Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB
Anssi Saari wrote:
> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
>
> > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$ /bin/su --login
> > Password:
> > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05
> > host 09:57:59 ~# cd /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3
> > host 09:58:08 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3#
> >
> > where that's a simple cut and paste.
>
> Yes. I don't remember why but at some point in the distant past I got
> into the habit of su - and expect to end up in root's home dir and
> nowhere else.
>
> Thinking back, it could be argued some crude consoles like Sun's or old
> school text terminals might not have copy-paste available. Maybe even
> today it could be a thing, don't really know. If my old HP Microserver
> gen8 is any indication, server people like to do extremely weird stuff
> for remote management.
The Linux console has no cut/paste. The text or framebuffer
console you get when you boot without having a GUI available? No
cut/paste there. You can add one with another daemon.
Don't call things "crude" when they still work properly.
-dsr-
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