Xorg 7.2 + XGL(beryl)
Hello, I know that XGL is not in the book right now, but I would like to post this anyway. Some time ago I've upgraded X to version 7.2. I discovered that there are still some problems using beryl and Xorg 7.2 (white screens). (according to the xorg developers it's a problem with beryl) See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8991 Today I went back to Xorg 7.1, with beryl-0.1.4, and everything works again. I know this is not a BLFS issue, but I would like to post it anyway. In case anyone wants to upgrade: you'll be warned. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
CIFS not supported in netfs script?
Hello, I'm using the CIFS filesystem a lot. Normally the shares mounted with this fs are umounted properly when a user ends his/her session, but ocassionally this is not the case. Then by using the netfs script these shares are umounted, I thought. But this script does not include support for CIFS (opposite of smbfs and nfs). Is there a reason for this? I think CIFS mounts could very well get umounted by this script. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
ImageMagick-6.2.3-5 does not exist.
Hello, I've tried to install ImageMagick-6.2.3-5 part of BLFS 6.1, and was not able to download the file. Following the link there is a ImageMagick-6.2.3-6 file. The same for svn: there is no 6.2.4-5 file, but a 6.2.4-6. Anybody knows something about this? Propably fast changing versionnumbers? Stef Bon Voorburg the Netherlands -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Adding FUSE to BLFS?
Stef Bon wrote: Hello all, has anybody plans to add FUSE to BLFS? Look at: http://fuse.sourceforge.net Is it an good idea to add it? What do you think? Well soon it does not have to be compiled seperately: from kernel 2.4.14 FUSE support will be in the kernel. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Adding FUSE to BLFS?
ForestCreature wrote:
FUSE = Filesystem in userspace.
It has 2 aspects: kernel module and userspase library.
fuse.ko
libfuse.{a,so}
fusermount etc.
kernel provides module only
You're right. The library and de utilities still have to be installed.
Stef
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Re: D-BUS-0.50
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, As said by Jürg, apart from the systemwide daemon, for every user a sessiondaemon has to started too I understand. Now his sollution to this is an extra script (dbus) in the directory /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d. (I do not know this directory, it's like the profile.d dir for bash I assume) Now I've been working on a construction to execute scripts when a user logs in and logs out. It's based on the pammodule pam_script, which is part of the sessionpart of the login (and kdm) service. I've written a script about this: (restoresettingsaslogin) Storing and retrieving settings per user at login and logout using PAM. This is only an example. I'm working on an simular construction using FUSE, fusesmb and pam_storepw to browse the network. In this case a script for a user has to be executed by/for the user logging in (fusesmb $mountpoint). The session part of PAM is ideal for this IMHO. Isn't it an idea to put a dbus.sh script there. Then the script is executed at login no matter what you're going to do, console(bash/sh...) or graphical(kdm/gdm/xdm). But with some configuration it's possible to only start this session-daemon when starting a graphical session. And everything can be terminated properly when logging out, when an other script is executed. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Adding FUSE to BLFS?
Hello all, has anybody plans to add FUSE to BLFS? Look at: http://fuse.sourceforge.net Is it an good idea to add it? What do you think? I'm using it in combination with fusesmb (on the projectspage of FUSE) , and it works very well. It makes it possible to browse the (smb)network very very easy. Simular sollutions for nfs and others are available. It has really potential. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Hidden option CLOSE_SESSIONS removed soon.
Hello all, Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, For those of you that have Shadow and PAM installed, could you please test something? Please test trying to 'su' to any user, with or without the - on the su command, and *intentionally* type an incorrect password. Something other is coming up. For some reason the closing if a session when the service is login is not performed, unless you add CLOSE_SESSIONS yes to login.defs. If it is omitted, the default will be used, which is no. Nobody noticed this before? Some time ago I wrote about it here, and DJ Lucas adviced me to notice the shadow maillist about it. So I did. Now the developer(s) took it seriously, and in the next release 4.0.12 this option is removed. Look in the source of login.c and look for CLOSE_SESSIONS. Also look the note. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Option CLOSE_SESSIONS in login.defs - shadow.
DJ Lucas wrote: Judging only from my limited understanding of the comments, short of any security concerns allowing close_pam_session, it'd seem that this should be the default if PAM is installed. Are there any security concerns here? I mean the modules would have to be explicitly configured by the system admin. I do not understand wat you mean. Do you say that not closing a session has some consequenses for the security? I think that if you configure a system to be able to close a session you should know that there is a option for that. And that is does not do that on default. Also a bit OT, but why the need for pam_script? Why not use the builting shell facilities ~/.bash_logon and ~/.bash_logout (or equivelents)? I'm not saying that pam_script should be used. I'm only saying that I discovered this when I was busy with this module. Anyway, if it weren't for the ifdef, I'd say send the report upstream so it could be added (commented out) to the default login.defs. Actually, it should be bugged upstream anyway as it is not documented anywhere except in the source of login.c and newgrp.c. Good idea. I will drop a message there. Regards, Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Option CLOSE_SESSIONS in login.defs - shadow.
Hello, I'm working with a module pam_script, which executes a script at login and logout. Very important - when logging out with the login command from the shadow package, is the option CLOSE_SESSIONS. If omitted or set to no no module will be executed/processed when a session is closed. I think that should be mentioned in the book. At this moment this option is not in the login.defs and thus the default is used, which is no. BTW: - this is only true in Linux. Look at a note in login.c linenr 1248 of shadow-4.0.7 or linenr 964 of shadow-4.0.11.1. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Compiling openoffice.
