Please help with rc.sysinit.author

[cagey]

I want to edit the rc.sysinit.author file to remove the lines about tivoweb and add EndPadPlus. Is this the correct way to do this? I want to make sure this is correct before I screw up the tivo and get an a$$ chewing from the wife. I have a DSR704 running Sleeper's ISO with a 120 gig hard drive upgrade. I haven't done anything else to the Tivo yet.

Location of the file:

/etc/rc.d

Extract a copy of the rc.sysinit.author file with FTP. Edit the file with a UNIX editor (I'm using Crimison Editor) and remove the 2 lines about tivoweb. Add this line for endpadplus to have 5 minutes at the begining and end, suggestion equalization and auto start. Can this line be put at the end of rc.sysinit.author?:

/var/local/epp/endpadplus.tcl 5 5 -seq -auto >> /dev/null &

Using telnet, go to /etc/rc.d and type:

mount -o remount,rw /

Change the name of the original file by typing in the /etc/rc.d directory:

mv rc.syinit.author rc.syinit.author_orig

FTP the new rc.sysinit.author file to the /etc/rc.d directory

Using telnet, at the bash type:

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author

Then type:

mount -o remount,ro /

Any help would be appreciated.

[Sleeper]

I want to edit the rc.sysinit.author file to remove the lines about tivoweb and add EndPadPlus. Is this the correct way to do this? I want to make sure this is correct before I screw up the tivo and get an a$$ chewing from the wife. I have a DSR704 running Sleeper's ISO with a 120 gig hard drive upgrade. I haven't done anything else to the Tivo yet.

Location of the file:

/etc/rc.d

Extract a copy of the rc.sysinit.author file with FTP. Edit the file with a UNIX editor (I'm using Crimison Editor) and remove the 2 lines about tivoweb. Add this line for endpadplus to have 5 minutes at the begining and end, suggestion equalization and auto start. Can this line be put at the end of rc.sysinit.author?:

/var/local/epp/endpadplus.tcl 5 5 -seq -auto >> /dev/null &

Using telnet, go to /etc/rc.d and type:

mount -o remount, rw /

Change the name of the original file by typing:

mv /etc/rc.d/rc.syinit.author /etc/rc.d/rc.syinit.author_orig

FTP the new rc.sysinit.author file to the /etc/rc.d directory

Using telnet, at the bash type:

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.syinit.author

Then type:

mount -o remount, ro /

Any help would be appreciated.

Looks OK, However you could just edit the file on the Tivo using the "vi" editor. remount rw first of course - and make a copy of the original first: cp -a rc.sysinit.author rc.sysinit.author.bak

[cagey]

I thought about doing that, but on my series 1 dtivo, I couldn't get a good grasp of joe. So I figure I better not edit on the tivo.

[sanderton]

In joe, ctrl-K ctrl-X saves. What else do you need to know to add a couple of line of text?

[Sleeper]

In joe, ctrl-K ctrl-X saves. What else do you need to know to add a couple of line of text?

ctrl-K ctrl-H

will get you everything that you don't need to know!

[lgkahn]

same problem here joes just works crappy fromm telnet on windows...

I edit offline using micro emacs and use stripcr to change to unix line endings before sending back to the tivos...

on a side note anyone fixed the new ftp (which is nice becuase it chmod's to 755) but it doesn't support mkdir...)

[sanderton]

same problem here joes just works crappy fromm telnet on windows...

I edit offline using micro emacs and use stripcr to change to unix line endings before sending back to the tivos...



TextPad lets you save in Unix fomat, cutting out a step.

Not had any problems with joe using the command line telnet in XP.

[JHeavner]

Should this...
mount -o remount, rw /
...be this...
mount -o remount,rw /

And the same with the mount -o remount, ro /

[cagey]

Should this...
mount -o remount, rw /
...be this...
mount -o remount,rw /

And the same with the mount -o remount, ro /

You are correct, I found that out today when I finally had the time to mess with my tivo (I edited my original post to correct this).