| 1 | <chapter id="postlfs-config">
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| 2 | <?dbhtml filename="config.html"?>
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| 3 | <title>After <acronym>LFS</acronym> Configuration Issues</title>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>The intention of <acronym>LFS</acronym> is to provide a basic system
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| 6 | which you can build upon. There are several things, about tidying up the
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| 7 | system, which many people wonder about once they have done the base install.
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| 8 | We hope to cover these issues in this chapter.</para>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para>Most people coming from a Windows background to Linux find the
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| 11 | concept of text-only configuration files slightly strange. In Linux,
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| 12 | just about all configuration is done via text files. The majority of
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| 13 | these files can be found in the <filename>/etc</filename> hierarchy.
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| 14 | There are often graphical configuration programs available for different
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| 15 | subsystems but most are simply pretty front ends to the process
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| 16 | of editing the file. The advantage of text-only configuration is that
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| 17 | you can edit parameters using your favorite text editor, whether that
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| 18 | be vim, emacs or anything else.</para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>The first task is making a recovery diskette because it's the most
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| 21 | critical need. Then the system is configured to ease addition of
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| 22 | new users, in "Configuring for Adding Users", because this
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| 23 | can affect the choices you make in the three subsequent topics -
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| 24 | "/etc/inputrc", "The Bash Shell Startup Files" and
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| 25 | "/etc/vimrc, ~/.vimrc".
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| 26 | </para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para> The remaining topics, "/etc/issue (Customizing your logon)", "/etc/shells",
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| 29 | "Random number generation", "Man page issues" and "Info page issues" are
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| 30 | then addressed, in that order. They don't have much interaction with the
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| 31 | other topics in this chapter.
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| 32 | </para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | &postlfs-config-bootdisk;
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| 35 | &postlfs-config-skel;
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| 36 | &postlfs-config-inputrc;
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| 37 | &postlfs-config-profile;
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| 38 | &postlfs-config-vimrc;
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| 39 | &postlfs-config-logon;
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| 40 | &postlfs-config-shells;
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| 41 | &postlfs-config-random;
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| 42 | &postlfs-config-compressdoc;
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| 43 | &postlfs-config-netfs;
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </chapter>
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