I have a utf-8 locale which appears to be performing OK. When I run
locale it returns a list of twelve LC_* conditions plus LANG all
reading en_GB.UTF-8. However, the final condition LC_ALL is unset.
Can anybody tell me if that is correct, or if it needs to be set to
en_GB.UTF-8.
TIA
Richard
A small typo:-
Note
The bridge script depends on the comamnds...
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Another small typo:-
Note
This package installes...
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Out of interest I've just read the above page in the book. I *don't* use
an initramfs, but I do have a rootfs mounted on a btrfs subvolume (similar
in some ways to LVM). I have a GPT boot partition formatted with ext2 on a
USB flash drive, and I'm using syslinux as a boot loader.
In case others
Richard Melville wrote:
Richard Melville wrote:
-d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be
-m
/home/rsync.
No, it just specifies a directory in /etc/passwd, but no one is logging
into the rsync account, so it doesn't need to be created.
-- Bruce
Richard Melville wrote:
-d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be -m
/home/rsync.
No, it just specifies a directory in /etc/passwd, but no one is logging
into the rsync account, so it doesn't need to be created.
-- Bruce
But the suggested configuration
-d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be -m
/home/rsync.
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Le 04/04/2014 12:27, Fernando de Oliveira a ?crit :
Em 04-04-2014 06:24, Pierre Labastie escreveu:
I go have a look and correct if necessary.
Pierre
Done at r12930.
My script is as the book now. I had that change to be done, probably
more than one update ago, thought had done it.
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 6:46:05 PM Richard Melville wrote:
There's an error in the book's suggested configure commands:
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/sudo should be --libexecdir=/usr/lib. Both
current
books have this error which surely would produce two sudo directories;
one below the other
I know it's not in the book but does anybody have any views on Snort?
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There's an error in the book's suggested configure commands:
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/sudo should be --libexecdir=/usr/lib. Both current
books have this error which surely would produce two sudo directories;
one below the other.
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I've now got both ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls working satisfactorily, however,
I'm having difficulty filtering icmpv6 packets, and wasted a lot of time
yesterday in the attempt. As ipv6 is far more dependant upon icmp than
ipv4 ever was, I'm finding it complicated to filter said packets in a
secure
OK, I've had another look at iptables. The reason the counters weren't
working in iptables when mail was sent was because, for whatever reason,
msmtp decided to use an ipv6 address intead of ipv4. Running msmtp --debug
proved this. I knew that building a dual stack was going to cause issues.
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:51:53 +
From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer)
To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
Subject: Re: [blfs-support] iptables again
.
.
Richard Melville wrote:
Maybe somebody has the answer to this -- it's only a minor
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a
initrd.
Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself, try:
menuentry LFS Dev, Linux 3.10.32-sm01 {
linux /vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01 \
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Richard Melville
richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote:
What worked for me in the end is the following: I don't use a initrd and
I
partition the flash drive with GPT, format with ext2, and boot to an ext4
partition on an mSATA SSD. I use Syslinux rather
Richard Melville wrote:
Maybe somebody has the answer to this -- it's only a minor point.
I've set up msmtp and s-nail on a blfs server; I can send email, and
iptables is not blocking them but neither is it recording the packets
passed. When I had this issue before with a different
Maybe somebody has the answer to this -- it's only a minor point.
I've set up msmtp and s-nail on a blfs server; I can send email, and
iptables is not blocking them but neither is it recording the packets
passed. When I had this issue before with a different service, changing
sport to dport
I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on
some motherboards, but I can do it on the same motherboard type with
different (old) BIOS version.
Yes, the BIOS is one of the final bastions of proprietary
software/firmware, and many are crap with little opportunity to do
Thanks for the help Bruce and AK -- that's a lot clearer.
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Richard Melville wrote:
Can anybody tell me what the reason is for not using iptables-save and
iptables-restore?
You can use them if you want, but I don't see a use for them unless you
are doing some kind of dynamic control of the tables. It's better if
the admin knows what rules
Can anybody tell me what the reason is for not using iptables-save and
iptables-restore?
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I can't find any recent reference to ulogd in the LFS books so I was
wondering if there is any benefit to be gained by using this logger for
iptables.
The idea of having a separate, dedicated logger for iptables seems
attractive to me, and a new version has recently been released.
