{"id":5112,"date":"2002-09-22T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-23T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2002\/09\/22\/waiting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:13","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2002\/09\/22\/waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for e2fsprogs-1.25 to compile. See, it&#8217;s one of the many parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfromscratch.org\">Linux From Scratch<\/a> that need to be compiled. I&#8217;m making a LFS installation to be customized and used for war driving. I think I&#8217;m going to have the standard suite of tools (kismet, airsnort, WEPcrack, ethereal, etc) installed along with <a href=\"http:\/\/rox.sourceforge.net\">Rox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sawmill.sourceforge.net\">Sawfish<\/a>. I think that some nice light-weight front end software will work well, but I still like a GUI of some sort so I can have a bunch of windows open all at the same time on one display.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also thinking that having everything running as root, automatically logging in might not be a bad idea. I know it&#8217;d normally be a security problem, but if the machine is completely inaccessable remotely, that might work. We&#8217;ll see&#8230; I&#8217;d like to keep it completely graphical, just to look nice. Maybe a graphical boot screen, but that would require X to use the fbdev server. I *think* the box I&#8217;m making this for has fbdev support, so we&#8217;ll see. Getting it working is more important than looking pretty. But pretty is still very important.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;ll see how it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for e2fsprogs-1.25 to compile. See, it&#8217;s one of the many parts of Linux From Scratch that need to be compiled. I&#8217;m making a LFS installation to be customized and used for war driving. I think I&#8217;m going to have the standard suite of tools (kismet, airsnort, WEPcrack, ethereal, etc) installed along with Rox\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16519,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/16519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}