Simon Geard wrote:
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:16 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
Oh yes, I can't agree with that one enough. Not that you want to
accidentally run rm -rf ~ as *any* user,
I run 'rm *~' often enough. I am always
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 03:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Simon Geard wrote:
I quite like an idea Fedora are working on - if installed to a btrfs
partition, use it's snapshot support to provide an easy rollback option
when installing updates.
I've been meaning to try that approach myself,
Thanks for all your tips, advice, lectures, opinions, etc. Very
positive community. I think I'm going to enjoy my LFS experience. I
can definitely say that despite the obvious lesson for me here (think
before [Enter]), mistakes aren't necessarily a completely negative
thing, as you can learn a
piper.guy1 wrote:
Thanks for all your tips, advice, lectures, opinions, etc. Very
positive community. I think I'm going to enjoy my LFS experience. I
That's one thing I really like here, unlike the user support lists
for standard distros, which are full of bickering and posturing.
[...]
Now
On Friday 11 June 2010 14:16:24 Mike McCarty wrote:
Hope you keep learning for a long time.
Mike
To misquote a fictional character, Learn long and prosper. Same thing,
really. :)
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:16:24 -0500
Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
Hope you keep learning for a long time.
Mike
See, this is a good point. :)
I should fix this on my system.
-AKuktin
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Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:16:24 -0500
Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
Hope you keep learning for a long time.
Mike
See, this is a good point. :)
I should fix this on my system.
You
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:16 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
Oh yes, I can't agree with that one enough. Not that you want to
accidentally run rm -rf ~ as *any* user, but the red root prompt is a
useful reminder that you're playing with a
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:00 -0400, linux fan wrote:
Speaking of backups and rescue disks, I am using an rsync snapshots
style of backup. It does not compress, yet it can save multiple
copies of a system at different points in time using remarkable
little disk space. Any copy can be rsynced to
Simon Geard wrote:
I quite like an idea Fedora are working on - if installed to a btrfs
partition, use it's snapshot support to provide an easy rollback option
when installing updates.
I've been meaning to try that approach myself, since I've trashed more
than a few systems while trying to
Andrew Benton wrote:
On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote:
piper.guy1 wrote:
Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
and then add a
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Yeah, deleting the link without changing your /etc/passwd entry
to point to a valid shell would do that.
Changing the /etc/password file won't do much. The bootscripts need
/bin/sh.
I'm talking about his host, not LFS. I have no idea what his
boot
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that contained
half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years of pics and
history. Another time, while redesigning the Smoothwall build system, I
Of course, you've got it all on backup.
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
But you are right. I had no backups and no excuses. I have an empty 400GB
drive that would have held most of that data. And there's no reason I could
not have saved all the pics to DVDs. I didn't. I lost. Oh, well. No one died,
and no critters or humans were
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Neal Murphy wrote:
A possible future enhancement to 'the book' might be to incorporate
checkboxes
that a newbie would check off as she performs each step. Extra work? Yes. But
worth it to make each step clearer?
On 6/8/10, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
... You'll learn to pause before hitting ENTER.
I learned that lesson very quickly. It is extremely important.
My system wouldn't last long without backups.
Speaking of backups and rescue disks, I am using an rsync snapshots
style of
piper.guy1 wrote:
Hi,
Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too
long before I got myself into trouble. :-(
In Host system Requirements, the instructions explicitly wants
'/bin/sh' to be pointing to bash. Mine was pointing to dash. So I
endeavoured to change it
On 8 June 2010 21:08, piper.guy1 piper.g...@gmail.com wrote:
Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
and then add a symlink to bash.
piper.guy1 wrote:
Hi,
Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too
long before I got myself into trouble. :-(
Hee hee! Aren't we having fun! Before starting in on something
like this, be sure your backup and recovery procedure works well.
So, join the explicitly non
On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote:
piper.guy1 wrote:
Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
and then add a symlink to bash. Make
I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
won't help.
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linux fan wrote:
I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
won't help.
I don't know of a distro that doesn't install bash by default unless you
are using tomsrtbt.
-- Bruce
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Mike McCarty wrote:
# cd LFS/6.3
# rm -rf build
and deleted /dev from my host system! No discs, no printers, no
terminals, etc. I rebooted with a Knoppix disc, let it populate
/dev, and then mounted my hard drive, and copied (yes copied
using cp) /dev onto my hard drive.
I don't think
Mike McCarty wrote:
Yeah, deleting the link without changing your /etc/passwd entry
to point to a valid shell would do that.
Changing the /etc/password file won't do much. The bootscripts need
/bin/sh.
-- Bruce
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
won't help.
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On Tuesday 08 June 2010 16:54:52 Mike McCarty wrote:
piper.guy1 wrote:
One more thing. Seeing that this is a very risky thing to be advising
in LFS 6.6, can I suggest that the authour(s) add some caveats around
this instruction?
The best way to do LFS is to pretend you are the computer,
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 18:57:21 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
# cd LFS/6.3
# rm -rf build
and deleted /dev from my host system! No discs, no printers, no
terminals, etc. I rebooted with a Knoppix disc, let it populate
/dev, and then mounted my hard drive, and copied (yes
Neal Murphy wrote:
I started playing with UNIX in 1986, and Linux in the
mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that contained
half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years of pics and
history.
No backups? How is this different (in effect) from a
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 20:05:46 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Neal Murphy wrote:
I started playing with UNIX in 1986, and Linux in the
mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that
contained half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years
of pics and history.
No
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:08:18 -0400
In Host system Requirements, the instructions explicitly wants
'/bin/sh' to be pointing to bash. Mine was pointing to dash.
under Ubuntu, try sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash.
Any recommendations on a rescue disk?
CDlinux. ( http://cdlinux.info/ )
PS: try
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