From 062461b217f60eb64b5f43a2ffcad1af634d6682 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Heerdink Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:24:44 +0000 Subject: [Bug 149] Addition and Removal of files to resolve bug 149 (Install all software as an unprivileged user) git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1470 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter03/creatingdirs.xml | 77 ---------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 77 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 chapter03/creatingdirs.xml (limited to 'chapter03/creatingdirs.xml') diff --git a/chapter03/creatingdirs.xml b/chapter03/creatingdirs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index fb6d61244..000000000 --- a/chapter03/creatingdirs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ - -Creating directories - - -Before we start creating directories, we need to check the base -system's umask setting. To do this, we run -umask. The result should be 022. If it isn't, -then run the following command to ensure that the directories will be -created with the correct permissions: - -umask 022 - -We would advise you to make sure that the umask is set to 022 -throughout your LFS installation. - -Let's now create the directory tree on the LFS partition based on the FHS -standard, which can be found at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. -Issuing the following commands will create a default directory layout: - -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 var -   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 $LFS/usr && -ln -s ../var/tmp - -Normally, directories are created with permission mode 755, which isn't -desired for all directories. The first change is a mode 0750 for the -$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). - -cd $LFS && -chmod 0750 root && -chmod 1777 tmp var/tmp - -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). - - -FHS compliance notes - -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. - -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 needed. - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf