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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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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



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