Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: ACTION=="add", BUS=="ide", ID=="1.1", SYMLINK+="cdrom1" However, this isn't device persistence. This is location persistence. Not a bad thing by any means, but it must be agreed that location persistence is sufficient if we are to use this. ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_MODEL}=="PHIL

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: +1, because I don't believe in educational value with udev. For most of BLFS editors, it's a black box. Editors just expect someone to configure udev properly, so that they don't have to think about it. Unfortunately, udev is one of the packa

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: If location persistence is agreed upon, then I prefer this method. However, I prefer device persistence personally. For network devices, device persistence is already in the book. Of course one could implement location persistence instead :) ACTION=="add", BUS=="pci", ID=="000

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-15 Thread Andrew Benton
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Manual creation is also consistent with the situation with network devices in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/network.html. From what I've read so far, I'm leaning towards the manual creation. It's consiste

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Andrew Benton wrote: Let's teach people to administer their own system and not have them rely on magic scripts. Agreed. I can understand why distro maintainers want/need to have all these magic scripts/automatic rule generation. For LFS though, it makes more sense to educate folks as to how

"write" and tty device perms

2006-05-15 Thread Archaic
Util-linux installs the write program sgid to the tty group. In order to use this program, however, /etc/login.defs needs one modification. TTYPERM 0600 needs to be TTYPERM 0620 Since we already sed login.defs during its installation, I propose adding this to the sed. Any objectio

Re: "write" and tty device perms

2006-05-15 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:21:34PM -0600, Archaic wrote: > > TTYPERM 0600 > needs to be > TTYPERM 0620 I forgot to mention that 620 is how the book sets up /dev/pts as well. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch

Editor's guide

2006-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I noticed some changes to the Editor's Guide and tried to build it. Results: xsltproc --xinclude --nonet -stringparam chunk.quietly 1 \ -stringparam base.dir ~/lfs-editors-guide/ stylesheets/lfs-chunked.xsl index.xml I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge.net/relea