other fallout of the shifting around of everything pre-barrier-breaker freeze is my automagic update script (pullhead) wasn't doing updates of the oldpackages repo.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > it appears the xinetd package was mucked with around may 15th, and > perhaps that has some influence on your problem. > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Ranga Krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I would check for the presence of the dropbear-xinetd package and >> /etc/xinetd.conf and xinetd.d/ssh >> >> >> >> The dropbear-xinetd package was absent while the other items >> above were present. I created a new build with dropbear-xinetd but >> the behavior is the same. > > is the xinetd binary present? > >> I used the failsafe mechanism to get telnet access into the boxes and >> tried to pull in a good firmware image into /tmp as described here: >> >> https://archive.org/details/EnterOpenwrtFailsafeModeAndReflashAFirmware >> >> However when dropbear refused to start even manually I discovered >> there is no dropbear executable on the router. >> >> I compiled this build with : >> >> CONFIG_DEFAULT_dropbear=y >> # CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear is not set >> CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear-xinetd=y >> # CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert is not set >> # CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert-xinetd is not set >> >> which was the config for 3.10.44-6 release, as described in >> cerofiles-3.10 github repo, and which has a working ssh. >> >> Do I need CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear even though 3.10.44-6 >> seems to get dropbear without including this config ? > > No, if you do that, you get dropbear starting at boot without xinetd. > You CAN try it, but then you have to do some firewalling. > >> >> In the absence of dropbear is there a good way to transfer files. >> I couldn't find any file transfer options available in failsafe mode >> other than a wget built into busybox. To use this I would >> have to setup my mac as a webserver. > > I maintain a local fileserver, always, anyway, so it's a good idea. > > >> >> Ranga >> > > > > -- > Dave Täht > > NSFW: > https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article -- Dave Täht NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
