User guide

6: Customizing the System Configuration
DC 900-1333Q 163
WARNING: Are you sure you want to rebuild the disk?.
The system was booted from this disk.
If you are sure you want to copy the temporary files back
to the permanent area of the disk, press "y", otherwise
press any other key to continue without copying files: y
Press RETURN to continue <enter>
What this menu item does is copy all of the files in the operational directory (/tmp/boot)
back to the non-volatile storage directory (
/usr/local/freeway/boot.src) in one action. This
saves you from having to type BSD commands to mount the
/usr partition as read-write
and manually copy each file to non-volatile storage. At this point you normally would
want to reboot the Freeway server so that it will use the updated files.
Note that since the 5-3-3 method only copies existing files, it cannot be used to delete
files in the non-volatile storage area. For example, if you used FTP or the BSD shell to
delete the file
/tmp/boot/oldfile.txt and then used the 5-3-3 method, the file oldfile.txt would
still return to the
/tmp/boot directory after the next reboot. In order to permanently delete
files from the
/tmp/boot directory, you must use the BSD shell to delete the files directly
from the non-volatile storage area as follows:
cd /usr/local/freeway/boot.src
ls -l oldfile.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 63 Mar 25 16:13 oldfile.txt
mount -u -o rw /usr
rm oldfile.txt
ls -l oldfile.txt
ls: oldfile.txt: No such file or directory
mount -u -o ro /usr
After the next reboot, the file oldfile.txt will no longer appear in the /tmp/boot directory.
6.2.3 CDROM Updates
Another way of updating files on the Freeway server is to create an ordinary (non-
bootable) CDROM disk containing a text file called
command.sh in the root directory.
This file can contain “sh” script commands similar to commands you use when logged
into the BSD shell. The Freeway server will execute the commands in this file at the end