Re: [lfs-support] missing systemd out

2014-04-24 Thread TheOldFellow
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:26 AM, TheOldFellow theoldfel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also avoiding d-bus and sysklogd as I have better alternatives. Richard, Would you elaborate on alternatives to dbus? For example, I need to use okular (although I hate its terminal

[lfs-support] missing systemd out

2014-04-23 Thread TheOldFellow
Am I right in thinking that ACL, ATTR are not needed if systemd is being avoided? What else has had to be added so that systemd compiles? I'm also avoiding d-bus and sysklogd as I have better alternatives. Richard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] missing systemd out

2014-04-23 Thread TheOldFellow
Armin K. wrote: On 04/23/2014 12:04 PM, xinglp wrote: 2014-04-23 17:26 GMT+08:00 TheOldFellow theoldfel...@gmail.com: Am I right in thinking that ACL, ATTR are not needed if systemd is being avoided? What else has had to be added so that systemd compiles? I'm also avoiding d-bus

[lfs-support] kmod-17

2014-04-21 Thread TheOldFellow
Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20140418 Everything fine, including installation of xz, but kmod-17 clearly isn't happy with the layout of the libs for xz. root:/sources/kmod-17# make make --no-print-directory all-recursive Making all in . CC libkmod/libkmod.lo CC

Re: [lfs-support] kmod-17

2014-04-21 Thread TheOldFellow
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 21/04/2014 17:50, TheOldFellow a écrit : Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20140418 Everything fine, including installation of xz, but kmod-17 clearly isn't happy with the layout of the libs for xz. root:/sources/kmod-17# make make --no-print-directory all

Weird Adobe problem

2008-11-12 Thread TheOldFellow
I've got a weird problem, I can't get to www.adobe.com, everywhere else is fine. My dns server correctly reports that the IP is 192.150.18.101, and I can ping it: ping www.adobe.com PING www.wip3.adobe.com (192.150.18.101) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.150.18.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242

Re: Weird Adobe problem

2008-11-12 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:30:26 -0500 Jordan Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM, TheOldFellow [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've got a weird problem, I can't get to www.adobe.com, everywhere else is fine. My dns server correctly reports that the IP is 192.150.18.101

Re: 18 hours and counting ... gcc pass 1

2007-08-31 Thread TheOldFellow
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:38:01 -0700 J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip on a major positive note, the lfs livecd is the only current distro to actually run correctly on this ancient beast. knoppix and gnoppix both won't even boot, slak, debian will boot but won't install. suse locks up

Re: SATA

2007-06-28 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:36:14 -0400 Baho Utot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does LFS support SATA out of the box? I'm curious about the term 'out the box' when applied to LFS. Isn't the whole point that there isn't a box? Or if there is, YOU put it in there? A more interesting question is: Does

Re: Get free broadband internet from google!

2007-04-01 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:54:33 +0200 Tijnema ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm testing if it works now, I already put the cable down into my toilet and waiting for google to connect me :) I hope they work on sunday too :) I'll bet the service is crap. R. --

Re: slow reboot with runit

2007-03-23 Thread TheOldFellow
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:21:07 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, TheOldFellow wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:55:42 + (WET) If you logout of your last shell does it go faster? There seems to be some delay before a tty is shut down. I was doing

Re: slow reboot with runit

2007-03-22 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:55:42 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, TheOldFellow wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:01:06 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using runit as alternative to sysvinit. Booting is no problem. Rebooting

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread TheOldFellow
Alan Lord wrote: Tijnema ! wrote: snip So if you start creating a bash file that works for most of the packages, with su/suo, you can copy that in every package to be automated, and edit it for specific apps that require other configure options. This is a BAD idea. This was similar in

Re: runit?

2007-02-17 Thread TheOldFellow
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm trying to understand how to use runit as substitute for sysvinit. The file hints/ATTACHMENTS/build-with-runit/build-with-runit-scripts.txt dates from 2004. Can anybody elaborate on this? (I mean, is it deprecated or just lacking a maintainer?) The hint says the author

Re: runit?

