Hello LFS maintainers, while I was building LFS 6.6 I discovered a problem in chapter 6.52: psmisc-22.10. According to the book the optional command ln -sv killall /bin/pidof can be issued at the end of the chapter. However, killall was installed in the directory /usr/bin/killall So executing this command results in a dead link. I see that this has been fixed in 6.7-rc1. It is furthermore stated, that /bin/pidof will be replaced with a better version from the sysvinit package. It should be made clear at this point that keeping that link instead of sysvinit's version will not work. I got an error message during boot. I was able to trace the problem to the start script /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions the line pidlist=`pidof -o $$ -o $PPID -x "$1"` in function pidofproc() cannot be handled by killall. Changing this to pidlist=`pidof -e "$1"` seems to fix the problem. However, since keeping killall instead of killall5 would mean some sort of minor forking point in installing LFS, I think the book should completely discard the alternative of keeping killall. Best Regards Max P.S.: I submitted this previously but was not subscribed to the list. Not sure if that was noticed since I did not recieve any response.
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