Lost Telnet and FTP

[Whipl50]

Today I was uninstalling Rbauch's script to reinstall to make some changes. It bombed out halfway through, and when trying to rerun the uninstall script it gave an error message again.

I gave the reboot command, hoping that when the Tivo came back up I could rerun the script and make my changes. When it rebooted I lost Telnet and FTP. I can still ping it, and MRV is working fine.

I don't have a serial cable, but I can go to rat shack this weekend and make one. I think I must have hosed my rc.sysinit.author file.

Can someone point me in the correct direction of how to repair this file? I'll pull the drive if necessary, but would prefer to fix the problem rather than start over from scratch.

The Tivo in question is a Hughes DVR80 series 2 Dtivo unit. This unit was originally done with a PTVnet disk and an instantcake image.

Thanks for any help. :)

[Da Goon]

More than likely your author file did get hosed. To avoid starting from scratch, just pull the drive and recreate your author file. Put this in for the bare minimum (telnet, ftp)

#!/bin/bash
export TIVO_ROOT=
export MFS_DEVICE=/dev/hda10
export PATH=./:.:/utils:/bin:/sbin:/tvbin:/busybox:/enhancements
tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
tivoftpd

If you can ping and MRV, then that should get your telnet running again. You may need to adjust your PATH statement depending on where these files are actually located, since you said you originally used PTVnet.

Oh, and of course make sure to chmod 755 rc.sysinit.author afterwards to make it executable.