g--but then I can see 9 boxes from where I sit, touch 3, and if you
don't have a spare, you couldn't.
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> The book has exim-4.92.1, which is already patched. I'd suggest to install
> this version: I do not think the build is different from 4.90.1.
According to what I read 4.92.2 has the appropriate patch.
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"Nothing ventured..." It seems to patch cleanly, if with some offset, in my
BLFS-8.1 exim-4.90.1. Just discovered it, not rebuilt yet, but thought you'd
want to know.
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(I
ut again pio proved the X, GTK, Firefox chain
had not been corrupted. Perhaps something in my user configuration?
So, in short and for the benefit of anybody else making old kit work, more
testing showed my suspicions were wrong, and 4.14.134 does seem to work. Later
patches are _not_ incom
between 62 & 134 that
won't crash on this Conroe, then fork my release for different CPUs. Should
only take 7 tries max. That's the worst reason ever for forking one of my
distros!
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onroe would be compatible with my
Bloomfield & Sandy Bridge. If that works I could fork this for i7's, and try
an intermediate kernel patch for the Conroe. But it'd be nice to resolve this.
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but don't recall something like
this, perhaps because it didn't seem relevant at the time.)
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(I do not per
ch system you're on, set xyzzy to be the
appropriate for that system and make a separate profile for each particular
system, and Bob' your Uncle.
And thanks. I've never confuddled /home for exactly this reason--it's *got* to
bite one in the nether regions sooner or later!
was the first time I noticed the effect, and it went away
in a day or so.
All I can offer is the suggestion to review any meds you've taken recently for
mental side-effects.
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(I do
ain.
If you're used to something like even fluxbox, twm AIN'T that! It's really
primitive! I'd move on.
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e advantages of building by a BLFS Book, the
versions of things mesh.
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posed criteria.
> You just don't get it. That only works if pio builds such lists
> correctly. And it does not build such lists correctly.
It should be clear to everybody else now how pio works and how to use it. It's
up to each of them to decide for themselves whether they ca
thought beforehand.
And by the way, I've often built whole systems, using pio and loopback
"virtual" filesystems in a chroot. That way I can be doing other things
while pio is observing installations on what it perceives to be a "quiet
system" with nothing else going
gt; lines and format just those lines.
>
> ====
>
> ; use it.
I will. I don't like long lines either. Lemme try it.
Thanks. Seems to work.
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(I do not
e.)
pio works, if one understands how, and uses it in a manner that lets it see
what the proper state of installation is.
>
> I understand about removal/--help/&c&c (incl did go and read the script
> & related materials): but you say about listing of package contents;
> and
KG2
--restore PKG restore files from backup PKG
--supports PKG2 note the exclusive use by PKG2
--uses PKG2 note the advantage because of PKG2
--version output version information and exit
--watch DIRn paths to be watched during installation
--xc
ry to build everything with all internal dependencies and
And I very much depend on, and am very grateful for, you doing that. What I do
is because I do NOT want to "leave the reservation" and take on that job!
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ught I was being clear, but apparently not. I am a contrarian from your
suggestion. I subscribe to the theory and rebuild everything every time I
build a new LFS. It's just easier that way. Machine cycles are cheap,
debugging time is expensive.
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Ro
surprise,
Wot?! Now we have to support GTK & QT BOTH?!?!?!
>
> This building everything rom source is a fun game, isn't it ?
>
> ĸen
Not exactly, but it's the cost of having a chance at reasonable security,
actually owning one's own computer.
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atures of a WM are to be done, just many contributed "accretions".
I build xfce, but rarely use a full DE, just the bare fluxbox WM, eye-candy
isn't really my "thing". Where is LFS going on the subject of WMs?
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on with make menuconfig.
> >
>
> I'm not sure what happened to the I810, and not really interested -
> it predated modern intel CPUs.
Correct. Intel's 810 chipset was for early Socket-370 Pentium-III systems,
which may have included an embeded graphics.
