On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 01:18:15PM -0700, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> I have 6.5/i386 installed on a PC Engines alix board (hostname 'sodium'),
> acting as a home firewall and router.  I'd like to install some packages
> the firewall it to make system adminstration easier.  So... I downloaded
> the appropriate 6./i386 packages from a nearby OpenBSD mirror, ssh-ed them
> to /tmp on the firewall, and then (logged into the firewall as root) tried
> to  pkg_add  them.  Alas, pkg_add failed with an error message about being
> unable to write into a temp directory:
> 
>   sodium# pkg_add -vv tcsh-6.20.00p1-static.tgz
>   Fatal error: Can't write session into tmp directory
>    at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageRepository.pm line 1025.
>   sodium#
> 
> I've checked that the firewall has adequate free memory & swap space,
> that all the obviously-relevant filesystems are mounted read-write and
> have free inodes and disk space, and that 'touch foo' can create a new
> file in each of /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp.
> 
> Is there something obvious I'm overlooked here?  A Fine Man Page I should
> be rereading before I start hacking debug prints into the pkg_add (perl)
> source code?
> 
> Further information (cut-and-pasted from ssh session on the firewall):
> 
>   sodium# uname -a
>   OpenBSD sodium.bkis-orchard.net 6.5 GENERIC#1 i386
>   sodium# df -hi
>   Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted 
> on
>   /dev/wd0a      378M   47.7M    311M    13%    1771   47379     4%   /
>   mfs:54350     62.9M    2.0M   57.7M     3%       8    8182     0%   /tmp
>   /dev/wd0e      677M   15.1M    628M     2%     352   87710     0%   /var
>   /dev/wd0f      1.5G    698M    734M    49%   16248  191622     8%   /usr
>   mfs:42325     62.9M    2.0K   59.7M     0%       1    8189     0%   /usr/tmp

Am I reading the numbers correctly that /tmp and /usr/tmp are two different
memory file systems of maximum size 62.9M?  If so, I wonder what pkg_add is
trying to write into /tmp, it migh be way more than just some metadata...

/ Raimo Niskanen


>   /dev/wd0g      516M    138M    352M    28%    8980   58602    13%   
> /usr/X11R6
>   /dev/wd0h      1.7G    218K    1.6G     0%     110  233744     0%   
> /usr/local
>   /dev/wd0j      5.1G    2.0K    4.8G     0%       1  701565     0%   /usr/obj
>   /dev/wd0i      1.3G    2.0K    1.3G     0%       1  181885     0%   /usr/src
>   sodium# cat /etc/fstab
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.a /            ffs rw,softdep,noatime                  1 1
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.d /tmp         mfs rw,async,nodev,nosuid,-s=64m        0 0
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.e /var         ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev,nosuid     1 2
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.f /usr         ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev            1 2
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.d /usr/tmp     mfs rw,async,nodev,nosuid,-s=64m        0 0
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.g /usr/X11R6   ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev            1 2
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.h /usr/local   ffs rw,softdep,noatime,wxallowed,nodev  1 2
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.j /usr/obj     ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev,nosuid     1 2
>   5fd63b50b0c6cb1d.i /usr/src     ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev,nosuid     1 2
>   sodium# top|head
>   load averages:  0.08,  0.02,  0.01    sodium.bkis-orchard.net 13:12:00
>   52 processes: 1 running, 50 idle, 1 on processor  up 14 days,  5:21
>   CPU:  0.1% user,  0.0% nice,  0.3% sys,  0.0% spin,  0.3% intr, 99.3% idle
>   Memory: Real: 35M/110M act/tot Free: 127M Cache: 46M Swap: 0K/548M
>   
>     PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE     WAIT      TIME    CPU COMMAND
>   59735 root      10    0    0K   19M sleep     bored    44:53  0.44% softnet
>   65312 root     -22    0    0K   19M sleep     -       339.9H  0.00% idle0
>   57981 root      10    0    0K   19M sleep     bored     7:56  0.00% sensors
>   39371 _unbound   2    0   12M   10M sleep     kqread    1:33  0.00% unbound
>   sodium# cd /tmp
>   sodium# ls -l
>   total 4144
>   drwxrwxrwt  2 root  wheel      512 Jun 16 07:51 .ICE-unix
>   drwxrwxrwt  2 root  wheel      512 Jun 16 07:51 .X11-unix
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1499861 Jun 30 12:31 lynx-2.8.9rel1.tgz
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Jun 16 07:51 sndio
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   564428 Jun 30 12:31 tcsh-6.20.00p1-static.tgz
>   drwxrwxrwt  2 root  wheel      512 Jun 30 12:33 vi.recover
>   sodium#
>   sodium# pkg_info
>   sodium# 
>   sodium# which pkg_add
>   /usr/sbin/pkg_add
>   sodium# pkg_add -vv tcsh-6.20.00p1-static.tgz
>   Fatal error: Can't write session into tmp directory
>    at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageRepository.pm line 1025.
>   sodium# env
>   _=/usr/bin/env
>   LOGNAME=root
>   PWD=/tmp
>   HOME=/root
>   OLDPWD=/tmp
>   SSH_TTY=/dev/ttyp0
>   TOP=-S -i -s1
>   MAIL=/var/mail/root
>   SSH_CLIENT=192.168.105.0 4099 22
>   
> PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>   TERM=xterm
>   SHELL=/bin/ksh
>   SSH_CONNECTION=192.168.105.0 4099 192.168.105.62 22
>   USER=root
>   sodium# cd /tmp
>   sodium# touch foo
>   sodium# ls -l foo
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jun 30 13:07 foo
>   sodium# /bin/rm foo
>   sodium# 
>   sodium# cd /var/tmp
>   sodium# touch foo
>   sodium# ls -l foo
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jun 30 13:08 foo
>   sodium# /bin/rm foo
>   sodium# 
>   sodium# cd /usr/tmp
>   sodium# touch foo
>   sodium# ls -l foo
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jun 30 13:13 foo
>   sodium# /bin/rm foo
>   sodium# 
>  
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
> -- 
> -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" 
> <jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu>
>    Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
>    currently on the west coast of Canada
>    "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
>     at any given moment.  How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
>     plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.  It was even conceivable
>     that they watched everybody all the time."  -- George Orwell, "1984"

-- 

/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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