Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:18:56 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: David Armour <dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh? Message-ID: <43413DD0.7080503@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <200509232141.39874.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> References: <200509212203.35549.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> <57416b30050922232617728fd@mail.gmail.com> <4333F782.3080004@scls.lib.wi.us> <200509232141.39874.dfarmour@myrealbox.com>
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David Armour wrote: > i seem to recall a perl something or other flashing by on one of > those root terminal screens. how does one preserve the > information on those screensful? Sorry for not responding earlier... an unusual confluence of the stars allowed me to take an actual vacation that involved no computers other than a GPS locator. Perhaps you've solved this by now, but if not: man script Use script to capture your entire upgrade process for analysis. Look not only at the end where things totally crap out, but possibly much earlier where things may start to fail in a non-fatal way (esp. if you are portupgrading a glob of things, or -a, rather than focusing on individual packages). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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