[BRLTTY] 5.6
Brian Tew
montanalag at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 19:46:47 EDT 2018
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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