From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 14:43: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B9814D6E for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from GregoryC@stcinc.com) Received: from stcinc.com (gw-covad768k-cognitivetech.ncal.verio.com [207.20.238.29] (may be forged)) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id OAA07417 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37E7FF78.234FD949@stcinc.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:58:16 -0700 From: Gregory Carvalho Reply-To: GregoryC@stcinc.com Organization: Simplified Technology Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spawn not functioning References: <37E7DA76.ECF8FA02@stcinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This has been resolved with linux_base-5.2.tgz and linux_devtools-5.2.tgz as a replacement for linux_lib-2.6.1.tgz. What a relief! Gregory Carvalho wrote: > > While installing Oracle 8.0.5.1 on FreeBSD 3.2R using instructions from > http://www.freebsdrocks.com/show.php3?ThisArticleID=5016&start=1&sReturn=25&search_category=8&search_criteria=&search_field= > the installation program calls spawn which causes the setup app to > abort. > > Here is an example of the failure: > An operating system error occurred while trying to spawn 'cat > /usr/home/oracle/oracle805.install/orainst/README.FIRST | \grep \.' > while redirecting output to '¨^](e no^'. (No such file or directory.) > Would you like to retry the operation, ignore the error, or allow the > error to be processed by the Installer? > > The only operational choices cause the install to abort. I commented out > the offending line in unix.stp, restarted the install, and orainst > continued to the next spawn, spawn("touch /etc/oratab"); so I > modified ORATAB to /usr/local/oracle/etc/oratab to no avail, the > redirection to '' (orainst reports this as the redirection location) > generated on line 1828 of unix.stp causes the install to abort. > Apparently, spawn needs to redirect it's output. Do you know what I can > do to make spawn's redirection operate properly? > > Thanks, > Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message