2007-02-17 Thread TheOldFellow
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, TheOldFellow wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm trying to understand how to use runit as substitute for sysvinit. snip What I now do is to build LFS or CLFS according to the book, but omiting sysvinit and syslog. I even install the bootscripts

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-07 Thread TheOldFellow
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: TheOldFellow wrote on 06-02-07 09:41: LFS is whatever YOU make it. The Linux Kernel is just part of LFS. Don't get mad at me, I wan't trying to get at you :-) You just seemed to be saying that these things happened 'cos they did - when actually, when you understand

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-07 Thread TheOldFellow
Eric Stout wrote: You can do whatever you want with boot scripts. You make some excellent points here, it's good reading for Newbies. Bootscripts are fun. Personally, I delete all that muckery that makes an aesthetically pleasing boot system, because I find that kind of scripting ot have more

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-06 Thread TheOldFellow
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: TheOldFellow wrote on 06-02-07 08:30: Bauke Jan Douma wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote on 06-02-07 03:18: I always thought rc.local, if and when present, was indeed supposed to be run /last/ in the boot process -- see e.g.: http://www.freeos.com/articles/3243/ http

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-06 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/6/07, Bauke Jan Douma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw., here's another reference to rc.local: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.html Redhat..., hm. So again, praytell, what /is/ Linux. Well, the only

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-05 Thread TheOldFellow
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote on 06-02-07 03:18: I don't know if that's really a standard. In the SuSE partition I have, it's called boot.local. And it's run just about last from their boot script, the equivalent to our /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc. But, I think for maximum

Re: firefox 2.0.0.1

2006-12-22 Thread TheOldFellow
Alberto Hernando wrote: El Viernes, 22 de Diciembre de 2006 12:43, KJ Tsanaktsidis escribió: Well, i dunno about the ignoring of .mozconfig, but i do know how to localize Firefox... Just download an extension called a language pack and it should display the UI in that language. Eg- is this

Re: Partition reporting problems - bios vs reality

2005-07-16 Thread TheOldFellow
Andrew Benton wrote: TheOldFellow wrote: I'm having some problems with grub (and others) on my old i586. It's a Fujitsu ErgoPro with a Pentium MMX 200Mhz. Has anyone any ideas? Well the first thought that sprang to mind was to buy a new hard drive. But would a new drive work

Re: How can I tell which packages are required and which are optional?

2005-07-02 Thread TheOldFellow
Jim Gifford wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm a first time LFS user, and I'm working my way through the 6.0 revision of the book. I have purchased the paper book which I am reading for background, and I am using the online book for building my system (easier to copy and paste

Re: Building on 2.4 kernel

2005-05-01 Thread TheOldFellow
Phillip Fynan wrote: I know in the system requirements it lists a 2.6 kernel for udev to work, but I was wondering if I could build most of the packages on my 2.4 kernel and upgrade for the final steps? It would save a lot of effort before I get started, but will it work? Also, which

Re: Looking for GNU-GPL (Excel like)Spreadsheet package in BLFS stage

2005-04-11 Thread TheOldFellow
TheOldFellow wrote: Try gnumeric, it looks like it's a gnome app, but it isn't. Actually, now I look at gnumeric again, it IS a gnome app. Last time I looked, I'm sure it didn't need all those gnome-bloat packages. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread TheOldFellow
Jeremy Utley wrote: Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? After the reboot, I throw in the Nvidia drivers, install Opera to /opt, configure X, and start up X using twm. That

Re: man tar?

2005-03-17 Thread TheOldFellow
Andrew Benton wrote: Where can I get the man pages for tar? It doesn't seem to install any Try the LFS Package Reference on my website (or the hint if you like typing urls out by hand). Although tar has no man page that I know of, there is an excellent manual. Richard.

Re: I'm might be screwd LOL

2005-03-07 Thread TheOldFellow
Joel Miller wrote: Mukesh Kaushal wrote: 1) First of all you should not delete sources n build dirs of packages which u r goin' to use again later. snip First, please don't top post. See the FAQ on nettiquette if you have more questions. Second, you should always be removing the source and

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread TheOldFellow
MIke Cruz wrote: So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then take my time install LFS learn alot and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again Mike, Good luck with it. I hope you have as much enjoyment from LFS as I have. Finally, a blatant advert for