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3	3	<para>We need to create the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Although glibc should
4	4	provide defaults when this file is missing or corrupt, its defaults don't work
5		well with networking ~~which will be~~ dealt with in a later chapter. Also, our
	5	well with networking. That is dealt with in a later chapter. Also, our
6	6	timezone needs to be set up.</para>
7	7

chapter06/config-keyboard.xml

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19	19	the keymap directly into the kernel. This will make sure that your
20	20	keyboard always works as expected, even when you have booted into
21		maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel) in which case
	21	maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel), in which case
22	22	the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
23	23

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9	9	directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
10	10	<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, you need to add them to
11		the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file ~~in order~~ for the dynamic
	11	the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file for the dynamic
12	12	loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known to contain
13	13	additional libraries are <filename

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1	1	<sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
2	2
3		<para>This package contains utilities to modify users's passwords, add
	3	<para>This package contains utilities to modify users' passwords, add
4	4	or delete users and groups, and the like. We're not going to explain
5	5	what 'password shadowing' means. A full explanation can be found in the doc/HOWTO

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1	1	<sect2><title>Configuring Vim</title>
2	2
3		<para>By default vim runs in vi compatible mode. Some people might like this,
	3	<para>By default, vim runs in vi compatible mode. Some people might like this,
4	4	but we have a high preference to run vim in vim mode (else we wouldn't
5	5	have included vim in this book, but the original vi). Create the

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 <para>Programs like login, shutdown, uptime and others want to read from and
 write to the /var/run/utmp /var/log/btmp and /var/log/wtmp. These files contain
 information about who is currently logged in. It also contains information
+write to the /var/run/utmp, /var/log/btmp and /var/log/wtmp. These files contain
+information about who is currently logged in. They also contain information
 on when the computer was last booted and shutdown and a record of the
 bad login attempts.</para>

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 This will set the Makefile variable XSCPT to an empty value so that
 the XConsole installation is disabled. Otherwise "Make install" tries to
 copy the file XConsole to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. And that directory
 does not exist, because X is not installed.</para>
+copy the file XConsole to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. That directory
+does not exist because X is not installed.</para>
 </sect2>

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 <para>Psmisc installs the
 <filename>/usr/share/man/man1/pidof.1</filename> man page, but Psmisc's
 pidof program isn't installed by default. Generally this isn't a problem,
 because we install the Sysvinit package later on which provides
+pidof program isn't installed by default. Generally, this isn't a problem
+because we later install the Sysvinit package, which provides
 a better pidof program.</para>
 <para>It's up to you now to decide if you are going to use the Sysvinit
 package which provides a pidof program, or not. If you are going to, you
+package, which provides a pidof program, or not. If you are going to, you
 should remove Psmisc's pidof man page by running:</para>

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 <para><userinput>cp limits login.access /etc:</userinput> These files
 were not installed during the installation of the package so we copy
 them manually as those files are used to configure authentication
+were not installed during the installation of the package, so we copy
+them manually because those files are used to configure authentication
 details on the system.</para>

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4	4	<para>Before you install this package, you may want to have a look at
5	5	the Shadow hint. It discusses how you can make your system more secure
6		regarding passwords, such as how to enable the more secure MD5 passwords,
	6	regarding passwords, such as how to enable the more secure MD5 passwords
7	7	and how to get the most out of this Shadow package. The Shadow hint can
8	8	be found at <ulink url="&hints-root;shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>.</para>

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2	2	<title>Installation of Sysvinit</title>
3	3
4		<para>When run levels are changed (for example, when halting the system)
	4	<para>When run levels are changed (for example, when halting the system),
5	5	init sends the TERM and KILL signals to the processes which it started.
6	6	init prints "Sending processes the TERM signal" to the screen. This seems

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 use the tar
 patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j option
+to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
+for gzip files).</para>
+to tar, which works the same as the -z option used for gzip files.</para>
 <para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>

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 <title>FHS compliance notes</title>
 <para>The FHS recommends that we use /var/lib/hwclock as the location of the
+adjtime file, instead of the usual /etc. To make hwclock, which is part of the
 util-linux package, FHS-compliant, run the following.</para>
+<para>The FHS recommends that we use /var/lib/hwclock, instead of the
+usual /etc, as the location of the adjtime file. To make hwclock, which
+is part of the util-linux package, FHS-compliant, run the following.</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>cp hwclock/hwclock.c{,.backup} &amp;&amp;

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