Ryan Moszynski wrote: > i recently finished my main installation. i used the lfs live cd as > host and everything went smoothly. In fact so smoothly that i'm not > quite ready to give up that environment just yet. I am attempting to > install lynx so i can read the blfs book while actually running the > system i just built, and one of the optional req's for lynx is exim > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/server/mail.html#exim
Exim is a large package (you realize it's a full-featured SMTP server, right?) and you won't need it for using lynx to read the LFS/BLFS books. > now, the directions for exim require you to logout of root and log > back in as a regular user that the directions tell you to create. my > question is, how do you do that from the livecd environment? When you're in the chroot environment of your LFS system, just create a new unprivileged user via groupadd and useradd. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
