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when there are actually no exemptions present in a text, stating that a specific (maybe usually too common) exemption is not there, this statement is not only formally correct, but will be seen by archeologists in far future as a hint that such exemptions i.e. in laws were not only common, but also very known to the wide public. they will come to the conclusion that the public society didnt defend themselves against terrorists either due to fear of their terror or due to <censored to not "contaminate" the timeline>. either way they were doomed to what was inevitable to happen.

(i am preparing to write a scifi story where timelines are an important point while the whole story only tells about one of them. thats the context of my comment ;-) )

not sure at what level you are, here are some hints:

take your time to understand what the things do. shells like bash are very powerful and accidentially typing simething wrong could cause data loss or similar. but as you said, take care that you undestand what things are for and how they work.

most tools like sed or bash have a manpage that helps. bash has a huge one as it is very powerull (want to "program" like in C with pointers to variables, bash can do so using eval, which is evil, it really has downsides when doing too much in bash), but anyway learn the tools you use as you try them.

man sed
man bash

you can leave the manpage with pressing "q". pressing "h" shows how to navigate man pages.

the exit code of your script could come from bash itself or from the last command executed, it depends a bit. lets say bash stumbles over invalid syntax in the script while running the code or over a redirection ('<' '>') that points to an empty variable or nonexisting directory, then its bash who exits with its error. so an empty variable could cause such an error. but it usually exits with the exit code of the last run command (see bash "set -e" option which lets bash exit on the first failed command which together with the "-x" switch is very handy, but dont confuse it with other "-e" things in bash's huge manpage)

try in your console:

$ ( exit 34 )
$ echo $?
34

$ /bin/false
$ echo $?
1

$ ( set -e ; /bin/false ; echo bar )
$ echo $?
1

$ ( /bin/false ; echo foo )
foo
$ echo $?
0

using () in a terminal opens a subshell so that what you do there (set -e, setting variables etc) does not affect your current shells environment (unless you change files on disk or such) in the last case the exit code was from the "echo foo" command which succeded and returned 0 while the exit code of /bin/false was ignored (other than in that 'set -e' example)

i use exit codes a lot in bash scripts to control script flow also together with functions.

some programs have a bit mask of what went wrong ('man fsck' explains that they use a bitwise OR to determine the resulting exit code of the program to include multiple possible errors at once) so when dealing with an exit code other than 0 you likely first want to know which program caused it (maybe using the "-x" switch i.e.) and then consult man page or online help what it means.

as ocamlfuseStartup.sh is a shellscript you likely find what happens inside of it.

good luck

i would install cron if its not installed, then add a file under

/etc/cron.d/someNiceToRememberName

and with an editor write the following in it:

@reboot root /bin/bash -x /usr/local/bin/ocamlfuseStartup.sh >> /tmp/output 2>&1 ; echo returncode=$? >> /tmp/output

where root is the user it should run with and the redirection (>> /tmp/output 2>&1) is for seeing what is wrong, and echo returncode= prints the exit error indicator.

you might be able to do this with systemd too, but it often messes things up and i like i.e. clean log outputs.

for testing you can add a line that would start it without a reboot.

22 * * * * root /path/to/your/command parameters >> /tmp/output 2>&1

where the 22 is the next minute it should run. with this cronjob it would be run at every x:22 after each hour 09:22 pm 10:22 pm aso. i do this sometimes for testing

as systemd starts cron with a broken environment too, it might as well not work using cron, but then you know its the broken environment systemd starts it with. if thats your problem, you might want to add: PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin

somewhere at the top of the shellscript depending on what is missing, which by itself would be the directories the commands executed are in. in terminal use :

$ which sed
/sbin/sed

for example to find where the "sed" binary is located (if the script cannot find it) you could change every occurance of "sed" in the script with the full path to it, or add the directory using the PATH variable as a colon separated list of directories to search commands in (where order matters)

to maybe more easy see what is missing i added the -x as a parameter to bash which makes it print out a line for every command it executes to sdterr so you can see what the last commands were. you can try it in the terminal (if your terminal is bash or compatible

$ set -x
$ echo foo
+ echo foo
foo
$ 

i'ld guess systemd starts the shellscript with a broken environment and thats maybe why it doesnt work, maybe try adding this to the script too:

echo PATH: $PATH

somewhere at the top of the script and use the redirection i showed for the cron job. run it once in your terminal and compare the output with what it prints during automated script run.

good luck.

transition to linux. One of the first things I have hit a wall on is getting a file to execute on boot using systemd.

I am trying to use this package to be

that bash thing is the interpreter. the script ocamlFuseStartup.sh is written as bash (possibly the same as your terminal) if that script has a "shebang" (#!/bin/bash) as the very first line AND the file has the execute permission set (chmod +x /path/to/file), then you dont need /bin/bash at the beginning to start it.

I'ld say mighty parasites try to create as much chaos as they can to make their victims (the people) revolt so they can then announce some legal status of 'democratic' legitimized dictatorship. my crystal sphere doesnt show much after this, maybe creepy foul darkness, maybe its just not determined yet, but i see some cockroaches in suits thriving. but maybe i didnt look into a working crystal sphere but just into some bottle i emptied earlier, who knows ;-)

i'ld happily send some (like 8 or so) eggs to the us, but...

