Problems after CVSUP

Edward Carmody ecarmody at optonline.net
Mon May 31 11:47:06 PDT 2004


I cvsup'd src-all and ports-all.  Can't think of anything else that I might
have done...

Another weird thing I've noticed...the directories for ports no longer have
makefiles, etc, only html README files.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart at owt.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:17 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Cc: Edward Carmody
Subject: Re: Problems after CVSUP

On Friday 28 May 2004 09:41 pm, Edward Carmody wrote:
> Not quite a newbie, but not very good either, apparently. :(  I did a
> cvsup last night, following instructions from the handbook, and hosed
> up my box.
>
> =================================
> [ecarmody at oberon /home/ecarmody] $ uname -a
> FreeBSD oberon.hudsonvalleynetworks.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD
> 5.2.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Thu May 27 19:57:55 EDT 2004
> root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> [ecarmody at oberon /home/ecarmody] $
> =================================
>
> I should not be running 5.2.1-RELEASE due to my inexperience, I know,
> but need to in order to support my IDE controller.  I was using the
> box for www, sendmail, tacacs, ntp, syslog, samba, for my home
> network, and just trying to learn UNIX a la FreeBSD.
>
> My immediate issues are these:
> At boot, ntpd hangs, holding up the rest of the startup process.  If
> I kill it with a ctrl-c, sendmail then does some funky things, and
> also hangs.
>
> ===================
> /var/log/ntp shows:
> [root at oberon /var/log] # cat ntp.log
> 28 May 23:53:37 ntpd[609]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
> 28 May 23:56:37 ntpd[409]: ntpd exiting on signal 2
> [root at oberon /var/log] #
>
> which I think is from me killing it via ctrl-c
> ===================
>
> So, to workaround temporarily, I commented out ntpd_enable="YES" in
> rc.conf. Ntpd obviously doesn't hold up my boot anymore but sendmail
> does.
>
> ===================
> Starting sendmail.
> safefile(etc/mail/services.switch, uid=0, gid=0, flags=6480,
> mode=400): safedirpath(/etc/mail, uid=0, gid=0 flags =6580, level=0,
> offset=0): [dir /etc/mail] OK
> 	No such file or directory
>
> Then I get similar lines for /etc/mail/submit.cf,
> etc/mail/relay-domains, The last line is:
> Recipient names must be specified
>
> I can't seem to find the output I'm seeing in /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/maillog, so I've hand-typed in the bit above.
>
> /var/log/maillog has lots of:
> May 29 00:00:05 oberon sm-msp-queue[436]: i4S2ug7P087593: to=root,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+01:03:23, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=4980184, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
> refused by [127.0.0.1]
>
> which also started after my cvsup last night.
> ===================
>
>
> Not sure what else to provide.  Any direction on how to 'shoot and
> fix this wins a free beer next time you're in NYC.  Thanks...

Running cvsup didn't do all of this. What did you cvsup and what  else 
did you do :)?

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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