On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:33:44PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> I agree that that works, and that's probably what I'm going to do.
> Thanks for writing back. The reason that I haven't done this so far is
> that I'm worried that there are things in /etc/profile that should only
> be done at
Randy McMurchy wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ > cat .profile
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
==
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ > cat .bashrc
. /etc/profile
[snip everything else that I want for me]
I agree that that works, and that's probably what I'm going to
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 09/06/05 22:25 CDT:
> The "solution" I have is that I re-source half the profile scripts in my
> ~/.bashrc: tinker-term.sh, xterm-titlebars.sh and dircolors.sh. Any
> comments are much appreciated.
I use the following and it works for all access methods to shel
Hi everyone,
I've seen some remarks on this issue, but I'm hoping that someone can
help me put them all together here. It seems that using a display
manager like xdm or gdm, or even just running X, overwrites important
variables set for a login shell. I don't like this behavior at all, and
Randy,
Don't worry, be happy!
Thanks for your help.
It is working after chmod 666 /dev/null
mlij
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'>'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 19:24 CDT:
'>'
'>'> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null
'>'> crw--- 1 root root 1, 3 2005-09-06 15:49 /dev/null
'>'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 19:24 CDT:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null
> crw--- 1 root root 1, 3 2005-09-06 15:49 /dev/null
And here resides the problem.
The command you are issuing is trying to create a home dir for
the user. The command uses "-m -k
> What are the permissions on /dev/null? Perhaps your message is coming
> from the fact that you can't read /dev/null?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null
crw--- 1 root root 1, 3 2005-09-06 15:49 /dev/null
> And which user are you logged into when running this command. (Never
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:36:46AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> appears to violate what the man page says. Seems to work here, so now
> we can treat this as "before LFS" and ask mlij "if we haven't scared you
> away, what are the permissions on /dev/null, and what host distro are
> you building f
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote:
Judge remarks "No, his stupid comments will be retained in the
archives so that everyone for several generations will be able
to see what a stupid idiot he is."
/me too. Again, I've got an existing lfs user on all my boxes. But, -k
/dev/null has
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:45 CDT:
> No, that command is *not* from the lfs book. I can't think
> of one place where "-m -k" is used. I'm not sure what your
> goal is.
>
> What exactly are you expecting by putting the /dev/null in
> the command? The only thing I can think why
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:24 CDT:
> It is not obvious to me.
> I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution.
> This commands are on the book lfs.
> I apologize for my question.
I would like to publicly apologize to you for my previous comments.
*I* am the one t
Justin R. Knierim wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:50 CDT:
> It is used at the beginning of the LFS book, 4.3. Adding the LFS User:
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter04/addinguser.html
>
> I was assuming this was a LFS support question, but I could be wrong.
> The
Randy McMurchy wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:24 CDT:
This commands are on the book lfs.
I apologize for my question.
No, that command is *not* from the lfs book. I can't think
of one place where "-m -k" is used. I'm not sure what your
goal is.
It is used
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:24 CDT:
[fixed awful top-posting; please, in the future don't top-post]
>>When I add a new user, there is the following message:
>>
>>-sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
>>
>>I put the following commands:
>>groupadd lfs2005
>>useradd -s /bin/bash -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is not obvious to me.
I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution.
This commands are on the book lfs.
I apologize for my question.
Hi,
You can also check the LFS FAQ for common problems. There is an entry
there for "/dev/null: Permission denied", pl
> It is not obvious to me.
> I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution.
> This commands are on the book lfs.
> I apologize for my question.
No need to apologize. :) I believe what being referred to was that you
don't need to use the "-k /dev/null" directive. :) Please correct me
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is not obvious to me.
I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution.
This commands are on the book lfs.
I apologize for my question.
When I add a new user, there is the following message:
-sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
I put the
It is not obvious to me.
I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution.
This commands are on the book lfs.
I apologize for my question.
