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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-09-28 21:08:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-09-28 21:08:29 +0000 |
| commit | 2c094d60db777dce20fd4eccf4996299c2a0dfe0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6059aa8ca1a67a6e974f8802b9af66a7330272a4 /chapter06/creatingdirs.xml | |
| parent | f5cc1c171ba0c9aece1fe1046ce4dbaed8850e9f (diff) | |
Applied Bill Maltby's grammar patch. Changed $LFS to LFS where appropriate. Internal XML cleanup: removed double spacing where appropriate.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2138 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/creatingdirs.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/creatingdirs.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml b/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml index 0b149bfb2..36f8fae5b 100644 --- a/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml +++ b/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <title>Creating directories</title> <?dbhtml filename="creatingdirs.html" dir="chapter06"?> -<para>Let's now create some structure in our LFS file system, let's create +<para>Let's now create some structure in our LFS file system. Let's create a directory tree. Issuing the following commands will create a more or less standard tree:</para> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ mkdir /opt/{bin,doc,include,info} && mkdir -p /opt/{lib,man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}} && ln -s ../var/tmp /usr</userinput></screen></para> -<para>Directories are by default created with permission mode 755, but this +<para>Directories are, by default, created with permission mode 755, but this isn't desirable for all directories. We will make two changes: one to the home directory of root, and another to the directories for temporary files.</para> @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp</userinput></screen></para> <para>The first mode change ensures that not just everybody can enter the <filename class="directory">/root</filename> directory -- the same -a normal user would do with his or her home directory. +as a normal user would do with his or her home directory. The second mode change makes sure that any user can write to the <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> and <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename> directories, but -cannot remove other users's files from them. The latter is prohibited +cannot remove other users' files from them. The latter is prohibited by the so-called "sticky bit" -- the highest bit in the 1777 bit mask.</para> <para>Now that the directories are created, move the source tarballs that @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ tree this standard stipulates the existence of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/games</filename>, but we don't much like these for a base system. However, feel free to make your system FHS-compliant. As to the structure of the -<filename class="directory">/usr/local/share</filename> subdirectory the FHS +<filename class="directory">/usr/local/share</filename> subdirectory, the FHS isn't precise, so we created here the directories that we think are needed.</para> </sect2> |