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author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-11-13 22:31:27 +0000 |
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committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-11-13 22:31:27 +0000 |
commit | d32239446ba4bfb4f259cf7cef7626cae2283c34 (patch) | |
tree | 6857e1b0b2a81e27305f34ab5fae04d298ad5331 /chapter06/creatingdirs.xml | |
parent | cfabeeda7b517f8b7a202113d4c3c645c81579af (diff) |
Moving most of chapter 6 intermezzos into a single file.
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diff --git a/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml b/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 810526d25..000000000 --- a/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -<sect1 id="ch06-creatingdirs"> -<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 -a directory tree. Issuing the following commands will create a more or less -standard tree:</para> - -<screen><userinput>mkdir -p /{bin,boot,dev/{pts,shm},etc/opt,home,lib,mnt,proc} -mkdir -p /{root,sbin,tmp,usr/local,var,opt} -for dirname in /usr /usr/local - do - mkdir $dirname/{bin,etc,include,lib,sbin,share,src} - ln -s share/{man,doc,info} $dirname - mkdir $dirname/share/{dict,doc,info,locale,man} - mkdir $dirname/share/{nls,misc,terminfo,zoneinfo} - mkdir $dirname/share/man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} -done -mkdir /var/{lock,log,mail,run,spool} -mkdir -p /var/{tmp,opt,cache,lib/misc,local} -mkdir /opt/{bin,doc,include,info} -mkdir -p /opt/{lib,man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}}</userinput></screen> - -<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 <emphasis>root</emphasis>, and another to the directories for -temporary files.</para> - -<screen><userinput>chmod 0750 /root -chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp</userinput></screen> - -<para>The first mode change ensures that not just anybody can enter the -<filename class="directory">/root</filename> directory -- the same -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' files from them. The latter is prohibited -by the so-called "sticky bit" -- the highest bit in the 1777 bit mask.</para> - -<sect2> -<title>FHS compliance note</title> - -<para>We have based our directory tree on the FHS standard (available at -<ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/"/>). Besides the above created -tree this standard stipulates the existence of -<filename class="directory">/usr/local/games</filename> and -<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 -isn't precise, so we created here the directories that we think are needed.</para> - -</sect2> - -</sect1> - |