LFS7.0rc2 - Section 2.2 space requirements calculation seems low

artition higher and start chapter 6 again, and see if i can rememeber to keep an eye on used sizes. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LFS7.0rc2 - Section 1.1 - LFS LiveCD still valid as a build host?

urrent LFS LiveCD and see what else pops out. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

p://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfscd-remastering-howto.txt >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/boot-cd_easy.txt >>> >>> JH >>> -- >>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd >>> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ >>> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> code farmer from lanxiangjixiao >> > -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Use VM to do LFS

drivers used for disk and networking by your VM system. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kevin Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:54 +1300, Steve Crosby wrote: >> http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ >> >> all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. > > Hello Steve, Not quite sure what co

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

gt; yacc or makeinfo. Did you customise slax with extra packages? > I've sucessfully customised it in the past, however the author announced a few weeks ago that he has recently found some interest in funding futher development, so version 7 with updated kernel and tools is due for alpha r

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

e install them before GCC instead of in the source tree. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Disk Usage in Stable LFS 7.3

disk usage requirements for GCC-4.7.2 in section 6.17 are stated as 2GB? "Approximate build time:53.5 SBU" "Required disk space:2.0 GB" Either the comment should be change to reflect GCC as the larger package, or the required disk space for GCC updated\corrected? -- -- - Steve Crosby -

Re: [lfs-support] Disk Usage in Stable LFS 7.3

I was more concerned about the statement that if you can build glibc, you can build all the rest... On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Steve Crosby wrote: >> There is a comment in section 5.33 Stripping that reads >> >> "At this point, you should ha

[lfs-support] Coreutils 8.21 test failure - many-dir-entries-vs-oom

per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group:512 Inode size: 256 Perhaps a note to check the inode count before running this test might be in order, or a note that it might fail? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

[lfs-support] Errata for LFS 7.4

Minor issue with LFS 7.4 Host Requirements Changelog lists host system requirements changes for kernel to 2.6.34, however host requirement section only says 2.6.32 -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

[lfs-support] Minor cosmetic book issue

--- Also FYI, browsing to http:\\linuxfromscratch.org presents a webpage menu, with links that go to an LFS 404 page. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: nscd

I > presume I need a boot script (couldn't see one in the lfs bootscripts) > and a conf file (again, couldn't find one). > > I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Google has > not been much help in this instance. > > Thanks! > start with "i

Re: packages needed?

hapter 6, we have already installed everything we need. In addition, the host system needs to have the Glibc headers installed, and (for LFS 6.x) a kernel version 2.6.2 or higher, compiled with gcc 3.0 or higher. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-

Re: m4?

tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > theres no m4-1.4.2 that I see? theres 1.4.o or 1.4ppre2 so which one? The freshmeat page is out of date. The URL below has the version you are looking for. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/ -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: gettext error?

27; >> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory >> `/usr/sources/gettext-0.14/gettext-runtime' make: *** >> [install-recursive] Error 1 > > I did disable c-sharp in chapter 5 why this error? > use --without-csharp, instead of

Re: gettext error?

Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: >> use --without-csharp, instead of --disable-csharp > > Tom, could you let me know if this works please? According to > gettext's configure script (lines 1911-1915 and

Re: kernel panic :No init found.try passing INIT=option to kernel

r uncompressed initrd image There are several hints available at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org that deal with creating a "live cd" image from LFS - look to them for further assistance. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: File System Issues during bootup

hat FC3 provides an e2fsprogs that is patched to include additional capbilities, and uses those capabilities by default when creating partitions. The stock e2fs distribution we use does not understand those options, and therefore barfs. If I get some time today I'll scribble up a "fix&q

Re: about LFS license problem

our own version of Glibc. Again check the licenses to see how this > work. Not every package is the same. > Note there are some LFS specific packages (bootscripts is one that comes to mind) and also the LFS created patches. These may need consideration as to the license. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: File System Issues during bootup

Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On February 21, 2005 04:38 pm, Steve Crosby wrote: >> If I get some time today I'll scribble up a "fix" process for this >> issue - it's not hard to do. > > That would be great

Re: File System Issues during bootup

Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: > >> When creating the LFS partition, you may need to make some slight >> adjustments if your host system uses certain filesystem features that >> won't be supported by LF

RE: File System Issues during bootup

d this version of redhat be added to the bug as well? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard > Beekmans > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:20 AM > To: LFS Support List > Subject: Re: File System Issues

