> Interesting. Can you do 'su -' to become root? I haven't set a root pwd, but `sudo su -` works fine > > What are the ownership and permissions of /home/lfs/, > /home/lfs/.bash_profile, and /home/lfs/.bashrc ? All standard, I believe, respectively: 755 lfs:lfs
644 lfs:lfs 644 lfs:lfs > > Did you set the lfs user's password? I did > > After becoming user lfs, what is the output from running 'set'? well, using `su lfs` and then sourcing `~/.bash_profile` it is: BASH=/bin/bash BASHOPTS=checkwinsize:cmdhist:complete_fullquote:expand_aliases:extquote:force_fignore:globasciiranges:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath BASH_ALIASES=() BASH_ARGC=([0]="0") BASH_ARGV=() BASH_CMDS=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="5" [1]="0" [2]="3" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='5.0.3(1)-release' COLUMNS=234 DIRSTACK=() EUID=1001 GROUPS=() HISTFILE=/home/lfs/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=500 HISTSIZE=500 HOME=/home/lfs HOSTNAME=LFSDebian HOSTTYPE=x86_64 IFS=$' \t\n' LC_ALL=POSIX LFS=/lfs LFS_TGT=x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu LINES=53 MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu MAILCHECK=60 OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/lfs/tools/bin:/usr/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=10904 PS1='\u:\w\$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' PWD=/home/lfs SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor SHLVL=1 TERM=xterm-256color UID=1001 _=PATH > > The idea of Section 4.4 is to create a very austere environment. Did > you see the Important note in Section 4.4? Does /etc/bash.bashrc > exist on your host? > I did have to rename /etc/bash/bashrc on Debian, I suspected it could cause problem as it seems to do a couple important things. But it's not it. > > -- Bruce > -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
