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diff --git a/system/pis/README b/system/pis/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..af0a751aca --- /dev/null +++ b/system/pis/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Slackware Post-Install Scripts (PIS) + +'Let the Slackers be a little bit lazy. ;)' + +Slackware Post-Installation Scripts (PIS) are a set of shell scripts +for automating the most tedious Slackware version 15.0 post- +installation configuration tasks. With PIS you can: set system locale +(language, country and character encoding); configure login mode (GUI +or CLI); add new users and set the 'sudo' admin support; set 'Huge' +and 'Generic' kernels to boot manager; configure different package +managers; and more! + +Important Notes +=============== + +To perform the system settings, PIS scripts will modify some +important system files by using command line tools, such as the stream +editor 'sed', so bypassing the use of the conventional tools. + +So, if you want to feel more secure in using the PIS scripts, it would +be interesting to back up the following files, in case you need to +restore manually the respective settings: + + * To set the system locale (language and country): + /etc/profile.d/lang.sh + /etc/profile.d/lang.csh + + * To set the command line keymap (keyboard character encoding): + /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap + + * To select the login mode (GUI or CLI): + /etc/inittab + + * To add different kernels types/versions to boot manager Elilo: + /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.conf + + * To enable the administrative group 'wheel': + /etc/sudoers + + * To set the default desktop/window manager for the X environment: + /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc + + * To set the main mirror of the slackpkg package manager: + /etc/slackpkg/mirrors |