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diff --git a/chapter05/creatingdirs.xml b/chapter05/creatingdirs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 45f717a54..000000000 --- a/chapter05/creatingdirs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -<sect1 id="ch05-creatingdirs"> -<title>Creating directories</title> -<?dbhtml filename="creatingdirs.html" dir="chapter05"?> - -<para>Let's now create the directory tree on the LFS partition based on -the FHS standard, which can be found at -<ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/"/>. -Issuing the following commands will create a default directory layout:</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>cd $LFS && -mkdir -p bin boot dev/pts etc/opt home lib mnt proc root sbin tmp var opt && -for dirname in $LFS/usr $LFS/usr/local - do - mkdir $dirname - cd $dirname - mkdir bin etc include lib sbin share src - ln -s share/man - ln -s share/doc - ln -s share/info - cd $dirname/share - mkdir dict doc info locale man nls misc terminfo zoneinfo - cd $dirname/share/man - mkdir man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} -done && -cd $LFS/var && -mkdir -p lock log mail run spool tmp opt cache lib/misc local && -cd $LFS/opt && -mkdir bin doc include info lib man && -cd $LFS/usr && -ln -s ../var/tmp</userinput></screen></para> - -<para>Normally, directories are created with permission mode 755, which isn't -desired for all directories. The first change is a mode 0750 for the -$LFS/root directory. This is to make sure that not just everybody can -enter the /root directory (the same a user would do with /home/username -directories). The second change is a mode 1777 for the tmp -directories. This way, any user can write data to the /tmp or /var/tmp -directory but cannot remove another user's files (the latter is caused -by the so-called "sticky bit" - bit 1 of the 1777 bit mask).</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>cd $LFS && -chmod 0750 root && -chmod 1777 tmp var/tmp</userinput></screen></para> - -<para>Now that the directories are created, copy the source files that were -downloaded in chapter 3 to some subdirectory under $LFS/usr/src (you -will need to create the desired directory yourself).</para> - -<sect2> -<title>FHS compliance notes</title> - -<para>The FHS stipulates that the /usr/local directory should contain the -bin, games, include, lib, man, sbin, and share subdirectories. You can -alter your /usr/local directory yourself if you want your system to be -FHS-compliant.</para> - -<para>Also, the standard says that there should exist a /usr/share/games -directory, which we don't much like for a base system. But feel free to -make your system FHS-compliant if you wish. The FHS isn't precise as -to the structure of the /usr/local/share subdirectories, so we took the -liberty of creating the directories that we felt were needed.</para> - -</sect2> - -</sect1> - |