dpkg -l on some of the files there and they don't seem to be related to any package
18:29.44KatolaZbozonius: that's a folder
18:29.56KatolaZand contains systemd units
18:29.58bozoniusthere are files in it
18:30.00bozoniusyes
18:30.01bozoniuswhy
18:30.04KatolaZfor package that provide systemd units
18:30.13bozoniussuch as...
18:30.14KatolaZbecause some packages provide also systemd unit files
18:30.25bozoniusthat are not used on Devuan
18:30.27KatolaZon top of init scripts
18:30.32KatolaZcorrect
18:30.39bozoniusso why are they still around?
18:30.48muepthe units don't do anything if you do not have systemd and I'd guess there's more useful work for packagers than removing a few small unused files
18:30.53KatolaZbecause we should otherwise rebuild those packages
18:31.05KatolaZand those files are useless if systemd is not installed
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18:31.29bozonius"because we should otherwise rebuild those packages" -- that is an awkward sentence; I don't follow that part
18:31.35KatolaZremoving those files would entail forking something like 300-400 more packages
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18:31.50bozoniusscript?
18:31.56KatolaZjust to remove an unused file
18:31.58KatolaZuh?
18:32.04KatolaZscript for what?
18:32.16bozoniusthanks, KatolaZ
18:32.35bozoniuswhere are you from?  US, UK..?
18:32.42bozoniusEU?
18:32.48bozonius(just curious)
18:33.08KatolaZbozonius: why is that relevant for you? (just curious)
18:33.55bozoniusno one I know says "because we should otherwise"
18:34.09bozoniusso I am wondering if this is some local dialect
18:34.15bozoniusthat's all
18:34.38KatolaZ-_-
18:34.48muepI did not find that an odd expression at all
18:35.00bozoniusI've never heard it, that's all
18:35.07KatolaZbozonius: you asked
18:35.10bozoniusat any rate, I've got things to do
18:35.12KatolaZ19:30 < bozonius> so why are they still around?
18:35.16KatolaZand I replied
18:35.19bozoniusseee you later
18:35.19muepthough I am not not a native speaker so I am not fully idiomatic anyway
18:35.22KatolaZ19:30 < KatolaZ> because we should otherwise rebuild those packages
18:35.57bozoniusis away from kb
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19:38.29DocScrutinizer05ln -s /dev/null /lib/systemd
19:38.55DocScrutinizer05;-P
19:39.10DocScrutinizer05(just kidding)
19:47.39bozoniusfind / -name '*systemd*' -exec rm -f {} \;
20:00.25DocScrutinizer05that's what a sane sysadmin would like to do, yes. But ut won't do any good in the end
20:01.26DocScrutinizer05e.g. there's still libsystemd0 that is basically needed to keep systemd out of the system
20:06.15fsmithredudev brings in /lib/systemd and uses it
20:06.35DocScrutinizer05dang
20:06.59fsmithredyeah, even with libsystemd0 excluded it's still there
20:07.05fsmithredeven with eudev it's still there
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