12-23-2008 12:00 PM
At a time when new and buggy features cloud basic computer functions, it's refreshing to see a new release of a distro like Slackware that stays true to its core philosophy. Slackware has an unfair reputation of being a distro only for experienced users. Granted it doesn't sport many graphical configuration tools, but it balances that with stability and speed.
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In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not?
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This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
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Below is my menu options code. It allows user to pick one of two option. I can get the first option to work, because if it is selected it just "breaks" and carries on with the script.
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CheckInstall(8) System Manager's Manual CheckInstall(8)NAME
checkinstall -- Track installation of local software, and produce a binary manageable with your package management software.
SYNOPSIS
checkinstall [options] [install command]
DESCRIPTION
checkinstall is a program that monitors an installation procedure (such as make install, install.sh ), and creates a standard package for
your distribution (currently deb, rpm and tgz packages are supported) that you can install through your distribution's package management
system (dpkg, rpm or installpkg).
Note that for most useful actions, checkinstall must be run as root.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ('-'). A summary of options is
included below.
All the options that toggle a switch default to activate the option. To force activation or deactivation, call them with '=yes' or '=no'.
As an example, to disable stripping use --strip=no.
-h--help
Show summary of options.
--version Show version information.
--copyright
Show Copyright information
--type Choose packaging system. Can be one of 'slackware', 'debian' or 'rpm'.
-D Create a Debian package.
-R Create a RPM package.
-S Create a Slackware Package.
--install Toggle installation of the created package.
--fstrans Enable/disable filesystem translation. Filesystem translation enabled causes the install to proceed in a temporary directory,
thus not actually touching your system.
-y--default
Accept default answers to all questions.
--pkgname Set the package name.
--pkgversion
Set package version.
-A--arch--pkgarch
Set package architecture.
--pkgrelease
Set the package release.
--pkglicense
Set package license.
--pkggroup
Set the package group.
--pkgsource
Set source location
--pkgaltsource
Set alternate source location
--pakdir Where to save the new package.
--maintainer
Set the package maintainer. Be careful to correctly quote/escape the name, to prevent shell expansion
--provides
Features provided by this package (currently only on RPM and Deb).
--requires
Dependencies required by this package.
--rpmflags
Pass this flags to the rpm installer.
--rpmi Use the -i flag when installing a rpm.
--rpmu Use the -U flag when installing a rpm.
--dpkgflags
Pass this flags to the dpkg installer
--spec Where the .spec file is located
--nodoc Do not include documentation files.
-d Set debug level. Must be one of 0, 1 and 2.
-si Run an interactive install command
--showinstall
Toggle interactive install command.
-ss Run an interactive Slackware installation script.
--showslack
Toggle interactive Slackware installation script.
--autodoinst
Toggle creation of a doinst.sh script.
--strip Toggle stripping any ELF binaries found inside the package.
--stripso Toggle stripping any ELF libraries (.so) found inside the package.
--addso Search for any shared libs and add them to /etc/ld.so.conf
--reset-uids
Reset perms for all files/dirs to 755 and the owner/group for all dirs to root.root
--gzman Compress any man pages found inside the package.
--docdir Where to put documentation files.
--umask Set the umask value.
--exclude Exclude these files/directories from the package.
--include Force the inclusion in the package of the files/dirs listed in the argument (a file).
--inspect Inspect the package's file list
--review-spec
Review the spec file before creating a .rpm.
--review-control
Review the control file before creating a .deb.
--newslack
Use the new (8.1+) Slackware description format ("--newslack" implies "-S")
--with-tar
Manually set the path to the tar binary.
--deldoc Toggle deletion of doc-pak upon termination.
--deldesc Toggle deletion of description-pak upon termination.
--delspec Toggle deletion of spec file upon termination.
--bk Backup any overwritten files
--backup Toggle backup
FILES
This program reads its configuration from /etc/checkinstallrc, which can be used to override defaults. Command line arguments override
settings in the configuration file.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
CheckInstall(8)