Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-18 Thread Felix Miata
Mark Fletcher composed on 2023-12-18 20:36 (UTC): > Can anyone explain why, and how I can fix this in a way that will > still work the next time the bookworm kernel gets an update? I can't answer why Grub scripts to what the do, because I don't really use them, and don't need to understand much a

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-18 Thread Richmond
It's not ideal, but what I did when I had two disks and two operating systems was I installed two grubs, one for each OS, one on each MBR. I then used the BIOS menu to choose which disk to boot. This means each OS updates its own grub instance.

GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-18 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I need help with a problem configuring grub. My main OS on the system concerned is bookworm (was probably originally installed as bullseye, might even have been earlier, and then has been upgraded over the years, now at bookworm). That system is the system that has installed grub and grub's

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

2023-12-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 12:35:29PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > OK, I tried running it (attached). What should it show? That the OP is confused about many things. > # date --help No shebang. But the script uses bash syntax. When executed FROM BASH, the script will "work" because bash will inte

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

2023-12-18 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Dec 2023 at 06:02:48 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 12/18/23, David Wright wrote: > > Another problem in what you posted is that you sometimes run date > > in your local timezone (generally for the "now" times), but you > > append +00:00 as the timezone for those --date strings th

{SOLVED] Re: Searching of files in plasma5?

2023-12-18 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2023, 17:05:27 CET schrieb Hans: I am answering myself. Deleted the whole database an recreated it. Now it is working again. Looks like solved. Sorry for the noise. Have a nice day! Hans > Dear list, > > I discovered, that the search function in Dolphin is not working

Searching of files in plasma5?

2023-12-18 Thread Hans
Dear list, I discovered, that the search function in Dolphin is not working. When searching for example for --> *.jpg <-- , it is not finding any files, whilst kfind is finding more than 800 files. Baloo search in settings is enabled and a baloo database is existent. Anything else I missed an

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-18 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 09:05:22AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I would imagine that it's due to the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) > > which defines what the various directories on a "typical Linux system" are > > for. "man hier", for example, tells me that: > > > > * /var/cache - Data ca

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I would imagine that it's due to the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) > which defines what the various directories on a "typical Linux system" are > for. "man hier", for example, tells me that: > > * /var/cache - Data cached for programs. > > * /var/lib - Variable state information for program

date can't parse its own output was: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...)

2023-12-18 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 08:17:21AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 02:07:14PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I'm still amazed the OP hasn't understood that "date" can output > > custom formats -- and that it's not always possible to parse back > > a date in some custom for

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

2023-12-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 02:07:14PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I'm still amazed the OP hasn't understood that "date" can output > custom formats -- and that it's not always possible to parse back > a date in some custom format into a meaningful timestamp. unicorn:~$ date +"On this the %dth da

Winbind, wrong user mappings...

2023-12-18 Thread nimrod
Hi, apparently all of a sudden a member server running Debian Buster with Winbind in an Active Directory environment started to map the domain users in a weird way. Many users and group seem to have two or more names, but the same id. But this is a problem when users try to access, because it see

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

2023-12-18 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 07:16:25AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > If you wreck this by putting the wrong timezone offset on your > human-readable times [...] If you lie about your time zone you might come in too late for your train :-) > In addition to that, a case has already been shown w

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

2023-12-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 06:02:48AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 12/18/23, David Wright wrote: > > Another problem in what you posted is that you sometimes run date > > in your local timezone (generally for the "now" times), but you > > append +00:00 as the timezone for those --date strings

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/12/2023 15:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. What am I missing? Or is it just a historical accident?