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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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