I ran it last night prior to 0.86 and that's when the fun stuff hit the fan.
I know it's a developer tool that's why I didn't open a ticket. But it is a very nice to have tool for non developers too that can't wait for official releases ;) tx -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] update_file.sh overwrites captiveportal.inc updarte_file.sh is meant for updating files after a developer makes a change. why are you running this program when 0.86 is out!? Scott On 10/3/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > HI .. > > > > No sure if this is a bug .. or a feature request, so I haven't logged a > ticket yet. > > > > I just realized why I need to keep disabling captiveportal then goto > console, drop to shell, disable captive portal do upgrade from .gz file to > recover. > > > > When doing an update_file.sh the very first file it attempts to pull down is > captiveportal.inc. IF the WAN connection is not up, it looks like it still > overwrites this file, even if it doesn't get a new file. This in turn breaks > captiveportal, which means I can't access the firewall at all except through > the console, from where I either need to do a upgrade or another > update_file.sh which then fixes things again. > > > > Could we not add a simple hash check on the files that the script downloads > ? Or at the very least get the script to check that it actually downloaded > something before trashing the existing file? > > > > Thinking about it .. I guess later on when the firmware update mechanism is > activated this is something we would need, i.e. internal file version check, > compare, d/l(if older), hash and size check, assemble update package, > replace/apply all diffs? > > > > Tx > > Ivan. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
