Not anymore, if ever:
https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/4882-fu … ng-forces/

Daniel Robbins is/was the main architect of Gentoo, so expect some improvements to Sabayon when it comes to init systems.

OK, fair enough. I don't use su -, I created an alias for su to invoke su - in ~/.bash_aliases. It works, but clearly not for everything.

In that case, during the upgrade this new directory should have been added to $PATH for root, but clearly it hasn't on my system. Or it was removed by the upgrade, that I can't be sure of as I didn't test it before upgrading.

[edit] Found the culprit, in /etc/profile:

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH

So, if the user uses su into root from your normal user, the id does not equate to 0 thus /sbin is not in your $PATH

PS: which "bright spark" had the "luminous" idea to set terminal text as bright yellow on a bright white background? You should be clobbered into sense with a foam bat!

I have /boot, / and /home on separate partitions, most of the time, for simplicity/speed/convenience. For servers, /usr and /var are also separate.

I know it's a pretty old thread, but I was finally sufficiently hacked off to attempt a workaround.

Create a file ~/.bash_aliases containing the following:

alias su='su -'

You'd need the single quotes as to evaluate every time the alias is used. It worked on a fresh Beowulf test install.

If it has no negative effects I may actually start consider upgrading my ASCII systems to Beowulf.

Upgrade to Beowulf is a no-go, as it doesn't do how I like doing things, particularly regarding su. Current kernel is 4.9.0-15 so well after the release of this hardware. I've tried getting Funtoo running on it, but ran into an issue with some Grub dependencies which failed compiling. I may have another go (it has a 5 series kernel).

Did you install the build-essential package? This creates a full build environment by pulling in all essential packages. (by itself it installs nothing, but uses the dependency resolution from apt to get what it needs installed)

Rsync for backing up data, not the OS.

Have a quick read, including the replies I got.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=21042#p21042

Hmmmm..... Right, let's not go that way then.

OK, so, what next? I've never seen a live Proxmox install so I have no idea how that works. But I did find that it uses qemu and lxc for the virtualization, so at least in theory one could write a script to implement the functionality, if not the web-gui. Btw, as Proxmox is OSS, one could rewrite all the systemd-specific parts for other init systems, but as a non-coder, that's not gonna be me! Personally, I'd like a choice of underlying file systems, like BTRFS, JFS and XFS instead of "just" ZFS but I can imagine this to seriously complicate porting functionality now offered by ZFS over specifically JFS and XFS (BTRFS has a similar feature set to ZFS)

Time to ponder off and do some experimenting, I guess. Just don't hold your breath for it, it'll be a while (if ever!)

I'll just re-iterate myself then:

Take particular note of that first sentence, then contemplate on the 2nd. That's the core of civilisation in a nutshell.

Ah, then there's a different issue. Issue this command:

id <user>

It gives you a list of groups your user is a member off. In that list the video group should appear. If not, you need to make your user a member of that group.

usermod -G dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,video,plugdev,<user>

Replace <user> with the correct username. Make sure there are no spaces in the list!