Yes, I was aware, but I wanted to use those echo statements to help with debugging if anything went wrong. I've made changes over time. I wanted to deal with one issue at a time.
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I used iptables to create a firewall for my Linux system for a while, but my script and firewall rules were a mess. Then I wanted to move to nftables, which is intended to replace iptables, hoping to get something better. I had also wondered about how to forward traffic between different...
I am using Debian 10.4.0. I mostly fixed the problem. I set /etc/fstab to mount /tmp as read-only so I could unmount it. I set the default.target to point to initial.target so now I can run the boot.1.service which unmounts /tmp and checks everything before calling systemctl isolate...
I moved the boot.1 service to the local-fs-pre target and set it to oneshot so now it works a litle better, but it is still having major problems.
# cat /lib/systemd/system/boot.1.service
[Unit]
Description=System boot script service for single user mode
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash...
I installed a ton of packages so I could play audio files from the system console. It still doesn't play them. It says it can't find a valid sound driver, even over 2 GB later. Now something is mounting /tmp as rw when /etc/fstab says it should be ro. Whatever it is is keeping /tmp "busy" so...
Debian 10.4.0.
I just haven't been able to try much of anything. Our air conditioner has been out for about a week, and during the hottest part of the year. I've been so tired all the time. I can't think straight with this excessive heat. It gets to around 32℃ indoors during the day without...
I need some step by step advice to get grub set up the correct way.
1) I need to install grub on /dev/sda so it only boots Windows, /dev/sda2, regardless of whatever other devices may or may not be connected. I cannot use fdisk.exe /mbr because I don't have it and can't get it. Windows is...