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DOS HD that came off, and "tar tf ..."
shows the files beginning with "!" in quotes. I can extract that and ls shows
them in quotes too.
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Thanks for all those who tried to help, much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
Alex, indeed, that would really bother me too! It really does suggest there
are further problems in your system. I'd stop until I could figure out why
this workaround is necessary.
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s and
dead-ends. The becomes its own distraction that gets in the way. One must
approach each foray with the same open mind, care, and essential optimism that
it will all work once one finds where one went wrong.
But on the very positive side, when I find where I made my mistake, I always
find
and mode in logrotate files, e.g.
/var/log/secure {
create 660 root root
}
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ent? You can do either initially, if you're careful.
It's probably simplest to boot the new LFS--it's initally a PITA until you get
some of the BLFS basics, but after that you should be in the new system. Also
check that things like pkg-config are referencing the right files.
ng opinions about having a very tight
"internal" firewall on every system--if something nails one box on your LAN,
you don't need to have everything else wide-open to everything!
- nmap, along those same lines.
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y much a
moving target, liable to "switch horses in midstream". You need to get svn to
download a copy of what you started with. You're pretty far into it to start
over, but next time go for the stable version of the book.
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ft:Monospace-9 I want letterSpace: 2.
URxvt.font: xft:Monospace-9
URxvt.letterSpace: -2
In my playing around I discovered xft tries to apply letterSpace to all the
fonts it has, whether in .Xresources or not. If a large number may be required
for a widely spac
l.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html - I would hope that
> the legacy fonts in the book include some of those. There are links
But XOrg is moving away from legacy fonts. Sooner or later...
>
> HTH
Much appreciated.
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ething misconfigured or misinstalled with
xft to produce this wierd l e t t e r s p a c i n g, which certainly
suggest two bytes being used. Probably better to fix my error, I don't
see many others with this problem. I'm hoping somebody here recognizes
it and knows what to
e r s. I'm not finding anything on
Google. What do I need to fix, please? TIA.
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ing support very troublesone.
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Dang, well, good luck. You will be missed.
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pages. 60.0 is the next esr, but five of my 8.1
supporting packages are too far out of date--I tried that one too.
So all I can say is, I wish I had the security patches but I just can't make
the esr's work, so 55.0.3 it is. FBBG, eh?
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Rogers&#
several to Moz. No resolution yet.
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I agree! Dial it back guys, or take it out to the parking lot. The rest of us
don't want to know. We're all just people here.
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rned 1 exit status
make[1]: ***
[/usr/local/src/libreoffice-5.4.5.1/connectivity/Library_postgresql-sdbc-impl.mk:10:
/usr/local/src/libreoffice-5.4.5.1/instdir/program/libpostgresql-sdbc-impllo.so]
Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** [Makefile:269: build] Error 2
ight to retry LibreOffice.
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
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K. I had one of those.
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y OpenSSL-1.0.2f *or* GnuTLS, but no such option is in the
autoconfig options, nor is it clear that switching to "--without-system-openssl
--with-system-gnutls" would prevent them from trying to find openssl, then
failing download their own duplicate of 1.0.2.
I don't want to go off on my o
oor today--amazingly
everythhing fitted spot on!
> as a user, but I think that was to do with trying to catch dump
> files when tests segfaulted.
"C 0" I'm not young enough to use a core dump on somebody else's code! One of
the things "life's
o getting rid of vsftpd does not solve this problem. I'm going to checkout
Hazel's report that OpenSSL-1.1.0g did not cause a problem with vsftpd,
suggesting maybe SSL_library_init is back in that version?
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. Dangerous? Not inherently, the sysadmin (me) took
steps to preserve security, pulling plugs. Presume sysadmins know their job,
have judged their risks.
