Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Gerard Beekmans
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Re: Bootstrapping GCC

2007-09-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Multi-lib Debian Lenny showed that there is a hole in the current > bootstrapping method. Admittedly, it is an odd host, but it revealed a > gap. IMHO, only odd hosts can reveal gaps :) > When we bootstrap GCC on the first pass, all we really prove is that the > *host

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Server is back online However, some mail has been lost, because the so-called "backup MX", smtp.easydns.com, always says "Relay access denied". -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Un

BLFS Updates

2007-09-30 Thread Chris Staub
1. The "Configuring for Adding Users" page mentions creating /etc/default/useradd, but this is already created by the version of Shadow in current LFS. 2. In the vimrc page, it says "Note that this is only true if you compiled vim using LFS-3.1 onwards. Prior to this, the global vimrc was /us

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
There's gotta be something wrong with the ircd init script. It's still down -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/30/07, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's gotta be something wrong with the ircd init script. It's still down It just wasn't setup in rc*.d. Should be fixed now. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscrib

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/30/07, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There's gotta be something wrong with the ircd init script. It's still down >> > > It just wasn't setup in rc*.d. Should be fixed now. > Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: ht

bash shell startup files

2007-09-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, the "bash shell startup files" section can be improved: 1) /etc/profile tests for EUID=0 in two different ways: |if [ $EUID -eq 0 ] ; then pathappend /sbin:/usr/sbin unset HISTFILE fi| |if [[ $EUID == 0 ]] ; then PS1="$RED\u [ $NORMAL\w$RED ]# $NORMAL" else PS1="$GRE

LFS and 64-bit hosts

2007-09-30 Thread Chris Staub
There are an increasing number of users who report errors building LFS, and then say they are attempting it on a 64-bit host system. It really needs to be stated on the LFS website that LFS assumes a 32-bit system, and point users with 64-bit systems either to the 64-bit LFS book/livecd, or CLF

Re: bash shell startup files

2007-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Hello, > > the "bash shell startup files" section can be improved: > > 1) /etc/profile tests for EUID=0 in two different ways: > > |if [ $EUID -eq 0 ] ; then > pathappend /sbin:/usr/sbin > unset HISTFILE > fi| > > > |if [[ $EUID == 0 ]] ; then >

Re: bash shell startup files

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/30/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the "bash shell startup files" section can be improved: > > > > 1) /etc/profile tests for EUID=0 in two different ways: > > > > |if [ $EUID -eq 0 ] ; then > > pathappend /sbin:/usr/sbin > >

Helper scripts for udev configuration in Chapter 7

2007-09-30 Thread Reece Dunn
Hi, These are some scripts I have written to auto-detect what network card and cd drive udev rules to use: cat > detect-cd << "EOF" #!/bin/bash # Written by Reece H. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for block in `find /sys/block -maxdepth 1 -name [sh]d* | sed 's@/sys@@'`; do udevtest ${block} > tmp/ud

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Yes the backup MX is proving to be an ongoing issue. I'm going to disable that one in DNS tonight. That way mail shouldn't get lost anymore as long as the server isn't offline for more than a few days at a time. Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.lin

Re: Helper scripts for udev configuration in Chapter 7

2007-09-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Reece Dunn wrote: > These are some scripts I have written to auto-detect what network > card and cd drive udev rules to use: Any reason you didn't use what's in the book? The 6.3 book installs the persistence scripts for both CD symlinks and net

Re: Helper scripts for udev configuration in Chapter 7

2007-09-30 Thread Reece Dunn
On 30/09/2007, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Reece Dunn wrote: > > These are some scripts I have written to auto-detect what network > > card and cd drive udev rules to use: > > Any reason you didn't use what's in the book? The

Re: Helper scripts for udev configuration in Chapter 7

2007-09-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Reece Dunn wrote: > I'm currently using a by the book LFS 6.2. Ah, I see. Yep, you're right: that would be one reason to upgrade. :-) (Or just keep using what you put together; that would work too.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG