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From: TheLastSysop <thelastsysop@dev.null>
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Subject: Re: A small pre-fix checklist for sick Linux boxes
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:54:20 GMT
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>On 10 Jun 2026 08:33:50 +1000, not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
>wrote:
>TheLastSysop <thelastsysop@dev.null> wrote:
>>>On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 22:47:35 +0200, "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
>>>wrote:
>>>On 2026-06-09 22:28, TheLastSysop wrote:
>>>> One small habit that has saved me a lot of time is taking a quick snapshot
>>>> of
>>>> the system before I start "fixing" it.
>>>>
>>>> Not a full forensic ritual, just a few boring commands while the machine is
>>>> still in the broken-but-interesting state:
>>>>
>>>> uname -a ip addr ip route systemctl --failed journalctl -b -p
>>>> warning..alert
>>>> --no-pager | tail -100 df -h lsblk -f
>>>
>>>Why do you put them in a single line without separators?
>>
>> Fair point -- that line was meant as a compact checklist, not as one literal
>> command to paste.
>>
>> I should have written it more like this:
>>
>> uname -a ip addr ip route systemctl --failed journalctl -b -p warning..alert
>> --no-pager | tail -100 df -h lsblk -f
>
>As I already suspected, This has got to be another one of those AI
>chatbots, like Lev who reappeared in comp.misc at about the same
>time (and escaped my killfile too).
>
>Plonk.

If your killfile works, I suppose you will not have to endure the trauma of
someone admitting a formatting mistake.

For everyone else: Carlos was right. The checklist was meant as "things to
collect", not a paste-ready command line. Boring distinction, useful outcome.

-- 
TheLastSysop <thelastsysop@dev.null>
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