> When I add a new user, there is the following message:
>
> -sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
>
>
> I put the following commands:
> groupadd lfs2005
Randy McMurchy wrote:
It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you
must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong
syntax, but essentially it is the Moz method that reads the
.mozconfig file, then runs configure and make itself).
If you run configure manu
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Thanks for sharing your experience
with us. I hope your TBird build is as successful as the one I did
today. I'm sending this message from a freshly built TBird.
And we all know now why you're so keen to learn so much about TBird,
Randy, don't we? *cough*
http://www.li
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 16:27 CDT:
> There is a difference between running "make -f client.mk build" and
> "./configure && make" I realize. While the configure script reads the
> configure instructions, it does not read the make options, and so you
> miss out on those variables. S
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 9/6/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you
must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong
syntax, but essentially it is the Moz method that reads the
.mozconfig file, then runs
On 9/6/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you
> must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong
> syntax, but essentially it is the Moz method that reads the
> .mozconfig file, then runs configure and mak
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 09/06/05 14:15 CST:
> Hmm, any idea on what the criteria for promoting releases of gtk+, glib,
> atk and pango to ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/ are? That's the only
> place I regularly check for new releases of said packages...maybe I need
> to change tha
Simon Geard wrote:
To anyone who was having problems with the atk 1.10.2 release last week,
they've just released 1.10.3.
Hmm, any idea on what the criteria for promoting releases of gtk+, glib,
atk and pango to ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/ are? That's the only
place I regularly check for
It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you
must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong
OK, I'll give that a try. However, I am confident that my method works,
for two reasons:
1) When I run ./configure, I am presented with a list of options pulle
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:38 CST:
> My method is roughly comparable to the BLFS instructions (that is, I
> followed BLFS in a previous installation and now I just recall the
> outline of the procedure). All I did was create a .mozconfig file
> (attached), and then run ./config
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:08 CST:
That wasn't the feature I was looking for -- I can't install any
extensions for any user, including when running Thunderbird as root.
I wish I could help. The feature works for me. How do you install
Thunderbird? Mean
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:08 CST:
> That wasn't the feature I was looking for -- I can't install any
> extensions for any user, including when running Thunderbird as root.
I wish I could help. The feature works for me. How do you install
Thunderbird? Meaning, the way the BLFS b
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 09:37 CST:
> I just installed Thunderbird 1.0.6, and when I go to the extension
> manager, click "install", locate the extension and click "open", nothing
> happens; it returns me directly to the extension manager. This happens
> both as root and as a reg
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 08:55 CST:
> I noticed a number of old posts on this problem, namely, that there is
> no option to create an "RSS" or "Movemail" account in Thunderbird after
> installing it, even though there is one in the source tree.
I never saw a bug about this, howev
I just installed Thunderbird 1.0.6, and when I go to the extension
manager, click "install", locate the extension and click "open", nothing
happens; it returns me directly to the extension manager. This happens
both as root and as a regular user. Extensions that were already
installed from a di
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
On 9/5/05, Ilja Honkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to install QT-3.3.4 into /usr and get this error:
Did you run this command?
find -type f -name Makefile | xargs sed -i "[EMAIL
PROTECTED],-rpath,/usr/lib@@g"
Yes, I pasted that whole block into comman
I noticed a number of old posts on this problem, namely, that there is
no option to create an "RSS" or "Movemail" account in Thunderbird after
installing it, even though there is one in the source tree. The problem
is that for some reason the files that provide these options are not
copied to t
To anyone who was having problems with the atk 1.10.2 release last week,
they've just released 1.10.3. According to the changelog, it fixes the
libtool issues I and others encountered, though I've not tried
installing it yet.
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/atk/1.10/
Simon.
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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 05:31 +, randhir phagura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Simon Geard wrote on Sat, 03 Sep 2005:
>
> >Of the optional packages, the last three are the ones it considers to be
> >part of gnome. I'd suggest though, that you need all of them to get
> >useful functionality.
>
> All the pa
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