• if you order now it will be the best deal ever, no one had ever made such a good deal, i'ld say its the best deal of the world, they'll ask how could you make such a good ... you get it.
• delivery will start roughly within a few congress days, but go fuck yourself, if not.
• just for the price of some scrap metal in the us, so 100.000$ each (not the package, each) see usd currency is currently dropping for reasons, so we must take care you're not ripping us off.
• the money needs to arrive within 2 ~~business~~calendar days (not congress days) from now, later arrival results in 25% fee per day over that time, fee will be cut off from each egg separately before packaging. good luck with european banking standards on a weekend
• no special packaging will be used and neither way no garantee for anything, we only garantee that a shipping label will be created, delivery guy -if at all- only has to pretend to have ringed the doorbell even if he was on another continent at that time. also no garantee for freshness of the product should it arrive at all. delivery guy also can choose to deliver to your neighbour instead (but we'll tell him that those cut-in-half eggs should better not go to canada nor mexico, they don't deserve such)
• if you change your mind and want to return the eggs, you'll have to send the very same eggs back, even when just a handfull of worthless screws were in the package when it arrived. go f yourself and fuck amazon too, they like to f with everyone, so just do it.
• we might decide to send spider or locust eggs instead of those from chickens, you didn't declare that exactly anyway, just ask amazon about slight product changes when clicking the "into shopping card" button, yes, we do adopt us-american style of business extra for doing business with the us.
• we do have the very same eggs for a smaller price somewhere, but this offer is just placed on top of the search by sellers choice, so its your fault if you use this offer (try use amazons order by price, cheap first and see what offers cease to exist for that search then)
• ah i nearly forgot, this order is a monthly abo by default.
• the money will be partly used to free chickens from slavery, this is our duty when dealing with pro slavery nations.
• this is not our chicken and egg problem

UPDATE: fixed business days to calendar days (thanks @psud)

I believe that literally every esotheric and nonesotheric bullshit is more trustworthy than everything a politician says at any given moment.

better don't do that in switzerland 😉

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hey there, i did something similar, but i run my own email server and setup the alias system by myself using postfix and dovecot. cost for domain depends in the domain, the cheapest one i have is 7$ per year. running a mailserver on a vm is like 5$/month or more. i also immediately move my emails from that vm to a raspberry pi running in my home, so i have physical access at any given time and i can literally use the cheapest vm as data is only stored on it for a few seconds.

i currently maintain my list of aliases in the "tables" app on a nextcloud instance on that same raspberry pi, so i can add or remove postfix virtual aliases from my cell, i use a pythkn script to read that mysql table and extract what is needed to create the virtual alias for postfix which is then synced to the vm via csync2

whenever spam arrives, i just change the address at the page/newsletter/shop where it was leaked, change my password there and tell the pageowner that they had a data leak.

i nearly get no spam at all, but when, i know who leaked my data, so i consider this sort of an advantage.

in my database i have the (automatic) creation date, switch if its enabled or disbaled, the date of deactication, i also added a 'notes' column for things like why i disabled it, when i asked for a password reset but didnt get an email so that when i finally deacticate it, i have sort of a documentation when and how i tried to delete the account (when the page is sort of dead for example) i also have a switch to which of my real accounts (not aliases) that alias belongs, so i have a postbox for important emails (server administration, access to providers management systems) and i.e. one for less important things like shops, newsletters etc.

creating single aliases for each newsletter was over the years a lot of work but always only when setting it up a few seconds, so no big deal. however after decades of doing so, i figured out that this is a very good documentation of where i have accounts etc. it WAS a big deal however when i wanted to clean things up, move those aliases from multiple domains to a single one, delete accounts i dont need any more, change passwords (possibly to better ones) and add passkeys or totp where possible in one go. that was a lot of work and i only have few aliases left, one company i.e. that lets me reset the password, login with it, but when i try to delete my account, they claim they witnessed "suspicious behaviour" and lock my account again, i guess they never implemented account deletion and try to cover that with abuse of their so cslled "security concerns". well, some providers are more difficult than others. those are the main reason why my cleanup still isnt done completely yet

It’s no mystery america has gotten filthy rich off of waging war around the world

Thats imho basically called sth like "blood debt" in nearly all cultures that have ever existed and we know of. i guess the dinosaurs will - as always - go extinct again.

The absurdity of this poster is something else

can you pinpoint "something else" to me? i see some flaws but also have the feeling that i dont get what you want to say.

i don't use kde, but the tray clock i used had its own timezone settings independently from system settings. maybe try looking into the settings of the tray clock instead of system settings.

Europe actually payed a lot for this "military service" including interest, the us made a lot of surplus money from their "insane amount of money they pumped into europe" so thats actually not called "pumping money in", but "invest in war and squeeze more money out"

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/britain-only-settled-debts.html

Also germany payed (or actually continues to pay, not sure) yearly huge amounts of money for us military stationed there. And that military germany pays for isn't even there to only protect germany, but to help the us with their invasions into other countries too.

some countries where the us squeezed money out or resources out or invaded, destroyed or undermined democracy a.s.o.: https://www.seedshirt.de/us-world-domination-tour

and thats not even the full list.