I'm stepping down from my soapbox now, not for want of arguments to make. All
I'll do is leave a parting shot that
ather than the patch. vsftpd
should have the choice of one or the other as prereqs and instructions for
installing either. And if you want to keep versioning, vsf-findlibs.sh still
needs to be fixed for it.
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>
> Paul might care to google for arch-linux vsftpd : their build file
> shows a change to the conf to apparently enable SSL, and a sed to
> link to openssl-1.1.
Paul found a patch for it that looks good at suse.
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LFS
devs compiled vsftpd-3.0.3 with openssl-1.1.0f as given in the book.
> But fixing that means taking steps to fix make-ca. If Paul looked
> at a recent version of the svn book with openssh-1.1.0h and
> make-ca-0.7, the fix should be there, make-ca-0.8 should be ok.
Paul has the 5/22 sv
ime, too old to learn now
(really! memory's shot).
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th the threading of
> this reply. One of the replies comes through as a scrubbed attachment and
> has totally messed the threading up.
I've noticed that happens when someone sends an HTML encoded post. Some email
clients never have heard of "text" it seems. "What? Who
7;ll come back to FF in Brass Monkey.
Thank you very much for being a mentor on this! I'm judging 52.?esr somewhat
better than the 55.0.3, with the Spectre mitigations you recommended.
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terpolating the ones from 48 & 55.
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find my libpng, with my PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc.,
shown in my first report.
Have I misinterpretted anything?
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61 needed 3.37, but I'm sure 3.37.1 is likely to be needed when I
> next try a beta.
I'll see. I guess I'm ready to try a go at FF60.
>
> In general, whenever I update a system's firefox to a new release I
> always update nspr, nss, sqlite - plus anything els
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 08:59:39AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote:
> > > However, I _have_ managed to upgrade to 60.0 (with stylo, pulse) on
> > > two 8.1 systems
> >
> > I'll take that to mean I don't have to upgrade all its dependencies in the
> >
et al, I saw go by, which may have new sets of flaws?
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FA
ed system
Ummm, you're not saying the exact order of the ac_add_options makes a
difference, are you? I've never run into that before! I have an order
used many times in the past that makes it easier for me to adjust
between versions.
> cairo, but recently that failed to build (some rus
el 4.14.26, building FF
always does seem to have some issue. Having enough problem with 55! 8-[
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und configuration files, then where the firefox
make process fails, as an attached file. It seems mozi is ignoring my
PKG_CONFIG_PATH?
Someone see something I can't, please? TIA.
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> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 09:38:57AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote:
> > I found Hazel had the same problem. I'm going to try her fix. Thank you,
> > Hazel.
> >
> I forget what Hazel's approach was, but IFF this is pango-1.40.9
> then I think the need for gtk
I found Hazel had the same problem. I'm going to try her fix. Thank you,
Hazel.
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Building 8.1, GTKDOC is NOT optional--Pango fails autogen without it (which
gtkdocize). I'm not going to drag it and all it's prereqs in--I don't want to
know about its APIs & ABIs.
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ing is
going to go haywire, you want to catch it before it can do damage to all your
work--it's faster than having to do that all again! ;-)
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(I do not person
You didn't mention if you'd made a 32- or 64-bit system. I agree with Bruce.
Matter of fact, I believe I've done it--I had to get *something* running
initially on my i7. Your i7 *should* support all the optimizations present in
the Core-2.
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sage in a multiprocessing system? Showing
more than 100%, makes sense to me. Imagine what you could see during systemd
startup. I've never used it, but I believe I've read about an argument to have
top show all the subprocess a particular command may have spawned.
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fact, I'm disappointed that running LibreOffice it only ever seems to use
one core. 8-(
The one caution is that, with make running all 8, some jobs with comples
sources can over-commit its 12GB of RAM when running compiles with each forking
an embedded assembly, etc.
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bash script. It's been reliable and all I need,
nothing I don't. You'll find it, and a sample script using it, in the LFS
Hints. See that. (I admit, I could rewrite the hint better.)
