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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-05-29 08:06:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-05-29 08:06:18 +0000 |
| commit | 7406bece6f21f8edefd3b78480ba30cc704fb233 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a2165a204e973477cca4e1342995226d3ace4e0 /chapter06/bash.xml | |
| parent | 51c960dfdf415e0a793d99ccc6e5e80f41649504 (diff) | |
Add an unprivileged user, tester, at the
beginning of Chapter 6 for running some tests. This
user is then removed at the end of the chapter.
Update to zstd-1.4.5. Fixes
Update to util-linux-2.35.2. Fixes
Update to bison-3.6.2. Fixes
Update to linux-5.6.15. Fixes
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11864 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/bash.xml')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/bash.xml b/chapter06/bash.xml index 0c7f7f062..03a3e0614 100644 --- a/chapter06/bash.xml +++ b/chapter06/bash.xml @@ -73,23 +73,21 @@ <para>Skip down to <quote>Install the package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para> - <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para> + <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv nobody .</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen> <para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem - class="username">nobody</systemitem> user:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="test">su nobody -s /bin/bash << EOF -PATH=$PATH HOME=/home make tests -EOF</userinput></screen> + class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para> +<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make tests"</userinput></screen> +<!-- <para>The <command>su</command> command above is slightly different from other places in the book. The reason is that the <option>-c</option> option runs the command without a controlling terminal, while the bash test suite needs one.</para> - - <para>Nevertheless, the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> +--> + <para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results.</para> |