On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:23:26PM -0700, Fred Condo wrote:
>
> On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> > Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still
> > not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from
> > his home, slowly rebuilt and re-configured everything. E.g.: for
> > one thing, where I hack sendmail working via various kludges, he
> > set up imap. I had thought that was mostly for students....
> >
> > He also filled me in on jails. Previously, I had my 1998 Kayak
> > doing DNS and mail and web solo. Jon created a jail and set
> > things up there. He used NFS to bring over things from a faster
> > computer. That's well and good; it makes sense to compile a
> > suite that takes days on sage [Kayak @ 400MHz] on my Dell8200
> > [2.4GHZ]. A few days ago I realized that I was missing some
> > simple programs on sage. I went into ports: empty. Years ago
> > there was a standalone script that let you fix or tune things.
> > I thought it was on the hard drive as well as the CD set.
> >
> > Anybody?
> >
> > thanks for any clues!
> >
> > gary
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public
> >Service Unix
> > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
>
> You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're using, but if it's
> at all recent, portsnap is your friend:
>
> # mkdir -p /usr/ports && portsnap fetch extract # Do this once to
> fetch and set up the ports collection initially
>
> Then add this to root's crontab:
> 1 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update
>
> If portsnap is not on your system, you should probably upgrade, but
> you could try the packagge:
> # pkg_add -r portsnap
>
> Also, if you're administering a bunch of jails, ezjail is also your
> friend. See http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/ (website is a
> bit out of date; 3.0 is released and in the ports collection).
>
YES! Thanks for this fix. Now I'm back in control of my main
(and *old*) server. --I believe it was/is 7.0 or nearly.
gary
>
>
--
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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