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Date:      Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:49:14 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.1-RELEASE. panic. I'm not going anywhere without my init.
Message-ID:  <14860.31594.95478.593472@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011110930550.210-100000@stan.aipo.gov.au>
References:  <14860.25478.379016.781155@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011110930550.210-100000@stan.aipo.gov.au>

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Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> types:
> > What do you mean by "looked fine"? Did you do a cmp on it and an
> > offline copy that should have been ok? Did you save the init that
> > wasn't working (always a good idea to do that kind of thing)?
> 
> No to all of the above. "looked fine" is my asinine way of saying I
> couldn't think of doing anything else apart from seeing that its size
> was non zero, and that it was in /sbin.
> 
> How could I have got the damaged file to another system to compare it
> (apart from saving it and moving it later) ?

You don't need to go that far. Just "mv /sbin/init /sbin/init-broken"
before installing the new one and rebooting. You can then examine it
at your leisure.

	<mike


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