Re: Allowing ftp and email, but not shell access

2005-08-24 Thread DJ Lucas
Steve Prior wrote: > I'd like to set up a few accounts on my LFS box which can FTP (or SSH) > files for a web page and store email, but deny actual command line > access. I haven't yet found a way to pull this off. Can anyone > provide some starting points? > > Steve > Is it possible to create

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was nice to see so many fellow-users of the List felt concerned about > this subject. Shows how active this List is. > > This started with me. I owe an explanation. > Welcome to the community :) You're a newbie, get used to it. I mean

Allowing ftp and email, but not shell access

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Prior
I'd like to set up a few accounts on my LFS box which can FTP (or SSH) files for a web page and store email, but deny actual command line access. I haven't yet found a way to pull this off. Can anyone provide some starting points? Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-su

Re: Security thoughts to chapter 4.

2005-08-24 Thread Guenther Niess
Randy McMurchy wrote: >Kerberos? Probably not. You need to learn what these packages do >before you even should consider them. > > Yes it's true. It's not Mircosoft style, clicking befor thinking ;-) That's why I read the Howtos and Manpages, befor I've installed it. (Because of my doubt, I have

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/24/05 20:29 CST: > The Book is very well done. That is why a novice like me has reached this > far, having installed X and Kde and now asking questions about how to get > the peripherals going. No mean achievemnet for the LFS/BLFS team. You are a > promin

No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21 Sorry if you took my efforts to help as being insulting. You are responding to my last message where I indicated that what the OP was asking for us to put in the book is already covered in documentation provided by the package. Typically, we don

Firefox enhancement

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, If you have instances where you click on a URL link, or from the command line issue a URL parameter to Firefox and it opens a new browser window, when you'd rather it open a new tab in an existing browser window, issue the following command as the root user to update the installed firefox

Re: Security thoughts to chapter 4.

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Guenther Niess wrote these words on 08/24/05 18:48 CST: > I'm a newbie on lfs/blfs and want to install a multimedia/developer > laptop desktop environment which is not the lowest security standart. So > I prepare my installation for all the thinks and read the whole day > about the programs referen

Security thoughts to chapter 4.

2005-08-24 Thread Guenther Niess
I'm a newbie on lfs/blfs and want to install a multimedia/developer laptop desktop environment which is not the lowest security standart. So I prepare my installation for all the thinks and read the whole day about the programs referenced on the book. Then I stumbled over the sentence: "If you runn

ndiswrapper and bootscripts

2005-08-24 Thread Larry
I have been winding my way through the bootscripts and ran into this situation. Trying to load the ndiswrapper module using the modules script and it kept failing, but digging into loadndisdriver source file found that it creates a /dev file which then gets clobbered by the udev script. The obvio

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:45 -0400, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system > (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 > as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' > glib

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Declan Moriarty wrote these words on 08/24/05 17:11 CST: > Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > >>OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as >>creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then >>going to single user mode and moving everything fr

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Declan Moriarty stated: > > Why not upgrade? With alfs, the lfs section of the build can be > > fairly painless. > > OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as > creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and t

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I now remember reading this message, but completely overlooked its > importance. I will attempt this right now. Building and installing > using the current books's method, and then modify the run-mozilla.sh > script. Oops, not run-mozilla.sh.

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST: > The issue of profile locking when trying to open a URL in an already > running Firefox received some attention on blfs-support. Kevin > Somervill went through the run-mozilla.sh script and found there was > an error where a variable didn't

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Ken Moffat stated: > Same as with any other host, i.e. use a spare partition.  For many > people, the spare partition will be the one which held the host from > which they built lfs the first time.  From a host running a 2.4 kernel, > also upgrade to a 2.6 kernel before you start the build (for pre

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using the installer as Archaic points out creates a Firefox that > doesn't call the profile manager when invoked more than once. > Invoking firefox a 2nd time simply opens another window of Firefox. > As one would expect. > > Invoked like thi

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Douglas J Hunley wrote: OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from /lfs/* to / ? Same as with any other host, i.e. use a sp

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Douglas J Hunley wrote these words on 08/24/05 14:42 CST: > OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs > on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user > mode and moving everything from /lfs/* to / ? Many different methods you can

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Declan Moriarty stated: > Why not upgrade? With alfs, the lfs section of the build can be fairly > painless. OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/24/05, Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system > (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 > as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' > glibc with

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system > (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 > as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' > glibc without al

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Douglas J Hunley wrote these words on 08/24/05 13:45 CST: > Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system > (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 > as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' > glibc

upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc without all hell breaking loose. Pointers? (Is this the right li

Re: Weird test-results from gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-24 Thread Andrew Benton
Tushar Teredesai wrote: In that case just install gcc-3.4.4 into /usr with the additional languages that you need. Follow the BLFS instructions. Even with 6066 test failures for gcc? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
[cc'd to BLFS-Dev from BLFS-Support] Archaic wrote these words on 06/25/05 12:01 CST: > [snip what is already instructions in the book] > make -C browser/installer && > cd dist && > mv firefox /opt/firefox-${version} && > ln -sf /opt/firefox-${version} /opt/firefox && > ln -sf /opt/firefox/firef

Re: Weird test-results from gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/24/05, D.Dreschers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed 3.4.4 while building lfs and now just want to add > the additional languages. In that case just install gcc-3.4.4 into /usr with the additional languages that you need. Follow the BLFS instructions. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto

Re: Weird test-results from gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Can I build and install in /usr/local and then just move them > all to /usr? Or is the path hardcoded in the binaries? > You can probably build all in /usr/local and _leave_ it in /usr/local I ran a system with gcc-2.95-3 in /usr and gcc-3.3.1 in /

Re: Weird test-results from gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-24 Thread D.Dreschers
Randy McMurchy wrote: >>in order to avoid rebuilding my complete system is it >>possible to build solely the objc,f77 and ada compiler >>and install them in /usr/local without damaging the >>c and c++ compiler in /usr ? > > What do you mean "damaging"? What version of GCC do you currently > have i

Re: bootsplash on kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-24 Thread Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes
Em Ter 23 Ago 2005 23:19, David Ciecierski escreveu: Hello! \ > I still cannot access menu option > "Bootsplash configuration". It's there with "--->", but I cannot get in... > To me, it seens like a patch error, try adding to .config a line like this: CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH=y just b

OOo-1.1.4 with JDK 1.5.0

2005-08-24 Thread NP
Hello ! Building BLFS SVN-20050822 on Intel P4 / Kernel 2.6.12.4 Using JDK 1.5.0 compiled in /opt/jdk OpenOffice-1.1.4 fails to compile : Command : ./bootstrap && bash -c "source LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh; dmake" Produces following error (after ca. 1h30 processing) : /usr/src/OOo-build/connectivity/