On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 1. During the boot, I saw a message go by indicating that TUX was not > supported by this kernel. Frankly, I hadn't figured out what it as for > when it starts about 60 copies of itself at boot time that AFAIK, have > never done anything constructive for *me* that I know of. Can someone > comment about this for my edification? And if it does serve a usefull > purpose, how can I re-enable it in a make xconfig? rpm -qi tux It's a web server designed for winning benchmarks. Sounds like you don't want it. Uninstall the tux package. > 2. Trying to do this as a user rather than root because you all decry my > running everything as root. To that end I have broken my 'makeit' script > in two, doing all the building as myself and leaving the installation to > a separate script that must be run as root. This seems to work, but is > there a way to run as the common user and still have rights to install > the modules in /lib/modules/$kernelver, and to install the pieces and > links in /boot that are required to achieve a working boot? I think splitting the job is the right way to do this. Or better, making an RPM with the updated kernel and using that. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
