[lfs-support] LFS 7.5 - Ch. 6.37 - Inetutils check.

2014-04-20 Thread loki
Happy EASTER ! Just a small note that the check will fail on the ping localhost test if IPv6 is not configured on the base system. This shouldn't actually be a FAIL but a WARNING. But I guess that's for the maintainer to change :) Regards, D. --

[lfs-support] LFS 7.5 - Chapter 6 - glibc patch

2014-04-19 Thread loki
Heya, the patch for glibc in Chapter 6 is missing in the tar package as well as in the download links. Had to download it through the book, Chapter 3. Regards, Daniel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.5 - Chapter 6 - glibc patch

2014-04-19 Thread loki
On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 15:41 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: loki wrote: the patch for glibc in Chapter 6 is missing in the tar package as well as in the download links. I see that it is missing in the tarball, but which download link are you referring to? It does appear to be missing

[lfs-support] OpenSSL Heartbleed-bug

2014-04-15 Thread loki
Hey all, unfortunatly you can't find much heartbleed bug info on the net for administrators. So I will try my luck here. I have some https websites and a openvpn server. My questions are: 1.) Is it enough for me to recompile only OpenSSL or do I have to recompile OpenSSH, apache, OpenVPN? 2.)

Re: [lfs-support] What are the SERVICES of ifconfig.eth0 but ip4-static for ppp?

2014-03-22 Thread loki
On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 16:28 -0700, Golam Md. Shibly wrote: cd /etc/sysconfig/ cat ifconfig.eth0 EOF ONBOOT=yes IFACE=eth0 #SERVICE=ipv4-static #IP=192.168.1.1 #GATEWAY=192.168.1.2 #PREFIX=24 #BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 EOF What are the SERVICES of ifconfig.eth0 but ip4-static for ppp?

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-21 Thread loki
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 23:18 +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:49:29PM +0100, loki wrote: Kernel is 2.6.35.3. For the future, you _might_ want to think about using a long-term-supported stable kernel (at the moment, 3.10), or even updating your kernel once or twice

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-21 Thread loki
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:56 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: This may help: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/files/updating-lfs.html -- Bruce Yup. It did. Thanks. That is a procedure that I was thinking about. I will try to combine your procedure and the hints from William and will

[lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread loki
Heya all. Need some help. I have an old lfs installation which is in production use, for the past 5-6 years. I guess it's version 6.3 or something since it has kernel 2.6 on it. It is time to install a new version on it. But there are the following problems: 1.) Since it is in production it

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread loki
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:06 -0600, William Harrington wrote: If your running kernel is up to at least 2.6.32 then default glibc configure options will work. If it is less than 2.6.32, then you'll need to adjust the glibc configure commands otherwise you will get FATAL: Kernel too old

[lfs-support] CLFS

2014-02-19 Thread loki
Heya, just wanted to ask what happened to CLFS? On the address http://www.cross-lfs.org/ I'm getting a Domain for Sale. Regards, Daniel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-23 Thread loki
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 16:16 +0100, loki wrote: ... This gets me to the point that it starts the kernel, finds sda, sdb,. states that it Failed to execute /init, sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropiate ioctl for device sh: no job control in this shell

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-22 Thread loki
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:31 -0600, William Harrington wrote: Don't optimize the bootloader. Grub doesn't need optimizations. No bootloader needs optimization from gcc. You are dealing, also, with assmebly that the authors write for the target platform. Segfaults commonly come from grub

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread loki
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? Dan Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI capable :) And secondly I'm too lazy to learn it since for the servers that I use 4 primary partitions is the most I'm going to use and

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 9 device is busy

2013-09-09 Thread loki
My first guess would be that you didn't get out of chroot with the command logout. Now that we have said that, lets move on to booting our shiny new LFS installation for the first time! First exit from the chroot environment: logout My second guess would be that your using

Re: [lfs-support] Network boot script - LFS 7.3

2013-08-03 Thread loki
dev wan0 proto kernel scope link src 121.211.212.123 Thx... On Sat, 2013-06-08 at 19:34 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: loki wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 15:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I think I see what you mean. What happens if we add a new variable to the ifconfig script

[lfs-support] Migrate bc to lfs?

