From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 7:22:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8812214F1A for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a067.otenet.gr [195.167.115.67]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA08951 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:22:40 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 2612 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Nov 1999 14:30:17 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount: file system types References: <19991111164341.A7554@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <99111209472702.00584@tech.geo.net.au> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 12 Nov 1999 16:30:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: Kev's message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:42:29 +0800" Message-ID: <864serok92.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kev writes: [snip] > > Unfortunately I cannot get my machine to talk to the net, so I have to > try and remember the problem the next day at work and as I have > trouble remembering what I had for breakfast it tends to come over as > a rather general question! > > So maybe I should wait until I get the net working 8-) You can always use a floppy disk to write a log file. Something like the following comes to mind: # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt # script /mnt/error.log Script started, output on /mnt/error.log # YOUR COMMANDS HERE ... # exit Script done, ... # umount /mnt If that does not work, try helping your memory by scratching down on paper the last few commands that failed, along with their output and/or errors. This should help you remember the next day :) -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message