-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2010 06:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello LFS maintainers, > > As for the subject, while I was building LFS 6.6 I discovered a problem in chapter 6.52: psmisc-22.10. > According to the book the optional command > > ln -sv killall /bin/pidof > > can be issued at the end of the chapter. However, killall was installed in the directory > > /usr/bin/killall > > So executing this command results in a dead link. I see that this has been fixed in 6.7-rc1. > > It is furthermore stated, that /bin/pidof will be replaced with a better version from the sysvinit package. > It should be made clear at this point that keeping that link instead of sysvinit's version will not work. I got an > error message during boot - ---snip a lot of good stuff--- > However, since keeping killall instead of killall5 would mean some sort of minor forking point in installing LFS, I think the book should completely discard the alternative of keeping > killall. > > Best Regards > Max Hi Max,
I saw you posted this on Linuxquestions.org too. Do I understand correctly that your advice is to _not_ issue the optional command? Thanks, - -Drew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyRcNAACgkQ7ZZ4z2wRxN328wCgkxacMiClUoA08i2rJuWOSTZq MUYAn2u8c9SNCA5Yo7Hk+vj0N5T8g+T/ =CWN/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
