Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:16:42 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: d.antunes@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cat gone missing Message-ID: <20031015211642.GA55493@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:53:04PM +0000, d.antunes@comcast.net wrote: > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > make installworld > I am fairly new to BSD and also lazy as you can see by my script. Did I cause more harm then good? Should I have rebooted between patches/builds? How can I fix? 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your mails may be easily read. 2) Doing the above commands with no error checking is a very bad idea. If buildworld fails, you'll go on to install the partly-built world (which will also fail at some point), leaving your system in an inconsistent state. This might not have caused your problems with cat, but it's nonetheless a recipe for disaster. Please do the following commands for me: whereis cat ls -l /bin/cat file /bin/cat Kris --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/jbk5Wry0BWjoQKURAkjLAJ9IrU7SdKvDa9P8YpuIDrSGRDe2kwCglKW0 i7YDkQB3qzwbGcKo1Yk3cfQ= =EkU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--
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