From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 14:22:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25A116A41F for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:22:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4264543D46 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:22:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j93EMlG1016482; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:22:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <43413DD0.7080503@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:18:56 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Armour References: <200509212203.35549.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> <57416b30050922232617728fd@mail.gmail.com> <4333F782.3080004@scls.lib.wi.us> <200509232141.39874.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <200509232141.39874.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:22:49 -0000 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) , (608) 266-6348