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fig.sub.
> Then, I copied the files libgmpxx.so.4.5.2 and libgmp.so.10.3.2 to
> /usr/lib in my system.
>
> This allowed me to compile, as a first test, the terminal emulator
> "rxvt", as Paul Rogers adviced. Now, I have the "minimal" two
> independent termina
le in
> case your normal one ever goes down, preferably one with few
> dependencies. I recommend rxvt:
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/rxvt-unicode.html
>
More than that, I always have at least two systems on every box so if something
happens to one, I
> Am 29.01.2018 um 23:21 schrieb Paul Rogers:
> > I suggest you do as Bruce wrote.
> Accepted, Paul. The problem is, that I can only perform "lscpu" on the
> desktop in March, as I am not at home.
That *will* make it more difficult. ;-)
How much do you know about th
CPU's may have
different capabilities, among them not only the 32 vs 64 bit differences, but
what's in the flags. It seems your desktop and laptop are more different than
you suppose. I suggest you do as Bruce wrote.
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-support so anyone can see the conversation.
I generally don't use a greeter, but in one case where it was necessary I
installed slim because it is quite small and has quite minimal prereqs. It's
running on a P3 equivalent!
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microcode. You should consider both
vulnerable and go for kernel updates.
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gt; and then I install a wm which is more to my taste in my next set of
Which is? Fluxbox doesn't see to have had any activity in a long time.
> for grey (unless I'm using xfce or kde, or potentially lxqt) ;-p
>
> ĸen
I have XFCE installed, but KDE is way too bulky,
e it has something to do with the state of the lastwallpaper file
that's created before it's needed. Maybe when I move my style-kit to a
different system I'll see it again and be able to find it.
Thanks for giving me some ideas to try when I kept banging my head into
the s
to a simple style without one.
I think this evening I'll try putting up one background, then call feh
with another and see if it changes, or lastwallpaper takes precedence.
(I'd call that a bug! Maybe there's a patch? I'll look.)
Thanks for your followup. I'll try your idea
enu.submenu.pixmap:menu-submenu-bullet.xpm
menu.selected.pixmap: menu-option-selected.xpm
menu.unselected.pixmap: menu-option-unselected.xpm
! -- Toolbar --
! -- Slit --
! -- Wallpaper --
background: aspect
background.pixmap
ackground--I'm even exporting wpsetters=feh in .fluxbox/startup, lest
it try IM's display--but I shouldn't have to. Google has not been my
friend.
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s and there's no way to predict the user's case.
I'd go with the suggestion to note on the larger packages, those using
C++, (JAVA?), that predictions are just unreliable. (reminding me of
some primitive peoples who count: one, two, many.)
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R
seems like a duplicate of Bug #1093, for
which there was a patch. Tried it, no joy. There's a prerelease
version 1.4.0. Tried it, no joy.
Does anybody have a patch that works?
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(I do n
>
> Could a preloader like e4rat / e4rat-lite be a solution?
I don't think so. By making it first thing in the rc5.d link farm I'm
already getting it going as soon as the system is ready to start
userspace, i.e. it's safe.
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ck screen as X
starts--the C7 is a 1GHz Pentium-3 work-alike. (It's probably not
longer than it'd take when I run startx, but it sure seems longer!) Are
there any tips and tricks to make X start faster, or at least quickly
throw up a copy of the background slimd would use?
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> The question is that it seems that there are some missing icons in the
> applications menu (xfce4-panel 4.12.1), like the ones for
> "configuration", "accessories" or "system". The appear like a simple
> little white box with a red x inside.
>
> Any help is welcome and congratulations for the LF
>
> If there's interest I'd be happy to write a hint on installing and
> using the latest Xen Project hypervisor (4.9.0) on the latest LFS
> (8.0). It is a lot easier than in years past, but still a few gotchas
> that took awhile to work out.
>
> czep
>
Yes, please.
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attached patch to shut
off the error message.
