Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 12:23:26 (+0200), 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.
It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate
the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to
be retyped.
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 07:26:35 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> 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.
Yes, I can't imagine anyone doing serious work at the console
without a tool like gpm, available ever since buzz (1.1).
Cheers,
David.
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