Greetings all; The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting to be a nuisance with 5 second power failures about weekly, or is that weakly?
Most of my machines are running a 64 bit buster with a preempt-rt kernel. I made some mods to a 3d printer project in openscad last week, printed it, but forgot to save it. So I lost it when the latest failure rebooted that machine. A procedure I had long since committed to muscle memory now requires I be root to do what I've been doing as me for the last year, so I have now reprinted that after reinventing it, 4 times, w/o changing the printout, after the latest failure I have to be root to mount the card from the printer, I have to be root to overwrite the resliced file to the printers SD card, root to do it all. But mc now goes thru the motions as me, without telling me it doesn't have permission to overwrite that file. What the heck? 2 things really. 1. Before the latest failure I could do all this as me because the mount point for the card is in my home directory, I own it all. And didn't have to be root to do any of it. This was not fixed by a 2nd reboot. 2. and another pesky thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about jessie. So thats another PITA. So, what has replaced .profile as the function for such as that in recent releases? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
