Simon Geard wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:16 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
>
> Oh yes, I can't agree with that one enough. Not that you want to
> accidentally run "rm -rf ~" as *any* user,
I run 'rm *~' often enough. I am alway
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:16 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
Oh yes, I can't agree with that one enough. Not that you want to
accidentally run "rm -rf ~" as *any* user, but the red root prompt is a
useful reminder that you're playing with
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:16:24 -0500
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>> Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
>>
>> Hope you keep learning for a long time.
>>
>> Mike
>
> See, this is a good point. :)
>
> I should fix this on my system.
You might try
>On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:16:24 -0500
>Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> Use a red colored prompt when running with root authorization.
>
> Hope you keep learning for a long time.
>
> Mike
See, this is a good point. :)
I should fix this on my system.
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On Friday 11 June 2010 14:16:24 Mike McCarty wrote:
> Hope you keep learning for a long time.
>
> Mike
To misquote a fictional character, "Learn long and prosper." Same thing,
really. :)
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piper.guy1 wrote:
> Thanks for all your tips, advice, lectures, opinions, etc. Very
> positive community. I think I'm going to enjoy my LFS experience. I
That's one thing I really like here, unlike the "user support lists"
for standard distros, which are full of bickering and posturing.
[...]
>
Thanks for all your tips, advice, lectures, opinions, etc. Very
positive community. I think I'm going to enjoy my LFS experience. I
can definitely say that despite the obvious lesson for me here (think
before [Enter]), mistakes aren't necessarily a completely negative
thing, as you can learn a grea
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 03:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Simon Geard wrote:
> > I quite like an idea Fedora are working on - if installed to a btrfs
> > partition, use it's snapshot support to provide an easy rollback option
> > when installing updates.
> >
> > I've been meaning to try that approa
Simon Geard wrote:
> I quite like an idea Fedora are working on - if installed to a btrfs
> partition, use it's snapshot support to provide an easy rollback option
> when installing updates.
>
> I've been meaning to try that approach myself, since I've trashed more
> than a few systems while tryin
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:00 -0400, linux fan wrote:
> Speaking of backups and rescue disks, I am using an "rsync snapshots"
> style of backup. It does not compress, yet it can save multiple
> "copies" of a system at different points in time using remarkable
> little disk space. Any "copy" can be rs
Theron Stanford wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Mike McCarty
> wrote:
>> Possibly. However, who prints the book? Mostly, I was cut'n'pasting
>> the commands.
>
> I print the book. However, I print it 9-up to save paper. I like
> having the hard copy to read on the train.
NINE up? Ho
On 6/8/10, Neal Murphy wrote:
> ... You'll learn to pause before hitting .
>
I learned that lesson very quickly. It is extremely important.
My system wouldn't last long without backups.
Speaking of backups and rescue disks, I am using an "rsync snapshots"
style of backup. It does not compress,
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Mike McCarty
wrote:
> Neal Murphy wrote:
>
>> A possible future enhancement to 'the book' might be to incorporate
>> checkboxes
>> that a newbie would check off as she performs each step. Extra work? Yes. But
>> worth it to make each step clearer? Yes again.
>
> P
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
> But you are right. I had no backups and no excuses. I have an empty 400GB
> drive that would have held most of that data. And there's no reason I could
> not have saved all the pics to DVDs. I didn't. I lost. Oh, well. No one died,
> and no critters or humans were ha
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
> mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that contained
> half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years of pics and
> history. Another time, while redesigning the Smoothwall build system, I
Of course, you've got it all on backup.
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> Yeah, deleting the link without changing your /etc/passwd entry
>> to point to a valid shell would do that.
>
> Changing the /etc/password file won't do much. The bootscripts need
> /bin/sh.
I'm talking about his host, not LFS. I have no idea what
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> piper.guy1 wrote:
>>> Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
>>> thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
>>> Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
>>>
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:08:18 -0400
> In " Host system Requirements", the instructions explicitly wants
> '/bin/sh' to be pointing to bash. Mine was pointing to dash.
under Ubuntu, try "sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash".
> Any recommendations on a rescue disk?
CDlinux. ( http://cdlinux.info/ )
PS: tr
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 20:05:46 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Neal Murphy wrote:
> > I started playing with UNIX in 1986, and Linux in the
> > mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that
> > contained half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years
> > of pics and histo
Neal Murphy wrote:
> I started playing with UNIX in 1986, and Linux in the
> mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that contained
> half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years of pics and
> history.
No backups? How is this different (in effect) from a
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 18:57:21 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > # cd LFS/6.3
> > # rm -rf build
> >
> > and deleted /dev from my host system! No discs, no printers, no
> > terminals, etc. I rebooted with a Knoppix disc, let it populate
> > /dev, and then mounted my hard drive, and cop
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 16:54:52 Mike McCarty wrote:
> piper.guy1 wrote:
> > One more thing. Seeing that this is a very risky thing to be advising
> > in LFS 6.6, can I suggest that the authour(s) add some caveats around
> > this instruction?
The best way to do LFS is to pretend you are the comput
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, linux fan wrote:
> I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
> that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
> won't help.
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Mike McCarty wrote:
> Yeah, deleting the link without changing your /etc/passwd entry
> to point to a valid shell would do that.
Changing the /etc/password file won't do much. The bootscripts need
/bin/sh.
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Mike McCarty wrote:
> # cd LFS/6.3
> # rm -rf build
>
> and deleted /dev from my host system! No discs, no printers, no
> terminals, etc. I rebooted with a Knoppix disc, let it populate
> /dev, and then mounted my hard drive, and copied (yes copied
> using cp) /dev onto my hard drive.
I don't t
linux fan wrote:
> I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
> that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
> won't help.
I don't know of a distro that doesn't install bash by default unless you
are using tomsrtbt.
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I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
won't help.
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On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote:
> piper.guy1 wrote:
>> Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
>> thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
>> Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
>> and then add a symlink to ba
piper.guy1 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too
> long before I got myself into trouble. :-(
Hee hee! Aren't we having fun! Before starting in on something
like this, be sure your backup and recovery procedure works well.
So, join the explicitly no
On 8 June 2010 21:08, piper.guy1 wrote:
>
> Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
> thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
> Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
> and then add a symlink to bash. Make sense or is
piper.guy1 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too
> long before I got myself into trouble. :-(
>
> In " Host system Requirements", the instructions explicitly wants
> '/bin/sh' to be pointing to bash. Mine was pointing to dash. So I
> endeavoured to c
Hi,
Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too
long before I got myself into trouble. :-(
In " Host system Requirements", the instructions explicitly wants
'/bin/sh' to be pointing to bash. Mine was pointing to dash. So I
endeavoured to change it by deleting the symlink a
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