Re: esfsck error on boot

out problems or errors detected. I used nALFS Although FC3 reports the version as 1.35, they have actually applied some patches that add new functionality not supported by the stock LFS e2fsprogs. The *safest* way to fix this is to update your LFS parition to e2fsprogs 1.36, which has the FC3 ext

Re: esfsck error on boot

Kevin Lyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: >| Kevin Lyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:4222869E.30604 >| @comcast.net: >| >| >|>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >|>Hash: SHA1 >|> >|>Hello all,

Re: Text stops before end of screen

e setterm -blank 0 -powersave off to remove that "feature" (although that doesn't explain why you can't get it back after a keypress. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 18 hours and counting

n desktop running a VMWare instance of LFS CD to build my system and burn to CD, then boot Pentium from that - works fine, build time is only a few hours for current LFS + a few extras, resulting CD image is 34Mb -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http:

Re: LFS 6.3 6.59 Stripping Again

compared to the size of some of the packages - so there is no real advantage to doing it for each package as opposed to at the end. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: VmWare: Giving back control after halt

re sits waiting. If you compile various elements of ACPI into your kernal, then a halt will also close the VMWare virtual machine - I'm not near my VMWare at the moment, so can't advise on the actual kernel parameters involved. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.o

Re: Confusion re: separate gcc-build directory

e > location? > Yes. Please see section 5.1 Introduction, and refer to the second "Important" note, which tells you to remove *every* package source directory after completing the compilation\installation, unless you're explicitly instructed to leave it in place for later. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: useradd now creates groups too

change this behaviour by modifying login.defs, but I don't have an installation handy to identify the option needed to change. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Kernel compilation error

nfig system, in practice errors happen. > > First identify which files refer to alloc_skb, and where it is > defined, > then look at the Makefiles to see what will cause the object file to > be created. > >From linux-2.6.10 Curious - alloc_skb is defined in net/core/s

Re: ../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools \

./binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls is correct, whereas: ../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools / --disable-nls is not (and actually produces unexpected results). -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://ww

Re: Hard link -style package management

/dev/hdb4 then ln -s /usr/lib/libfoo.so.x.y.z /lib will work, but ln /usr/lib/libfoo.so.x.y.z /lib will not (and can't ever under the current hardlink semantics) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Chroot problems

f chapter 6 because of this. My host is > Ubuntu. Any thoughts on what I must do? > This is a known issue - bash has a bug, fixed in the WCONTINUED patch you can find on the LFS website. Just rebuild Chapter 5 bash with this patch, and the hangs should disappear. -- - Steve Crosby --

Re: building LFS-6.0 from BootCD, some observations

tools. You should re-read Chapter 4, this has all the relevant details and explnations. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: why not /tools/lib?

t to /usr:/usr/lib, because we are in a chroot environment, it will actually use $LFS/usr:$LFS/usr/lib, so will not interfere with the host system at all. Clear as mud? ;) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem .. Bootin' from LILO

display) and what is actually being used by the BIOS (one of the lilo diagnostic disks, available in the source distribution, may be needed to diagnose this problem). -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem .. Bootin' from LILO

on the affected system, and compare the results to the BIOS settings - they need to match. Setting the TERM and PS variables is normally done in either the /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc files. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: Problem .. Bootin' from LILO

veral documents desribing the steps needed to make a CD bootable LFS system. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?

OTECTED]' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [dummy] Error 1 > -- > Which version of glibc? and of LFS? This error has been seen recently with the latest glibc snapshots and some other packages, but should not occur with the specified version in LFS 6

Re: No such file or directory

. I don't have a /tools directory handy, but I'm fairly sure that's not normal. An ls -li /tool/bin/perl will give you the inode of the linked file, which you can then ls -liR /tools | grep to find the other copy of the file. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: No such file or directory

Steve Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Interesting - your /tools/bin/perl is hardlinked to something else > (The "2" in the ls listing indicates the number of links to the file). > > I don't have a /tools directory h

Re: Problem in Chapter 6 - glibc zoneinfo Missing

(ZoneInfo Compiler) has failed to run, which is what generates all the zoneinfo files. Check your config.log and installation logs for more clues. There was a thread about this some time (months?) back, but I don't remember the cause - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: root user instead of LFS - Please help

On 28 May 2005, you wrote in lfs.support: > Hello All, > > In section 4.3 (Add the LFS user) of the book, I don't > want to add a user LFS. I'm automating my installation > using a simple bash script and when it does this: > > su - lfs > > My automation stops. :( I like to be able to continue >

