Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:45:34 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mkbuelow.net> To: mkb@incubus.de, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bdes (and other) problems on 5.3 fixit cd Message-ID: <200503242245.j2OMjY6g003331@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
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Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying the restore a dump, which I have encrypted with the bdes(1) > utility, from a mounted 5.3-RELEASE fixit CD (cd2 i386). > > I have encrypted the dump with the same bdes that is on that CD. > I use a pipeline that looks something like > > /mnt2/usr/bin/bdes -d <dumpfile |/mnt2/sbin/restore -tf - > > (to view the dump) and after a couple kilobytes that seem to get > through, I always get a stream of > > : fwrite error at 8 > > messages from bdes and decryption fails. > Decryption works without problems on another machine on an ordinary > 5.3-STABLE installation. From looking at bdes.c, the message gets > written on short writes (fwrite wrote less than requested). > Instead of trying to write the rest, the author decided to just print > a warning and that was it. > > Amazingly, the message doesn't get printed in a "bdes|cat" pipeline. > Only when restore is being used does it seem to happen. > Is there anything odd with shell pipelines on the fixit disk? > It doesn't matter if I use sh or tcsh for running the pipeline. > > On a side note, there seem to be other problems with the 5.3 fixit > disk.. one has to symlink /mnt2/usr/bin to /usr/bin because otherwise > scp won't find the ssh executable, and "mount" complains about "nfs not > compiled in" but there's a mount_nfs utility which works ok. Editing a > disklabel with "bsdlabel -e device" won't work, since bsdlabel complains > about "/mnt2/stand/vi: No such file or directory" and one has to set > EDITOR to "vi", or an existing pathname, in order to get it to work. > All in all, makes a bit of an unpolished appearance.. hasn't the stuff > been tested in a while? > > mkb.
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