On Thursday 30 November 2006 07:23, Dave Jones wrote: >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. > >It's only present in Fedora kernels, as it's one of the few patches >we haven't managed to get upstream. > > > Frankly, I hadn't figured out what it as for > >If you don't know, you probably don't need it :) >It's a httpd accelerator. Unless you have a need for a really >high performance webserver, you can just rpm -e tux > That's the answer I was looking for on this subject, thanks. That was quick, maybe 2 seconds and there is another compile running in the background. > > 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? > >sudo ? For another 30+ lines of script? I'd have to study up on wrapping that one up correctly. Side comment here. I know my present .config is probably building quite a few more modules that I don't need since I started with a make oldconfig, but can that explain why a kernel build that a month ago on gcc-3.3.4 took 10 to 11 minutes, it now taking nearly 30 minutes to do with this newer compiler suite FC6 installs? Thanks Dave -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
