Fresh Monte

[necromancer]

Well I used sleeper's iso and monte'd my drive. Everything went Perfect. I tested between surgery and hacks... worked every time! Thanks sleeper.

While watching the script do it's thing I noticed that fuxsub was installed and a few other Satelite things. My question is this:

What hacks/scripts should/can a SA Tivo V2 safely remove? (comment out...whatever)

[necromancer]

***Fixed ***
Plus another stupid question (from me...now there is a supprise)... I know I have seen it and will keep looking until I find it or this is answered..... but when I get to the :
Restarting system.

Output enabled
Ram size = 32
Service number is 24000008068D6D9.
What is password?

screen.... what is the password.... i tried nothing, root, and factory.
*** fixed it ***
just in case any other newbies are/were reading i was able with tera term to get a bash prompt AFTER the tivo was up and watching TV.
I could then run : crypto -u -srp "password"
to change it. works perfectly now

[necromancer]

I made some changes to my rc.sysinit.author file that I was hoping a Pro can verify to see if I was correct. Everything SEEMS to be working ok.... I can telnet into the box and such... i just figure better safe than sorry when I'm this new.
These are cut and pastes from my author file


#******* Removed since i am dhcp **************************
#Set the IP address
#ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.145 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 55.255.255.0
#route add default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
#*********************************************************

This was one of the main reasons I am asking this question.... I want to make sure It is OK to leave it dhcp. Since it is on the home network I can alwasy load up the router page to get it's DHCP address... The DHCP address my router gave was the one I was able to telnet in with anyway... not this one (which I could force the router to give but why bother if this works)

#Load telnet daemon and ftp dameon
tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
tivoftpd
#********** #More 3-8-04 removals ************************
#********** I plan to use tytools eventually... not mfsftp*
#*****************************************************
#cd /usr/mfs_ftp
#/usr/mfs_ftp/mfs_ftp.tcl &
#*****************************************************
cd /
#Load tivoweb
/usr/tivoweb-tcl/tivoweb

I have not updated this hack yet but running the old one wont hurt right?

#Load kmem to prevent scrambling
#*****************************************************
#************* 3-8-04**********************************
#********** removed kmem for alphawolf's tivoapp patch *********
#kmem 800bf958 00001021
#*****************************************************

This seemed to work. I hope so.

#****************** removed 3-8-04 **********************
#**************** I think these are DTIVO scripts *************
sleep 300
# i left sleep. sleep never hurts
#/usr/scripts/callfixsub.sh /usr/scripts &
#/usr/scripts/sps30
#/usr/scripts/sort
#****************************************************

This was my other MAIN question section. I have the SA tivo.... so I didn't think I needed fixsub.... but what about sort and sps30?

Final question...... (for now).... I know I commented most of the hacks out for now.... but i left in tivoftp and tnlited (telnet)... if I type ps i should see SOMETHING right?
I even tried ps -e and see "No processes available"..... this is what lead me to believe I messed up and make this enormous post to begin with!

[necromancer]

Can any of the pro's please just give me a quick thumbs up or down on what i think/thought was going on in my sysinit.author file?

I want to try to play with stuff whn I get home from work, but I first want to know If I have messed anything up!

oh yeah..... and how the ??? did a newbie, not even a week old at the hobby end up with "charter member" next to my name?

[TheWickedPriest]

I don't see a problem with your commented-out stuff. Dunno why ps isn't working for ya.

The default "Member" descriptions are based solely on the number of posts you've made. "Charter Member" doesn't mean what you'd expect, nor is it the highest level. (It's misused here, really.)

You can change your description to whatever you like under "User CP". (I'm not sure if you have to reach a certain level before you can do this.)

[necromancer]

I don't see a problem with your commented-out stuff. Dunno why ps isn't working for ya.

The default "Member" descriptions are based solely on the number of posts you've made. "Charter Member" doesn't mean what you'd expect, nor is it the highest level. (It's misused here, really.)

You can change your description to whatever you like under "User CP". (I'm not sure if you have to reach a certain level before you can do this.)

Thanks. I forgot to re-post later.... ps didnt work in the direct serial connection... but telneting In i saw the processes. Thanks for the feedback on the .author file