Re: Book text updates

2006-08-26 Thread steve crosby
On 8/27/06, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:31 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > > > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp > > > > This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems i

Re: Book text updates

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:31 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > > > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp > > > > This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems it would create a /var/tmp > > dir but not /tmp. > > It's

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note > in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel > documentation has now been updated. Thanks for the updates. > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 07/18/06 09:35 CST: > There are multiple man pages, for different languages. I forgot about that. Thanks. > It does work and it creates both /tmp and /var/tmp. Indeed. Again, thanks. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Chris Staub wrote these words on 07/18/06 09:08 CST: Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel documentation has now been updated. Disable the installation of the group

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems it would create a /var/tmp dir but not /tmp. It's correct. {/var,} expands to /var and "". -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 07/18/06 09:08 CST: > Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note > in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel > documentation has now been updated. > Disable the installation of the groups program > -a

Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel documentation has now been updated. Index: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/how.xml === --- trunk/BOOK/chap