Re: root user instead of LFS - Please help

t;set -vx" at the top of each script, which will display the commands as they run. - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

/root /home /tmp /tools /usr/src" PRUNEREGEX=`echo $PRUNEPATH | sed -e 's,^,\\\(^,' -e 's, ,$\\\)\\\| \\\(^,g' -e 's,$,$\\\),'` in build scripts: touch /tmp/.timestamp echo "" >> /tmp/packages.log find / -regex "$PRUNEREGEX" -prune -o -cnewer /tmp/.timestamp -type f >> /tmp/packages.log - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Can LFS be copied from 1 hard drive to another after the build?

, sysfs, dev et al mounted in /mnt/lfs when you create the tarball or copy the files to the new partition ;) - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Question on directory created

have your LFS /usr directories on a seperate filesystem, which does not appear to be the case, so you don't need to follow this step. Also, the instructions you are refering to in the URL above are for mounting the new LFS partition, which it appears you have already completed. - -- Steve Cro

Re: 16 Bash Patches found

he book > is just not mirroring the directory. So it might actually be > bash-3.0.16 by now. > > Joern Bash does not change it's version number when applying patches - the LFS supplied bash-3.0-fixes-3.patch contains all the known official bash patches - you can find this patch

Re: Question on directory created

the w (write) and t (sticky bit) attributes to a (all = user, group and other). man chmod will give you more information. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Question on directory created

/mnt/lfs you should then do a echo $LFS and expect to get /mnt/lfs as the output. If not, let us know, otherwise you should be able to continue the commands in sequence. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem in running "ln -s $LFS/tools /"

ment, and your $LFS variable is lost, so the chown is attempting to access /sources, instead of /mnt/lfs/sources. do a "export LFS=/mnt/lfs" and run the chown again. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem in running "ln -s $LFS/tools /"

> WARNING? You've made a typo - that should be "umask", not "umash". When you run the "source" command, bash is reporting that it cannot find any command called "umash". -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: Fail to create 'binutils-build' directory

commands you are asked to run while building LFS. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: chroot problem (Chapter 6.3)

patch for bash - the WCONTINUED patch, which is in the LFS patches repository - recompile bash with that patch and all should be fine. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Held on 5.9. Adjusting the Toolchain

running the following command from within the binutils-build directory: -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: lfs 6.0 and bash 3.0: should i apply the patch?

bugs in the bash code. Although not required to complete the build, it is recommended. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Backtracking HotPlug and Udev

than some new significant rule capbilities, it looks like the new version will work in our current setup - if I find any additional issues I report them. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Backtracking HotPlug and Udev (SOLVED)

e fact that udevd now handles module events. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: patch versions do not match source versions?

the patches as directed by the book (each package install section indicates if a patch is required. The reason is that some patches are only applicable later in the book, or have no benefit in earlier sections. The instructions are fairly explicit about when a patch is needed however. -- - Steve C

Re: Problems during compilation of binutils ...

ue "no". Either your host has an incomplete gettext installation, or it's broken. You can either install gettext on your host distribution, or use --disable-nls on the configure command line for binutils if you don't need language support. -- - Steve Crosby -- htt

Re: I have no name!

enter a name > here? OR just ignore it and continue on "6.4. Changing > Ownership" > Look at the last paragraph on the section you just finished (6.3) Note that the bash prompt will say "I have no name!" This is normal because the /etc/passwd file has not been created yet

Re: How to build an entire LFS system using uclibc instead of glibc

libc library, please tell me. > Did anyone try this? How big was the system? > Which are the necessary steps to achieve this? The Hardened Linux From Scratch (HLFS) project has a early alpha book on how to use uClibc with LFS - you can skip the "security" bits (SSP, etc) and see if

Re: udevsend and hotplug

h the udev rules being expanded to allow calling of hotplug scripts from the udev rules file. It will take a while to get a properly grip on the new functionality. Ideally, the hotplug scripts will go away entirely, and be replaced by udev rules that can call modprobe directly, etc. - that will t

Re: Help me to build LFS

ation you experienced. It was suggested several times to review the "Recommended Reading" list for LFS to increase your understanding of the basic commands and concepts that need to be understood before you start an LFS build. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Minimal installation

ily. NOTE: Once you have removed the compiler tools, you are stuck with the packages you have now (unless you use a binary installer) - so make sure you have installed everything you want! One day, I'll write a hint about how I made this ;) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfro

