[BRLTTY] 5.6

[Brian Tew]

I sure did not realize a bad make file could trash the system. I will avoid installing as root if possible.
I didn't even realize uninstalling 5.3.1 would remove the brltty.service file, sheesh.
Perhaps you begin to discern the level of my ignorance.
I will eventually go back and do things the right way.
Maybe the reason for modifying /etc/default/brltty is to make brltty start sooner.
Indeed I am getting braille output sooner now.
Many thanks to you all for your patience and hlp.
The friendly and open nature on this list is a major plus--tyvm Dave.
 

On Apr 5, 2018, at 8:19 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

[quoted lines by Brian Tew on 2018/04/05 at 05:12 -0500]

> I made the changes in /etc/default/brltty that John mentioned.

There was no need as brltty (albeit, the installed one) was running.

> I apt-got purged 5.3.1

Well, I tried to advise to not do that.

> and recompiled 5.6 as root.

It's a bad practice to build as root. While we ourselves try very hard to 
ensure that our own make files can be trusted, the reason it's a bad idea is 
because you never really know what a make file will or won't do. If it's a bad 
make file then you could very easily ruin your system.

> All went well, but when root tried to edit /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service 
> it says no such file.

Sure, because you unintalled it. My suggestion was to sinmply just edit it.

> locate brltty.service gives ten files, but root cannot 
> see any of thm. so I cannot change the execstart line.

That doesn't matter since you removed it. I was trying to suggest an approach 
that'd keep things simple.

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