Any views
'e2image' (part of e2fsprogs pkg) might be partly of some use there, in the
wider-picture: but I'd say for the present task you really want dd or the
find/cpio combination; either of them will do the job just fine. If you
need 100% identical data - incl metadata, timestamps, c - then I'd say
I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build with:
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra
-Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -std=gnu99 -D_GNU_SOURCE
-D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -version-info 1:0:1 -no-undefined -ljson-c -o
libjson.la
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:35:35 +0100
From: Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr
To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
Subject: Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc
Le 06/12/2013 10:56, Richard Melville a ?crit :
Le 05/12/2013 18:18
Good luck - I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be
slow.
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The atom has come a long way since its inauguration; the latest Silverton
range featuring the Avoton processors boast up to an eight core model with
a 2.6 GHz
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Forgot to attach it the first time, and when I did it bounced (too
big, whoops!). So here's the third attempt, using xz to compress it
from 177K to 7K. sigh/
Thanks and sorry for confusion!
I had no Unicode
Le 05/12/2013 18:18, Richard Melville a ?crit :
Does anybody know what causes the following:-
du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or
directory
du: cannot access '/proc/602/fd/4
(or at least a
'world-within-a-world');
...a society *within* a society; where you have to get up to get down, and
where getting it on *usually* means getting them off.
The Wicker Rap -- circa 1980
I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist that.
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Does anybody know what causes the following:-
du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/602/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/602/fdinfo/4': No
Richard Melville wrote:
I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and
ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I
use a
UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to
like
either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32
I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and
ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I use a
UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to like
either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot cycle goes round in circles.
Hi folks,
I wonder if anyone could guess what's wrong with my text terminal.
I've recently built LFS-7.4 (32bit) and most of BLFS (I'm not using X
Windows, just text terminals only) on Atom D2550 motherboard, VGA display
resolution.
When I logged in if I try to edit bash command line by
Em 27-11-2013 19:27, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu:
Em 27-11-2013 18:59, Richard Melville escreveu:
I realise that cryptsetup is not in the BLFS book but I wondered if
anybody knows whether libdevmapper (crypsetup configure fails
complaining about its absence) can be installed on its own
I realise that cryptsetup is not in the BLFS book but I wondered if anybody
knows whether libdevmapper (crypsetup configure fails complaining about
its absence) can be installed on its own or if I'm going to have to install
the complete LVM package. I'm not planning to use LVM as it seems
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:49:02 +
From: Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com
To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
Subject: [blfs-support] hcron
Has anybody had any experience of hcron?
http://code.google.com/p/hcron/
It looks like a good (and simpler
Has anybody had any experience of hcron?
http://code.google.com/p/hcron/
It looks like a good (and simpler?) alternative to Fcron.
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Richard Melville wrote:
Looking through the *setting up a network firewall* page I wondered what
the thinking was behind switching the kernel parameters via an
rc.iptables
file rather than the perhaps more conventional sysctl.conf file.
It's more straight forward and it stands alone
Looking through the *setting up a network firewall* page I wondered what
the thinking was behind switching the kernel parameters via an rc.iptables
file rather than the perhaps more conventional sysctl.conf file.
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After looking at tons of logs of people trying to log into a system
using ssh and guessing usernames and passwords, I've given up trying to
monitor such foolishness. I'd only want to bother to do something like
that in a very high security situation. Perhaps this is a package for
Hardened
On 4 November 2013 07:00, blfs-support-requ...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
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Richard Melville wrote:
Does anybody have any experience of noshell as a replacement for
/bin/false
and /dev/null? I realise that it's quite old, but is it still
Am Sonntag, 3. November 2013, 16:30:32 schrieb Richard Melville:
Still on the subject of server hardening I was looking for
acct-6.6.1.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/acct/acct-6.6.1.tar.gz in the
BLFS book and couldn't find it. Is there any reason why this is omitted;
has process accounting
Does anybody have any experience of noshell as a replacement for /bin/false
and /dev/null? I realise that it's quite old, but is it still useful as a
more secure way of creating a user with no login shell?
Fish.com, together with the titan hardening package, seems to have morphed
into a a
Still on the subject of server hardening I was looking for
acct-6.6.1.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/acct/acct-6.6.1.tar.gz in the
BLFS book and couldn't find it. Is there any reason why this is omitted;
has process accounting been superseded by something else?
Richard
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Just a minor typo here:-
...legacy PC-BIOS partitioned disk drives that *us* a Master Boot Record
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I was installing the dev version of drupal 8 when it complained that the
php extension gd was missing. AFAIK drupal also works with ImageMagick
which I had installed, but just to be on the safe side I decided to install
gd.
In BLFS 7.4 gd is listed on the php-5.5.3 page as optional under the
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely
to
be the error, but if it builds then you are sorted.
/me resolves never to touch squid with the proverbial barge-pole.
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely to
be the error, but if it builds then you are sorted.
