@dasmoover: Right, entirely missed the fact that you squished syslog-ng too, my bad

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As for the otaup script, that's one (slightly bruteforce-ish ^^) way of pleasing the 'no official updates plz' crowd, so you may want to keep that, just make it clear it will *completely* disable the 'Update Your Kindle' feature

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Anyway, apologies for the slightly snarky tone of my first message

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