Re: /tools/bin/env: /tools/bin/bash: No such file or directory

e /tools directory. This step has not worked in your case, since the bash executable is quite clearly using the host libraries (which are not available in the chroot step). You need to (as Chris pointed out), start from Chapter 5 again, and try and see where you went wrong. Points to check incl

Re: internet connection with liveccd

own issues with your Host system before building) - this would be fairly easy to maintain, since the number of quirks is not high, and we could test and update relatively easily when a new host OS is released. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: internet connection with liveccd

On 7/25/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > steve crosby wrote: > > > >> Another option is to apply the FC2\3 workaround permanently - change > >> the book instructions to download, compile and use e2fsprogs from LFS

Re: Re: small LFS distribution

e the files at the end, otherwise you can impact the actual building process. With care, and depending on what your end system needs to be functional for your purpose, it's possible to get a standard LFS6.1 system stripped down to less than 20Mb, plus whatever additional package your system nee

Re: how to compile NPTL using gcc 3.3.3 in 2.4.18 kernel

we don't provide support for using NTPL with Linux 2.4.x kernels. The effort to include the changes RedHat (and other distributions) provide to stock packages is simply too much for a very small volunteer community. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FA

Re: file permissions

On 8/11/05, Michiel Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is what i do: > > rm -R patch-2.5.4 > use (with care!) rm -rf -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: file permissions

ermission bit to all files in all subdirectories, and thus an rm -r will not ask before removing it. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: make check failed first time, passed second time with no change

ssage so that I could send it in... and > it passed. Does this mean I am good to go? And why would it fail > once and pass a second time? > the make command simply continues from where it last stopped - it doesn't rerun the previous tests unless you manually tel

Re: Kernel Config Question: SMP support?

e that the > kernel is finding, and why is it on a single processor machine? > Newer Intel Pentium 4 chips have a feature known as HyperThreading - look on google for lots of info. The result is the kernel sees two CPU's - enabling SMP is required to use the HyperThreading capability. --

Re: sysklogd question

llowing: *.*;auth,authpriv,cron.none -/var/log/sys.log This means log everytyhing (*.*), and also log auth, authpriv and cron logs at a level of "none" - which effectivley means don't log them at all. man syslog.conf for more information on rules and exclusions. -- - Steve Cros

Re: Final step 9.3 then no reboot

LS_KOI8_R is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set # CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y # # Security options # # CONFIG_KEYS is not set # CONFIG_SECURITY is not set # # Cryptographic options # # C

Re: ip forwarding and iptables

solution is to enable ip_forwarding only after you have made any additional configuration changes to your PC1 networking (such as iptables, etc). -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Are the gcc build files still needed after section 5.4?

/tools/bin/gcc # ln -sv gcc /tools/bin/cc create symbolic link `/tools/bin/cc' to `gcc' # ls -l /tools/bin total 0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Jun 5 20:05 cc -> gcc -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 5 20:03 gcc -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linux

Re: Are the gcc build files still needed after section 5.4?

are created). Hope that clears things up - the man page for ln refers to *where* the ln command will place the symlink file - I don't think the ln manpage does (or should) cover how the OS resolves symlinks. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

On 6/30/06, f. l. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +#define DYNAMIC_LINKER "/tool/lib/ld-linux.so.2" assuming it's not a typo, this should be "tools", not "tool", correct? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

(echo $i | tr -d '\r')" != "" ]; do read i; done; cat) } # Export the function we have created export -f httpget --- the after login\sourceing profile, you can use httpget http://my.http.file.location/filename.extenstion > filename.extension no additional binaries required. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

On 12/5/06, steve crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just use this piece of script fu for http file downloading - I really should troll the archives and find out the proper attribution for this code, but it never seems I have enough time ;) made the time - kudos to the original

Re: How to set $PATH for fcron jobs?

weren't expecting it to. Also, the default setting of the path is set by either login (part of shadow, and thus using \etc\login.def to define the default PATH) or sshd (for remote logins only) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Spring Ahead

ust take your existing zoneinfo source, add the new rules, and compile the files - no need for new glibc install ;) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Dhcpcd and iptables problems (BLFS 6.1)

p mirrors. you run logrotate every so often (usually daily) in cron (you'll need to install the cron daemon too!) and the logrotate configuration files indicate after how long, what size etc to chop the logs smaller, keep x number of backup copies, compress the backups, etc. -- -- - Steve Cros