>>>It looks like the commands are good. I'm guessing a cobalt tech gave them to you. To enhance your knowledge, I'll explain the commands one by one below, so you know what's going on. I'm not sure what the patch you used is, but what you did is at least valid. >> su (if you are not root) (Super User) this command will prompt for the root password, and then allow super user (ie., root) access to the system until "exit" is issued >> wget http://amail.co.uk/cobalt/UK2-RaQ3-Repair-3.pkg (Web Get) This command grabs a file directly from a web server's directory structure. This file is available at http://amail.co.uk/cobalt/UK2-RaQ3-Repair-3.pkg through a web browser as well (but since cobalt machines don't have much in the way of a web browser, or monitor, you do it this way) >> /usr/local/sbin/cobalt_upgrade UK2-RaQ3-Repair-3.pkg cobalt_upgrade is the command-line way to install .pkg updates. It essentially does the same thing as the "update" or "install" procedure in your UI. >> sleep 5s sleep tells the server to do nothing for # seconds. This isn't necesary unless you're typing really really fast :) (not really), or running the commands within a script (really). You can wait 5 seconds before the next command and achieve the same result. >> rm UK2-RaQ3-Repair-3.pkg rm = ReMove. This deletes the UK2-RaQ3-Repair-3.pkg file that you obtained using the wget command. >> /sbin/shutdown -r now shutdown does just that. It shutsdown the server. the "-r" means shutdown, then reboot. and the "now" is when to do it (linux systems can be told to shut down at a particular time; say 6pm each day, or something) But in this case we don't want to wait, so "now" Thas it! -Mat Hi Mat, Thank you for your post above. I turned off local echo on telnet! The cobalt tech sent me those commands, also a guy on this list kindly sent me the following urls for those with uk2 raqs, here for someone else who may be interested: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/raq (this is the main list) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/raqot (this is for questions about non Raq related questions) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/raq-cleanup ( a special list to stop and sort out hacks formed as a reaction to the latest hack!) Well, I tried the commands on telnet again but got a 'connecting to amail.co.uk:80 Host Not found' message . However with the browser I managed to connect to amail url and download the repair package locally, then using the panel in admin on the server was able to upload the package. No, in fact I had a problem with that as well. Instead I ftp'd up the package to the packages folder on the server and from the Panel again I restarted the server. I hope this has done the job and now the repair package appears as one of the uploaded/installed packages in the maintenance section of the Panel. Using telnet I could have waited forever for it to grab the 3mb (56k modem here) package as there are no it appears echo messages to tell you it has connected and is downloading a 3mb file!!So you are stuck there in space. Anyway, as I say, I hope the above has done the job, correct me if I`m wrong, and thanks again for your helpout on this. Finally, are there any known issues around an apparently slow ftp connection to my server or any suggestions as to how I can improve connection speeds which at times for no apparent reason appear slow. The Panel works extremely fast. Best Regards Colm Colm (Brazel)MA CB Publications Internet: www.cbweb.net E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
