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#1 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:27 PM

I had a problem that when I run netconfig it issued a warning
that telnet wasn't installed. I checked this but it was installed.
Closer examination of the netconfig script showed this line:

if [ ! -r bin/telnet ]; then
# ...issue warning

Which I changed to

if [ ! -r /bin/telnet ]; then

and that worked for me.

Roel

#2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:27 PM

Roel <rjckluin@hotma_no_spam_il.com> wrote:
> I had a problem that when I run netconfig it issued a warning
> that telnet wasn't installed. I checked this but it was installed.
> Closer examination of the netconfig script showed this line:
>
> if [ ! -r bin/telnet ]; then

That is normal, all the setup scripts must be run from the "current root"
of the file system you're installing (otherwise they wouldn't work from a
ram disk, because then the "fs to become root" is mounted somewhere ON
that ramdisk).

The setup PROGRAM does a "cd <root-dir>" or even a "chroot <root-dir>",
when you want to use the scripts by themselves, do a "cd /" first.

PS: the packages, .tgz files, are made the same way, so RELATIVE path
from the root is stored/extracted.
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#3 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:30 PM

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:57:31 +0200, Eef Hartman wrote:

> Roel <rjckluin@hotma_no_spam_il.com> wrote:
>> this line:
>>
>> if [ ! -r bin/telnet ]; then
>
> That is normal, all the setup scripts must be run from the "current root"
> of the file system you're installing
(...)
> do a "cd /" first.

Ok thanks for the explanation.

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