DJ Lucas wrote: Yep. It's in the instructions I put together untill they release. I haven't had a chance to see if the distro's create that symlink yet. I can't say. I only use LFS. No recent RedHat, Fedora or Suse or Mandrake I can test. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/OOo-2.0-pre/ I've seen your buildinstructions. I've some questions: - is it sufficient to copy the beanshell version 2.0b4 to the directory beanshell/download. Does the dmake know to use this version instead of the old one just like that? At least the makefile.mk should be corrected I think. Isn't that true? - you've some patches for jdk-1.5.0. Do you know the build needs version 1.5.0? I've 1.4.2 still. Thanks, Stef -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Compiling openoffice.
Hello, now I'm compiling the openoffice suite, version SRC680_m104. After: - downloading mozilla-source-1.7.5.tar.gz and putting in the moz/download directory. - enter the directory config_office and running configure there with arguments: ./configure --with-x --prefix=/opt/openoffice-2.0-m104 --enable-libart \ --enable-epm \ --disable-fontooo \ --enable-build-mozilla \ --without-fonts \ --with-system-stdlibs \ --with-system-freetype \ --with-system-zlib \ --with-system-jpeg \ --with-system-expat \ --with-system-libxml \ --with-system-curl \ --with-system-nas \ --with-system-sndfile \ --with-build-version=BLFS-20050621 \ --with-java \ --with-jdk-home=/opt/j2sdk/j2sdk-1.4.2 \ --with-system-odbc-headers \ --with-package-format=native \ --enable-kde \ --disable-gnome-vfs \ --with-system-libpwd \ --enable-openldap \ --with-ant-home=/opt/ant \ --without-db At this moment it's compiling and till now no problems. I had some: - the argument --with-system-db did not work. My version of berkeleydb is 4.3.27, which is not detected right by this version of openoffice. So now I'm compiling with the argument --without-db - I installed the packages unix-odbc, nas, libwpd and apache-ant before. Unix-odbc gave a compilation error, but after a simple fix in one of the source files installation went fine. - I use kde, not gnome. Now what I would like to ask is: - I found that complilation of something with xmlsec it stopped. It could not find the libxml/tree.h file. I found this file in the libxml2/libxml directory. After making a symlink : /usr/include/libxml - /usr/include/libxml2/libxml the compilation finds the tree.h file. Has anybody else having this problem? Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: OpenOffice 1.9 - beta late than never
Kevin M. Jordan wrote: Here's my configure flags: ./configure --with-x --prefix=/opt/OpenOffice-2.0-m107 --enable-libart --enable-libsn --enable-epm --disable-fontooo --with-system-mozilla --without-fonts --with-system-stdlibs --with-system-freetype --with-system-zlib --with-system-jpeg --with-system-expat --with-system-libxml --with-system-curl --with-system-nas --with-system-sndfile --with-build-version=BLFS-20050607 --with-java --with-jdk-home=/opt/jdk/jdk --with-system-odbc-headers --with-package-format=native Are this realy the only thing you have to do? NO patches ?? If it is this easy I will try to compile it too. Stef Bon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
J2sdk 1.5.0 installation on LFS 6.0.
Hello, No problem this time. I just want to say that the installation of j2sdk 1.5.0 went fine. I'm using LFS 6.0. The only issue I got was installing gcc-3.4.3 in /opt/gcc-3.4.3 because compilation did not work with the compiler in LFS 6.0, gcc-3.4.1. After installation of this compiler, adjusting the path so the make command will use the right version of gcc and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/gcc-3.4.3/lib, there was no problem. Stef -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: More on UIDs/Permissions
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jeremy Utley wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: That is true, however it it technically possible to run multiple servers on different ports. I've never heard of anyone actually doing it though. I'm willing to put all the ftp servers on the same uids/gids but I'd like more opinions. I've thought about a standard of systemaccounts some time ago, and I'm happy to see it's an issue. I have the problem when switching from one server to the other, I want to have as many things the same as possible. Standardized. UID's are one of them. Is it a good idea to group systemaccounts together? For example I've a mailserver running postfix, with virusscanning done by the combination of clamav/clamsmtp and spamchekking done by spamassassin. So I need at least 4 different accounts: postfix: the uids/gids postfix/postfix and nobody/nogroup and the gid postdrop clamav and clamsmtp: the uid/gid clamav/clamav spamassassin: the uid/gid spamassassin/spamassassin What about reserving a range in the numbers for uids and gids for all mail and related software: for example from 100 to 150. And within these you're free to choose. Any relation between port and uidnr/gidnr is not possible with this concept. Stef -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Devel-headers iptables
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Stef Bon wrote: I don't know the software installed by make install-devel is needed by any other software apart from pom. Is there than this remark could be an idea for the later versions of the BLFS book (6.0) I jsut upgraed iptables in SVN last night. We are very close to releasing BLFS 6.0. It is not appropriate to go back to change BLFS 5.1. -- Bruce I understand changing BLFS 5.1 is not a good idea anymore, but 6.0 ? I mean, the the command make instal-devel does install something, but I do not know what it is good for. Like I said before for the version 1.2.11 this was needed by patch-o-matic. For 1.3.1 installing pom is not needed anymore, all the extensions are included. But maybe there is - I do not know - other software needs this command to be executed. Is there? Stef -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