/me resolves never to touch squid with the proverbial barge-pole.
I agree; IMO squid is probably
To be short, UTC is based on atomic clocks. Because the earth revolution
speed varies (it always decreased till 1970), in UTC time the 0?
meridian (solar time) tends to drift East. The leap seconds are added to
UTC to keep the 0? meridian at Greenwich.
In the regions where the legal time is
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I suppose we can add that it can also cause problems due to inaccurate
time by omitting all leap seconds since 1970.
The problem is limited to the regions having GMT as legal time (or
BST=GMT+1).
Pierre
That's interesting; why is that?
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I don't appear to have either the posix directory or the right
directory.
As I was building a stripped-down system I must have followed the
suggestion to
omit them, and now, maybe, this has come back to bite me. I'm
assuming that I can install them now.
Yep, that's your problem.
Richard Melville wrote:
+kvm02-vps.cleve 31.193.9.2 3 u17 1024 377 25.130 0.444 1.359
-mail1.ugh.no 87.195.109.207 3 u 759 1024 377 25.171 1.858 0.419
*sexrobot.omg.omg 103.7.151.4 2 u 1008 1024 377 20.553 -1.584 1.428
+hemel-hempstead 140.203.204.77 2 u 60m
Richard Melville wrote:
Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
date date -u returns:-
Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
As you can see instead of a one hour
Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
date date -u returns:-
Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
As you can see instead of a one hour difference I'm getting one hour and 25
I'm running glibc-2.16.0 which, I believe, is the last version to build the
add-on ports as a separate directory. I wondered what exactly the add-on
ports add, and why they might be needed.
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:42:29PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote:
I'm trying to use a BT878 video capture card with my BLFS system.
Unfortunately I chose, in a moment of parsimony, a cheap version that
does
not have an eeprom. This means that although I have added the correct
driver
I'm trying to use a BT878 video capture card with my BLFS system.
Unfortunately I chose, in a moment of parsimony, a cheap version that does
not have an eeprom. This means that although I have added the correct
driver information to the kernel tree the card won't work. The only way
I've been
Oh for the days when cups included everything!
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Yes, thank you Apple. I've recently had fun with cups-filters.
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In looking to setup a wireless connection manager for my blfs system I
came across this networking package called connman.
I have not done anything with this package as I need to finish up some
loose ends with my blfs system.
Here is the url http://connman.net/
Maybe it will be of
If you want an example of one way to build a desktop, you can take a look
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Bruce -- that's an interesting and useful article. For logging my own
build I still like Paco (http://paco.sourceforge.net). I like
I'm currently pressing an old LFS/BLFS build into service as a print
server, so I thought that it would be a good idea to update all
the relevant packages associated with printing.
The rebuilding went fairly smoothly until I came to cups-filters which
errored out on long long. I investigated the
Ken Moffat wrote:-
Yes, that's the one. Not sure what was wrong in the link - ah
I only pasted the part that was visible in the address bar
http://strace.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi
Alan Lord said:-
Are you anything to with OSSWatch by any chance?
My business partner will be doing this
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/12/02/building-an-engaged-community/
on Monday.
Al
Not officially but I know Ross (and Alan Bell). I'll be there on Monday.
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I was thinking of building terminator, the cross-platform GPL terminal
emulator, at some stage when I have some time. I just wondered if anybody
has any experience of building it on BLFS.
I'll take that as a no then.
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I was thinking of building terminator, the cross-platform GPL terminal
emulator, at some stage when I have some time. I just wondered if anybody
has any experience of building it on BLFS.
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Indeed the Cellphone scenario is what comes immediately to mind. As
usual these things are done by a combination of several parts, and
although each bit might be documented, putting together a working
solution is, as usual, not.
The proximate cause of my interest is a new cellphone with an
Claus Regelmann said:-
I recently finished installing LFS 6.5 on my old Laptop (IBM-T21).
I added SYSFSUTILS-2.1.0 and PCMCIAUTILS-0.15, put the TR card in,
called pcmcia-socket-startup, found the tr0 interface, configured
tr0, and tried to ping another machine in my network.
-- no
Cliff McDiarmid said:-
When upgrading a version of LFS 6.0 with a much newer kernel(2.6.27.10)in
order to get a new wireless driver I'm getting a kernel panic and stop.
Would there be a problem with upgrading an LFS with glibc-2.3.4 and older
packages, to a newer kernel. I ask this because
Cliff McDiarmid said:-
When upgrading a version of LFS 6.0 with a much newer kernel(2.6.27.10)in
order to get a new wireless driver I'm getting a kernel panic and stop.
