[06:26] <Myrtti> moin
[07:14] <zxm-pi> o/
[08:40] <bigcalm> o/
[08:41] <Myrtti> my god I hate allergy season
[09:31] <bigcalm> Anybody excited for this? https://www.gov.uk/alerts/planned-tests
[09:32] <bigcalm> If my idea of excitement is getting a text message, my life might be a little dull.
[09:33] <zxm-pi> i seem to remember irish government rolled something like this out for emergency sms. couldn't turn it off fast enough
[10:09] <Myrtti> Finland has had that for a relatively long time and pretty much everyone hates them
[10:11] <Myrtti> reminder to the allotment havers: first aid kit might be a good purchase
[10:19] <bigcalm> Good for the car as well
[10:36] <Myrtti> that I bought even before the car
[11:08] <daftykins> happy lunch time gang \o
[11:30] <zxm-pi> o/
[11:33] <daftykins> woke up at 8am yesterday ready for the mammoth day to begin... saw an email warning me the electrician of a client i had to attend first thing had already bowed out due to illness, score \o/
[13:41] <bigcalm> No emergency text message for me :(
[13:42] <zxm-pi> you're not important enough to save
[13:42] <zxm-pi> ...or typical government flamingo up
[13:43] <daftykins> :D
[13:43] <zxm-pi> my money is they gave the contract to a sms bulk delivery company with no computers :-P
[13:52] <bigcalm> HA
[15:12] <bigcalm> Anybody here use lynis to automate checking things on servers?
[15:13] <bigcalm> I'm looking at a test for if a server needs to be rebooted. For Ubuntu this can be found by checking for the existence of /var/run/reboot-required
[15:13] <bigcalm> (this is how I would do it)
[15:13] <bigcalm> But lynis checks for /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs
[15:13] <bigcalm> I'm wondering what the difference is between the two
[15:14] <bigcalm>  /var/run/reboot-required: *** System restart required ***
[15:14] <bigcalm>  /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs: linux-base
[15:15] <bigcalm> I think the former gets sent to the MOTD
[15:19] <bigcalm> Should a) the presence of either file mean that a reboot is needed, OR b) only the .pkgs is a true indicator?
[16:07] <bigcalm> Nick expiring after 2 weeks?! Best not go on holiday
[16:13] <MattJ> No, 10 weeks
[16:13] <MattJ> Unless you stopped using the nick within 2 hours of your first login
[16:14] <MattJ> It's to stop people from registering nicks and then immediately logging out, to prevent anyone else using that nick
[21:09] <bigcalm> MattJ: I see. My fault for not clicking the link and assuming things from the headline :)
[21:12] <diddledan> I would posit that both are created by the same process, so the .pkgs one is a list of which packages caused the reboot requirement while the non-.pkgs file is the message for the MOTD
[21:14] <bigcalm> diddledan: I see. But why would the .pkgs file be removed but the other one not?
[21:14] <diddledan> no idea
[21:16]  * bigcalm kicks VirginMedia
[21:16] <bigcalm> Work won't ya? 4G is sucky
[21:18] <zxm-pi> you need to get fully vaccinated for the 5g upgrade :-P
[21:19] <diddledan> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdnevXjqdc