Missing operand in kernel installation doc

Bruce Dubbs bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 14:59:47 MST 2008


Marc Ferland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've discovered another very small error in the kernel installation doc 
> (chapter 8.3, in LFS 6.4).
> 
> The line: 
> "If the kernel source tree is going to be retained, run chown -R 0:0 on the 
> linux-2.6.27.4 directory to ensure all files are owned by user root. "
> 
> Should be: 
> "If the kernel source tree is going to be retained, run chown -R 0:0 * on the 
> linux-2.6.27.4 directory to ensure all files are owned by user root. "
> 
> The "*" operand is missing.

That's really not an error.  If it were in a highlighted section, it would be a 
problem, but in this case, we are saying what to do, but not *exactly* how to do 
it.  The command may be 'chown -R 0:0 /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.4' and that would be 
good too.

   -- Bruce


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