On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:30:17PM +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote:
> For years under sysvinit, in /etc/inittab, this line:
> kb::kbrequest:$( [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ] && /bin/openvt -su || sudo /bin/openvt
> -su)
> allowed me to open another VT by keying Control-UpArrow.
What a cargo-culted mess.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:41:07PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> > PATH=/home/bob/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> I examined su(1) and learned that one solution for me is to invoke su with
> the '-l' argument, which creates a 'login' s
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:41:07PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> > PATH=/home/bob/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> I examined su(1) and learned that one solution for me is to invoke su with
> the '-l' argument, which creates a 'login' s
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:15:24PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Behaviour changed in Buster - su - is now required. [Likewise sudo su - if
> you use sudo]
That's silly. Just use "sudo -i" if you want a root login shell, or
"sudo -s" if you want a normal root shell (roughly equivalent to wha
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:32:17 +1100
David wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 08:45, David wrote:
>
> Hmmm again. Ignore my previous message. I didn't read the thread
> carefully enough. I still haven't done that, because I should be
> doing other things, but I have looked a little bit more carefull
On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote
[...]
> Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me. Not only are you wastefully
> running two programs when you only need one.
[...]
It's useful (essential?) if you want a root shell when there's no root
password set like on Ubuntu (and optionally
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:30:11PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote
> [...]
> > Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me. Not only are you wastefully
> > running two programs when you only need one.
> [...]
>
> It's useful (essential?) if you want a root she
I use squirrelmail, and squirrelmail uses php5.
Somehow both of those survived the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch (at a
time when I was not aware of the potential problem), and squirrelmail
still works fine.
Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to Buster?
(Yes, I know I shoul
Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote
>> Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me. Not only are you wastefully
>> running two programs when you only need one.
> It's useful (essential?) if you want a root shell when there's no root
> password set like on Ubuntu (and o
Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> I use squirrelmail, and squirrelmail uses php5.
> Somehow both of those survived the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch (at
> a time when I was not aware of the potential problem), and
> squirrelmail still works fine.
> Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to
> Somehow both of those survived the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch (at a time
> when I was not aware of the potential problem), and squirrelmail still works
> fine.
>
> Can I expect that they will also survive the upgrade to Buster?
Yes. I have done that, and the old squirrelmail package remai
On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 15:11 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Tixy wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote
> > > Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me. Not only are you
> > > wastefully
> > > running two programs when you only need one.
> > It's useful (essential?) if you want
Tixy wrote:
>
> Thanks. Debian has su installed as part of a required package so I
> never bothered installing sudo, it just seemed to be an Ubuntu thing.
Robert Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer wrote the original subsystem
around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
SUNY/Buffalo. Robert Co
On 2020-10-23 19:01, Dan Ritter wrote:
I first used Linux in 1992, 13 or 14 months after Linus started
writing it. sudo was already 12 years old.
"Where do you want to go today" did it for me but I had such a lot of
trouble shifting head into gear. Never really managed.
--
Key ID4BFEBB3
Hello
I am running Buster on c2009 amd64 hardware -- one of the earliest Intel
Core i7s. This was a clean install of Buster done a little over a year
ago. Previously I had run many older flavours of Debian on this hardware
over the years.
I occasionally use a specialist piece of software calle
Hi There,
I am following up to check if you had a chance to review my previous email.
If yes, please email me with your requirements for the Counts, Pricing and
Samples for your review.
Regards,
Daniel
From: daniel rossie
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 9:58 PM
To: 'debian-user@lists
On 2020-10-22 21:48, A. Kapetanovic wrote:
23 oct. 2020 04:27:38 David Christensen :
Who wrote algo- B1.pl? Who designed the database? Are they for a personal
project, for a business, or something else?
I designed all and it is for a personal business
Okay.
Do you own the four books I p
On 2020-10-23 23:53 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> I occasionally use a specialist piece of software called xephem, which
> is old but doesn't to my knowledge have a newer replacement that's 1% as
> good. I tried to fire it up the other night for the first time since I
> installed buster. It refuse
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