This may be somewhat "historical" at this point, but it's a path I was
forced to tread this week. Google will search this list, so perhaps it
will help someone else in this position.
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> > Maybe there should be a blurb on why you would use it?
> > Ssh with user key authentication is the way to go for me.
> > If anyone is interested, I can post my backup script which includes> >
> > snapshots.
> I'm glad you posted that Wayne, because I've been scratching my
> head too> wonderin
write access to in FS
permissions? Would rsync not work without a writable directory?
Realizing the file distribution point is perhaps primarily just a very
basic example, I fear it may be a "tail wagging the dog" if it has
prompted giving rsync a FS writable directory.
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OK, building x264, and rebuilding ffmpeg in case it needs to see but not
firefox which "shouldn't", and now I have video with sound! YAY! May I
suggest the book description, at least, say it's a decoder as well. It
really would be helpful if the book were a little more explicit about
which "opti
>
> According to the recommended deps of ffmpeg in the book, you may miss:
> - x264
> - x265
...
>
> Most likely, the x* might be needed. Note that FF-48 does not use
> gstreamer,
> Pierre
>
> Yes, I would expect x264 to be essential for playing mp4 videos.
>
> ĸen
Thanks, guys.
Please do
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> > Did I miss something, or get the order wring?
> >
>
> According to the recommended deps of ffmpeg in the book, you may miss:
> - x264
> - x265
> - opus
> - libass
> - fdk-aac
> - lame
> - libtheora
>
> Most likely, the x* might be need
gins-good-1.8.3
libvpx-1.6.0
gst-plugins-bad-1.8.3
gst-plugins-ugly-1.8.3
gst-libav-1.8.3
alsa-tools-1.1.0
ffmpeg-3.1.3
Did I miss something, or get the order wring?
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Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally en
ects Firefox to ALSA? FFMPEG? Gstreamer? Where?
How? Help! (TIA)
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Paul Rogers
paulgrog...@fastmail.fm
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL
:-)
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> > My startx alias specifies VT7, so I can CTRL-ALT-F1 and see my original
> > terminal.
>
> I meant running it from an *x*term or equivalent, not a tty.
>
> ĸen
I did that, and tried video:
[11:54 ~]$ firefox
TypeError: notificationCallbacks is null
TypeError: notificationCallbacks is null
Just now, well, tomorrow morning, I'm wondering if the Iced-Tea plugin
went to the right place.
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Paul Rogers
paulgrog...@fastmail.fm
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL
:-)
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http://lists
> ff48 was so long ago (my notes say August last year), but at the
Whenever you guys finalized BLFS-7.10. I've been working on this since
Feb 20th. But then I've got a whole infrastructure around my builds.
> time it worked well for me with youtube (html5) and a local mp4 (the
That's what I ha
he mailing list, but found no smoking guns. I think I have
everything, gstreamer-1.8.3, et al. Am I missing something?
Recommendations? TIA
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Paul Rogers
paulgrog...@fastmail.fm
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions a
'll even see mention of options that aren't in the configure
statement.
IMO, it's not/never a bad idea to do a "./configure --help|less" before
trying to install a package (so much so I have a "chl" alias that does
just that.)
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Paul Rogers
paulgrog...@fastmail.fm
R
let it touch
a network or vice-versa. The only runlevel I've never used IS 5. I
always start X from the command line, after watching the boot, and many
times never start it.
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Paul Rogers
paulgrog...@fastmail.fm
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do no
devices. So I don't know how much of this is done
> > in software and what's in hardware. What is it I should know, or
> > where can I find an understandable explanation?
>
> I think you need libsndfile for the au format.
>
>-- Bruce
I didn't install it o
are now three. Both sysinit &
shutdown are very much simplified versions of rc. And this design has
simplified rc in turn. The one script had logic and exceptions for
special processing. The three new scripts are nearly "straight-line
code", basically with one job to do. Task sc
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