Re: /etc/rc terminates abnormally

["Ben Tshin" <bmtshin@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

I could do an echo $? after each thing. I forgot to say that after
running /etc/rc and terminating abnormally the error code was 143.
However, I couldn't track exactly which program it was....

Right now I am powerless because I tried running /etc/rc and now I'm
locked out of the computer because I'm assuming that it killed sshd and
sshd didn't revive. I'll have to wait until I can get the machine fixed
(i'll have to ask my mom... umm yah!!!)

How would I use script to watch it?

I don't know how -stable it is because we used "out of the box" 3.0. I
was about to patch sshd but sshd didn't seem to be the problem at the
time.

Also, I'm thinking of upping to 3.1 (clean installation not an upgrade)
but i have a lot of web docs and stuff to clean and I just don't have
the time yet. Is there any noticeable difference between upgrading 3.0
to 3.1 and installing 3.1 fresh?


another Ben


Ben Tshin << bmtshin@engmail.uwaterloo.ca >>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Chodoroff [mailto:bc@sdf.lonestar.org] 
Sent: September 17, 2002 9:05 PM
To: Ben Tshin
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: [misc] /etc/rc terminates abnormally


* Ben Tshin (bmtshin@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> I am having troubles with my /etc/rc or maybe my /etc/rc.local. I am
> running 3.0 and this is the first time in a long while where we've had
> any problems with our installation.
> 
> I noticed that things were amiss because it's my firewall machine at
> home but I'm at university. I couldn't log (ssh) into box but all
httpd
> and pf and nat were working (I phoned home to ask). When I got home I
> found out that the /etc/rc had terminated right after httpd and before
> sshd.

Try adding debug stuff to rc. Maybe echo $? to a log file after every
program start. Also, upgrade to 3.1 -- the problem might have been
fixed. Just watching the machine boot up will probably help the most --
maybe script(1) the install.

Speaking of upgrading... how -stable is it? Did you patch for the SSH
comprimise? This might be the source of the problems :)

-ben

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