2013-07-17 Thread loki
Heya, following error came up when I compiled the kernel: LD arch/x86/built-in.o CC kernel/fork.o CC kernel/exec_domain.o CC kernel/panic.o CC kernel/printk.o CC kernel/cpu.o CC kernel/exit.o CC kernel/itimer.o HZFILE

Re: [lfs-support] Migrate bc to lfs?

2013-07-17 Thread loki
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 10:01 +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 17/07/2013 09:51, loki a écrit : [...] But this brings the question, should bc be migrated from BLFS to LFS since sometimes it is needed for the kernel compilation in Chapter 8.3. Regards, Daniel It has been

Re: [lfs-support] binutils check problem (Chapter 6.13)

2013-06-11 Thread loki
On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 22:05 +0200, loki wrote: Heya, am having binutils test problems. I thought that it was the same as the problem I had in April with memory and the swap size. But this time it is something different. The setup is simillar Pentium 4 and 512MB. Any ideas? Heya

Re: [lfs-support] Network boot script - LFS 7.3

2013-06-08 Thread loki
On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 15:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I think I see what you mean. What happens if we add a new variable to the ifconfig script: STATIC_GATEWAY=10.0.5.5 and change GATEWAY to STATIC_GATEWAY in the ipv4-static-route script? Sounds good. Will try that as soon as I

Re: [lfs-support] Network boot script - LFS 7.3

2013-06-07 Thread loki
On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 10:54 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I can't look at this for a few days, but I'll try to get to it over the week end. -- Bruce OK. I'm in the process of preparing a new server with LFS 7.3. Also a complicated network scenario. Should be finished on Sunday so if

[lfs-support] binutils check problem (Chapter 6.13)

2013-06-07 Thread loki
Heya, am having binutils test problems. I thought that it was the same as the problem I had in April with memory and the swap size. But this time it is something different. The setup is simillar Pentium 4 and 512MB. Any ideas? ../as-new -o dump.o

Re: [lfs-support] Network boot script - LFS 7.3

2013-06-06 Thread loki
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 12:03 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thx for the reply. The changes were made to support bridging in April 2012. If you just comment out the GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.dev, wouldn't that do what you want? Nope. Then it wouldn't set up a route. For

[lfs-support] Network boot script - LFS 7.3

2013-06-05 Thread loki
Heya all, wanted just to point to a small bug in the network boot scripts. (/sbin/ifup; /sbin/ifdown; /lib/lsb/ipv4-static; /lib/lsb/ipv4-static-route; /etc/init.d/network ) For simple network setups it isn't a problem but for complex route setups it is. The problem is in /sbin/ifup. The

Re: [lfs-support] 6.13 Binutils test suite fails one test

2013-04-07 Thread loki
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 17:38 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I took a look and the file you want is binutils-build/gas/testsuite/gas.log. I can't reproduce your failure, so you need to look. What I have is: Have the same problem. Here's the relevant part: PASS: i386 space1 ../as-new -o

Re: [lfs-support] 6.13 Binutils test suite fails one test

2013-04-07 Thread loki
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 14:55 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: gcc uses a lot of space. Allocate about 2G of swap and it should be OK, but slow. -- Bruce Working. THX... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

[lfs-support] Network config (Chapters 7.2 and 7.6 of the LFS book 7.1)

2012-04-12 Thread loki
Heya, wanted just to give my two cents regarding the new sysconfig/ifconfig.eth# methodolgy. With the old one (network-devices directory) I had the possibility to put more then one option for one ethernet card (for instance one ip address and two static routes within 3 files). With the new

Re: [lfs-support] LFS + Rootkits

2012-04-09 Thread loki
...and a rootkit was installed. A very interesting story. I'm interested how a regular user was able to install a rootkit. I realize that you may not know. Didn't have the time to analyse that but I presume through privilege escalation. Cause this user had direct access to the running

[lfs-support] LFS + Rootkits

2012-04-08 Thread loki
Heya, First this is not a support request but a live story from someone using LFS heavily in real life situations and servers and why I would choose LFS before any distribution based server. Let me introduce myself. Im into LFS since version number 3 - 4. Can't remember exactly anymore. A lot

LFS 6.7 + BLFS SVN pure 64bit

2010-11-13 Thread loki
Hello, has anyone tried lfs 6.7 on a 64bit platform. I had great problems with some packages from BLFS after I installed LFS 6.7. And during the compile of 6.7 I had some problems but somehow I circumvented them. And the system ran. But when I tried to compile Open-Office 3.2.1, mysql 5.1.45,