installing kernel.org kernels
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Nov 30 12:25:06 UTC 2006
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.
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