From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 10:02:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24060 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 10:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24055 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 10:02:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ae14949; 6 Jul 96 17:01 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa10612; 6 Jul 96 17:46 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA01105; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:58:32 GMT Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:58:32 GMT Message-Id: <199607061358.NAA01105@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: tcg@ime.net CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <31DDF6B3.3FC3@ime.net> (message from Gary Chrysler on Sat, 06 Jul 1996 01:16:35 -0400) Subject: Re: makeing world Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I read someplace that it's best to drop into single user mode > to make world, Is this fact? I suppose it is - you have the system (and all its resources) to yourself, and you avoid potential "sawing off the branch you're sitting on" problems when it starts re-installing things. (Although I have successfully made the world in multi-user mode without any apparent problems). > If so, How does one log the make process. > I would normally do: make |& tee make.err > This don't work in single user mode. (Unless I did something wrong) If you got Syntax error: "&" unexpected this is because sh is the default shell for single-user mode and it doesn't understand C shell syntax. Either do (make world | tee make.err) & or just enter "csh" when it asks you which shell to use (instead of pressing the return key, which is presumably what you're doing now). > I'm having problems making world, It keeps crashing and I don't > get a chance to see the screen before it re-boots and eats > my source tree. Any clues in /var/log/messages? -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/