So I've got telnet access to my Sleepered DTivo, now what?

[sinner]

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It seems I dont have rights to do much at all. If I open a file in vi it
is always in read only. It seems I can upload stuff into /var/hacks
using commandline ftp but I tried to ruun elseed and it come back with a
126 cannot execut binary. I did chmod +x as it onl had rw owner and r
for group / world.

Tivoweb runs fine. I want to play but I cant
--
David
"I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it."
-- English Professor

 

[Guest]

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SINNER wrote:
> It seems I dont have rights to do much at all. If I open a file in vi it
> is always in read only. It seems I can upload stuff into /var/hacks

If you run the 'mount' command with no arguments, you will see that
/ is mounted read-only (ro) and /var is mounted read-write (rw).

The standard procedure for editing files that are not in the /var
partition is this:
mount -o remount,rw /
vi /etc/whatever-file-needs-editing
mount -o remount,ro /

-Joe

 

[Rob]

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SINNER wrote:
> It seems I dont have rights to do much at all. If I open a file in vi
> it is always in read only. It seems I can upload stuff into /var/hacks
> using commandline ftp but I tried to ruun elseed and it come back
> with a 126 cannot execut binary. I did chmod +x as it onl had rw
> owner and r for group / world.
>
> Tivoweb runs fine. I want to play but I cant

the vi problem is probably because youre trying to edit files on
a read only system, dont forget to mount it rw

 

[sinner]

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* Joe Smith wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
> SINNER wrote:
>> It seems I dont have rights to do much at all. If I open a file in vi it
>> is always in read only. It seems I can upload stuff into /var/hacks

> If you run the 'mount' command with no arguments, you will see that
> / is mounted read-only (ro) and /var is mounted read-write (rw).

> The standard procedure for editing files that are not in the /var
> partition is this:
> mount -o remount,rw /
> vi /etc/whatever-file-needs-editing
> mount -o remount,ro /


Excellent. Thanks!
--
David
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to
conceal their thoughts.
-- Voltaire