On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: [snip] > PL> yp.conf in /compat/linux/etc. > PL> Broken pipe > PL> 6. Uhm, wha-? I realize pkg_add will install dependencies but what is a yp.conf >and doesn't it already know I changed "linux_enable" to YES and might pkg_add be >fearing that I will now club it with a broken pipe? > Peter, I've never used pkg_add, nor have I ever let KDE touch my FreeBSD boxen, >so I don't know what's wrong with that.
Do you mean you don't use KDE? > As for the yp.conf: it says: "When using NIS". Make that "If you use NIS", is >that better? If you don't use it, odds are there's even no yp.conf in >/compat/linux/etc/. and if there's one, it's completely benign: a config file that's >not used can't do any harm. I realize that - my post was more about the whole process and "tour" of events, not just the ending. The broken pipe part is distressing... > personally, I would just > % su -m I am always logged in as root. :) > % cd /usr/ports && make update > % cd ./audio/agbrowser && make install clean What does the "&&" do? Is it similar to the usage of ";" but instead issues the command after the "&&" at the result of the "cd?" That is, does the double ampersand cause your shell (which is..?) to not execute the make command in the current working dir (cwd)? > -- > FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE > 10:43AM up 8 days, 21:02, 11 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
