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    What happened to /etc/profile?

    Yes, it started about a half year ago. Thank you, SirDice. I didn’t find it. Although I don’t find this change logical. The point of /etc/profile is to set it for all users and any shell. Bash should read both /etc/profile and something like /usr/local/etc/bash_profile
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    What happened to /etc/profile?

    I have been using bash since the dawn of history. I didn’t change the server config but upgraded them as well as the CI servers. It stopped working everywhere. # finger root && cat /etc/profile | grep export && locale && echo $EDITOR Login: root Name: Charlie Root...
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    What happened to /etc/profile?

    Some time ago, my servers started ignoring the content of /etc/profile I have lines there that export LANG, LC_ALL, and EDITOR. It used to work. What’s the problem?
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    SMTP gateway with networking

    If I ask a question on a forum and don’t describe the issue I’m trying to solve then people tell me to describe the issue. I can understand that. When I describe the issue, I’m usually offered those solutions that I already excluded in the OP. I opened the thread in the network section...
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    SMTP gateway with networking

    No, I can’t. Otherwise. I would not open a thread.
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    SMTP gateway with networking

    I’m setting up an SMTP server in a cloud (Google) where email ports are blocked (outgoing traffic for sure, maybe both). Normally, I’d set up a smart host at another provider on a custom port. It works, but considering the number of emails to send and the budget of the project, I can’t justify...
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    ZFS Does find -atime update atime?

    I’m trying to save a lot of space (and money) by deleting files in a web server directory tree that can be regenerated on the fly by an HTTP request. The goal is to delete files that were not accessed in the last, let’s say, one month. There are only two minor challenges. 1. Apache seems not...
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    On a server I installed in 2016 and I never used it for CI, there is an empty dbus directory there. Most likely it was due to ImageMagick that used to depend on Xorg (even the -nox11 version had some dependencies). On my newer servers that are running the same sites, there is only google there.
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    The connection was that I would expect such anomalies to happen less likely in server software, and more likely in desktop softwave (KDE, dbus, etc). In the end, the assumption was correct. I could check it only on the CI server that has desktop software because for desktop, I use Mac.
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    I thought it was clear that a part of my OP was to complain about it, another part of it was to make it sure that /var/lib shouldn’t be there (so I can complain from the heart). Lately, I spent a lot of time on issues due to hardcoded paths (all from Linux), and this one was the least harmful...
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    ZFS FreeBSD moving to ZFS-on-Linux

    On this planet, the above seems to cover most areas of life. Today, something happened to me. During the years I used Linux, it happened to me many times. Many nights, it made me sit in the car, and visit the server room, far away from the city to get a console. Until today, it had never...
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    ZFS FreeBSD moving to ZFS-on-Linux

    I’m one of those who came to FreeBSD solely for the ZFS. Later, when I realized we had both /etc and /usr/local/etc, and why, I already knew it would hurt even thinking about going back. Although my gateway drug wasn’t that bad. It was Gentoo.
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    ZFS FreeBSD moving to ZFS-on-Linux

    I don’t know much about Behlendorf. The little I saw of his communication was always positive and constructive. He might be one of the great developers who picked up the wrong OS. There was a long period when if I ran out of the funny videos on youtube, and I still felt a bit sad, I started...
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    ZFS FreeBSD moving to ZFS-on-Linux

    I didn’t see it but I didn’t read every message. Was it this thread? I remember a guy who seemed too intelligent to be a Linux developer, but he wrote, he was one. And he said his life was already difficult due to the typical Linux developers, and it makes it worse if we bash Linux for its...
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    SirDice already answered what it is. I add only a note. A CI server may have the layout, configuration, packages that are typical for a production server, and the same time, it may have desktop software too. For example, when you test a web application, you want to do automated testing with a...
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    It won’t work because what /var/lib is on Linux, it’s /var/db on FreeBSD. The vast majority of the files are not created there when you install a package. The installed software create files in /var/db when they run. And these files remain there when you remove the package because they don’t...
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    I don’t know. I wrote it in my OP what files and directories are there. A guess dbus might be related to dbus, but I don’t know who and why put something there under google, even though that’s why I noticed that directory in the first place. I was working on this bug...
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    That’s why I was wondering why we have files there.
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    Do we have such thing as /var/lib?

    Today, I was trying to track a bug I ran into at Google Compute Engine. There was a moment when I ended up in a directory called /var/lib/google. I felt strange. I didn’t know why. It was like when you visit a guru who puts you into regressive hypnosis to remember your previous life. Then you...
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    ZFS FreeBSD moving to ZFS-on-Linux

    Does this anyhow matter? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsd-initial-zof&num=1
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