Re: Firefox context menu and tooltip on wrong display?

2022-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 04:17:12PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:09:10PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > > > > > I have recently decommissioned my main desktop workstation and switched > > > to using my laptop for daily work (rather than onl

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 8:25 PM Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2022, 4:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > >> Tom Browder writes: >> >> > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo >> > su." (...) >> >> You do not need to use sudo with su. When you enter su you are prompted

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, May 19, 2022, 4:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > > su." (...) > > Just you try like as "sudo su -". Sometimes i use it that way. > > Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee > > -- > ^고맙습니다 _白衣從軍_ 감사합니다_^))// > When

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, May 19, 2022, 3:14 AM 황병희 wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > > su." (...) > > Just you try like as "sudo su -". Sometimes i use it that way. > When I need to use sudo or su to invoke executables, I fully qualify the pa

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 13:38 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:24:21PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 07:00 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > 1) For ** to work, you need to do "shopt -s globstar" somewhere before it. > > > > I didn't know that, it works for me w

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:24:21PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 07:00 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > 1) For ** to work, you need to do "shopt -s globstar" somewhere before it. > > I didn't know that, it works for me without setting that option. > > $ shopt | grep globstar > globsta

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 07:00 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:54:52AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > To find the device ID my bash script scans the USB serial numbers > > looking for the one I'm interested in... > > > >    pushd /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb >/dev/null > >    for f in **

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, as you can see from the other replies, Jessie is heavily outdated. Do you have hard reasons not to use a newer version of Debian ? Nevertheless i see it as an interesting technical endeavor to install such a legacy system. If this would be impossible, why then keep all the old software on the

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Antonino Saetta wrote: > Hello, > > I'm an Italian student from Dublin City University. > > Currently, I'm carrying out an assignment on IoT, and need to install > Jessie on VirtualBox (under Windows). > > Till now, I've tried by downloading several images, but never got it > working: > > - Wi

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:31 Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > > > > I feel like you're doing "sudo su" out of some bad habit that you've > > > developed. You'd be doing yourself a favor if you retrain yourself > > > to use "sudo -s" instead. > > > > Greg, I think I need to change the paths in the sud

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:22:07AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:03 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:47:29AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > > $ sudo su > > > # ./myprog install > > > > Again, there's no reason to use both "sudo" AND "su". Just

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:03 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:47:29AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > $ sudo su > > # ./myprog install > > Again, there's no reason to use both "sudo" AND "su". Just "sudo -s" > would give you the interactive root shell, without changing di

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 7:04 AM Antonino Saetta wrote: > Hello, > > I'm an Italian student from Dublin City University. > > Currently, I'm carrying out an assignment on IoT, and need to install > Jessie on VirtualBox (under Windows). > > Till now, I've tried by downloading several images, but nev

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-19 Thread IL Ka
Hello. First of all, Jessie is old, use Bullseye instead. When creating new VM, did you choose "Debian 64" as OS type? Did you add NAT network adapter to it? Also, I can't see any image >

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-19 Thread Махно
Debian jessie is a very old release and is not supported. I would suggest you try Debian 11, which is the latest release of Debian. 2022-05-19, kt, 14:04 Antonino Saetta rašė: > > Hello, > > I'm an Italian student from Dublin City University. > > Currently, I'm carrying out an assignment on IoT,

Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-19 Thread Antonino Saetta
Hello, I'm an Italian student from Dublin City University. Currently, I'm carrying out an assignment on IoT, and need to install Jessie on VirtualBox (under Windows). Till now, I've tried by downloading several images, but never got it working: - With the *CD* and *net* installations, it was no

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:47:29AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > $ sudo su > # ./myprog install Again, there's no reason to use both "sudo" AND "su". Just "sudo -s" would give you the interactive root shell, without changing directory. I feel like you're doing "sudo su" out of some bad hab

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:54:52AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > To find the device ID my bash script scans the USB serial numbers > looking for the one I'm interested in... > >pushd /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb >/dev/null >for f in **/serial >do > if [ "$(cat $f)" = MY_SERIAL_NUMBER ]; then

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 03:54 Kamil Jońca wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo su." > How can I set that up correctly? > > It is quite misterious for me. > What is the purpose of "sudo su" instead of plain "sudo" or "sudo -i" KJ,

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread Kamil Jońca
Tom Browder writes: > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo su." How > can I set that up correctly? It is quite misterious for me. What is the purpose of "sudo su" instead of plain "sudo" or "sudo -i" KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread 황병희
Tom Browder writes: > I need a special path setting for root after both "sudo" and "sudo > su." (...) Just you try like as "sudo su -". Sometimes i use it that way. Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee -- ^고맙습니다 _白衣從軍_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-19 04:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: A much better workaround is to create the /etc/default/su file and put the line ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes well that's handy. "su -" puts you in /root whereas with that you stay in $PWD. cheers mick

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 17:22 -0500, Jason wrote: > What is the best way to power cycle or reset a USB port? The method I use, which I found described online is to unbind the driver then re-bind it like... echo "$ID" >/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind sleep 1 echo "$ID" >/sys/bus/usb/drivers

Re: Resetting a USB port in Debian 10

2022-05-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 09:55:54AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > Jason writes: > > > What is the best way to power cycle or reset a USB port? I need to do > > this to reset a USB modem if it stops responding. The system in > > question is Debian 10 aarch64 on RockPi 4b+. > > As far as I know, powe