From: Dominic R. <dl...@ed...> - 2009-04-09 15:17:45
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Dick Middleton wrote: > Dominic Raferd wrote: > >> Just experimenting with something, I find that if I load DL (1.3.7, >> latest) as a new install and refuse all offers of configuration media, >> and then tell it during boot to load without configuration media, I >> can't later save-config. When I try it responds: >> >> Configuration file device specified "/dev/null" no longer exists! >> Run save-config again with "-s" switch to search for other locations. >> >> > > If you look in /shm theres a file called DL_CONFIG_SOURCE which you > can edit to tell DL where to look for config > > Dick Thanks Dick for the workaround. I did find the 'save-config -h' which lists the options. (It would be good if the 'unknown option' response suggested -h.) I think 'save-config -d /dev/sd??' should work, but I can no longer try it. Thinking of newcomers it would be better if the /bin/save-config file could be fixed for -s, my suggestion is to change line 62 to read 'unset DL_CONFIG_SOURCE' instead of DL_CONFIG_SOURCE="". But I have not tested it. Dominic |
From: Dominic R. <dl...@ed...> - 2009-04-09 15:30:03
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Dominic Raferd wrote: > ...my suggestion is to change line 62 to read 'unset > DL_CONFIG_SOURCE' instead of DL_CONFIG_SOURCE="". > sorry, this doesn't help, a better idea is to change line 83 to: if [ -n "$DL_CONFIG_SOURCE" ]; then i.e. it needs the quotes. |
From: Dick M. <di...@fo...> - 2009-04-09 16:41:01
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Dominic Raferd wrote: > > I did find the 'save-config -h' which lists the options. (It would be > good if the 'unknown option' response suggested -h.) I think > 'save-config -d /dev/sd??' should work, but I can no longer try it. > Silly me! That's the proper way to it. For some reason I always forget. The thing is you only have to do it once and then it all works OK. Therefore no real impetus to fix it. DIck |