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MkWikiEnSysOp: /* Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." */

2022-04-01T21:01:05Z

Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed."

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	locale-gen		locale-gen
	dpkg-reconfigure locales		dpkg-reconfigure locales

			In the dpkg-reconfigure program, the language printed by <code>echo $LANG</code> must be selected.

	== Cron is not working correctly ==		== Cron is not working correctly ==

MkWikiEnSysOp: Added UTF-8 for console

2022-02-02T14:35:23Z

Added UTF-8 for console

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	PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin		PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
	SHELL=/bin/bash		SHELL=/bin/bash

			== Text-based console cannot show UTF-8 characters ==

			dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

	[[Category:Linux]]		[[Category:Linux]]

MkWikiEnSysOp: /* Clearing screen on tty1 */

2019-09-20T09:31:12Z

Clearing screen on tty1

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	== Clearing screen on tty1 ==		== Clearing screen on tty1 ==

	Since some time, Debian automatically clears the screen when the login prompt appears. This is especially annoying on tty1 because it vanishes all messages from the boot process. The solution is quite simple: in /etc/inittab ~~(yes, they still use it!)~~ find the line "1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1" and put a "--noclear" before "38400". Credits: man getty		=== Debian 7 ===

			Since some time, Debian automatically clears the screen when the login prompt appears. This is especially annoying on tty1 because it vanishes all messages from the boot process. The solution is quite simple: in /etc/inittab find the line "1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1" and put a "--noclear" before "38400". Credits: man getty

			=== Debian 8+ with SystemD ===

			See [[SystemD]]

	== Setting video mode ==		== Setting video mode ==

MkWikiEnSysOp: +Cron is not working correctly

2019-04-24T16:20:14Z

+Cron is not working correctly

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	~~Follow this tutorial~~ to get rid off some annoyances in Debian 7 aka Wheezy.		Here are some tips to get rid off some annoyances in Debian 7 aka Wheezy, Debian 8 aka Jessie and Debian 9 aka Stretch. Some of these annoyances also appear on systems that directly derive from Debian or are very similar to Debian, like Raspbian or Ubuntu.

	== pcspkr error message ==		== pcspkr error message ==
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	locale-gen		locale-gen
	dpkg-reconfigure locales		dpkg-reconfigure locales

			== Cron is not working correctly ==

			* '''Symptoms:''' Jobs are not executed at all or print strange error messages on execution.
			* '''Reasons:''' Cron does not have sufficient information where to find the programs/scripts specified (missing PATH) or the wrong program is used to execute scripts (i.e. sh instead of bash).

			Insert these lines at the header of your crontab file (always edit it with "crontab -e", set EDITOR environment variable when needed):

			PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
			SHELL=/bin/bash

	[[Category:Linux]]		[[Category:Linux]]

MkWikiEnSysOp: /* Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." */

2018-10-04T05:35:52Z

Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed."

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	== Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." ==		== Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." ==

			This warning is displayed if you start "perl -e exit".

	locale-gen		locale-gen

MkWikiEnSysOp: +Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed."

2018-10-03T16:27:29Z

+Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed."

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	[http://blog.donovanhubbard.com/2012/03/reducing-auth-log-noise.html Credits]		[http://blog.donovanhubbard.com/2012/03/reducing-auth-log-noise.html Credits]

			== Avoid "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." ==

			locale-gen
			dpkg-reconfigure locales

	[[Category:Linux]]		[[Category:Linux]]

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2018-06-28T17:19:35Z

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Follow this tutorial to get rid off some annoyances in Debian 7 aka Wheezy.

== pcspkr error message ==

Get rid off error message "Driver ‘pcspkr’ is already registered, aborting..." when booting: in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf create an entry "blacklist snd-pcsp"

[https://debiandark.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/fix-debian-driver-pcspkr-is-already-registered-aborting/ Credits]

== exim4 ==

Don't need a MTA? Deactivate it easily:

cd /etc/rc2.d
mv S21exim4 K21exim4

[http://www.chrisnewland.com/disable-exim4-mta-startup-on-debian-squeeze-84 Credits]

The same way it's possible to deactivate all the NFS and portmapper crap.

== Clearing screen on tty1 ==

Since some time, Debian automatically clears the screen when the login prompt appears. This is especially annoying on tty1 because it vanishes all messages from the boot process. The solution is quite simple: in /etc/inittab (yes, they still use it!) find the line "1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1" and put a "--noclear" before "38400". Credits: man getty

== Setting video mode ==

Due to a bug in update-grub, GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD in /etc/default/grub is ignored. Two changes enable it:

In /etc/grub.d/00_header

if [ "x${GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD}" = "x" ] ; then GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=800x600x32 ; fi

some lines later

set gfxpayload=${GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD}

[http://superuser.com/questions/657392/how-to-change-video-mode-in-debian-wheezy-on-virtualbox-4-1-12 Credits]

== Avoid PAM messages from CRON ==

In /etc/rsyslog.conf find section "RULES". Just before "auth,authpriv.*" insert

:msg, contains, "pam_unix(cron:session)" ~

In Ubuntu, this information is saved in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf.

After saving the file, restarting the service is required:

service rsyslog restart

[http://blog.donovanhubbard.com/2012/03/reducing-auth-log-noise.html Credits]

[[Category:Linux]]