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Re: changing local domain name

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: changing local domain name
Date	2018-03-30 10:40 +0200
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On 2018-03-30, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.config-printing.html
>> 
>> Bug#187954.
>
> Yep, rebooting will recreate that file anyway, because /var/run is
> just /run, and therefore ephemeral.

I was just blindly regurgitating the wiki (that dates from the fifties),
which is probably a factor of aggravation rather than mitigation.

Luckily a proviso is clearly written at the top of /etc/printcap, which I
also failed to notice.

Three strikes and you're out.

> Cheers,
> David.
>
>


-- 
We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not
wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience,
whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not,
like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it,
is it not. --Samuel Beckett

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changing local domain name mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 19:10 +0200
  Re: changing local domain name Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 20:40 +0200
    Re: changing local domain name mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 22:00 +0200
      Re: changing local domain name john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-03-30 08:10 +0200
        Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 18:20 +0200
          Re: changing local domain name john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-04-03 08:40 +0200
            Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-12 22:30 +0200
              Re: changing local domain name john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-04-13 13:30 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-13 14:30 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-13 14:50 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-13 15:10 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-13 16:10 +0200
    Re: changing local domain name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 00:10 +0200
      Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 04:10 +0200
        Re: changing local domain name Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-30 10:40 +0200
          Re: changing local domain name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 15:10 +0200
        Re: changing local domain name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 20:30 +0200
          Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-31 04:20 +0200
            Re: changing local domain name Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-03-31 13:40 +0200
              Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-31 17:20 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-31 17:30 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-03-31 20:50 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-03 00:10 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-03 13:30 +0200

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