Would there be a problem with upgrading an LFS with glibc-2.3.4 and older
packages, to a newer kernel. I ask this because
Bruce Dubbs wrote:-
And remove the nameserver 192.168.1.1 line unless that system has a properly
installed nameserver installed.
Are you sure about that Bruce? I'm away from home at present and so I can't
check any of my LFS boxes, but I'm fairly certain that my only nameserver
line in
Thanks for the advice Dennis and Randy -- I thought it worth asking
before I shell out my hard-earned cash.
Regarding the motherboard, I was planning on using the Jetway JNC81-LF
with the Radeon HD3200 graphics chip. I'm just adapting a large copper
heatsink in the hope that I can get the whole
Hi
I'm really hoping that somebody can help me here. I'm thinking of
building a new box with the above 45W processor. All my LFS/BLFS builds
thus far have been built using 32 bit x86 processors. Am I going to run
into problems trying to run existing (non-optimized) builds on this
hardware?
--enable-jemalloc \
does this provide any benefits on non-windows platforms ?
For some reason my firefox-3.0.3 build failed unless I used
--disable-jemalloc
I'm using --enable-system-sqlite because I loathe multiple static
builds of libraries, but I did have to create a .pc
Just some further info -- I can confirm that xulrunner builds cleanly
from firefox 3 source. I've also gone on to build the latest versions
of VLC and Gnash against it and both the mozilla plugins appear to work
well.
I'm not sure about the issue raised by Simon in relation to SQLite as
i've
It may be a bug, but one in the LFS-6.1 version of gcc (3.4.3),
which is very old. You may have to do incremental upgrades to get
up to a version of gcc that is able to compile 4.2.1.
Just a point of information -- I've been using gcc-3.4.3 recently to compile a
whole range of
between the headers.
Help much appreciated.
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Hi
On checking /etc/ld.so.conf I noticed that /opt/jdk/lib was not
present. I've now added it, but I'm not sure whether I needed to or not.
I'd be very grateful for some advice.
Thanks.
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find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/net: this may be a bug in
your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been
searched.
There have been instances in the not too distant
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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:22:09 +0100
From: Richard Melville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
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Just to add further comment regarding LVM; I've found it incredibly
useful on laptops with low hard disk capacity. It just makes it so easy
to move the limited storage space around as it's needed. Maybe I'm
tempting fate, but I haven't had any problems with it yet.
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Hi Dan
Thanks for all your help, however, I'm not entirely convinced by your
diagnosis. The gnutls package contains its own version of opencdk and this was
the version that I used initially. I installed opencdk-0.6.4 only after
*make* failed on the initial build using the included version of
Hi Dan
I'm using opencdk-0.6.4. I think that's the latest version. As I said,
gnutls-2.1.1 compiled perfectly. BTW I took your advice and
installed libtasn1.
I'm also using gnupg-1.4.7, as in the unstable book. While we're on the
subject do you have any views on gnupg-1.x.x versus
Hi
My apologies to everbody concerned - I should have read the posts more
thoroughly. Lack of time is my only excuse.
Unfortunately, I never got round to using directfb as a graphical desktop
environment. I am using it only as a graphical web browsing environment
with the links browser.
The
Hi Dan
Here's the output from Make as it fails:-
gnutls_openpgp.c: In function `openpgp_pk_to_gnutls_cert':
gnutls_openpgp.c:294: warning: passing arg 4 of `cdk_pk_get_mpi' makes integer
from pointer without a cast
gnutls_openpgp.c:294: error: too few arguments to function `cdk_pk_get_mpi'
Hi
I've a general query. Is there any reason why GnuTLS-2xx isn't being
used in the BLFS unstable book? I ask this mainly because, for some
reason, I had a problem compiling 1.6.3. The problem seemed to be
related to GnuPG (working fine) and OpenCDK (also apparently OK). When
I tried
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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:04:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: libgpg-error-1.5 make failure
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Richard Melville wrote
Hi
Does anybody know why I am getting these errors when running make.
Some help would be much appreciated.
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/libgpg-error-1.5'
Making all in m4
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/libgpg-error-1.5/m4'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
, XPDF, etc.
A few pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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Alessandro Alocci wrote:
The command should be launched inside the
/etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules script as
described in the Alsa-utilities section
of the BLFS book.
Just control if you have installed the script properly.
Thanks for the advice. I'm following the BLFS 6.1 book (the
Thanks to everybody for the help. Just as I thought - it was a stupid error.
The m/board I am using used to be in a case with front mounted audio jacks. To
enable these jacks required the removal of two jumpers from the audio
header on the m/board. I am now using the same m/board in a case with
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